Position Title: Project Manager (Lead)
Labor Category: Consultant/Contractor
Duration: 5 years
Location: Glen Burnie, Maryland
Position Duties:
- Provides daily management of project activities
- Identifies issues and risks and develops issue and risk mitigation strategies
- Facilitator between a State agency and IT contractor
- Responsible to oversee that work is performed in accordance with the Contract Task Orders (in-scope, satisfies performance, on-time delivery, and within cost ceiling)
- Manages schedule to include critical paths, task activities, performance dates
- Oversees testing to meet acceptance criteria
- Develops solutions for improved efficiency (e.g., cost reduction and improved performance levels)
- Monitors progress and provides timely status reports
- Demonstrates excellent writing and oral communications skills
Education Level:
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business or other related discipline
- Master’s degree or project management professional (PMP) certification is preferred
Experience:
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in project management
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience managing IT related projects and must demonstrate a leadership role in at least three successful projects that were delivered on time and on budget
Preferred Skills:
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience within the past eight (8) years on software development projects for large-scale client/server architectures developed in the Visual Studio .NET software development environment
- Five (5) years’ experience managing projects using the following technologies:
o Microsoft Visual Studio 2010+ using C# .NET, Visual COBOL
o Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2010+
o Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
o Microsoft ASP .NET
o Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
o Windows Forms
o Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
o Microsoft SQL Server 2005 + or IBM DB2
