Job Opening – Project Manager Located in London
February 1, 2010 in Job Bank by recruitermanager
Project Manager – Mobile Telecoms – Central London – £ 55,000 to £ 58,000.
Fully accountable for the delivery of assigned projects and / or programmes.
Leadership:
- Ability to lead at both a project and to successfully drive issues to resolution
Project Management :
- Coordinate all projects, from planning, through closure.
- Create and track project schedules.
- Work with internal project customers to initiate the project and support the Business Case delivery, focusing on project scope, team structure, planning & budget definition.
- Must understand the business goals & objectives of the project, and ensure execution against objectives.
- Manage project against defined budget (internal/external project costs) and track baseline execution against Budget.
- Ability to manage multiple teams across different time-zones, internal as well as 3rd party/offshore teams.
- Host weekly team meeting, take meeting minutes & action items, and publish within 1 day of meeting.
- Create and maintain project pages on the company intranet
- Articulate tasks/deadlines/issues/concerns. Ensure all issues are driven to resolution
- Ability to coordinate activities with clients and mobile operators.
- Ensure the successful launch of all projects.
Communication :
- Regularly communicate status to stakeholders (weekly reporting).
- Central point of Communications for all projects.
- Ability to communicate confidently at a project / programme level, including to external clients and mobile operators as well as internal cross functional teams.
- Ability to communicate to teams across disparate organizations, companies, and 3rd party/offshore teams.
Technical / Business Aptitude:
- Good understanding of mobile technology industry/clients and mobile carriers.
- Rapidly develop a deep understanding of the technical and product aspects of each project, using this knowledge to effectively lead the project and to communicate effectively with the team.
- Rapidly develop a deep knowledge of the Business and the supporting architecture. Use this knowledge to gain credibility both inside and outside the organization, to drive teams effectively and to make effective decisions.
Process :
- Manage all assigned projects according to the defined development process.
- Proactively provide feedback on the development process, identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Manage projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies
Capacity/Load:
- Ability to support 1-2 individual projects of small to medium depending on size and technical complexity.
Experience
Required:
- Experience running projects and/or programmes within the telecoms, preferably mobile, industry.
- Must have worked in an environment where they were working with teams that were co-workers as opposed to just coordinating the activities of external vendors.
Skills
Required:
- 3-5 years experience as a Project Manager, preference given to telecommunications projects.
- Degree or equivalent, achieved in a technical discipline.
- Expert in project / programme methodologies with accreditation in an approved discipline.
- Expert in product development lifecycle (or “Stage / gate, waterfall, agile”) processes.
- Expert user of Microsoft Project.
- Strong planning and organisational skills with appreciation of the balance between prioritisation, issues, deadlines and resourcing;
- Expert at all project management skill-set including Change Management, Project funding, requirements capture, document Control
- Ability to produce quality project documentation
Competencies
Required:
- Excellent communication skills – both verbal and written.
- Influencing Skills at all levels.
- Negotiating skills to broker difficult decisions on deployment of finite resource.
- Assertive where necessary, able to hold their own within a fast-moving, challenging company environment.
- An enthusiastic team player with a flexible attitude.
- Analytical problem solver and creative thinker.
- Ability to apply analytical thinking to address complex business issues
- Ability to make decisions, be flexible and pragmatic
Qualified candidates please contact:
Adam Monk
APM Resource
+ 44 (0) 7801 999 699
Adam.Monk@apmresource.com
MICHAEL A. FLANNERY – PMP
San Diego, CA 92128
Phone: (858) 613-0082 Email: MichaelFlannery2002@Yahoo.com
SUMMARY
Program Manager \ Project Engineer \ Engineering Unit Manager with MBA & PMP with extensive successful experience in global systems electronics and software and IT Systems in the Aerospace, Defense, Telecommunications & IT industries. Proven experience in all aspects of Program and Project Engineering Management on state of the art electronic hardware, software & IT systems. Continually demonstrated expertise in leading global teams to achieve aggressive high technology program goals with high customer satisfaction. Previously held Secret and Special Project clearances.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Project Engineer • Program Manager • System Test Engineer • IT Infrastructure
• Avionics • Defense • Aerospace • Wireless Telecommunications
LEADING EDGE CONSULTING, San Diego, CA 2009 – Present
Staff Project Manager consulting expertise in electronic HW, SW & IT Systems including P-25 Communications IT System Interoperability, Security & Surveillance and IT Network capabilities.
KYOCERA WIRELESS Corp. San Diego, CA 2004 – 2009
Project Engineer Senior Staff, 2006 to 2009
Directed global engineering teams through concept, design, ID, software & hardware to Production.
• Directing a successful international engineering team on the lead 2009 TRI-Band cell phone.
• Led an international IT team on a new technology Personal Media Player with MediaFLO broadcast TV [streaming video] – Phone, Portable TV, MP3, Media Video Player Technology.
Program Manager Senior Staff, International Phone 2004 – 2006
Instrumental in leading a global team with ODM contracts, designing, developing and manufacturing CDMA phones for the global marketplace expanding the current customer base.
• Led a global team developing the successful suite of phones for Tri band Platform at Kyocera.
• Led a global team with Kyocera’s first successful international hardware and software team.
• Managed teams with the structure & processes for successful multinational development effort.
