Position Title: Project Manager

Location: Boston

Overview:

As a Burntsand Project Manager / Business Analyst in our Content Management Practice, you will manage fixed price as well as T&M project engagements. These consulting engagements require heavy client interaction to manage expectations of project deliverables, scope, budget and deadlines. Most projects are completed at client sites, so you will be traveling within the New England region. This role offers the tremendous satisfaction and responsibility of delivering high value solutions to our client's business problems.

Tasks:

Managing Project Scope, Risk Management, Change Management, Project Protocol (QA, quality assurance, team reference guide, communication plan, and setting up the environment), Resources management, Administration, Track and Control and Status Reporting
Developing efficient project plans (and estimates) and effectively implementing, driving and coordinating these plans
Scheduling and facilitating meetings to provide status, obtain sign off, resolve critical issues, and work through project scheduling conflicts. Anticipating and effectively dealing with problems and roadblocks
Performing Business Analyst functions such as: eliciting, documenting, and managing business requirements; Documenting the gaps between current state and future state; writing use cases
Implementing and/or working within a budget
Effectively communicating project status to the project team and to executives
Creating professional presentations to communicate project information effectively

Experience:

Prior project management experience (,Minimum of 5+ years)
Strong knowledge of the EMC Documentum platform (custom development, configuration, product and environment install and set up)
Strong Business Analyst skills (requirements gathering, user acceptance testing, use case development, gap analysis)
Experience managing custom software development projects (as opposed to simply packaged SW implementations)
Solid understating of two or more waterfall or rapid application development software development lifecycle methodologies (RUP * Rational Unified Process, MSF * Microsoft Solutions Framework, Scrum, Agile, eXtreme, DSDM, etc.)
Experience developing proposals, and Statements of Work
Excellent project management skills, excellent time management skills, effective planning, management and control of projects
Proven ability to work with cross functional teams
Ability to work in a fast-paced deadline intensive environment
Strong MSFT Project skills
Solid oral and written communication skills
Solid planning and organization skills
Excellent people skills - demonstrated ability to work with both technical and non technical individuals, both in gathering information and communicating direction and status
Bachelor's degree (BA or BS) in Computer Science or related field

Additional Strengths that will help you be successful:

Prior consulting experience (strong preference, though not an absolute requirement)
PMP or CMM certification
Prior business analysis background or software development background
Familiarity with UML business requirements and process modeling artifacts (Use Case Diagrams, Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, etc.)
Experience assisting customer account team to identify, pursue and close strategic business development opportunities while continually driving add-on business within existing accounts

Soft Skills:

Diplomatic (all great consultants display this trait)
Technically adept (you have current skills and are able to deploy them across a variety of projects and solutions)
Communication (you can converse with customer and team members of all levels)
Committed (to your customer, your team and your project)

Burntsand is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We thank all applicants for their interest in advance, and advise that only candidates being considered will be contacted.

No telephone calls or agencies please.

While Burntsand appreciates the interest of all applicants, only successful candidates will be contacted for an interview