Description
Job Description
Professional Services Manager of technical projects will support data center systems, server and network migrations, and/or integration.
-Requires functional awareness of Windows, Linux, Unix, AIX, Windows, Oracle, SQL, Apache or related systems in a Production enviornment.
-Understands delivery and lifecycle processes associated with System Builds and Implementation,
-Defines Test and Transition To Operations procedures and delivered systems from Build to Fully Managed Production services
-Works on and familiar with transition requirements from build/test phase to a 24 x 7 Operations Center staff
-Will have experience with various data center level migrations including systems and network migrations, including single site-site or DC consolidation (many to few).
-Will have worked on medium to large scale systems migrations or upgrades (expansion, upgrades, deployment).
-Familiar working with network carriers and their processes for implementation and deployment
-Exerts leadership, can assess situations and can make project course changes or recommend decisions for the benefit the project.
-Candidate will have worked with Resource Deployment groups, understands requirements to request and manage shared PS resources on multiple projects.
-Candidate will have worked on delivering 3-Tier e-commerce or similarly structured system implementations (can differentiate Dev-Test/Staging/QA/Prod environments)
Understands and regularly scopes project estimates and determines resource needs for projects on weekly basis.
-Candidate will have worked and managed temporary resources or 3rd party resources across matrixed environment
-Candidate will have worked in supporting a Director or CIO level client in a vendor or consulting PM role.
-When requested, create scopes estimates including description of work, resource type and timeline.
-Regularly creates and uses project plans, uses and manages to MS Project.
-Creates consistent status reports and progress metrics
-Able to create and track weekly time sheets for engineering resources and provide roll up routine progress reports.
-Has experience in creating and delivering Invoice sheets complete with costs and scope vs actuals reporting.
-Manage budget and resources, track, manage and resolve issues and risks.
-Ensure systems are successfully migrated, manage transition to Operations and provide consistent status on the project through its lifecycle.
Requirements
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In progress of certification or has achieved PMP or PRINCE2 certification.
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BA/BS Degree or equivalent expereince
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5-7 years of overall PM experience
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2+ years working in a Professional Services Org supporting revenue generating projects.