Technical Project Manager

Unicon, Inc is looking for a technical project manager to add to our team.  As a leading provider of IT consulting services to the education market, Unicon works closely with institutions to find the best solutions to meet their business challenges.  Unicon specializes in using open source technologies to deliver flexible and cost-effective systems in the areas of enterprise portals, learning management, identity management, calendaring, email, and collaboration. Unicon's wide-ranging services include strategic planning, deployment, user experience, systems integration, custom development, technical support, hosting, managed services, training, and mentoring. Clients receive added value through Unicon's extensive open source community involvement.

Job Description
Plan and manage professional services projects for Unicon clients.  Activities include project startup, planning and execution, risk analysis and mitigation, client relationship management, requirements definition and software quality assurance. 

Responsibilities
• Serve as escalation point for issues beyond project team authority; resolves conflicts involving scheduling, resources, or technical issues.
• Identify project staffing needs and developing staffing options
• Prepare and submit weekly project status reports; prepares monthly reports outlining team assignments and/or changes, project status changes.
• Maintains ultimate responsibility for the timely delivery of software development projects
• Manage personnel activities for teams (i.e., hires, trains, appraises, rewards, motivates, disciplines, recommends termination as necessary, etc.).
• Interact with other products and services departments, as well as sales, accounting, personnel and product development as necessary.
• Communicate with customers to assess customer satisfaction level with services and products.
• Participate in direct customer and sales support as necessary.

Education and Work Experience
• Bachelor's degree required.  A software engineering, computer science or engineering degree is preferred.
• Two to five years of professional experience in software project management.

Required Knowledge & Skills:
• Excellent writing, editing, communications, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required.
• Professional appearance and presentation required.
• Demonstrated ability to delivery software development projects on-time and at budget.
• Demonstrated ability to raise and resolve project issues with stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge in software development methodologies, design and implementation.
• Strong analytical and design skills.
• Solid understanding of entire software development process, including specification, documentation, quality assurance, performance and scalability testing and production support.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate teams.

Please submit your resume to hr@unicon.net
Local candidates only, please