Senior Project Manager

Job Responsibilities / Qualifications Functional responsibilities:
* IT liason to Verizon Federal for all Networx Production Order Support
* Subject matter expert on Networx ordering, notification, inventory and reporting
* Create and manage the implementation of solutions, including the most complex Networx projects, across the systems, end-to-end
* Responsible for project planning and management of multiple highly complex Open Systems assignments (including new product deployments, major hardware/software upgrades, enterprise-wide upgrades)
* Facilitate requirements sessions and signoff
* Track issues to resolution
* Initiate and manage escalations when necessary
* Initiate and manage change control requests when necessary
* Align impacted IT applications within portfolio to ensure integrated code delivery
* Serve as the portfolio point of contact (POC) to coordinate efforts with other Project Managers within and across portfolios
* Facilitate all related planning meetings – RGS, JAD, etc.
* Create stakeholder list, project plans and dependencies
* Identify risks to the project and plans to mitigate
* Hold periodic review sessions with clients and IT teams to manage and communicate progress of programs
* Coordinate design walkthroughs
* Provide regular updates to tools for project status, issues, milestones, etc
* Gather estimates for all impacted applications.
* Create and Manage Work Requests for impacted application(s) and PMO teams.
* Monitor project budgets to ensure they remain within allocated capital and expense funding
* Perform as primary project liaison between IT systems and client/internal customers.
* Ensure funding augments submitted by Business or IT (if required). Assist with approvals
Qualifications:
* Previous Federal program management experience
* Strong understanding of Networx architecture to include all Ordering flows and impact on Federal revenue
* Strong understanding of how system suite impacts Federal revenue
* Skilled with issue management/resolution, change control, status report generation
* Experienced with MS Project & MS Office suite
* Candidate must possess excellent communication skills, be flexible and able to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
* Candidate must be able to multi-task and PM multiple projects simultaneously
* Candidate must be self-motivated and able to work independently
* Bachelor's degree, or equivalent, and 6-7 years related experience including team leadership experience