As a consulting firm, PMC is occasionally interested in adding new qualified individuals to our project team as opportunities arise. Dynamic individuals who demonstrate leadership, technical abilities, interpersonal skills, and have expertise in project and business management are of particular value to our company.
Portfolio Management Consultant
Employer Information:
The Project Management Centre specializes in implementing and supporting Portfolio and Project Management (PPM) Systems.
Implementation services include:
- Documentation of PPM Methodologies
- Establishment of PPM performance measurement frameworks
- Training in PPM theory and technology, as well as custom role-based methodology training
- PPM technology integration and implementation
PPM support consists of providing quality resources for the establishment and maintenance of client Project Management Offices (PMOs).
Our team is made up of college and university graduates, industry professionals and certified Project Management Professionals (PMPs).
Position Summary:
This senior staff member reports to a PMC principal and works directly with the client's PMO, and executive and senior management to deliver PMC services. The consultant facilitates the structuring of client portfolios and programs, and defines and implements PPM processes, including risk and financial management practices.
Requirements/Skills:
- More than 10 years' experience in a PM senior role
- Understanding of PPM strategies, and project investment and prioritization strategies
- Enrolled in the Project Management Institute (PMI) program and PMI certified
- Experience with Primavera is preferred and considered an asset
- Bilingualism is considered an asset
- High degree of tenacity and persistence to complete tasks on schedule
- Ability to work well with team members and clients
- Excellent oral and written communications skills, including presentation and facilitation skills
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Consulting Project Manager
Employer Information:
The Project Management Centre specializes in implementing and supporting Portfolio and Project Management (PPM) Systems.
Implementation services include:
- Documentation of PPM Methodologies
- Establishment of PPM performance measurement frameworks
- Training in PPM theory and technology, as well as custom role-based methodology training
- PPM technology integration and implementation
PPM support consists of providing quality resources for the establishment and maintenance of client Project Management Offices (PMOs).
Our team is made up of college and university graduates, industry professionals and certified Project Management Professionals (PMPs).
Position Summary:
The Project Manager reports to a PMC Account Manager, and works directly with the client's PMO and/or Program Managers to deliver PMC services. This position supports the management of a project or program, and includes managing project teams in the completion of their deliverables, as well as being involved in the planning and execution of projects. Responsibilities include risk and financial management, as well as project resource and cost management.
Requirements/Skills:
- Graduated from a recognized university, or have an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience
- More than 10 years' experience in a PM senior role
- Enrolled in the Project Management Institute (PMI) program and PMI certified
- Understanding of PPM strategies, and project investment and prioritization strategies
- Experience in designing, planning and executing complex, multi-stakeholder projects
- Ability to lead project teams and working groups at all levels
- Ability to lead technical projects from start to finish with minimal technical support
- Ability to analyze and evaluate complex problems, identify relevant issues and recommend corrective measures
- High degree of tenacity and persistence to complete tasks on schedule
- Excellent oral and written communications skills, including presentation and facilitation skills
- Experience with Primavera is preferred and considered an asset
- Bilingualism is considered an asset
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Project Coordinator Officer
Employer Information:
The Project Management Centre specializes in implementing and supporting Portfolio and Project Management (PPM) Systems.
Implementation services include:
- Documentation of PPM Methodologies
- Establishment of PPM performance measurement frameworks
- Training in PPM theory and technology, as well as custom role-based methodology training
- PPM technology software and implementation
PPM support consists of providing quality resources for the establishment and maintenance of client Project Management Offices (PMOs).
Our team is made up of college and university graduates, industry professionals and certified Project Management Professionals (PMPs).
Position Summary:
PMC has an immediate requirement for a Project Coordinator. Working on site with the client and senior consultants, the Project Coordinator will provide the necessary support in building, maintaining and tracking project plans and schedules. This work includes helping the client create and generate reports, identifying potential schedule issues, tracking costs and providing forecasts. Eligible applicants must have interest in the project and portfolio management environment and some knowledge of project management software.
