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Location: Boston Long term * * *MAGIC Modernization Project* *Project Manager* *Job Description* * * Established in 1955, the Group Insurance Commission (GIC) is a quasi-independent public agency, providing benefits to approximately 300,000 active employees, retirees, survivors and dependents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, municipal housing redevelopment authorities, local Elderly Governmental Retirees (EGRs), certain Retired Municipal Teachers (RMTs) and certain Municipal employees, retirees, survivors and dependents. The GIC has been recognized for its bold and innovative approaches to the health insurance system in order to address the serious gaps in quality and escalating costs that have plagued the health care system for years. The GIC is undertaking a phased project to update its legacy system (MAGIC) along with its associated ancillary systems. The goal of this project is to build more efficient processes that will allow the GIC to better serve its clientele and grow with future needs. We are looking for a Lead Project Manager who will manage the upgrade project to a successful completion. The Project Manager will be responsible for the following tasks: · Reports directly to the Group Insurance Commission’s CIO** · Directs technical staff and manages the activities of all aspects of the project life cycle. · Understands complex technical scenarios and requirements and can ferret out obstacles to progress and suggest alternative strategies and directions. · Assume responsibility as a senior level manager for the project to ensure that deadlines and deliverables are being achieved and signed off in a timely fashion.** · Aids the CIO, leading the planning strategy for design, development, testing, communication, training and implementation of the project.** · Develops and maintains a formal project plan with the appropriate milestones within the different phases of the project.** · Assumes responsibility for the budget of the project to ensure that the project is within the financial boundaries imposed by the Capital Budget on a fiscal year basis.** · Recommends staffing augmentation, hardware and software resources that may be needed to carry out the project. ** · Prepares project status on a weekly (GIC CIO) and monthly (ITD – Information Technology Division) basis showing current and projected achievements, risk areas, resource usage and financial standing. ** · Have excellent interpersonal communication skills in order to keep all stakeholders informed as to the project status.** · Participate in status meetings given to the Executive Director along with the CIO. ** · Review team member weekly status reports and schedule weekly project team meetings.** · Coordinates miscellaneous meetings, presentations and product demos as necessary while also including outside agencies and interests.** · Ensure that the technical team has adequate resources and access to GIC staff in order to understand and complete objectives.** · Ensure that proper change management procedures are followed by providing quality assurance guidelines. ** · Interact with ITD Capital Management group concerning the project’s financial budget and projected spending plans.** · Coordinates procurement and interview process for future personnel to be hired for the project.** · Communicate with the project team on technical issues and problem resolution.** * * Requirements: · Project Manager must have 5+ years PM experience, PMI certification is a plus.** · Project Manager must have 5+ years in Change Management** · Project Manager must have mainframe related experience. Familiarity with IBM utilities such as TSO, SPF and FTP is a plus.** · Project Manager must have experience with MS/Windows environment.** · Project Manager must have prior application development technical experience.** · Project Manager must have prior experience on a legacy system upgrade project, preferably with a middleware component.** · Project Manager must communicate effectively using the Microsoft Office suite of applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project) ** Preferred Qualifications: · The Project Manager should demonstrate the ability to interact on technical detail with application designers and developers.** · The Project Manager should have had experience with a Natural/ADABAS environment and its development environment.** · The Project Manager should have previous experience in the Insurance industry.** · The Project Manager should have technical skills including an application programming background.** · The Project Manager should have experience with Visual Studio development environment.** · The Project Manager should have experience with SQL Server or comparable SQL database. Thanks & regards, Tej Kumar XpertTech Inc Certified Minority Business Enterprise-(State of MA) 21 Cummings Park, Suite 252 Woburn, MA – 01801, URL: http://www.xperttech.com/ Email: [email protected] <http://mc/[email protected]> Gmail: [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Oracle-Distribution" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Oracle-Distribution -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
