Project Manager
Location: Jackson, MI
Duration: 6-7 months with possible extension
 
Job Description:
Duties:

• Responsible for full-life cycle projects including Planning, Requirements, Design, Build, Test, Implementation and Close phases. Understand business problems and how technology can help to solve them. Ability to support project planning by providing initial estimates of the size, effort, schedule and cost for a business valued project. Develop and implement a project communication plan and a knowledge transfer plan. 
• Effectively build a solid relationship with internal and external clients and management. Ability to manage vendors and work products with a SOW.
• Manage the project team by assigning tasks to deliver project deliverables, on time and with quality.  Lead the day-to-day analysis and requirement gathering phases of projects, overall functional and technical design and team-programming efforts. Lead the development and execution of a comprehensive test plan and testing approach for a system development effort and lead the implementation and turnover of software to clients.
• Develop project charter, schedule, definite budget requirements, implementation plan and ability to follow the project plans. Ability to deliver a quality product.  Ability to perform administrative tasks with project tools.  Complete weekly status reports manage issues and risks with mitigation plans.

 
Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously
• Relationship building
• Strong Initiative
• Successful record of leadership development and implementation of creative strategies and innovative solutions
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall project methodologies
• Experience in budget and forecasting capital and OM budgets
• Experience in SaaS and vendor management
• Experience in COTS
• Experience with Application delivery
• Experience in project tools: Clarity, Open WorkBench, MS Project, SharePoint, ServiceNow
• Project experience: Client Server (VB, C++, VB Script, SQL Server, Oracle), Web (ASP, HTML, Java) , SAP, Enterprise Content Management, Clarity, SharePoint, ServiceNow
• Software Application Project Manager experience (10 or more years)

 
Education:      

• MS or equivalent with 10 or more years of experience
• Active PMP Certification

 
Skills:
Required:

• IT Project Manager
• Risk Management
• Project Scheduling
• Issue Management
• Budget

 
Additional:

• Organizational Change Management
• MS SQL Server
• Oracle
• PMI/PMP
• Mitigation
• PMP Certification
• Project planning
• Project plans
• Relationship Building
• Requirement Gathering
• SOW
• System Development
• Technical Design
• Test Plan
• ASP
• Budgets
• C++
• Content Management
• COTS
• Forecasting
• HTML
• JAVA
• Life Cycle
• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft SharePoint
• SAP
• SharePoint
• Software as a Service
• Vendor Management

 
List any additional work specific training needed:     
FERC, HIPPA and Phishing training