Is Dermot Ashgrove a real person

No. He is invented for this page, and so are Vantry Logistics and Coldharbour Systems. The figures were written to demonstrate a shape, and none of them describes anyone's career.

Why is there no methodology section

Because a list of frameworks says what you have heard of. The example carries one certification with a year and puts the methods where they were used, in the lines about scope boards, dependency registers and change requests.

What did the checker score it

99 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 3 points short. Fifteen action-led lines across three dated roles, all fifteen carrying a number the engine can read, and 433 readable words. The writing check beside it scored 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied. It is a measurement of the document and not a prediction about an employer.

Should a project manager list every project

No. Three dated roles with five lines under each reads better than nine lines of client names. Put the portfolio size in a line instead, as the fourteen-site rollout does.

Does budget belong on a résumé

A figure you can defend belongs anywhere. A budget, a vendor count, a headcount and a schedule variance are all things a hiring manager will ask about in the first ten minutes, so they may as well be on the page.

Which design is this rendered in

Nexus, one of the eight layouts in the ATS family and one of the 24 ATS-safe designs out of 37. The page named Bridge until the document was moved on 2026-09-14. The eight were chosen from a measurement taken that day: each exports a PDF whose text layer scores exactly what the pasted text scores, on both test documents, in one column, with the reading order kept and no graphics.

Example · Delivery

A free project manager résumé example, and the evidence it puts first

One complete project manager résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.

ConxfolioPublished 2026-09-13 · updated 2026-09-25

— a plan is not an achievement. what moved is.

The project manager example résumé drawn as a complete page in the Nexus design: name, summary, three dated roles with five lines under each, education, eleven skills and a certification — The example below, drawn by the builder's own renderer in the Nexus design. The picture was taken by pressing this page's own Use this example door and photographing what the editor rendered.

Delivery work is hard to write down because most of it is invisible when it goes well. This example is written out in full so you can read the lines, then run through the tools here so you can see what software finds in them. The candidate is invented.

The example, in full

An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.

Dermot Ashgrove
Project Manager, Infrastructure
Dublin, Ireland · [email protected] · +353 1 555 0184

Summary
Project manager with eleven years delivering warehouse and logistics systems, working on scope, dependencies and the weekly conversation nobody wants to have early. Runs programmes worth 4.2 million euros across 6 vendors.

Experience

Senior Project Manager · Vantry Logistics, Dublin · 2021 to present

Delivered a warehouse management system across 14 sites and 3 countries, 2 weeks inside the window the board had agreed.
Managed a budget of EUR 4.2 million across 6 vendors and closed the programme 3% under it after 26 months.
Cut change requests from 31 to 9 a quarter by moving scope decisions into a fortnightly board attended by 4 teams.
Ran the dependency register for 4 parallel work streams and 38 named owners, and cleared 140 items over 2 years without a missed milestone.
Reported programme status to 3 executive sponsors every month and kept all 14 sites on the plan of record for 2 years.

Project Manager · Coldharbour Systems, Cork · 2017 to 2021

Led 9 client implementations averaging 5 months each, and every one of them passed its first acceptance review without a second round.
Reduced average onboarding time for new sites from 11 weeks to 7 by rewriting the check list and pre-booking the site surveys.
Rebuilt the status report into one page and removed 4 hours of weekly meetings from 22 people's diaries across the whole programme.
Negotiated 3 vendor contracts covering 5 years of support and saved EUR 180 000 against the first quotes the vendors had sent.
Tracked 9 project budgets against forecast every month and closed 8 of them inside the agreed contingency of 5% over 4 years.

Project Coordinator · Coldharbour Systems, Cork · 2015 to 2017

Coordinated 3 project teams of 22 people and kept the plan of record for each of them current every single week.
Tracked 140 open actions to closure across 2 projects and chased 30 owners a week until every last item closed.
Wrote the handover pack the company still issues at every site go live, and trained 6 delivery teams to use it.
Booked 200 site visits a year for 3 engineers and matched every visit to an open action in the plan.
Prepared 24 steering reports a year and issued each one 2 days before the meeting for 4 years without a single miss.

Education
BBS Business Studies · Dunleary Institute, Dublin · 2011 to 2015

Skills
scope management, dependency planning, vendor management, budget tracking, risk registers, stakeholder reporting, change control, benefits tracking, Jira, MS Project, workshop facilitation

Languages
English · native · German · B1

Certifications
PRINCE2 Practitioner · 2019

The four numbers a delivery CV lives on

Scope, money, time and people. A project manager who names all four in the first role has answered most of a screening call before it happens. The example does it in four lines: fourteen sites across three countries, a budget of EUR 4.2 million across six vendors, two weeks inside the window, and a dependency register with thirty-eight named owners.

