Monday, October 29, 2012

[xrecnet] RE; Direct Client Requirement : Jr.Project Manager - Owings Mills- Maryland - 6 months

Hi

Greetings!

 

Let me know if you have a suitable consultant for the below requirement:-

 

Position:

Jr.Project Manager

Duration:

6 Months

General InformationGeneral Information

 

Job Description:

Application Managed Services Transition Manager
- This role will require experience in executing a transition of application support work to a
third party vendor and familiarity of the process
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Experience in a 24/7 global delivery model
- Knowledge of the phases of transition to a third party including: Knowledge Transition, Shadowing, Reverse Shadowing, Playback, and transition to steady state


Responsibilities:
* Manages projects, develops and directs technical project teams through all phases and activities of the project life-cycle process associated with major information technology systems projects that are essential to departmental missions and affect CareFirst operations on a long-term and continuing basis.
* Determines Project goals and priorities with management, program manager and/or project sponsors.
* Supports requirements of the enterprise program manager to provide necessary information and support for successful program delivery.
* Creates all project planning documentation and follows all CareFirst Defined processes.
* Manages and communicates a clear vision of the projects objectives, and motivate the cross functional project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by the entire team.
* Establish and publish clear priorities among project activities. Coordinates team activities to meet project milestones.
* Directs/leads project teams comprised of subject matter experts, technical specialists, and support staff to produce a business plan in accordance with the strategic plan, operating budget, capital planning procedures and agency guidance.
* Prepares, implements, monitors, and updates the project plan. Coordinates with the business owner and upper level management to ensure the actions are consistent with the approved plan.
* Identifies standards or requirements for change management. Participates in change control (for example, reviewing configuration change requests).
* Develops or implements information systems security and entitlement requirements and plans; and ensures appropriate product-related training and documentation are developed and made available to customers.
* *Manages resource assignment and tracking to the project plan and project schedule in coordination with the line of business resource managers.
*Negotiate the performance of activities with team members and their managers in a matrix environment.
*Coach to clarify assignments and deliverables; mentor others in project management practices; review quality of work and manage the integration of team member’s work.
Manages the Project Budget with overall budget accountability for up to $4 million per year.
* Collaborates with the finance department and various functional managers to ensure project budgets are properly estimated and controlled; provides overall financial recommendations, and develop controls and measurements to monitor progress.
* Provides Finance with monthly accruals and forecasts by the due date established by Finance using the tools developed by Finance.
*Maintains current statements of work for all contractors; track and approve contractor invoices in a timely manner.
* Provides regular updates to project sponsor and stakeholders on the status of the budget.
* Documents reasons for budget excess or shortfall.
* Manages project budgets for both expense and capital against the original project budget.
* Creates Executive Summaries for all contractor resources required to complete a project.

Requirements:
* This position requires a four-year degree in CIS/MIS or equivalent experience of 2-3 years of related project management experience in a large scale, cross functional, multi-system environment.
Out of the 2-3 years required, at least 1 year in a combination of the following:
* Progressive broad-based Project Management experience (which could include consulting) is desirable; knowledge and implementation experience in new computing architectures and networked computing structures.
* Experience as Project Manager, with working knowledge of Systems development lifecycle and the Project Management Lifecycle.

 

 

 

 

Thanks & Regards,

 

Anand

Business Manager

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Zolon Tech Solutions, Inc.

13921 Park Center Road | Suite 360 | Herndon, VA 20170
T: 703-636-3533 | C: 571-366-7751| F: 703-636-7377
anand@zolon.com | www.zolon.com | IM: anandtekalkote@Yahoo

 

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