Duties:
This position acts as the single point of accountability for delivering large scale, moderate and sometimes system-wide projects on time and on budget; leads innovative projects that make significant changes in the way the enterprise does business; designs and develops approaches to projects, ensuring the strategic directions of projects are in line with business objectives.
Manages scope and scope change requests. Use established project management methodologies/tools to develop and execute project plans including work plans, schedules, milestones, critical paths, project scope.
Plans and directs schedules and budgets.
Monitors projects form initiation through delivery and monitors for continuous improvement.
Identifies and develops contingency plans to mitigate and address risks.
Tracks projects against major milestones and adjust projects as needed.
Administratively closes out projects.
Communicates with and influences internal and external stakeholders on key project objectives and steps, to ensure buy-in and to realize benefits .
Drive IT SOWs with vendors and vendor management / procurement in support of the project, this includes; writing SOWs, refinement and driving them through the process to execution.
Provide contract requirements support, e.g. NFRs on security, connectivity, DR, back-up, and any other IT specific requirements.
Understand portfolio management and assist with portfolio process and tools adoption; responsible for keeping project data up-to-date per required deadlines; utilize IT portfolio management and other IT tools as required by IT process and tool standards; ensure that IT standard practices are followed, including: IT change management, enterprise release management, service management and project management.
Provide required status reporting to support project requirements and portfolio performance dashboards.
Partners and stays inter-connected with IT teams to efficiently engage roles of the support model.
Bachelor's degree and 5+ years cross-functional, cross-disciplinary project management or equivalent combination of education and experience.
PMP certification or Stanford Certified project manager preferred.
Experience managing complex projects with multi-month timelines.
Experience managing organization change and communication issues.
Substantial knowledge of the key components of project management and software .development (e.g. scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk, integration) and associated tools and methodologies .
Proficiency with MS Project, Excel, Word, Access and PowerPoint.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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360 IT Professionals is a Software Development Company based in Fremont, California that offers complete technology services in Mobile development, Web development, Cloud computing and IT staffing. Merging Information Technology skills in all its services and operations, the company caters to its globally positioned clients by providing dynamic feasible IT solutions. 360 IT Professionals work along with its clients to deliver high-performance results, based exclusively on the one of a kind requirement. Our services are vast and we produce software and web products. We specialize in Mobile development, i.e. iPhone and Android apps. We use Objective-C and Swift programming languages to create native applications for iPhone, whereas we use Android Code to develop native applications for Android devices. To create applications that work on cross-platforms, we use a number of frameworks such as Titanium, PhoneGap and Jquery mobile. Furthermore, we build web products and offer services such as web designing, layouts, responsive designing, graphic designing, web application development using frameworks based on model view controller architecture and content management system. Our services also extend to the domain of Cloud Computing, where we provide Salesforce CRM to effectively manage one’s business and ease out all the operations by giving an easy platform. Apart from this, we also provide IT Staffing services that can help your organization to a great extent as you can hire highly skilled personnel’s through us. We make sure that we deliver performance-driven products that are optimally developed as per your organization’s needs. Take a shot at us for your IT requirements and experience a radical change.