IT Project Manager

Odesus is a premier IT consulting company specializing in project staff augmentation. For over a decade, Odesus has been the go-to company providing top quality IT consultants.Our client in Simi Valley, CA is urgently seeking an IT Project Manager on a contract basis, for possibly up to 6 months. Focus will be on infrastructure, network and server upgrades. Local candidates preferred. Remote work is available as long as candidate is willing to be onsite for meetings on occasion.

• Works with the business to crystalize their needs around projects, define success metrics and measurements
• Develops complete project plans, timelines, communication strategies, and project documentation (BRD through Retrospective)
• Coordinate and manage the daily activities of a cross-functional team for successful execution of assigned projects
• Estimates project cost and develop, maintain and publish a project budget
• Establishes baseline time, cost and performance objectives to meet overall program scope
• Creates and controls project documentation across the lifespan of the project
• Ensures project requirements and processes are established and consistent with AV's processes.
• Assesses program risk and opportunities and establishes risk management plans
• Makes sound/data-driven decisions to ensure program cost, schedule and performance targets are met
• Plans and develop the scope of an individual project or individual projects
• Develops and maintains a Project-level implementation schedule and provide a Project-level communications plan
• Defines, contracts, and manage external support, as required, managing changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques
• Measures project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors