INIT proudly congratulates
JORDAN MEDLIN
selected for Mass Transit’s 2018
Top 40 Under 40
Jordan provides support to INIT customers by facilitating major
CAD/AVL and EFM projects throughout the US and Canada.
He has been a valued employee for more than nine years.
INIT Innovations in Transportation, Inc.
www.initusa.com
Fact:
His favorite
part of the job
is interacting
with the end
customer, as they
offer something
cutting-edge in
the community.
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management responsibilities, he had
the additional challenge of studying
nights and weekends for months to
earn his project management professional
(PMP) certifi cation, one of the
accomplishments he’s most proud of.
He passed the test with fl ying colors
and earned his PMP before turning 30.
Medlin was assigned to a new fare
collection project for Rhode Island in
2017 and he was also promoted to senior
project manager.
His favorite part of his job is interacting
with the end customer for their
products, as its off ering something more
cutting edge and the public is excited to
get their hands on it. He enjoys bringing
new technology to the industry.
JORDAN MEDLIN JOINED INIT IN
2009 as an intern for its Automatic Passenger
Counting Team. He was working
on his degree at Old Dominion University
and upon graduation was hired
as an APC project assistant, where he
excelled at quality control and testing
and was promoted a year later to technical
support analyst.
Aft er expressing an interest in project
management, an opportunity opened up
for a project at Golden Gate Transit in
San Rafael, California, which was already
in progress. In 2013, Medlin was
assigned to a project at TriMet, in Portland,
Oregon, where his communication
skills and focus on project management
processes led to his success.
Later that year, INIT won its fi rst fare
collection project in North America at
a consortium of several transit agencies
in Sacramento, California, and Medlin
was assigned as project manager, due to
his proven accomplishments.
In 2016 Medlin was assigned as
project manager for a fare collection
project in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at
Th e Rapid. In addition to his project
“The most challenging part of the job is making sure
that the final product meets the customer’s expectations.
Although our products are relatively standardized, there
are always new requirements that have to be developed for
each contract. It’s therefore important to spend a significant
amount of time in the design phase and really define how
those new requirements should look and function.”
Jordan Medlin
Senior Project
Manager
INIT Innovations in
Transportation Inc.
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