Presidio is a high-performance organization focused on providing holistic, cohesive IT infrastructure solutions to growing companies. We specialize in providing organizations with Full Life Cycle services in Convergence and Unified Communications solutions, Cisco Core Networking, Security, Virtualization, as well as Data Center Solutions to increase productivity and improve business operations. Our solutions are focused around Cisco, EMC, AWS, VMware and Citrix product lines (to name a few). We are Ciscoâs # Gold vendor partner and EMCâs #5 vendor partner in the US. Our goal is to provide an exceptional customer experience and superior customer satisfaction.
We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and continuously developing and training our delivery team and technical staff. Our engineers are empowered with responsibility, autonomy and trust. Our commitment to technical leadership is the foundation of our success.
Presidio is seeking a seasoned, customer-facing Senior Project Manager experienced with managing complex IT infrastructure projects that meet our customer project requirements in the following areas:
o Cisco Core Routing and Switching, Security
o Cisco Unified Communications
o Cisco Wireless
o Virtualization
o EMC Storage
o Data Center technologies
Responsibilities:
- Manages day-to-day client interaction and expectations for multiple and/or large-scale projects.
- Creation of detailed project plans, status reporting and managing issues/risks/actions.
- Manages scope and mitigates risk across projects.
- Manages project budget and billing.
- Partners across cross functional teams to deliver the best possible solution for a client.
- Meet with customers during key phases of the project.
- Continually seeks and capitalizes upon opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience.
- 12+ years as a hands-on Project Manager managing technical VAR implementation projects and having customer facing experiences.
- Lead, manage & execute multiple customer facing projects
- Manage project charters, end to end project communication and lead all phases of the project
- Responsible for project profitability, margin and overall project budget during execution and closure phase
- Develop active scheduling and financial forecasting for customer meetings during and before execution
- Calculate & effectively communicate earned to planned values & financial burn rates for all assigned projects
- Be able to develop and communicate project strategy, critical chain method, critical path method or waterfall (traditional) as per project requirements
- Familiarity with Microsoft teamwork, Microsoft projects or Microsoft access is a plus.
- Familiarity with leading a project through the 4 standard phase gates of project management (evaluate, plan, implement, close)
- Project Management experience in Cisco’s product line (Routing, Switching, Unified Communication, Data Center Virtualization using VMware and EMC product lines preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to plan, organize and successfully drive projects to meet defined budgets and timelines.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously both small and large.
- Experience managing project financials and resource management both internal and with partner vendors.
- Strong verbal, written communication and presentation skills.
- Proficient in MS Office and Project planning tools.
- PMP Certification preferred.
- Ability to travel up to 25%.
Presidio is a leading North American IT solutions provider focused on Digital Infrastructure, Cloud and Security solutions to create agile, secure infrastructure platforms for middle-market customers. We deliver this technology expertise through a full life cycle model of professional, managed, and support services including strategy, consulting, implementation and design. By taking the time to deeply understand how our clients define success, we help them harness technology advances, simplify IT complexity and optimize their environments today while enabling future applications, user experiences, and revenue models. As of June 30, 2018, we serve approximately 8,000 middle-market, large, and government organizations across a diverse range of industries. Approximately 2,900 Presidio professionals, including more than 1,600 technical engineers, are based in 60+ offices across the United States in a unique, local delivery model combined with the national scale of a $2.8 billion dollar industry leader. We are passionate about driving results for our clients and delivering the highest quality of service in the industry. Presidio is majority owned by affiliates of investment funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE:APO).
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