MOTOROLA INC., Libertyville, IL 2000 – 2003
Program Manager, Project Engineering Manager – New Tech EDGE Phone 2002 – 2003
Achieved three separate aggressive EDGE phone deliverable goals by directing team’s focus and project engineering, systems engineering efforts and global software IT teams accomplishing on time deliveries.
• Led a large global team members from engineering, business, and manufacturing to develop new technology EDGE phone, resulting in producing GSM phone utilizing 3 times higher data rates.
• Selected as Lead Program / Project Engineering Manager to coordinate software program, systems engineering, operations, conduct upper management reviews, resulting in meeting customer expectations.
• Program/ Project Engineering Managed HW/ SW resources – 40+ major projects with $1 billion budget.
• Engineering lead for software team in analysis and corrective action to increase product reliability.
• Developed and nurtured customer relationships with direct interface between differing levels of customer hierarchy to meet established business cost and schedule goals to exceed customer expectations.
• Led EDGE team in conducting weekly Program Reviews using Primavera’s Team Play scheduling and other Quality status reporting initiatives to track individual and team performance and drive solutions.
• Coordinated progress with Marketing, Business, IT Projects, Hardware/Software Engineering, Field Test, Operations, resulting in achieving increased functionality and high customer satisfaction.
Program Management Office (PMO), Engineering Team Lead 2000 – 2002
Managed and drove all Program Management initiatives including leading a team driving system engineering and IT efforts in the Personal Communications Sector across all global products increasing sales.
• Facilitated weekly Program Reviews with 40 cross-functional teams increasing sales revenue.
• Project Engineering lead driving difficult issues to resolution on many cell phone programs issues.
• Drove all PCS PMO initiatives and all program product & process issues to improve cycle time.
• Conducted training and rollout for ISO 9000, CMMI and M-Gates in PCS within six months period.
• Involved with PCS Portfolio and upper management strategic issues, achieving faster times to market.
ADVANCED TECHNICAL SUPPORT (ATS), Schaumburg, IL 1999 – 2000
Consulting -Program Management Office at Motorola PCS, Libertyville, IL
Conducted Integrated Schedule Workshops, Summits and all Program Management functions globally for all of Motorola’s PCS (cell phone) Programs, including system integration, management and IT efforts.
• Analyzed, initiated and led teams on program specific initiatives, Program Weekly Reporting, IT Projects, dashboard metrics, FRACAS, Project training, increasing domestic & international sales.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION, Rolling Meadows, IL 1985 – 1999
Program Manager / Engineering Unit Manager 1995 – 1999
Experienced with 14 years of progressive responsibilities from Engineering to Engineering Management to Program Management in designing and improving aerospace, defense, and industrial electronics systems.
Instrumental in leading teams in resolving testing, projects, Design and System testing to improve all avionic programs at the site specifically RF Radar & EO/IR countermeasures, communications & Special Programs.
• Selected as Program Manager for cross-functional engineering teams in matrix organization, resulting in achieving contracted requirements and meeting domestic and foreign customer Quality specifications.
• Selected by top management to create, Program Manage and direct business plan, operations, sales, marketing, RFPs, and systems engineering technical management for the sites Electronics Services.
• Acted as Primary customer interface with global customers including direct sales at Trade Shows booths.
• Initiated and submitted cost proposals for 1000s of individual Lab Services to external clients.
• Designed and built electronic equipment systems, software code and mechanical fixtures, providing specified electronic stimulus and response characteristics in specified environments for clients.
Engineering Unit Manager / Program Manager 1989 – 1995
Managed Environmental Laboratories testing and Systems Engineering efforts on Qualification, Life Testing (RDGT) and Engineering Test and Evaluation to improve military and commercial FAA avionic systems.
• Managed software avionic system testing and simulation in site laboratory to meet specifications.
• Project Engineer designed testing stimulus on avionic systems to perform testing per requirements.
• Performed both management and WEB development for military testing and FAA certification.
• Managed over 40 laboratories personnel with capital expenditures in millions, staying within budget.
• Designed Environmental Stress Screening (ESS), FRACAS systems, Qualification, RDGT life testing for various programs at site, resulting in exceeding customer expectations and requirements.
Engineer Senior / System Test Manager 1987 – 1989
Managed, designed, implemented system engineering test and FRACAS responsibilities on high technology avionics systems and sub systems to meet and exceed global customer contractual specifications.
• Project Engineer on Environmental system simulation design and software testing to improve systems.
• Managed defense system Reliability Development Growth Test (RDGT) testing, meeting requirements.
• Performed Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS), achieving goals.
• Designed specialized electronic stimulus and fixtures for testing and analyzing electronic systems.
• Directed customer interface with defense systems U.S. and International clients, ensuring satisfaction.
Engineer 1985 – 1987
Led engineering teams performing design circuit analysis, software test analysis and avionics system level engineering evaluation, qualification and life testing to improve electronic systems.
• Designed environmental stimulus and cycle for RDGT and FRACAS on systems, meeting requirements.
• Project Engineer designed electronic stimulus and software for test systems on avionic suites.
• Led team in design circuit analysis and FMECA on avionic suites, improving system reliability.
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
Master of Business Administration, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, IL
Bachelors of Science Electronics Engineering Technology, DeVry University, Chicago, IL
PMP – Project Management Professional Certified by Project Management Institute PMI
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
• Program Management Institute (PMI) • Institute of Environmental Sciences (IEST)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) • Society of Automobile Engineers (SAE)