JOHNNY MEDINA
Vernon
Summary
Motivated and solution-driven professional with over 11 years of hands-on and technical leadership experience in the construction and customer service industries. Demonstrated expertise in planning, monitoring, and controlling projects from start to finish, ensuring effective and timely completion, while prioritizing safety precautions. Proven track record of collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet project deadlines. Skilled in data analysis, driving sales revenue, and achieving company goals. Thrives in deadline-driven environments, and excels at building strong teams.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
CBRE - Pratt and Whitney
East Hartford
09.2025 - Current
- Led cross-functional teams to ensure project alignment and successful delivery.
- Developed project plans, timelines, and budgets to guide project execution.
- Monitored project progress and adjusted plans as necessary to meet objectives.
- Facilitated communication between stakeholders to maintain project transparency.
- Identified risks and implemented mitigation strategies throughout project lifecycle.
- Managed multiple projects with competing deadlines simultaneously.
- Built and established strong partnerships with teams, vendors, and contractors to ensure project success.
Project Engineer
Standard Builders
04.2023 - 09.2025
- Provides technical support for one or more simultaneous construction projects
including interpretation of design; project scope, application of construction methods; resolution and
documentation of design conflicts and constructability review, from project transfer-conception to closeout. - Updates the project schedule including assistance in its planning and development.
- Maintains working knowledge of the status of each project and manages subcontractors to ensure contract compliance, timely completion of projects and client satisfaction.
- Processes requests for information from subcontractors, vendors and SBI, including
receipt, review for accuracy, rewrite as necessary, expedites, interfacing with owner
and design team. - Updates Schedule to reflect planning needs and processes Submittals of materials on the project and tracks procurement.
- Collaborates and presents at subcontractor meeting, Owner-Architect-Contractor Meetings, and other coordination meetings to ensure clear communication of project status and issues are up to date between the parties.
- Maintained records for each project and engineering discipline and collaborated with other departments to facilitate successful project completion.
Director of Sales, Brand Growth, and Marketing
Chick-Fil-A
04.2022 - 04.2023
- Collaborates with the Sales department to connect the community with the mission of the organization and increase sales revenue.
- Successfully created transaction growth within the first six months.
- Owner of the Sales metric of the business. Using Chick-Fil-A data platform to watch trends, collect and interpret various data to create plans to grow revenue within certain parameters of the business.
- Creates year over year sales goals, structures and plans to execute company predetermined goals.
- Creates in-store and community marketing plan to expand brand growth in the immediate region and market of Glastonbury, CT.
- Leads basic operations and develops team members up the leadership path of the organization.
- Develops public relation canvassing in the Glastonbury, CT area to create and build strong relationships with the community as well as partnering to build revenue with outside businesses.
Lead Carpenter
The Middlesex Corporation
04.2018 - 11.2021
- Skilled carpenter with experience in bridge repairs and new bridge construction in the Connecticut market.
- Led a crew of five carpenters on the retaining wall division on the four and a half mile joint venture Boston Green Line Rail Extension project in Boston, MS.
- Responsible for planning daily operations including installation of various wall panels and concrete to ensure proper procedures were in place.
- Coordinated with various cross-functional teams, including engineers to complete over 242K SF in the wall division of the project.
- Maintained a safe and healthy work environment for the team.
- Met deadlines for production pace at a high level.
Steel Erector
PDS Engineering and Construction
06.2014 - 12.2017
- Served as the General contractor working with the superintendent responsible for completing scope of work from foundation to punch list in the pre-engineered designed steel building industry.
- Scope of work included new construction to remodeling and repairs of existing structures for various clients in various industries ranging from 1M to 50M.
- Built strong relationships with private and government clients across multiple work sites in the New England region and performed work on both private and government contracts.
Education
Pursuing A Degree - Business Administration/Construction Management
Manchester Community College
Manchester, CT12.2015
High School Diploma - Carpentry
Cheney Technical High School
Manchester, CT06.2012
Skills
- Microsoft Suite
- Project Management
- Contract Management
- Project Scope Analysis and Deliverables
- Outbuild Scheduling Software
- Procore and e-Builder Software
- Bluebeam Revu
- Leadership Development
- Health and Safety compliance
- Budgeting and Processing
- Schedule management
- Risk assessment
Community Service & Volunteer Work
Faith Tabernacle, Manchester, CT, Youth Ministry, Jan 2015 - Present
- Serve as a lead Youth Pastor in the Manchester area in areas of life skills, finances, teaching moral and ethical solutions and structure for life.
- Find and carry out volunteer work with Middle and High School students to raise over $150,000+ for global incentives including orphanages in Guatemala, Haiti, Philippines, and local food pantry.
- LIFT Program Director ~ Preparing Students For Life in Finances, Budgeting, and Career seeking and developing skills.
- Create and lead 50-100 person events twice a month.
References
Donald Shubert - Connecticut Construction Industries Association President
(860)-529-6855 - dshubert@ctconstruction.org
Ivery Tanner - Project Manager at Yale University
(203)-627-3147 - ivery.tanner@yale.edu
Samantha D'Agostino - Project Manager at Construction Solutions Group, LLC
(860)-573-8948 - samanthad@csgroup-llc.com
Project Portfolio
Higher Education and Institutional Projects
- Yale University - Brady Memorial Library Science Labs | $3.2M
- Yale University - 25 Science Park Labs | $16M
Healthcare and Hospitality Projects
- Yale New Haven Health (Bridgeport) - Anesthesia Lounge Renovation and Patient Transport Project | $4.5M
- Yale New Haven Health (Stamford) - MRI Room Upgrades | $1.5M
- UMass Health (Worcester) - Endoscopy Center | $315K
- Catalyst Waterbury (Pre-Construction) - New Construction Acute Post Medical Facility | $36M
Transportation
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (Boston) - Green Line Extension | $1.1B
- Connecticut DOT (Hartford) - Rehabilitation of Bridges on I-84 | $60M
- Connecticut DOT (Newtown/Southbury) - Rehabilitation of I-84 Bridges over Housatonic River | $56M
Other Projects
- Pratt and Whitney (East Hartford) - 4.5 Million sqft Facilities Management
- Eversource (Connecticut) - Misc Projects | $2.5M
- Chickfila (Glastonbury) - In 1 year turned a -14% deficit in sales to a +2.5%
Training
Construction Institute - Project Management Certification ~ Proffessor Michael Schrier, Former Director of Design and STEM Projects, UCONN 2025
Procore Certified ~ 2023
Pentecostal of Alexandria Leadership Training ~ 08/01/14,-11/01/14
Timeline
Project Manager
CBRE - Pratt and Whitney
09.2025 - Current
Project Engineer
Standard Builders
04.2023 - 09.2025
Director of Sales, Brand Growth, and Marketing
Chick-Fil-A
04.2022 - 04.2023
Lead Carpenter
The Middlesex Corporation
04.2018 - 11.2021
Steel Erector
PDS Engineering and Construction
06.2014 - 12.2017
Pursuing A Degree - Business Administration/Construction Management
Manchester Community College
High School Diploma - Carpentry
Cheney Technical High School