Jordan Yoerger Résumé

Hi, I'm Jordan  ·  Stow, Ohio

I love adventure. I love challenges. I love people.

Director of Enterprise Technology Portfolio & Delivery at Great Day Improvements. Mechanical engineer by trade, MBA and PMP by training, a fine woodworker under the Yoergoods name on nights and weekends, and lately obsessed with vibe coding and whatever the AI world shipped this week.

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Jordan YoergerPMP · MBA
$80MProjected incremental net sales from launches at Fortune Brands
4 moTo stand up the Enterprise PMO at Great Day Improvements
6Home improvement brands in the portfolio I run
15 yrIn manufacturing, eight of them leading programs

Work history

Eight years leading programs. Fifteen in manufacturing.

Consumer products, construction equipment, tire innovation, polymer processing, injection molding, and topical drug products. I specialize in PMO standards and continuous improvement, global product launches, stakeholder engagement, and the unglamorous disciplines of risk, scope, budget, and resource management.

Today I lead Enterprise Technology Portfolio & Delivery at Great Day Improvements, where I stood up the Enterprise PMO from the ground up in four months and now run the portfolio across ERP, CRM, and product development for six home improvement brands.

The chart below is drawn to scale: one column per year, most recent role at the top.

Program & portfolioEngineeringFoundationsToday
Role / organization
Director, Enterprise Technology Portfolio & Delivery
Great Day Improvements · Twinsburg, OH
Jan 2026 – Present
Senior Manager, Global Project Management
Momentive Technologies · Strongsville, OH
Jul 2025 – Jan 2026
Senior Project Manager / Project Manager
Fortune Brands Innovations · The House of Rohl, Moen · North Olmsted, OH
Jan 2022 – Jul 2025
Global Project Manager
GOJO Industries · Akron, OH
Nov 2020 – Jan 2022
Program Manager
Carlisle Brake & Friction · Solon, OH
Mar 2018 – Jun 2020
Product Development Engineer
Carlisle Brake & Friction · Hawk Performance Racing
May 2016 – Mar 2018
Research Assistant
The University of Akron
Aug 2011 – May 2016
Engineering Co-op
Bridgestone Tire
May 2015 – Sep 2015
Engineering Co-op
TTI Floorcare North America
May 2014 – Sep 2014
Engineering Co-op
NPK Construction Equipment
Dec 2012 – Jan 2014
Machinist Apprentice & Mold Operator
Esterle Mold & Machine
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Sales Associate
FinishLine
Mar 2009 – Jun 2010
Great Day Improvements · Jan 2026 – present

Director, Enterprise Technology Portfolio & Delivery

  • Stood up the Enterprise PMO from the ground up in four months: governance framework, intake and prioritization, methodology, and reporting standards.
  • Run portfolio delivery across ERP, CRM, and product development for six home improvement brands, with one consolidated executive dashboard for every Tier 1 and Tier 2 project.
  • Built a suite of internal tools with Claude (Resource Manager, Accounting Treatment Calculator, Project Priority Scoring Calculator, SME Repository) and co-lead development of an internal LLM for enterprise productivity.
  • Own vendor relationships for ERP, CRM, and other strategic platforms, and present portfolio status and KPIs to the steering committee on a regular cadence.
Momentive Technologies · Jul 2025 – Jan 2026

Senior Manager, Global Project Management

  • Built a centralized PMO with governance frameworks and standard methodology across every business unit.
  • Directed a global CapEx and cross-functional portfolio, reviewing and approving the NPV, IRR, and cash-flow models behind each investment.
  • Mentored a team of project managers and engineers, ran portfolio reviews, and used LLM tooling to build internal apps for continuous improvement.
Fortune Brands Innovations · Jan 2022 – Jul 2025

Senior Project Manager / Project Manager

  • $80M in forecasted incremental net sales from launches over three years, while managing a product roadmap valued at roughly $160M.
  • Led a $50–60M global product-development portfolio with 100+ team members; The House of Rohl's subject matter expert for new product introductions and stage-gate reviews with the C-suite.
  • Onboarded four project managers (PMO capacity up 200%), standardized templates across three business units, directed tariff mitigation, and used generative AI to cut routine PM work by at least half.
GOJO Industries · Nov 2020 – Jan 2022

