PMP Project Manager-Mostly Remote

Title: PMP Project Manager-Mostly Remote

Location: Seattle, WA, USA

Length: Long term

Restriction: W2 or C2C

Description:

Interview Type: Skype ***Mostly Remote*** 3 references required

Description:

Project Description and Background

This position will serve as a Senior Level Technology Services Project Manager supporting specified WSDOT projects for the Technology Services Division (TSD) in support of the Ferries Division to modernize technology solutions that improve the customer experience. This role will utilize their Senior Level knowledge, extensive experience, and expertise in the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) methodology of execution, as well as their Senior Level knowledge and experience in the Policies, Standards and Practices of the Washington State Office of the Chief Information Officer, to ensure that their assigned project is successfully completed.

Scope of Work

This consultant working as a Senior Level Technology Services Project Manager is responsible for planning, initiating, managing, and delivering IT projects, including large, major enterprise projects that are vital to WSDOT program delivery and impact various business units throughout the state.

The Senior Level Technology Services Project Manager will produce project management deliverables that are acceptable to the Ferries TSD Senior Program Manager, the WSDOT TSD Assistant Director of Ferries IT, the Office of the State Chief Information Officer (OCIO), and business unit customers. Deliverables must comply with all WSDOT Technology Services Division standards for quality.

The Senior Level Technology Services Project Manager will be responsible for providing the project Steering Committee, the OCIO, Project Quality Assurance and the ETPMO with monthly project status reports and participating in all project meetings as required.

The Senior Level Technology Services Project Manager will be responsible for creating and maintaining project documentation as specified by the project’s Senior Program Manager and the ETPMO.

The Senior Level Technology Services Project Manager will be responsible for providing the OCIO with monthly project status reports and participating in all project meetings as required.

The Senior Level Technology Services Project Manager will be responsible for responding to any OCIO Project Quality Assurance Monthly Status, Findings, or Suggestions.

The Senior Level Technology Services Project Manager will make calculated decisions, assessing information and risks available without overburdening resources.

The Senior Level Technology Services Project Manager will utilize appropriate project management methodologies and techniques as appropriate for the size and environment of the project, considering organizational constraints (e.g. staffing constraints).

The following scope of work defines the activities, deliverables, and prerequisites associated with the delivery of the projects throughout all potential periods of performance. Specific duties include, (but are not limited to):

Day to day Interaction with senior and midlevel managers of WSDOT business units, project stakeholders and consultants.

Lead and motivate the project team in a positive manner.

Excellent written communication skills will be essential for documentation of the project, as well as in communicating various issues and meeting the customer’s expectations.

Excellent verbal communications skills and clear, logical thought processes are essential to effectively lead a diverse team of IT professionals and non technically oriented customers.

Maintaining open channels of communication between project teams, Subject Matter Experts, Stakeholders, and management.

Working with the business stakeholders, fulfill the business needs with the systems integration and implementation effort.

Using business requirements, leading the team in the definition and documentation of system functional specifications.

Coordinating system requirements documentation.

Organizing and coordinating the participation of user groups and other project support staff

Establishing user interest, support, and acceptance for the project.

Soliciting the involvement of the stakeholders and other users in the creation and review of project deliverables.

Creating the required project documentation as specified by the Technology Services Division ETPMO.

Updating and maintaining the project work breakdown structure, requirements matrix and stakeholder matrices.

Updating and maintaining the project issues log, risk log, and developing risk mitigation strategies.

Updating and maintaining detailed project work plans using the standard IT project management tools (Sparx Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Office).

Updating and maintaining project Work Breakdown Structures, resource plans, work schedules and budgets.

Updating and maintaining project change control and issue risk resolution processes and logs.

Identifying, documenting, and evangelizing any changes to the project scope, schedule, or budget.

Coordinating system Organization Change Management.

Coordinating and overseeing the creation and implementation of required system training.

Work Requirements

Working with WSDOT Business Unit personnel, Subject Matter Experts and Project Teams, the Senior Level Technology Services Project Manager will be responsible for the creation, maintenance, and submission of such Technology Services Project Management deliverables as:

Creation and maintenance of Project Charters.

Creation and maintenance of Business Requirements Documents.

Creation and maintenance of Requirements Matrixes.

Creation and maintenance of Project Management plans and schedules.

Creation and maintenance of the Project Staffing plans.

Creation and maintenance of Work Breakdown Structures.

Creation and maintenance of Project Baselines and schedules.

Creation and maintenance of Investment Plans.

Creation and maintenance of Communication plans.

Creation and maintenance of Risk management plan.

Creation and maintenance of Issue management plan.

Creation and maintenance of Change Control plans.

Creation and maintenance of Organizational Change Management plans.

Creation and maintenance of System Interface Requirements.

Creation and maintenance of Data Conversion plans and schedules.

Creation and maintenance of Test plans and schedules.

Creation and maintenance of Implementation plans and schedules.

Creation and maintenance of Go Live plan and Schedules.

Creation and maintenance of Deployment plans.

Creation and maintenance of Implementation Cutover and Rollback plans and schedules.

Creation and maintenance of User Acceptance Test plans and schedules.

Creation and maintenance of Training plans and schedules.

Creation of Lessons Learned Project Close Out Report.

Creation and maintenance of all Project Work plans and Work schedules.

Creation and maintenance of project budget projections.

Creation and maintenance of project meeting agendas, minutes, and action items.

Creation and maintenance of weekly, monthly, and quarterly project status reports.

Creation and execution of any required Request for Information (RFI) under ETPMO supervision.

Creation and execution of any required Request for Proposal (RFP) under ETPMO supervision.

Required Skills

The Senior Level Technology Services Project Manager must have a current, valid, Project Management Professional certificate issued by the Project Management Institute (PMI)

Senior Level of experience, (minimum of seven years), as a Lead Project Manager in enterprise, large-scale, software application, implementation, and integration projects

Senior Level, (minimum of seven years), of direct, personal, experience in the creation and maintenance of IT project PMBOK documentation deliverables

Senior Level of experience, (minimum of seven years), in estimating IT project task durations, costs and levels of effort

Senior Level of knowledge of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) standards and guidelines

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Senior PM Level of experience in Microsoft Office applications, MS Project, including Visio.

Knowledge of RFQ/RFP

Experience in implementing Cloud-hosted business process migration in Software as a Service (SaaS) implementations utilizing in Google, Amazon or Microsoft cloud hosting technologies