This consultant working as a Senior Level Technology Services Project Manager is responsible for planning, initiating, managing, and delivering IT projects, including large, major enterprise projects that are vital to WSDOT program delivery and impact various business units throughout the state.

The following scope of work defines the activities, deliverables, and prerequisites associated with the delivery of the projects throughout all potential periods of performance. Specific duties include, (but are not limited to):

• Day to day Interaction with senior and mid-level managers of WSDOT business units, project stakeholders and consultants.
• Lead and motivate the project team in a positive manner.
• Excellent written communication skills will be essential for documentation of the project, as well as in communicating various issues and meeting the customer’s expectations.
• Excellent verbal communications skills and clear, logical thought processes are essential to effectively lead a diverse team of IT professionals and non-technically oriented customers.
• Maintaining open channels of communication between project teams, Subject Matter Experts, Stakeholders, and management.
• Working with the business stakeholders, fulfill the business needs with the systems integration and implementation effort.
• Using business requirements, leading the team in the definition and documentation of system functional specifications.
• Coordinating system requirements documentation.
• Organizing and coordinating the participation of user groups and other project support staff
• Establishing user interest, support, and acceptance for the project.
• Soliciting the involvement of the stakeholders and other users in the creation and review of project deliverables.
• Creating the required project documentation as specified by the Technology Services Division ETPMO.
• Updating and maintaining the project work breakdown structure, requirements matrix and stakeholder matrices.
• Updating and maintaining the project issues log, risk log, and developing risk mitigation strategies.
• Updating and maintaining detailed project work plans using the standard IT project management tools (Sparx Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Office).
• Updating and maintaining project Work Breakdown Structures, resource plans, work schedules and budgets.
• Updating and maintaining project change control and issue/risk resolution processes and logs.
• Identifying, documenting, and evangelizing any changes to the project scope, schedule, or budget.
• Coordinating system Organization Change Management.
• Coordinating and overseeing the creation and implementation of required system training.

Work Requirements

Working with State Business Unit personnel, Subject Matter Experts and Project Teams, the Senior Level Technology Services Project Manager will be responsible for the creation, maintenance, and submission of such Technology Services Project Management deliverables as:

• Creation and maintenance of Project Charters.
• Creation and maintenance of Business Requirements Documents.
• Creation and maintenance of Requirements Matrixes.
• Creation and maintenance of Project Management plans and schedules.
• Creation and maintenance of the Project Staffing plans.
• Creation and maintenance of Work Breakdown Structures.
• Creation and maintenance of Project Baselines and schedules.
• Creation and maintenance of Investment Plans.
• Creation and maintenance of Communication plans.
• Creation and maintenance of Risk management plan.
• Creation and maintenance of Issue management plan.
• Creation and maintenance of Change Control plans.
• Creation and maintenance of Organizational Change Management plans.
• Creation and maintenance of System Interface Requirements.
• Creation and maintenance of Data Conversion plans and schedules.
• Creation and maintenance of Test plans and schedules.
• Creation and maintenance of Implementation plans and schedules.
• Creation and maintenance of Go/Live plan and Schedules.
• Creation and maintenance of Deployment plans.
• Creation and maintenance of Implementation Cutover and Rollback plans and schedules.
• Creation and maintenance of User Acceptance Test plans and schedules.
• Creation and maintenance of Training plans and schedules.
• Creation of Lessons Learned/Project Close Out Report.
• Creation and maintenance of all Project Work plans and Work schedules.
• Creation and maintenance of project budget projections.
• Creation and maintenance of project meeting agendas, minutes, and action items.
• Creation and maintenance of weekly, monthly, and quarterly project status reports.
• Creation and execution of any required Request for Information (RFI) under ETPMO supervision.
• Creation and execution of any required Request for Proposal (RFP) under ETPMO supervision.
• Creation and maintenance of Washington State OCIO IT Project Assessments.
• Creation and maintenance of Washington State OCIO Concept Briefing documentation.
• Creation and maintenance of Washington State OCIO Implementation and Investment Spreadsheets.
• Creation and maintenance of Washington State OCIO Investment Plans.
• Creation and maintenance of Washington State Office of Cybersecurity (OCS) Design Review templates.