Infrastructure Project Manager Lifecycle, MS Project, Office, B in Boston, MA

We currently have an Infrastructure Project Manager contract open in Boston. You will be responsible for leading Network, Operations, Engineering and Information Security projects using the firm's project management methodology. Start: ASAP Duration: 3+ Months Compensation: Market Summary: This position is responsible for planning, estimating, and providing day-to-day management, leadership and administration of small to medium size and complexity projects throughout their lifecycles, ensuring adherence to company development standards and methodology. This multi-tasking individual will define and manage projects at the task level for several concurrent projects, provide leadership to the project teams in order to establish accurate and comprehensive project plans, define deliverables, as well as manage issue resolution and escalation. Team building, Scope/Budget Management, Schedule Management and relationship management - both business and technical - are all vitally important skills in this position. Responsibilities ? Manage the full project lifecycle from concept through rollout and maintenance ? Develop detailed project plans and schedules. ? Prepare, manage and report on overall project schedule and budget to all levels of the organization including senior management. ? Responsible for tracking schedules, and project deliverables for 10 - 25 indirect reports. ? Administer forecasting set up and tracking, financial, and time and expense reconciliation. ? Lead day-to-day project activities required to deliver an excellent product on time. ? Identify, assess and facilitate resolution to business and technical problems/issues/risks ? Ensure effective communication between all members of the project team by ensuring timely and appropriate generation, collection and dissemination of project information. ? Interface and work competently with all groups within the company including, but not limited to, Application Development Project Management, Network Operations, Systems Engineering, Information Security, Production Control, Environments, and Business Operations. ? Insure all deliverables are at an acceptable level of quality before proceeding to the next phase. ? Develop and maintain a productive working relationship with all business users as well as any third party service providers/vendors that are integral to the project delivery. ? Provide post-release analysis of what can be improved in the process for the future. ? Responsible for establishing procedures, processes, and milestones while working with management staff to resource projects accordingly. Qualifications and Education: ? Project Management experience in infrastructure development across full project lifecycle (planning, requirements definition, design, build and roll out) ? Must have the ability to build strong teams, work with multi functional teams, delegate workloads and ensure project efficiency and lead by example ? Excellent verbal/written communications skills, negotiation, team-building, and problem-solving; with experience in presentation to senior levels of the organization ? 3-5 years of Project Management experience in a related industry (financial) ? Capable of Multi tasking, remaining flexible and managing time effectively while managing multiple projects ? Be a "self-starter" able to respond to rapid change within the business ? Technical Expertise: MS Project, Visio, Ms Office suite, MS Project Server, Project Budgeting tools ? Infrastructure development experience; some mix of : data center development, BC/DR, HA, LAN/WAN, networking & firewalls, Unix, WIN, server technology and Midrange systems, desktops/servers, security, LDAP, Exchange. ? Bachelor's Degree Required/ Masters preferred ? Working knowledge of Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and PMP certification preferred with proven experience in a best practices project management methodology To apply for this position, please send your resume to . *** Must be local to the Boston area *** At Black Diamond Networks, our goal is to become the partner of choice in providing consulting services for Internet, Networking, and Information Technology companies. Our core business revolves around the placement of Software, Database, SQA and Systems/Support Engineers on temporary consulting assignments. Apply directly at: ?r=gad To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here