Job ID :
5214
Company :
DC Government
Location :
WASHINGTON, DC
Type :
Contract
Duration :
6 Months
Status :
Active
Openings :
1
Posted :
23 Apr 2014
Job Seekers, Please send resumes to resumes@hireitpeople.com

 

Complete Description:

Planning, acquisition, deployment, monitoring, harvesting and retirement of software assets. Develop SAM policies, workflows, processes, and procedures. Responsible for creating and updating software information into Asset Manager/SAM. Involved in the calculating of software license compliance based on software license right-to-use (RTU), software license agreements, maintenance agreements and software installations.

 

Detailed responsibilities include:

 

•             Lead the development, implementation and management of District wide Asset Management tools.

•             Deploy an enterprise wide ITAM / Software Asset Management platform.

•             Validates requirements to create and modify IT software asset records and associated contract records.

•             Manually create or modify IT software asset records and associated contract records in appropriate software repository.

•             Bulk load and update IT software license asset records, software license contracts and software maintenance agreements and associated relationships into the IT asset repository.

•             Initiate requests to update master data registries (e.g. product brands and models) to enable creation or modification of IT asset record.

•             Support OCTO’s ITAM implementation activities.

•             Ensure all changes to vendor agreements are accurately reflected in SAM as confirmed with License Contract holders.

•             Create and update software counters for software titles and licenses.

•             Research, upgrade and downgrade parameters that impact client Right to Use (RTU) when creating or modifying software title counters.

•             Provide expertise in ensuring that software license contracts and agreements, software licenses and software installations and associated linkages are reflected correctly in the ITAM / Software Asset Management platform repository.

•             Provide expertise to ensure that software license records are linked to the correct hardware device.

•             Support analysis of new or modified software agreement and maintenance contracts and identifies impact to software counters.

•             Provides monthly and quarterly software license compliance status reports to OCTO management and Agency CIO’s. Also process all the software related requests (new requests, changes, upgrades, etc.) from all the DC agencies.

•             Review software compliance measures based on existing licensing agreements.

•             Understand current utilization and installation of licenses based on RTU focus.

•             Work with Software vendors to renew and true up existing licensing contracts.

•             Provide analysis of Asset Data information for compliance and risk purposes as well as trends, contracts, and cost.

 

Behavior Characteristics:

Must possess good communications skills, be organized, have ability to define and socialize new processes, able to effect change in a dynamic environment, comfortable working at many org levels, & must be team-oriented, performance-oriented

 

Skills:

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount

of Experience

Expertise Rating

Overall IT related experience

Required

8

Years

3 - Expert

SAM certification preferred (e.g., IAITAM Certified Software Asset Manager).

Desired

2

Years

3 - Expert

Strong knowledge & exp. with software asset life cycle management processes planning, acquisition, deployment, monitoring, harvesting and retirement

Required

5

Years

3 - Expert

Knowledge and experience with software asset management related international standards (e.g., ISO 19770, ISO20000/ITIL)

Required

5

Years

3 - Expert

Experience with development of software asset management policies, workflows, processes, and procedures

Required

5

Years

3 - Expert

Exp with license management and optimization tools, software discovery tools (e.g., MS SCCM, LANDesk, BDNA, HP DDM or similar)

Required

5

Years

3 - Expert

Exp with license management and optimization tools, software discovery tools (e.g., Remedy CMDB, HP UCMDB or similar).

Required

5

Years

3 - Expert

Experience interpreting software licensing terms and conditions

Desired

4

Years

3 - Expert

Strong knowledge of software publishers' licensing models and software deployment and use rights (e.g. Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle and McAfee).

Required

4

Years

3 - Expert

Experience with developing RFP documentation, reviewing vendor proposals and participating in vendor presentations.

Required

4

Years

2 - Proficient

Data cleaning, data transformation, and data modeling processes and techniques, including leveraging Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel and SQL

Required

4

Years

2 - Proficient

Other technologies and software and hardware asset management tools, including: Active Directory, WMI, SNMP, SSH, TCP/IP, N map, Unix/Linux

Desired

3

Years

2 - Proficient

Other technologies and software and hardware asset management tools, including: Shell Script, PERL, PowerShell, VMware administration, System Center C

Desired

3

Years

2 - Proficient

Other technologies and software and hardware asset management tools, including: System Center Configuration Manager, MAP, Altiris

Desired

3

Years

2 - Proficient

Bachelor's degree in the field of information technology or related

Required