Technical Project Manager

Duties:

• Create & maintain detailed project schedule
• Manage equipment orders, staging & inventory
• Conduct weekly meetings, and document via weekly Status Reports that include the following content: Team Accomplishments, Agenda, Key Point / Minutes from Last Meeting, 2 week Look-Ahead, Actions, Red/Amber/Green Issue Tracking Summary, Network Change Request Summary
• Provide detailed and timely regular and ad-hoc updates to management
• Ensure timely and accurate publication of all project deliverables owed by Deployment Engineers
• Manage project delivery
• Escalate project issues to management
• Support project closure activities
• Work with Deployment and Firewall Engineers in creating, and participate actively in the creation of, the following mandatory network deliverables.
• Act as primary liaison between implementation team and internal groups including IT Facilities, Application Connectivity, UNIX / Wintel when necessary, business /client and peer resources. and external groups including collocation providers and any 3rd party equipment staging partners
• Coordinate appropriate updates with NMS Team as devices are productionized and ensure all network devices are properly inventoried in data base when required.
• Secure appropriate signoff for all deliverables produced or updated during a project
• Oversee and manage day to day activities of firewall Engineers and deployment staff
• Ensure all networking systems are delivered based upon internal network standards
• Ensure compliance with Client’s standard network deployment practices during implementation
• Create, or work with Deployment Engineers and firewall engineers to create Change Requests.
• Secure approval for change requests.
• Attend weekly change control meetings to present, or support presentation by Deployment Engineers, and leads across network changes
• Host testing bridge conference calls for any changes involving disruption to service or activities
• Coordinate next business day support for changes
• Issue notifications for all change events
• Turn-over all documentation created or updated during this project to Operations team. 

Expected Skillset:

Required – Technical

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing network implementation projects
• Background in the financial services industry
• Aptitude for chairing productive objective-oriented meetings, with clearly documented key points & actions
• Aptitude for managing technical staff in a dynamic matrix working environment
• Aptitude for managing demanding clients, and managing/resolving conflicts
• Able to work weekends, and to attend global meetings outside of traditional US working hours

Required – Project Management

• Understanding of L2 frame & L3 packet concepts
• Understanding of TCP/IP addressing & behaviour and the OSI Model
• Understanding of routing protocols (OSPF, BGP), ip multicast, quality-of-service, spanning-tree
• Familiarity with Arista and Cisco Nexus platforms
• Understanding of PMI project methodologies and proficient in MS Project, Excel & Power Point.