Job ID :
5966
Company :
Virginia Information Technology Agency
Location :
RICHMOND, VA
Type :
Contract
Duration :
6 months
Status :
Active
Openings :
1
Posted :
29 Oct 2014
Job Seekers, Please send resumes to resumes@hireitpeople.com

 

 

Complete Description:

Project management, project scheduling and communications lead for VITA EAD workplan application projects.

 

Need for a strong PM with strong communications skills to be able to manage multiple projects and map out a comprehensive logical plan with our business, developers and architects. 

 

Will be responsible for overall project management  and coordination of schedules for projects including holding discovery sessions, documenting technical upgrade requirements with architects and developers. Also, working with architecture and application team managers to coordinate upgrade schedules with project and business schedules, etc.

 

Skills:

-PMP or CoVA PM cert required

- Strong business communication skills. Must be extremely personable, team orientated and able to hold collaborative meetings.

-Project Management experience in application development environments required. Must have demonstrated experience with application teams.

-Must be able to take direction and collaboration with technical leads on development plans.

-Senior level PM with demonstrated experience working in a highly political and collaborative environment.

-Ability to run technical and project meetings and translate into work planning and project schedules.

-Ability to decompose upgrade requirements into project plans for upgrade work and testing purposes.

-Excellent presentation, communication and customer service skills

-Remain flexible on changing workloads and priorities.

-Be flexible with scheduling changes, framework schedules and discovery changes. Must be flexible and team orientated. Will be part of a team taking input from many sources and must be able to juggle and work with changing environments.

 

Skills:

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount

of Experience

Application PM experience

Required

10

Years

Extensive experience with MS Project and creating project plans.

Required

10

Years

Experience with testing scripts and system testing a plus

Required

6

Years

Strong PM technical management skills, including managing matrixed resources.

Required

6

Years

Ability to run technical and project meetings and translate into work planning and project schedules.

Required

10

Years

Strong technical skills with experience managing multitiple application (upgrade or technical) projects and map out a comprehensive logical plan for

Required

5

Years

Experience managing projects involving windows servers, and/or Oracle and SQL databases

Required

7

Years

PMP or COVA PM Cert

Required

 

 

Public Sector or VITA Northrop Grumman (NG) background/exp a plus

Nice to have

 

 

Experience with Application Development projects

Nice to have

 

 

Experience with Architecture reviews

Nice to have

 

 

SharePoint

Nice to have