Global Project Manager

  • Led global growth projects and regional alignment calls, including clinical research studies with hospital personnel and consultants.
  • Introduced Smartsheet to streamline workflow, kept launches inside regulatory requirements, and mentored summer co-ops.
Carlisle Brake & Friction · May 2016 – Jun 2020

Program Manager, then Product Development Engineer

  • Managed $60M NPI and $200M product portfolios across the aftermarket racing brake and off-highway friction divisions.
  • Made Smartsheet the enterprise standard for program managers and presented monthly executive project reviews with risk and rationalization plans.
  • Started as a Product Development Engineer on NPI launches for the Hawk Performance Racing division.

Education & credentials

Two degrees and a PMP.

CredentialInstitutionDatesDetail
MBA, Executive ManagementAshland University · Ashland, Ohio · Project Management specializationAug 2022 – Aug 2024GPA 3.97
B.S. Mechanical Engineering TechnologyThe University of Akron · undergraduate research assistant; co-ops at NPK Construction Equipment, TTI Floorcare (Hoover), and Bridgestone TireAug 2011 – May 2016GPA 3.4
Project Management Professional (PMP)Project Management Institute · obtained June 24, 2025Jun 2025No. 4130432

Skills & tools  ·  7 groups  ·  65 items

I'm obsessed with vibe coding.

I describe the tool I need, let Claude Code or Copilot build it with me, and ship it the same afternoon. Most of the dashboards, generators, and automations I run at work now start as a conversation.

Off hours go to keeping up with the cutting edge of the AI world: new models the week they drop, agents, MCP servers, the next thing after that. A mechanical engineer never stops wanting to see how the machine works, and right now this is the most interesting machine there is.

12 items

AI & automation

  • Claude
  • Claude Code
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini
  • Grok
  • Generative AI for PMs
  • App generation with Copilot & GitHub
  • GitHub
  • Streamlit
  • Agentic workflows
  • PowerShell automation
15 items

Program & portfolio delivery

  • Project management
  • Portfolio management (PPM)
  • PMBOK
  • Waterfall & agile
  • Lean Six Sigma
  • PMO standards & continuous improvement
  • Risk management
  • Change management
  • Resource allocation
  • Budget oversight
  • Vendor management
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Lessons learned
  • Smartsheet
  • Microsoft Project
11 items

Engineering & manufacturing

  • Creo / Pro-E
  • SolidWorks
  • AutoCAD
  • 3D modeling
  • SAP
  • PLM
  • QAD
  • Machining
  • Material testing
  • Quality assurance & control
  • Technical literature
10 items

Reporting & analytics

  • Dashboard reporting
  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • QlikView
  • Excel
  • Access
  • SharePoint design
  • Lucid
  • PowerPoint
  • Word
8 items

Product & commercialization

  • Global product launches
  • Product planning
  • Product roadmap
  • Product commercialization
  • Stage-gate reviews
  • Prototyping
  • Product validation
  • Global product compliance
7 items

Leadership

  • Team leadership
  • Mentoring
  • Public speaking
  • Staffing
  • Conflict management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Financial acumen
2 items

Creative

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Sony Vegas

Products  ·  built with Claude Code

Tools I've built for running a portfolio.

Six products I've designed and shipped by vibe coding. Each screen below is a working demo running on a made-up company's portfolio, so feel free to move the sliders.

Capacity · next 8 weeksDemo data
Web app · local server

Capacity Planner

Shows who is booked, who is over, and what a new project would do to the team before anyone commits to a date. Live portfolio data comes in through a small local proxy, and scenarios save to disk.

HTML · JavaScript · PowerShell · Smartsheet API
Intake scoring · 5 requestsDemo data
    Web app

    Priority Scorer

    Scores every intake request against the same weighted criteria, so the prioritization meeting starts from shared numbers instead of the loudest voice. Change a weight and the ranking reorders.

    HTML · JavaScript
    Benefit model · run cost $40K / yrDemo data
    Payback–
    5-yr NPV at 10%–
    5-yr ROI–
    Workbook · generator

    Benefit Model

    Turns a project's costs and benefits into payback, NPV, and a run-rate view, then freezes the baseline into a sign-off record so the benefit can be tracked after go-live.