Requirements/Skills:
- Bachelor of Administration, Commerce or Engineering degree
- High degree of tenacity and persistence to complete tasks on schedule
- Proven track record of demonstrating excellent client relations
- Excellent oral and written communications skills, including presentation and facilitation skills
- Highly organized, possessing premium analytical skills
- Solid computer skills
- Ability to quickly resolve competing interests among diverse stakeholders
- Ability to assess the client’s technical environment and identify needs or problems
- Ability to effectively use change control techniques to define and track changes to the original scope of a project
- Some knowledge of project management software
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PPM Systems Consultant
Employer Information:
The Project Management Centre specializes in implementing and supporting Portfolio and Project Management (PPM) Systems.
Implementation services include:
- Documentation of PPM Methodologies
- Establishment of PPM performance measurement frameworks
- Training in PPM theory and technology, as well as custom role-based methodology training
- PPM technology software and implementation
PPM support consists of providing quality resources for the establishment and maintenance of client Project Management Offices (PMOs).
Our team is made up of college and university graduates, industry professionals and certified Project Management Professionals (PMPs).
Position Summary:
This is a full-time position. The Portfolio/Project Analyst works directly with the client’s PMO and/or Project Managers, and reports to a PMC Account or Program Manager in the delivery of PMC services to the client. This position requires in-depth expertise of project management tools (Microsoft Project and Primavera are preferred). PMC is prepared to train individuals in the use and application of these tools.
Requirements/Skills:
- Graduated from a recognized university, or have an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience
- Understands all aspects of project planning at a project level, including use of project tools
- High degree of tenacity and persistence to complete tasks on schedule
- Ability to work with team members and clients
- Excellent oral and written communications skills, including presentation and facilitation skills
- Experience with Primavera and/or Microsoft Project is preferred and considered an asset
- Technical knowledge of SQL and Oracle databases is an asset
- Bilingualism is an asset
- Interest in joining the Project Management Institute (PMI) and/or acquiring PMP status
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Business Analyst
Business Analyst
Experience Levels
Level 1: <5 years of experience
Level 2: 5-<10 years of experience
Level 3: 10+ years of experience
Responsibilities could include but are not limited to:
- Develop and document statements of requirements for considered alternatives.
- Perform business analyses of functional requirements to identify information, procedure, and
decision flows.
- Evaluate existing procedures and methods, identify and document items such as database
content, structure, application subsystems.
- Develop data dictionary.
- Define and document interfaces of manual to automated operations within application
subsystems, to external systems, and between new and existing systems.
- Identify candidate business processes for re-design, prototype potential solutions, provide
trade-off information and suggest a recommended course of action. Identify the modifications
to the automated processes.
- Establish acceptance test criteria with client.
- Support and use the selected departmental methodologies.
Specialties could include but are not limited to:
- BPWin
- Oracle CASE
- Rational Rose
- RUP
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Business Consultant
Experience Levels
Level 1: <5 years of experience
Level 2: 5-<10 years of experience
Level 3: 10+ years of experience, or 5+ years of experience with a recognized professional certification
Responsibilities could include but are not limited to:
- Analyze, evaluate, develop business processes (financial, operational, systems, etc.).
- Identify organizational and/or project business opportunities for improvement and streamlining
of business processes.
- Identify and evaluate critical success parameters, factors and performance measurements.
- Assist other stakeholders in development and implementation of business improvement
processes and programs.
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Project Administrator
Experience Levels
Level 1: <5 years of experience
Level 2: 5-<10 years of experience
Level 3: 10+ years of experience, or 5+ years of experience with a recognized professional certification
Responsibilities could include but are not limited to:
- Assist project management and data processing professionals, technical users and end users
in simple routine tasks.
- Provide administrative and technical support of a clerical nature as required to projects.
- Assist in performing such tasks as maintaining project documentation and application/system
libraries.
- Acts as the first point of contact in a "hot-line" situation by accepting incoming calls, logging
calls, attempting to resolve simple problems and following established procedures for more
difficult problems.
- Tracks project change requests.
