Project Manager with PAL experience

Immediate Need – Project Manager with PAL Experience – STCA – Sacramento CA

Minimum of seven (7) years of broad, extensive and increasingly responsible experience applying PM principles, methods, techniques, and tools.

At least four (4) years of that experience must have been as a senior PM of one or more large or complex IT project.

This classification requires the possession of (a) a Bachelor's Degree, and (b) a valid Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI), which will be verified during the RFO process.

The PMP certification is required and may not be substituted with additional experience.

Five (5) years of experience performing as an expert-level Project Manager for large –scale, IT projects.

Utilizing a variety of Project Management disciplines (e.g. Risk and Issue Management, Change Control, Quality Assurance, Contract Management, Financial Analysis, and Project Scheduling); and must demonstrate experience with facilitating, collaborating, and negotiating with all levels of stakeholders, up-to, and including executive-level decision makers.

Three (3) years of experience in writing project management documentation such as: project management plans, communication plans, schedules, templates, procedures and guidelines.

Five (5) years of expert experience in Microsoft Project.

One (1) year of experience leading an agile-based application development project using iterative development processes.

Three (3) years of experience following the full SDLCs in order to identify, evaluate, and recommend business or technical requirements applied to the design and development of IT systems and networks.

Two (2) years of hands-on, direct experience in leading the development of State of California (government) IT project's approval documentation for feasibility study reports (FSRs) and/or project approval lifecycle (PAL) documents as specified in the Statewide Information Management Manual 19B, SIMM 19B