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Company: Creative Information Technology

Location: Falls Church, VA 22042

Description:

Title

Project Manager

Client

State of LA

Location

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Resumes Due

11th Oct

Rate

Up to $100/hr

Duration

1.5 Years+

Description/Role

The Office of Technology Services (OTS) was established as a means of recognizing cost savings through the consolidation of State IT assets and resources. The creation of OTS consolidated a wide variety of existing hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, networks, third party software, and custom applications.

OTS leads the State's technology procurement process in order to standardize technology over the entire organization, seek efficiencies of operations, maintenance, and scalability of new products introduced to the OTS suite of services which can eventually be offered to all in-scope agencies.

Project Description

An overall system assessment effort will focus on these major areas during this legacy system decomposition, including but not limited to: business goals, business environment, screens, interfaces, reports and documents, and data conversion.

Define the Team Purpose and Objective

The objective of this effort is to break down the overall function of the system to improve the understanding of the technical requirements and its relationships. SONRIS is the main data portal that includes oil, gas, and injection information, state land leasing, ground water information, as well as GIS Access and other data.

The scope of the proposed services will include the following:

One (1) - Project Manager:
  • Provide day-to-day project management support;
  • Creation of project documentation: daily, weekly, semi-monthly and monthly status reports; project schedules and plans, meeting minutes, risks and issues, other documentation as needed;
  • Activity and resource planning;
  • Analyzing project risks and issues, help identify ways to mitigate risks;
  • Process monitoring;
  • Monitor project deliverables;
  • Conduct cost/benefit analysis;
  • Plan for utilization of resources
  • Meet with Management and Users to recommend technology direction
  • Provide and maintain detailed software / hardware maintenance documentation


Skills/Experience Required

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are mandatory:
  • Three (3) years minimum experience as a Project Manager for Software Development projects


Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are desirable but not mandatory:
  • Previous experience with Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) principles and best practices.
  • JIRA
  • JAMA
  • PMP Certification
  • Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)

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