    Excel · PowerShell · PDF
    CapEx or OpExDemo logic · not accounting advice

    What are you buying or building?

    Which stage is the work in?

    TreatmentCapitalize

    Web app

    CapEx Classifier

    Walks a project manager through the capitalization questions for technology spend and explains the answer in plain language, so budgets land in the right bucket the first time.

    HTML · JavaScript
    Transcript to minutesDemo data
    Transcript

    Sam: The vendor says the data migration slips a week.

    Priya: Then UAT moves to the 14th. I'll tell the business leads.

    Sam: We keep go-live. Cutover weekend stays where it is.

    Lee: I'll send the updated runbook Friday.

    Minutes

    Decision. Go-live holds; the cutover weekend is unchanged.

    Risk. The migration slip compresses UAT by one week.

    PriyaTell business leads UAT moves to the 14thWed
    SamConfirm the new migration date with the vendorThu
    LeeSend the updated cutover runbookFri
    Claude agent

    Minutes Agent

    Paste a meeting transcript and get one-page minutes in the house template: decisions, risks, and actions with an owner and a real due date on every line, as Word and PDF.

    Claude Code agent · Word · PDF
    Portfolio pre-readDemo data
    Week 41 · 5 active projects1 red · 1 amber
    Customer portal refreshBuild62%
    Field service appUAT88%
    Data platform phase 2Design35%
    Warehouse scanningBuild48%
    Contract e-signaturePlan12%
    Warehouse scanning: handheld delivery slipped three weeks.Sent Mondays, 7:00 AM
    Scheduled agent

    Portfolio Pre-read

    Pulls the live portfolio on a schedule, writes the executive pre-read with status, trend, and the one line that matters for each project, and lands it in leadership's inbox before the meeting.

    Scheduled task · HTML to PDF · Outlook

    Yoergoods  ·  est. 2015

    Fine woodworking, on nights and weekends.

    Two live-edge walnut coffee tables with blue epoxy rivers, standing on a lawn
    Live-edge river tablesBlack walnut · blue epoxy · hairpin legs

    I started woodworking at a young age, and in college I found a niche for fine woodworking. I make small projects, furniture, and retail fronts under the Yoergoods name: live-edge slabs, epoxy rivers, bowtie inlays, and the occasional coffee shop.

    Yoergoods on YouTube

    Bent Tree Coffee remodel, Kent, Ohio, 2016 · furniture · small projects

    The Yoergoods workshop in black and white: workbench, miter saw, lumber rack, and a flag on the wall
    The shopEstablished 2020

    Everything above was built here. The shop went up in 2020: a bench, a rack of walnut and maple, a miter station, and enough clamps to almost be enough clamps.

    Off the clock

    Volunteering, travel, and church.

    Volunteer

    On Target Outfitters

    I volunteer with On Target Outfitters, a faith-based nonprofit that uses the outdoors to help kids grow. Caring mentors take them through archery, riflery, hunting, fishing, and camping, and the kids come away with new skills, confidence, and lasting friendships.

    • ProgramsArchery · riflery · hunting · fishing · camping
    • ChaptersCanfield · Findlay · Portage County, Ohio
    • Since2008 · 501(c)(3) nonprofit
    ontargetoutfitters.org
    Jordan and a companion on a hike in front of a mossy rock face
    On the trailAdventure, preferably uphill

    I love to travel and experience new cultures whenever the opportunity presents itself. I'm active in my local church, where I mentor youth and adults, and I volunteer wherever I can be useful.

    Also volunteered with

    • Adult mentor for at-risk youth through Ohio's Child Protective Services
    • True North Ministries, Akron
    • India Gospel League
    • Joni and Friends
    A large group photo in a classroom in India; several visitors wear marigold garlands
    India Gospel League

    Contact

    Let's talk.

    For roles, programs that need a steady hand, or a table that needs a river in it, email is best. I'm based in Stow, Ohio, and work hybrid out of Twinsburg.

    Résumé (PDF) LinkedIn YouTube

    References · contact details on request

    • Mike PutreGroup Project Manager · Fortune Brands Innovations
    • Matthew JerebProduct Line Director · Carlisle Brake & Friction (previous)
    • Gregory MorscherAssociate Professor, Mechanical Engineering · The University of Akron