Hello,
We have an urgent requirement of Project Lead with one of our direct client in MS.
Location: Pearl, Mississippi.
Duration: 12 Months
Start Date: Sep, 10th, 2012
The Project Lead must have experience as a Senior Business Analyst (SBA) and/or Project Manager (PM) in multiple and diverse environments and applications.
Responsibilities and Duties –
The proposed consultant will be responsible for performing the following minimum duties.
- Preparing the project plan;
- Managing and monitoring project budget and expenditures;
- Facilitating discussions and consensus among various stakeholders, which may include Management Information System (MIS) teams (such as Applications Development; Resources/Networks; Security; etc.), Contractors, Program Staff and teams from other supporting State Agencies (such as ITS);
- Analyzing and defining complex business problems to provide solutions that meet business requirements
- Defining and documenting business requirements, processes and workflow;
- Designing and configuring detailed specifications for applications to meet business requirements,
- Ensuring delivery of high quality applications and re-engineered processes;
- Developing project proposals and recommendations to stakeholders;
- Developing project plan to identify project scope, objectives, milestones, deliverables, project schedule, budget and resources;
- Providing timely and comprehensive project status reports to project team and supervisory management;
- Receiving direction from supervisory management, providing appropriate, accurate and tactful comment or feedback in a timely manner;
- Managing and monitoring project budget and expenditures
- Tracking and monitoring project progress against the project plan, requirements, processes, milestones and quality indicators;
- Gathering information on business functions, processes, procedures and information needs through a variety of methods, including process workshops, workflow analysis, and interviews with subject matter experts, application developers and other technical personnel;
- Developing detailed knowledge of corporate processes and associated tools used to support these processes;
- Working in collaboration with project team members, and other key stakeholders, to define and document detailed business requirements;
- Evaluating current business requirements and processes to identify automation and/or improvement initiatives;
- Acting as Change Agent to improve business operations and manage impact of changes on business;
- Working with stakeholders to develop and execute software testing strategy, including test plans, test cases and confirmation of expected results;
- Ensuring all documentation relevant to the application/project is developed, clear and concise, and easy to maintain (specifications, design, features, processes, procedures, use cases, test scripts, interfaces, reports, training materials, user manuals, help systems, etc.);
- Instituting a quality assurance, audit and post implementation process for all application upgrades/projects to ensure that they meet client expectations;
- Managing a diverse and complex suite of projects simultaneously; and
- Managing any assigned staff, including Contractors, working as a team.
Technical Skills –
- A bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems or Business from an accredited post-secondary academic institution;
- At least seven (7) years of experience as a business analyst and/or project manager working on State and/or Federal Governmentprojects;
- At least seven (7) years of progressive experience in gathering, documenting and communicating business requirements;
- Experience with project requiring knowledge of project management principles, methodologies and best practices;
- Experience with organizing project teams and work plans for multiple projects;
- Experience estimating and planning project timelines and milestones, and administering task schedules;
- Experience in designing, documenting and improving business processes;
- Experience with projects requiring an understanding of application programming, relational database concepts and system design;
- Experience with projects requiring an understanding of online web portal architectures and how legacy and web-based systems interface with each other; and
- Experience with designing and building n-tier software applications.
Business Skills - Individual(s) proposed must have the following business skills:
- Ability to effectively communicate in English verbally and in writing;
- Ability to interact with functional users and technical staff regarding business and information technology needs;
- Ability to listen and solve problems;
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills;
- Ability to exercise flexibility and good judgment in assessing business issues and associated risks;
- Ability to work effectively with a variety of departments and management levels;
- Advanced writing skills, with the ability to write effective memos, reports and documentation;
- Ability to present alternatives/solutions and supporting data clearly and convincingly to client stakeholders;
- Ability to communicate thoughts and express complex ideas tactfully in simple terminology, both verbally and in written communications; and
- Interpersonal skills necessary to elicit detailed facts from subject matter experts, such as applications developers and program staff.
Other Skills - Individual(s) proposed may be given additional consideration for the following skills:
- Experience with SNAP systems; and
- Experience with multi-state projects.
Thank you very much.
Harry Arora
International Projects Consultancy Services, Inc. (IPCS)...Delivering Business Value from Information Technology...
Interchange Tower, Suite 1595, 600 South Highway 169, Minneapolis, MN 55426
Tel: 925-353-3884
Fax: 952-541-1222
Harry@ipcs.net
www.ipcs.net
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