None of those lines describes a method. They describe a size. A hiring manager filtering forty applications is looking for someone who has carried roughly what this job carries, and size is the only part of that question a document can answer. The methods matter at interview, where they can be argued about.

Why the weakest line is the one without a percentage

"Rebuilt the status report into one page and removed 4 hours of weekly meetings from 22 people's diaries" has no percentage in it and is the line most delivery managers would recognise as real work. Hours and people are still units the engine reads, which is how all fifteen lines here carry measurable evidence without a single invented percentage. Where the improvement is a habit rather than a metric, the line says what stopped happening.

The coordinator role is kept because it shows the ladder, and it now carries the same five lines as the two above it. Fifteen lines across three dated roles is the shape SPEC-13 asks every example here to hold, and the weighting a reader feels comes from the size of the numbers rather than from the count of the lines.

Skills for a project manager résumé, grouped

Dermot's skills fall into planning, control and people. Planning: scope management, dependency planning, benefits tracking. Control: budget tracking, risk registers, change control, MS Project, Jira. People: stakeholder reporting, vendor management, workshop facilitation. A programme director reads the control group as the proof that projects stay on course.

Agile delivery managers usually group around ceremonies and flow instead. The résumé builder takes any group names you choose, and it is free.

From project coordinator to senior project manager

A coordinator's résumé proves organisation: plans updated, meetings run, actions chased. The Coldharbour roles start there. A project manager adds projects owned with budget and schedule.

A senior project manager adds scale and benefits: several projects, vendors managed, benefits tracked after delivery. Give every line a percentage where it has one. The certifications guide covers PRINCE2 and similar.

How it reads and scores

The import review reads 3 roles, 1 degree, 2 languages and 11 skills before anything reaches the editor. The ATS checker scored it 99 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 3 points short. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied here, and the five it did not award are one check: bullet tense. The method behind these numbers is written up once, in how our examples are made and checked.

The Conxfolio import review after the door opened, showing Dermot Ashgrove's example read into fields beside the rendered page, with the line saying it is an example — Dermot Ashgrove's project manager résumé read into fields, each field beside the line it came from.

The same import review on a 390 pixel phone screen, with the example notice above the accept button — Dermot Ashgrove's project manager résumé in the same review on a 390 px phone.

What to change for your own

Change the domain first. Construction, clinical systems, marketing and finance all share this shape and use different nouns, and the nouns are what a reader scans. Then put your real sizes in. If you have never run a budget, name the headcount. If you have never run a headcount, name the number of sites, releases or migrations.

Keep one certification and give it a year. Drop the methodology list. Then read the page against the guide on quantifying achievements, which is the same argument at more length. The design gallery holds 37 layouts if Nexus is not to your taste. The teacher example, the data analyst example and the nurse example carry the same structure over completely different evidence.

Write yours beside it

Opens the builder with Dermot's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Nexus design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.

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Questions

Is Dermot Ashgrove a real person: No. He is invented for this page, and so are Vantry Logistics and Coldharbour Systems. The figures were written to demonstrate a shape, and none of them describes anyone's career.
Why is there no methodology section: Because a list of frameworks says what you have heard of. The example carries one certification with a year and puts the methods where they were used, in the lines about scope boards, dependency registers and change requests.
What did the checker score it: 99 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 3 points short. Fifteen action-led lines across three dated roles, all fifteen carrying a number the engine can read, and 433 readable words. The writing check beside it scored 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied. It is a measurement of the document and not a prediction about an employer.
Should a project manager list every project: No. Three dated roles with five lines under each reads better than nine lines of client names. Put the portfolio size in a line instead, as the fourteen-site rollout does.
Does budget belong on a résumé: A figure you can defend belongs anywhere. A budget, a vendor count, a headcount and a schedule variance are all things a hiring manager will ask about in the first ten minutes, so they may as well be on the page.
Which design is this rendered in: Nexus, one of the eight layouts in the ATS family and one of the 24 ATS-safe designs out of 37. The page named Bridge until the document was moved on 2026-09-14. The eight were chosen from a measurement taken that day: each exports a PDF whose text layer scores exactly what the pasted text scores, on both test documents, in one column, with the reading order kept and no graphics.

Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 22 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.