IT Project Manager

Description

Duties Manage projects with moderate complexity that may be broad in scope with a broad customer base, addressing multiple functional areas across multiple organizational domains, involving medium size teams with a reporting hierarchy. Responsible for developing the project resource plan, forecast and budget. Ensure that the project remains within the project budget throughout the project life cycle. Understand and influence decision making processes and cost/time/quality impacts to a project. Ensure crossfunctional IT and business areas are involved as appropriate. Establish project success criteria and determine the degree to which the project achieved the objectives.Responsible for creating and maintaining project schedules. Manage scope, issues, constraints, risks, assumptions and change control process throughout the project life cycle. Track and report project progress and status. Initiate escalation of issues as appropriate to ensure timely resolution. Ensure the successful migration to production (technical and business processes) and the development of an ongoing support plan. Responsible for project team.s adherence to and compliance with IT Standards, processes and tools (i.e. the Symantec project methodology, SOX, etc.). May lead and contribute to key project lessons learned to improve internal project management processes. Deliver to management and may lead identified gaps or followon efforts relative to overall continuous improvement within the Symantec project methodology, functional units, etc.Skills Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.Experienced in writing proposals or papers, acting as a vendor liaison, making professional level presentations to all levels of an organization.Skilled at producing meticulous documentation.nConsistently demonstrates ability to use innovative ideas to solve problems in a cost effective manner.Projects and programs are completed with no open items.Works independently work through interpersonal issues resulting in a successful project and teamwork.EDUCATIONBachelor's degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience required. Master's degree preferred.RELATED EXPERIENCE DESIRED 810 years experience3+ years project management experience. Project management certification highly desirable