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Description
The David Kenneth Group is seeking to add a qualified Senior Project Manager to its team of experienced data center migration professionals. The Senior Project Manager role in our company typically has full staffing, business development, and financial responsibility for their specified project and occasionally an entire client engagement.
Our typical engagements are relocations, mergers, consolidations, and modernizations lasting anywhere from 6 to 18 months. Data center migration projects are mission-critical and come with inherent risks. The qualified candidate must have previous experience with data center migrations, consolidations, and/or relocations.
The ideal candidate must be a proactive team player with a dynamic personality comfortable working in highly available, fast-paced, client-facing environments. Our work culture mandates an entrepreneurial mindset and a self-starter attitude. David-Kenneth Group hires individuals that embrace critical questioning, innovation, service and continuous improvement of themselves and those around them.
Should you be qualified, this is a great opportunity to keep your skills sharp. This position will provide unique challenges as well as an opportunity to work with an industry leader whose services are in high demand.
Responsibilities
- Ability to lead and execute complex projects with limited supervision.
- Able to seek and understand clients overall business objectives and how to position effective solutions to ensure successful implementation of products and technologies.
- Responsible for determining data center migration/consolidation strategy and execution
- Effectively multitask between different initiatives
- Ten plus years of hands-on Project Management experience
- Strong project management and technical leadership skills, with specific focus on data center migrations and/or consolidations
- Previous experience leading a data center migration and consolidation projects.
- Creating data center migration/consolidation strategies and execution plans
- Able to demonstrate a high level of fluency / understanding of data center technologies and terminology
- Ability to create, adapt, and "hybridize" data center migration processes
- Ability to manage, track and report on performance to budget and schedule
- Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to interact efficiently with the technical team as well as C-level executives
- Proven accountability and demonstrates a high degree of ownership
- Mastery of MS Project, Word, Excel, Visio, and SharePoint
- Ability to work independently
- Superior verbal and written communication skills
- Customer focused, with a proven track record of exceeding expectations in project delivery
Preferred Experience
- PMP Certification
- Hands on project management experience in Banking, Healthcare, or Manufacturing industries
- Previous experience working in a large scale environment (global, fortune 500)
- Past experience working with top-tier companies such as: IBM, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft, and Google.
- Experience with business development tasks (RFPs, whitepapers, etc.)
- Recent experience with leading technologies / markets (cloud migrations, software defined networking, etc.)
Additional Information
- Must be authorized to work in the United States
- Full time/w Benefits
- Ability to travel on short notice (approximately 25% 1wk/month average within continental US annually)
- Telecommute (but must be willing to support any U.S. time zone)
Corporate Summary
The David-Kenneth Group is a privately held company whose main offices are in Annapolis, Maryland. The company is a certified veteran-owned business and has more than 40-years of experience increasing market share and revenue for clients. Our core competency and singular focus is data center migrations. All of our people, processes and methodology are purposed to help achieve the very attractive business benefits associated with data center migrations. What is typically a once in a lifetime project for most organizations is what we do all day, every day. Click here to learn more about who we are.
Our Benefits & Our Culture
The David Kenneth Group is committed to providing our employees with a competitive benefits package that complements our core values and demonstrates our people-first commitment. We offer a competitive salary; paid time off; paid holidays; medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401K; profit sharing program; and additional benefits such as employee development, education assistance, and employee referral.
The hiring and retention of employees is critical to our success so we are continually striving to enhance our attraction as a great place to work. For more information, visit our benefits page.
If you or someone you know is interested in joining our elite team of technologists, please submit your resume to [email protected] and include your contact information, type of position, the best time to reach you, preferred phone and email address. If your qualifications meet the requirements for an open position, our recruiter will reach out to you.