Ryan Sherwood, PMP

Ryan Sherwood, PMP has over 10 years of experience in project management, operations, and production. From 2011 to 2012, they worked at Blue Lobster Productions as a Video Producer, where they developed projects with budgets ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 from conception to final delivery, averaging 5 clients per month to develop concepts to meet client strategic objectives. From 2012 to 2022, they worked at Steer Forward, where they held various roles such as Operations Lead, Senior Project Manager, Project Manager, and Director of Photography. In their roles, they managed creative and technical teams in the development of client projects, audited practices to develop several new departments, managed acquisition and development of production studio, oversaw a continuous average of 15 projects with teams ranging in size from 5 to 20 people, developed company processes and platforms to ensure smooth team-wide collaboration on projects, optimized the organization's project management system and processes, managed development of the Shark Science exhibit at the Mystic Aquarium, developed a TV commercial campaign for a green energy company, implemented new project management processes to streamline costing and scheduling, headed multiple production teams to develop and execute the visual style for projects, and acted as producer to develop projects with budgets ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 from conception to final delivery. Currently, they are working as a Senior Project Manager at Image Conscious Studios since 2022.

Ryan Sherwood, PMP is currently working towards a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Project Management from the University of Maine at Presque Isle, expected to be completed in 2023. In 2021, they obtained a Professional Certificate in Google Project Management from Coursera. Additionally, in 2022, they obtained a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute.