This position is for an expert project manager responsible for managing all aspects of software development; evaluating project objectives within the parameters of budget time and scope managing the integration of project processes including impact analysis resulting from changes in project scope budget or schedule requirements gathering develop and implements a formal risk mitigation plan interacting with highlevel stakeholders including top agency executives and vendors and control the activities of the project team to ensure that project objectives are met.
The consultant will be performing Formal Project Management tasks including but not limited to:
Work closely with the projects business functional areas involving executive and business teams ITS Leadership Vendor and technical teams to develop and manage the project scope and other project management plans (PMP) approach resource requirements and allocation schedule deliverables and funding.
Provide guidance to project teams on dayto day project tasks.
Develop the programs formal project plans specifying goals strategy dependencies scheduling identifying risks contingency plans and allocation of available resources.
Follow the standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation for all projects being managed within the NYS ITS Project Management Office (PMO).
Identify schedule and manage project deliverables milestones and required tasks.
Assign tasks and responsibilities and drive accountability to project team members.
Direct and coordinate complex business requirements deliveries business process reengineering and organizational change activities.
- 84 months of experience as a Project Manager managing 35 simultaneous application development projects that include Commercial OfftheShelf (COTS) projects and/or inhouse and ensuring vendor delivers expeditious and thorough implementation of version upgrades installations configurations custom development triage troubleshooting incidents and testing with projects adhering to the Secure System Development Life Cycle development (SSDLC).
- 84 months of experience as a Project Manager managing project execution and control including creating and maintaining the following: project budgets project schedules in MS Project project scope status reports communication plans project management plan quality standards throughout the project management lifecycle from initiation to closeout.
- 84 months of experience in developing and managing formal project schedules in a project tracking tool such as Microsoft Project including tracking progress and variances against baselines utilizing both Waterfall Agile and Hybrid methodologies; using standard PM techniques (e.g. scrum sessions) to update project schedule; and presenting schedule/status updates to both ITS and client agency leaderships.
- 84 months of experience developing writing and managing detailed Scope Documents reviewing project deliverables and managing the deliverables acceptance process and using the project scope and deliverable management process to manage the project change request process
- 84 months experience with project quality planning quality assurance endtoend system testing quality control user acceptance testing (UAT) defect and metrics management and quality governance.
- 84 months of experience managing and leading multiphased high visibility projects and reporting to the highestlevel government IT projects in a State or Federal Agency preferably involving criminal justice projects working with Correctional and Community Supervision Services and Criminal History Information Systems.
- 36 months post PMP project management experience implementing business process reengineering and organizational change management projects.