Project Manager with COTS and State Client Experience

Location: Albany, New York, 12203
Duration: 18 Months
Client: State of New York

Requirements

• 84 months of experience as a Project Manager managing 3-5 simultaneous application development projects that include Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) projects and/or in-house, ensuring vendor delivers expeditious and thorough implementation of version upgrades, installations, configurations, custom development, triage, troubleshooting incidents, and testing, with projects adhering to the Secure System Development Life Cycle (SSDLC).
• 84 months of experience as a Project Manager managing project execution and control, including creating and maintaining: project budgets, project schedules in MS Project, project scope, status reports, communication plans, project management plan, and quality standards throughout the project management lifecycle from initiation to closeout.
• 84 months of experience developing and managing formal project schedules in a project tracking tool (e.g., Microsoft Project), including tracking progress and variances against baselines using Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid methodologies; using standard PM techniques (e.g., scrum sessions) to update project schedules; and presenting schedule/status updates to ITS and client agency leadership.
• 84 months of experience developing, writing, and managing detailed Scope Documents; reviewing project deliverables; managing the deliverables acceptance process; and using the project scope and deliverable management process to handle project change requests.
• 84 months of experience with project quality planning, quality assurance, end-to-end system testing, quality control, user acceptance testing (UAT) defect and metrics management, and quality governance.
• 84 months of experience managing and leading multi-phased, high-visibility projects, and reporting to the highest-level government IT projects in a State or Federal Agency, preferably involving licensing projects.
• 36 months of post-PMP project management experience implementing business process re-engineering and organizational change management projects.

Required Documentation

• Resume
• Copy of Candidate Identification (e.g., Driver’s License, Green Card, Visa, and Passport if applicable)
• Any documents referenced in the qualifications (e.g., professional certifications, degrees)