Complete Description:
Project management, project scheduling and communications lead for VITA EAD workplan application projects.
Need for a strong PM with strong communications skills to be able to manage multiple projects and map out a comprehensive logical plan with our business, developers and architects.
Will be responsible for overall project management and coordination of schedules for projects including holding discovery sessions, documenting technical upgrade requirements with architects and developers. Also, working with architecture and application team managers to coordinate upgrade schedules with project and business schedules, etc.
Skills:
-PMP or CoVA PM cert required
- Strong business communication skills. Must be extremely personable, team orientated and able to hold collaborative meetings.
-Project Management experience in application development environments required. Must have demonstrated experience with application teams.
-Must be able to take direction and collaboration with technical leads on development plans.
-Senior level PM with demonstrated experience working in a highly political and collaborative environment.
-Ability to run technical and project meetings and translate into work planning and project schedules.
-Ability to decompose upgrade requirements into project plans for upgrade work and testing purposes.
-Excellent presentation, communication and customer service skills
-Remain flexible on changing workloads and priorities.
-Be flexible with scheduling changes, framework schedules and discovery changes. Must be flexible and team orientated. Will be part of a team taking input from many sources and must be able to juggle and work with changing environments.
Skills:
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Application PM experience
Required
10
Years
Extensive experience with MS Project and creating project plans.
Required
10
Years
Experience with testing scripts and system testing a plus
Required
6
Years
Strong PM technical management skills, including managing matrixed resources.
Required
6
Years
Ability to run technical and project meetings and translate into work planning and project schedules.
Required
10
Years
Strong technical skills with experience managing multitiple application (upgrade or technical) projects and map out a comprehensive logical plan for
Required
5
Years
Experience managing projects involving windows servers, and/or Oracle and SQL databases
Required
7
Years
PMP or COVA PM Cert
Required
Public Sector or VITA Northrop Grumman (NG) background/exp a plus
Nice to have
Experience with Application Development projects
Nice to have
Experience with Architecture reviews
Nice to have
SharePoint
Nice to have