Please direct your responses to: jacklyn.ho@experis.com
Title: Project Manager w/ dCloud experience
Location: San Jose, CA
Contract: 6+ months (renewed quarterly)
Qualifications:
Knowledge of project management and agile software/hardware development methodologies, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects and programs
Successful track record applying project management principles, practices, tools and techniques to achieve results
Must possess a sense of urgency, able to respond to the shifting demands of a team driven by critical time-to-market business demands, and able to drive the development of cross-functional projects to successful deployment
Ability to identify potential project risks, formulate plans to effectively eliminate or mitigate potential risks
Highly motivated, self-managed, ability to learn quickly, lead, motivate, negotiate and influence with a strong commitment to teamwork and collaboration with a diverse group of business technical professionals
Flexible and adaptable with proven ability to balance multiple concurrent projects, organize competing priorities and tasks, as well as manage time effectively
Exceptional written and oral communication skills with a focus on rapport, building sustaining relationships, listening, and promoting and focusing on common goals and win-win results
Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and clearly in writing
Proficient with MS Office tools
PMP or Agile Scrum Master Certification preferred, but not required
The team provides demonstration services for field sales and channel partners that enable them to showcase solutions and technologies to customers. By demonstrating to customers how products can make them more productive, sales teams and partners can enlarge sales opportunities and shorten the sales cycle. The primary focus for this role is the dCloud service, which provides demonstration content and access to field and channel partners on any network (internal & external), any device and in any location.
Position Summary
The Project Manager is responsible for the planning, execution, tracking, and reporting of projects within the dCloud team. This includes acquiring resources within a matrixed environment and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party resources in order to deliver projects according to plan. Project Managers will work closely with dCloud Program Managers and Demo Development teams to ensure projects meet defined objectives and oversee quality control throughout the project life cycle. This role may also involve best practice development and change management.
Job Responsibilities
Planning, execution, tracking and reporting of projects within the dCloud team. (80%)
o Provides leadership to specific project teams throughout the project life cycle.
o Setting direction, clarifying issues, providing decision-making assistance to project team members and helping to ensure that project deliverables are on time and meet quality checkpoints.
o Keep the team focused and on track to meet the project goals and objectives.
o Manages risk by identifying, quantifying and monitoring project risks.
o Leads project planning uses project scope and objectives and coordinates changes with the dCloud Program Managers and Demo Development Technical Leads.
o Identifies unique tasks associated with the project and develops a project schedule with the project team which identifies the dependencies, prerequisites, staffing effort, duration and start and finish times based on availability.
o Coordinates and directs project activities across various teams and departments internal and external to dCloud. Works with the appropriate third-party (outside dCloud) managers as needed to determine project priorities and resource assignments.
o Lead project team meetings to monitor and track program/project milestones and dependencies with cross functional teams such as Data Center/Virtualization Demo Development, Collaboration Demo Development, Borderless Networks Demo Development, dCloud Program Management, Testing, Pre-Operations and other teams.
o Provide regular, timely and consistent communication with Lead Project Manager and dCloud team members on project review and status updates. Escalate issues when necessary and drive issues to closure.
o Distill relevant project information such as project schedule, delivery metrics, risk mitigation plan, deployment plans, etc. and present that information in an easy to understand format using text, pictures, diagrams and charts and provide these deliverables in Smartsheet (PM Tool), Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, PDF or HTML.
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o Plans projects. Gathers facts about the project scope and objectives and coordinates changes with the dCloud Program Managers and Demo Development Technical Lead.
Contribute to, communicate and train team members on project delivery standards. (10%)
o Responsible for individual project compliance with dCloud project standards and procedures.
o Liaise with dCloud team members to research, evaluate and recommend new tools and methods in support of process improvement efforts.
Other responsibilities, as assigned, including email management, meeting attendance, etc. (10%)
Please send resume to Jacklyn.ho@experis.com
Thanks,
Jacklyn Ho
408-369-4104
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