Mandatory Qualifications
• Possession of (a) a bachelor’s degree
• A current Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
• A minimum of seven (7) years of broad, extensive, and increasingly responsible experience applying PM principles, methods, techniques, and tools. At least four (4) years of that experience must have been as a senior PM of one or more large or complex IT project.
• Must have at least five (5) years of proven experience on a State of California information technology project managing multidisciplinary teams that include technical and business staff, consultants, and stakeholders (such as agency executives, contractor managers and staff, independent vendors independent project oversight consultants, independent validation and verification consultants, and state staff and vendors).
• Must have at least two (2) years proven experience in the role of a lead Project Manager on at least one project of similar size, scope and complexity. The Project Manager must demonstrate experience in all aspects of managing a project – from project start to finish – even if not all on one project.
• Must have proven experience preparing PMBOK-related project plans, schedules, issue and risk management response plans, budget projections and revisions, and other standard project management elements listed above in Section 3.0 – Contractor Roles and Responsibilities, sub-sections 3.2 and3.3 of the SOW, for the Senior Project Manager.
• Must have proven experience managing a large scale, integration project that contracted systems development and integration to a separate company. The Project Managers’ scope of responsibility for that project must have included management of the Systems Integration vendor.
• Must have experience using Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools including Microsoft Project