Job Description :
Program Manager
On behalf of our client in Dallas, Procom is searching for an Program Manager for a permanent position.
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Program Manager Job Details
This position is responsible for on site program management of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Smart Fare collection
system.
This position will coordinate with a multi-disciplined team spanning multiple locales, including regional city staff, to
perform design, development and deployment, from initial concept through transition to operations and full lifecycle
support.
Key Responsibilities:
- Cost and technical management, contract compliance, and status reporting.
- Meets scope, target budget, and schedule objectives.
- Adjusts and redefines project schedule as new information or requirements develop.
- Supervises multi-disciplinary team of technical staff and outside partners.
- Works cooperatively with Program Manager, transit agencies, committees, and other departments to advance the goals
of the project.
- Achieves delivering work package(s) within scheduled timelines.
- Achieves delivering work package(s) within quality standards.
- Develops presentations and prepares reports using standard computer based office productivity tools found in
application suites such as MS-Office, MS-Project, and Google Docs,
- Develops and tracks and reports on resource utilization, cost, and earned value.
- Properly identifies, logs, and prioritizes risks and associated risk response plans/recommendations.
- Continually looks for efficiencies in business processes during project implementation.
- Assures quality of overall deployment, integration, hardware and software systems, as well as adequacy of user /
technical documentation, training, transition / migration plan.
- Ensure formal handover of project and contract requirements to operational / support teams, and client as required.
- Collaborate with project delivery teams to drive through key actions required to ensure the successful integration of products.
Program Manager Mandatory Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Computer Sciences/Information Technologies or related field.
- 10+ years related experience.
- Extensive and progressively responsible work experience in project management involving enterprise IT and complex,
distributed software systems and associated communications infrastructure.
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing to prepare presentations and reports to the Steering Committee,
Project Sponsors, the general public, media and others.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with all levels of staff between multiple transit
organizations.
- Ability to solve problems using creativity, ingenuity, resourcefulness and sound judgement.
- Ability to lead large scale core systems hardware and software development projects through a full life-cycle process, including acceptance testing and implementation/migration planning.
- Ability to manage virtual teams across multiple locations and ability to work in multiple work locations.
- Ability to manage outside clients, contractor(s) and vendor(s
- Working knowledge of IT Infrastructure components: servers, desktops, networks, communications protocols, and
security.
- Working knowledge of budgets, resources, scheduling, sequencing, critical path, and earned value.
- Working knowledge of logistics and operational migration of hardware and software from legacy systems to new
systems and paradigms (with little if any impact on user community
- Knowledge of PMI methodology.
- Knowledge of system enterprise architecture and characterization measurements and building interfaces between complex systems and databases.
Program Manager Desirable Skills
- Knowledge of system enterprise architecture and characterization measurements of a large-scale transit system
- Domain expertise in the Transit or Fare Collection industry.
Program Manager Start Date
ASAP