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Application manager resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write an application manager resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Your resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to writing the most important 2-4 sentences of your resume:

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in application manager-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.

Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.

Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.

These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some application manager interviews.

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List the right project manager skills

Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
  2. Include as many relevant hard or technical application manager skills as possible for each job you apply to.
  3. Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some application manager interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on an application manager resume:

  • Customer Service
  • Project Management
  • Application Development
  • Architecture
  • Infrastructure
  • Software Development
  • Java
  • Application Support
  • Business Processes
  • SDLC
  • Ongoing Development
  • Scrum
  • Technical Support
  • Data Integrity
  • CRM
  • HR
  • Windows
  • Level Agreements
  • ERP
  • SQL Server
  • SharePoint
  • Web Application
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • ITIL
  • BI
  • Fixed Assets
  • Direct Reports
  • Oracle Ebs
  • Management System
  • Sarbanes-Oxley

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How to structure your work experience

A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.

  1. Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
  2. Put the job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
  3. Include only recent, relevant jobs. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.

How to write application manager experience bullet points

Remember, your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. This is your chance to show why you're good at your job and what you accomplished.

Use the XYZ formula for your work experience bullet points. Here's how it works:

  • Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
  • Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
  • Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.

This creates bullet points that read Achieved X, measured by Y, by doing Z.

Here are great bullet points from application manager resumes:

Work history example #1

Technical Specialist

DeKalb County Public Library

  • Received advanced schooling in CCNA, Microsoft Exchange Management, VMWare Administration, and Host Based Security System 4.5 Administration.
  • Employed database applications for circuit / equipment tracking and records management; generated periodic status reports and repair logs.
  • Developed training materials and procedures or trained users by taking the initiative to explicate the proper use of hardware or software.
  • Coordinated hardware and software repair processes with outside vendors on secret and/or confidential equipment.
  • Worked directly with Jefferson County Information Technology Department in the migration from Dos 3.1 to Windows 9x and NT workstations.

Work history example #2

Computer Operator

WW Grainger

  • Trained in Windows 95 support.
  • Prepared documentation for operational procedures and standards.
  • Worked with TCP/IP routing including IP addressing and using Fluke analyzer to test for network connectivity
  • Prepared reports of AS/400 utilization levels, system down time and response time.
  • Operated and maintained a Data General MV4000 with DG Avion mini Mainframe, networked with numerous workstations.

Work history example #3

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro

  • Managed end-to-end and database testing process for 32 merchandising applications.
  • Involved in Functional setup and technical design documentation.
  • Involved in development of Presentation and Business Layer components using JSP, HTML, and JavaBeans.
  • Worked in Unix Shell scripting for creating PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption and Decryption of Customer Confidential Data files.
  • Involved in code analysis and developing API.

Work history example #4

Application Manager

Xerox

  • Served on infrastructure committee planning and administering systems hardware and software for operations.
  • Helped in better understanding of requirements, eliminating gaps/misinterpretations of requirements between developers and business teams.
  • Implemented change, incident, access management and PeopleSoft data maintenance and quality assurance procedures.
  • Formulated plan for DR to Cloud migration strategy for MPS tool suite of hosted applications.
  • Established governance processes that included management reporting, as well as implemented KPIs for program utilization.

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Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries from application manager resumes:

Bachelor's Degree in computer programming

New England Institute of Technology, East Greenwich, RI

1997 - 2000

Master's Degree in business

Ashford University, San Diego, CA

2012 - 2013

Highlight your application manager certifications on your resume

Certifications are a great way to showcase special expertise or niche skills. Some jobs even require certifications to be hired.

To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.

Here are some of the best certifications to have on application manager resumes:

  1. Project Management Professional (PMP)
  2. Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  3. ITIL Foundation
  4. Master Project Manager (MPM)
  5. Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

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