Project Manager

CONTRACTOR QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

The Contractor must possess the following minimum qualifications and experience:

Five years of experience in developing and maintain detailed project plans (including work breakdown structures).

Five years of experience in meeting facilitation and documentation.

Five years of experience creating and presenting internal and external status reports and detailed status reports suitable for presentation to the Legislature or Steering Committee.

Five years of experience with Budget and Financial Management including Cost Analysis/ Cost Benefits.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification and five years of experience leading and managing projects.

Risk Management:

Five years of experience with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) methodologies anddocumentation.

Five years of experience with risk tracking mitigation and issue tracking.

Five years of experience using Microsoft Project or comparable project management software to track and maintain projects.

Project Deployment:

Five years of experience in leading project teams and effectively conducting the project to meet project objectives.

Five years of experience in delivering the project in the agreed schedule to the correct technical specification (i.e. defined to meet user requirements) within the approved budget and other specified criteria.

CONTRACTOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Provide project management for all technical projects following customer information system development methodology Secure Application Lifecycle Management policy and procedure and project management practices as detailed in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and the Department Project Management Office (PMO).

Create maintain and refine detailed project plans including work breakdown stracking project schedules and technical performance and leading both the business and technical teams.

Assist with the allocation of resources.

Coordinate interaction with the customers users and stakeholders and to keep the project team focused on the right goals.

Follow a standard set of practices that ensure the integrity and quality of project artifacts.

Develop and maintain project plans and tasks assigned to technical teams and users.

Provide research and analytical services for systems.

Meet with the program offices to collect user requirements for new systems or enhancements to existing systems.

Develop screen layouts for new systems or enhancements to existing systems.

Develop work estimates for system enhancements or new development.

Coordinate system acceptance testing with program offices.

Develop documentation e.g. diagrams flow charts.

Perform testing on system changes to meet userdefined requirements.

Facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT) with the business program staff.

Provide management with system status as requested.

Produce detailed accounting of hours worked by tasks.

Facilitate meetings with technical and program staff (e.g. scheduling meetings document decisions identify issues and action items).

Produce work estimates to implement userdefined requirements and system changes.

Produce status reports on the implementation of userdefined requirements.

Provide analytical services on IT processes to identify operational efficiencies.

Provide analytical research to satisfy queries requested by the Legislature and customer management.

Follow IT processes and coordinate with other IT staff to ensure compliance with standards.

Correspond (verbally and in written formats) with project teams internal stakeholders regarding project activities deliverables and status.

Coordinate efforts with the Contract Manager to achieve cost savings under this agreement where feasible and practicable. Those efforts include but are not limited to identifying common system errors in systems that can be resolved in a manner that achieves cost savings in the State of Florida. Any cost savings identified must be documented included as part of the monthly status report.