Professional Services
Project Manager (North America)
Responsibilities:
- Ensure the successful delivery of complex Solaris centric integration projects of mobile data applications to mobile operators.
- Execute project scoping, planning and resource allocation.
- Maintain project schedule, risks and dependencies.
- Manage the client's requirements, perceptions and expectations of software and consultants.
- Provide leadership and direction to team members, ensuring all are focused on the operational direction of the project and have a complete understanding of the client's requirements.
- Provide coordination and version control of all project documentation.
- Resolve complex project issues, using independent decision-making and negotiation skills.
- Maintain and promote regular communications through regular project status meetings (both internal and client facing), weekly project reports, emails, updated project plans, and the like.
Qualifications Required:
- At least five years of project management experience in a commercial or professional services environment, including one or more of the following types of projects:
- IT consulting
- Deployment of networked applications
- Carrier-grade client-server application rollout
- Experience working with telecom operators.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully work on multiple international projects of between $300K and $1M.
- Ability to remotely control, organize and manage multiskilled, multicultural teams of customers, partners, third parties, consultants and engineers.
- Ability to understand customer requirements and translate them to development and product management teams.
- Flexibility to travel within the territory.
Desirable:
- A university degree or equivalent business experience.
- Experience in delivering mobile data applications.
- Knowledge of LAN network infrastructure: security, routing, network management, performance management.
- Knowledge of mobile data traffic and mobile data devices.
- Experience with project delivery involving Sun and Solaris, Cisco/Nortel switches, routers, and load balancers; hands-on experience a particular plus.
- Experience with one or more project management methodologies.
- Proficiency in Spanish and/or Portuguese desirable.
