HBITS 07-14675 Project Manager Expert

Project/Program:
Plans organizes and integrates cross-functional information technology projects that are significant in scope and impact.

Day-to-Day Tasks:
The consultant will be performing Formal Project Management tasks including but not limited to:
Work closely with the projects business functional areas involving DOT executive and business teams Portfolio/ITS Leadership 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 and direction to the Portfolio project teams on day-to-day project tasks.
Develop 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 IT Portfolio.
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.
Direct and coordinate activities of project resources to ensure project progresses on schedule and within budget.
Track project-related costs and expenditures.
Facilitate large project governance and executive status meetings project team status meetings scrums and recurring agile meetings by defining agendas and running meetings effectively.
Aggregate status updates from project team members track schedules and manage risks and issues as required.
Prepare executive project status reports and keep the team management and all stakeholders informed of project status and related issues resolving and escalating as necessary.

Mandatory Qualification:
Project Manager -
Plans organizes and integrates cross-functional information technology projects that are significant in scope and impact.

Expert -
84 months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.

Requested Qualifications:
- 84 months experience managing and leading large complex IT projects as the Project Manager.

Large complex IT projects are defined as projects that include one or more of the following characteristics:
Budget greater than $1000000
Project duration greater than 12 months
Multiple funding sources including Federal or grant funding
Management of third-party vendors
Management of external stakeholders
Oversight of multi-level project team organizations
Deployment to geographically diverse end users

Required:
Candidate must provide at least one example of a large complex IT project completed or currently in progress that was led by the candidate and managed in the ITSM system.

- 84 months experience developing and executing project management plans including management of:

Charter
Scope
Schedule
Cost
Quality
Communication
Change
Risk
Issue
Resource management plans

Experience must include management of these plans throughout the full project lifecycle from project initiation through project closeout.

Required:
Candidate must provide at least one example of an IT project led by the candidate and managed using the PMBOK framework.

- 84 months experience developing and managing formal project schedules using a project tracking tool such as Microsoft Project.

Experience must include:
Development of formal project schedules
Tracking progress and variance against schedule baselines
Use of Waterfall Agile and Hybrid project methodologies
Use of standard project management techniques such as scrum sessions to update schedules
Presentation of schedule and status updates to ITS and client agency leadership

- 84 months experience developing writing and managing detailed Scope Documents.

Experience must include:

Reviewing project deliverables
Managing the deliverables acceptance process
Managing scope governance
Using scope and deliverable management processes to manage project change requests

- 84 months experience with project quality management including:

Project quality planning
Quality assurance processes
End-to-end system testing
Quality control
User Acceptance Testing (UAT) coordination
Defect management and metrics tracking
Overall quality governance

- 48 months experience managing software implementation projects including:

Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software implementations
and/or
In-house application development projects following Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies.

- 24 months experience managing IT projects using standard tools including:

ITSM
MeasureIT cost planning
PMBOK methodology
Project management templates

- Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP)
AND
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)