Project Manager
- Further the business goals of the company through the direct management and execution of best-in-class projects/solutions.
- Build strong relationships with business divisions and departments across the company globally; represent, champion and further the goals and opportunities of the company’s teams in support of assigned initiatives.
- Display, or actively gather, a detailed understanding for the business needs and objectives of the company and related internal clients globally based on project.
- Provide project management, prioritization, direction, and leadership to team members in order to accomplish defined project deliverables.
- Plan, implement and control project work.
- Develop project scope, budgets, project plans and communication plans
- Manage and monitor all project deliverables to successful completion, leverage best practices and complete project artifacts as appropriate.
- Actively create and manage project work plans, issues, risks, and key decisions.
- Monitor project budget, resources and project team members, escalate issues as appropriate.
- Work with project's teams to allocate resources appropriately. Review demand and capacity and be able to work out conflicts or reprioritize as needed.
- Actively communicate with project team members, sponsors, and stakeholders
- Create metrics to measure project success
- Conduct lessons learned meetings/surveys and analyze data and report to sponsor and team
- Demonstrated ability to work independently on a wide array of corporate projects.
- Experience in project lifecycle management, feasibility analysis and conceptual design through development, implementation, training and rollout.
- Ability to align functional expertise and solutions to meet the changing demands of clients, competitors and regulators
- Strong interpersonal and management skills, including the ability to work across the organization and interact/influence/negotiate effectively at all levels of management and peers.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in the field of Project Management, maintaining a solid understanding of the field and its related technologies.
- Performs additional duties as required.
Network Experience - Required
- Provides technical support to ensure the ongoing efficient and reliable operations of related company information systems. Troubleshoots complex network outages.
- Proactively develops and maintains strong knowledge of company’s information systems and their related components, and makes recommendations to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, or security of these systems as appropriate.
- Leverages technology to automate manual tasks and seeks to improve efficiency wherever practicable and appropriate. Makes recommendations for process improvements.
- Assist in developing, enforces and maintains company’s Information Security controls, procedures, and standards.
- Receives broad goals and overall objectives from Management and assists in establishing and implementing the methods to attain them.
- Responsible for meeting assigned project objectives including timelines and budget. Works on the projects and provides innovative suggestions for solutions.
- Serve as technical mentor to other members of the team.
- Collaborates with other IT and business groups, readily sharing information with others.
- Exposure to newer technology like network segmentation and SD-WAN will be critical.
- Strong technical skills and knowledge in several of the following disciplines.
- Network Firewall technology
- Network IDS/IPS Security technology
- TCP/IP and DNS/DHCP
- SASE networks and mobile end user support
- Cisco routing/switching, (NXOS, IOS) and protocols: (BGP, IPSEC, SMTP, SNMP and OSPF)
- VoIP operations, WAN operations experience, and Wireless networking experience
- QoS & MPLS technologies
- Cloud Implementation