Position Title: Senior Consultant – Project Manager

Location: San Jose

Overview:

As a Burntsand Project Manager, 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 this role requires West Coast travel.

This role offers the tremendous satisfaction and responsibility of delivering high value solutions to our client's business problems.

Tasks:

As a Project Manager you will perform some of the following:

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.
Requirements review, assistance with document creation (Requirements, Design, Deployment, Testing).
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.

Specific Experience:

Must have:

Prior project management experience (5+ years)
Experience managing custom software development projects (as opposed to simply packaged SW implementations).
Solid understating of development lifecycle methodologies (RUP * Rational Unified Process, MSF * Microsoft Solutions Framework, Scrum, Agile, eXtreme, DSDM, etc.)
Exposure to Enterprise Content Management Technologies and Solutions (preferably Documentum)
Experience developing proposals, and Statements of Work.
Proven ability to work with cross functional teams.
Solid oral and written communication 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

Nice to have:

Prior consulting experience.
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.

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