John Perla is a Project Management Professional with an extensive background in healthcare, consumer, technology, and manufacturing industries. Graduating with summa cum laude from Virginia Tech with a degree in Biology in 2005, John has been managing and coordinating multiple complex projects and using traditional waterfall or modern agile project management methodologies for the last ten years. John is adept at determining strategies and priorities, managing project budgets, creating and executing action plans, and evaluating processes and results for organizations. With strong communication and analytical skills, John helps to properly scope projects, develop timetables, determine work effort, milestones, and critical paths, allocate and stagger resources, set and monitor progress towards goals, and track details, data, information, and activities for all types of projects. John is a collaborative leader with strong emotional intelligence and problem-solving, interpersonal, and leadership skills. He has an eye for detail, pattern recognition, and solution discernment with broad, sharp business and marketing skills experience, creating and leading technology advancements resulting in strategic industry positioning and increased profitability.