Project Manager & Learning Specialist

Jimena Ardini

I design and run training programs across companies, government institutions and nonprofit organizations. Fifteen years, three languages, and a habit of turning complicated things into courses people actually finish.

Based in
Rome, Italy
Originally from
Argentina
Experience
15+ years
Portrait of Jimena Ardini
About

Who I am

I'm a Project Manager and Learning Specialist with over fifteen years of experience designing and running training programs. I've managed the relationship with a large institutional client, founded and run the treasury of a nonprofit for eight years, and designed training for audiences ranging from corporate teams to migrant women learning digital skills for the first time.

I work comfortably across Italian, Spanish and English, and I move easily between building the storyboard and running the project plan around it. What stays constant is the same instinct: take something complicated and make it learnable.

Education & certifications

ISIPM-Base® Project Management Certification
Italian Institute of Project Management · 2021 · Italy
International Project Manager
1st TIP-PM Erasmus+ Programme · 2020 · Italy
Master's Degree in Design
Córdoba Province University · 2016 · Argentina
Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design & Advertising
EAA Spilimbergo · 2004 · Italy

Languages

  • SpanishNative
  • ItalianC2
  • EnglishC1

Tools

Moodle LMS Articulate 360 SCORM Learning Analytics Jira MS Project Google Workspace
Experience

The path so far

Fifteen years, five organizations, two continents. Here is the order it actually happened in.

2010 – 2018 · Alta Gracia, Argentina

Founder & Treasurer

Fundación ADMA

Co-founded and ran the treasury of a nonprofit for eight years, leading a training team that built teacher resources in partnership with the Provincial Ministry of Education.

2010 – Present · Remote

Project Manager / Learning Specialist

Freelance

Ongoing consulting on eLearning design, user experience, storyboarding and development for corporate clients in Italy, the US and Argentina.

2012 – 2018 · Córdoba, Argentina

Instructional Designer / Project Manager

Government of Córdoba Province

Led the design team building the province's internal training platform for public employees, end to end.

2019 – 2021 · Ancona, Italy

Project Manager

Associazione Terzavia OdV

Designed and coordinated co-financed digital literacy programs for adult migrant women.

2021 – Present · Rome, Italy

Product Owner

UnitelmaSapienza

Own full-lifecycle governance of one of UnitelmaSapienza's Moodle platforms, built for Sapienza University of Rome, from stakeholder strategy to platform performance and roadmap.

Case studies

Selected work

A closer look at three projects, from an eight-year nonprofit build to a province-wide training platform for 129,000+ public employees.

2010 – 2018 · Alta Gracia, Argentina · Founder & Treasurer

Building a teacher training program from scratch

Challenge

Animal welfare education had no place in the standard curriculum across Córdoba province, and teachers had no ready-made materials to bring the topic into their classrooms.

Approach

Co-founded the organization and ran its treasury for eight years, while leading the team that developed and distributed teaching resources, in direct partnership with the Provincial Ministry of Education and the Alta Gracia municipal government. Built a volunteer pipeline from training through placement.

Impact

Eight years of sustained programming with a standing institutional partner, run largely by volunteers trained inside the organization.

Program design Institutional partnerships Nonprofit finance Volunteer management
2019 – 2021 · Ancona, Italy · Project Manager

Digital skills for women starting over

Challenge

Migrant women in Ancona needed practical digital skills and a route toward economic independence, delivered through co-financed Third Sector projects with limited runway.

Approach

Designed and coordinated digital literacy and empowerment programs, ran workshops for multicultural classrooms, and supported reporting back to funders. Moved delivery to virtual workshops in 2020 without losing the group.

Impact

Multiple cohorts of adult learners supported through a full program cycle, including the shift to remote delivery.

Vulnerable-audience facilitation Grant-funded projects Remote delivery
Playground

Side projects

Not every project has a client. These are things I built for practice, or just because.

Trivia Time cover art, a yellow speech bubble on a blue background

Trivia Time

A Jeopardy-style game built in Articulate Storyline, with questions spanning sports, history and geography.

Play it ↗
Drag and drop project cover, Star Wars vs Battlestar Galactica title card

Drag & drop interaction

An Articulate Storyline drag-and-drop built for fun, using Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica items.

Try it ↗
Cover of the family tree project, showing old family photographs and a genealogy diagram for the Ardini-Rocha family

Family tree

A personal project mapping my family's genealogy, built in Articulate Storyline.

View it ↗
Contact

Get in touch

Always open to hearing about new projects, whether that's leading a training program from strategy to delivery, or bringing structure to a learning function that needs one.