From: Sam Ali [mailto:sam.ali@princetoninformation.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 3:02 PM
Subject: Project manager 01/04/12 2:59 PM Hello,
My name is Sam and I'm an IT recruiter at Princeton Information. Our records show that you are an experienced IT professional with experience in Project Management . This experience is relevant to one of my current openings.
The opening requires budgeting and vendor management experience in addition to the above skills. It is located in Princeton, NJ. The candidates filling these Technical Project Lead positions effectively leads, coordinates and oversees work across IT projects within a department and/or across departments. In this capacity, the incumbent assumes responsibility for overall project management tasks and activities from original concept through final implementation. The Technical Project Lead collaborates with stakeholders to formulate project scope for the management of large projects or several smaller independent projects. The incumbent manages all aspects of project, from beginning to end, with direct accountability for project execution while leading a team, or teams, to accomplish specific objectives in a given time frame with available resources and within defined budgets. The Technical Project Lead is responsible for reporting status, risks, and issues to higher level management. Additionally, The Technical Project Lead collaborates with internal groups and external vendors to assure the timely completion of all scheduled tasks. Responsibilities The ideal candidate will be responsible for: - Develop relationships and work with internal development teams or external vendors to define project plan, schedule and hand-off processes and deliverables.
- Develop detailed development/data-migration project plans and work breakdown structures using Project.
- Hold regular project status and planning meetings to track team member progress against assigned tasks.
- Act as primary point of contact for outsourced development projects, coordinate works and schedules with internal IT teams and functional areas.
- Manage client communications and expectations, negotiate project schedules with users as required.
- Maintain accountability for on-time, on-schedule completion of system development and data migration projects.
- Coordinate cost estimate response within group project scope.
- Assure compliance to tasks and deliverables as identified in the software development lifecycle including entrance and exit criteria for Requirements Definition, Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, Implementation, and the transition to production operations.
- Lead and assure project team member compliance in Change Management, Issue Management, Release Management, and Operational Readiness.
- Lead application/infrastructure and architecture subprojects within an ongoing large-scale production environment.
- Monitor cost estimate efforts and related project work
- Create project schedules and oversee their accuracy and status reporting
- Mentor and coach less experienced staff and align team members to project-related objectives
- Escalation of project risk and proposed mitigations to project sponsors
- Project plan and schedules
- Usability requirements/directions to development to ensure satisfaction and clarification of user needs
- Successful integration with existing systems
Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Experience: - The ideal candidate reports to a Manager, Director or Executive director. This role functions independently on a daily basis processing of outputs and deliverables in the escalation of project risks & proposed mitigations, project plan and schedules.
- Experience in usability requirements/directions to development ensuring customer satisfaction and clarification of user needs.
- Successful on-boarding of new programs and data migration.
- People Management skills, required to handle the criticality of moderate to high risks issues leadership role in delivering output on time and in budget.
- Complexity experience in handling high level, work is non-routine and complex with high level of judgment and reasoning required.
- This position requires the candidate to work across organization at multiple levels.
- Senior management is dependent on this position in overseeing and successful delivery of assigned projects.
- Project team members rely on this role to provide project related functional management, direction and mentoring.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities - The person must demonstrate strong knowledge and experience with the responsibilities outlined above.
- 5 years of progressively responsible project management experience preferably utilizing a variety of application/system development methodologies.
- Proven track record in managing large-scale matrixed projects or concurrent mid-scale projects required
- 2 or more years of experience in managing vendor or outsourced development teams is desirable
- PMP certification desirable but not required.
- Strong Vendor Management and Project Management skills are desirable.
- Ability to translate business needs into technology development requirements.
- Strong experience with project financial management and vendor contract & service level management.
- Strong influencing, problem solving, consensus building, and negotiation skills.
- Consistent delivery and responsiveness.
- Ability to build and maintain strong and trusted business partner relationships
Education A Bachelors degree with extensive coursework in Computer Science or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired is necessary. .
Thanks again.
Sam
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