Must Have Computer Science, IT and/or a technical project management background (education/work experience). ·
PMP or Agile ACP certification required. ·
Minimum of 12 years of project management experience required, preferably with Network (LAN, WAN), Collaboration (SharePoint, Exchange, Streaming) and Client Engineering technologies. ·
Prior experience with Agile Project Management and using tools like Jira and/or Rally.
Proven experience in managing people, processes and projects in a heavily matrixed organization structure is required.
Demonstrated experience leading technical teams in the delivery of large scale software
Manage multiple large technical projects, independently own and manage multiple change requests, new initiatives, etc.
Mindset to read and understand detail business and technical requirements.
Identify key stakeholders and work to achieve project objectives.
Work with Business stakeholders on Annual Planning exercises and create Business Cases for funding.
Create detail project schedule, Gantt chart, critical path, etc.
Manage project status report, issues, action items, risks, change log, internal and external dependencies, etc.
Follow up on issues and action items towards resolution.
Regularly monitor and report on project progress.
Facilitate project status meetings, requirements and design discussions, and defect status reviews.
Experienced executive communicator. Comfortable messaging to executives (VPs and CIO).