IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Essential Functions

•    Develop, clarify and manage the scope projects, define contract deliverables and achieve targeted outcomes.
•    Ensure project requirements are achieved in a timely fashion and within budget guidelines.
•    Assemble project team, identify needed resources, assign responsibilities and develop timeframes to facilitate successful completion of project activities and deliverables.
•    Determine project costs/ensures delivery on time and within budgetary guidelines.
•     Ensure compatibility and consistency with existing architectural and enterprise standards.
•    Perform cost/benefit analysis of actions and initiatives.
•    Schedule and document meeting minutes.
•    Follow the OIT Project Management practice and prescribed SDLC.
•    Prepare status reports, status summaries and dashboards for presentation to mid and senior level management.
•    Provide support, coaching and mentoring on project management best practices, as requested for project coordinator associates

Competencies, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrate leadership qualities such as conflict/issue resolution, the ability to run a project or serve as project manager on a program team and can ensure a successful project lifecycle
• Communicate (verbally and in writing) effectively with stakeholders and senior business leadership of departments and agencies participating in this project.
• Organize and work effectively with project teams of staff from department and agencies participating in this effort
• Demonstrate experience and relevant expertise in the design and building of distributed and enterprise solutions
• Plan, organize and direct the work activities of outside consultants and/or systems analysis and programming personnel assigned on a team.
• Demonstrate presentation skills, strategic thinking, and high professional ethics.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, departmental officials, outside consultants and vendors.
• The principles of project management, systems delivery life cycle and budgeting.
• Concepts and applications of servers, storage, mainframes, monitoring, ITIL, metrics and performance management, disaster recovery, data center facilities management, managed services, and cloud computing.
• IT project management best practice, principles and techniques. (PMBOK)