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Summary: Project Manager Years of Experience: 10+ years of recent experience in managing IT projects (preferably within a government environment)

• Responsible for supporting all project delivery work in accordance with required methodology (such as the State of Michigan's State Unified Information Technology Environment (SUITE) methodology) and following all standard project management industry standards such as PMI's framework.
• Coordinates and controls the end-to-end process of capturing all key project artifacts, including but not limited to business cases, project charters, baselined project schedules, project management plans, change requests, status reports, lessons learned. May require consistent utilization of the State of Michigan's SUITE methodology and Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tool.
• Raises identified issues and risks to the appropriate senior management level including the Project Management Office (PMO) for action inclusive of description of the issue, comprehensive analysis of options and recommendation for remediation.
• Manages portfolio of projects' execution to ensure conformity to established budgets, timelines, and scope.
• Works with the stakeholders, including the PMO to facilitate project governance effectiveness through weekly status reporting, project/portfolio data, regular governance meetings, etc.

Experience in successfully managing Information Technology (IT) projects (full project life cycle) whose budget was greater than $10,000,000 (excluding hardware/software costs) and whose timeline was greater than 3 years. Documented experience in performing Project Management, Quality Management, or other critical functions within complex Information Technology projects (preferably with budgets greater than $10,000,000 and multi-phase, multiyear implementations). Professional certification in Project Management, such as Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute. Experience

• Top Skills Required - 10 years' experience (REQUIRED)
• Ability to coordinate group settings and facilitate group settings.
• Drive outcomes
• Adaptive to different personalities
• Strong conflict resolution skills
• Keep projects on track; hit key milestones.

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