- Maintain and updates relevant project information in manual and/or electronic files; project
information might include such things as project activity schedule, status reports,
correspondence.
- Use computer tools, aids, system control languages on PCs, minis, or mainframes to perform
work.
- Communicates with project management and data processing professionals, technical users
and end users on administrative matters related to the project.
Specialties could include but are not limited to:
- MS Project
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Project Leader
Experience Levels
Level 1: <5 years of experience
Level 2: 5-<10 years of experience
Level 3: 10+ years of experience, or 5+ years of experience with a recognized professional certification
Responsibilities could include but are not limited to:
- Specify the general requirements of the system, develop broad system alternatives and
identify their administrative, economic and technical feasibility and practically as well as
associated policy and organizational change requirements.
- Analyse and evaluate each alternative based on make/buy, impact and cost/benefit
considerations, and propose, justify, plan and cost the implementation of the selected
alternative.
- Produce overall plan, a detailed plan for the functional analysis phase, and obtain approval of
preliminary analysis.
- Plan, direct and control the activities of a system development team within scheduled time
and cost parameters.
- Evaluate proposed computer applications to determine technical, operational and economic
feasibility.
- Design and test systems to ensure that the objectives of the system are met and that the
outputs produced are in accordance with client requirements.
- Monitor the design, implementation and operations start-up of the proposed system against
established goals, objectives and milestones.
Specialties could include but are not limited to:
- MS Project
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Project Scheduler
Experience Levels
Level 1: <5 years of experience
Level 2: 5-<10 years of experience
Level 3: 10+ years of experience, or 5+ years of experience with a recognized professional certification
Responsibilities could include but are not limited to:
- Develop and support project schedules.
- Develop and maintain Work Breakdown Structures.
- Produce appropriate reports and identify scheduling and/or dependency issues.
- Conduct and provide critical path analysis.
- Assist in schedule co-ordination efforts with internal and external project stakeholders.
Specialties could include but are not limited to:
- MS Project
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Process Design and Documentation Specialist
Functional Description
- Provide consulting to process owners and managers on all aspects of process management, including design,
documentation, tools, metrics and methodologies
- Provide consulting, support and expertise to process improvement teams, project teams and process reengineering
teams
- Facilitate and document results from process design/implementation workshops
- Facilitate as required process improvement teams and process reengineering teams
- Provide principles and standards for process documentation, process design, process measurement, monitoring and
reporting
- Benchmark best practices for selected processes
- Make recommendations for a process documentation repository and provide change management
- Champion for process management and continuous improvement within the organisation according to performance
expectations
- Manage cross-functional relationships for project assignments and provide specialist support to the organisation
- Monitor implementation of process work packages or projects to ensure success
Qualifications:
- Ten (10) or more years of industry experience in IT process management, including IT service delivery and
performance management
- Three (3) to five (5) more years experience conducting assessments, designing process and implementing service
management solutions
- Strong understanding and use of process development frameworks (ITIL and COBIT)
- ITIL certification including Masters and/or one or more Practitioner level qualifications in required process area
- Strong documentation skills and knowledge of document retrieval tools and techniques
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels within an organization with strong interpersonal, negotiation,
mediation, and presentation skills
- Strong analysis and technical skills
- Demonstrated ability to:
- Work collaboratively with other IT Planning and ITS staff
- Promote cross-functional collaboration and effective team working
- Present complex data clearly and provide appropriate advice and options to management
- Produce documentation of excellent clarity, completeness, and overall quality, within established deadlines
- Synthesize data from multiple sources (including technical documents, policies, specifications, etc.) into clear,
concise, user-friendly process documentation
- Facilitate groups and lead sessions related to technology and process improvement
- Conduct training sessions and provide coaching and mentoring
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Technical Writer
Required experience as applicable to this skill-set:
Technical Writer (Intermediate) = Three (3) to seven (7) years of relevant experience;
Technical Writer (Senior) = > Seven (7) years of relevant experience
Functional Description
- Reviewing operational procedures
- Assessing operational procedures
- Documenting operational procedures
- Documenting detailed work instructions
- Documenting high-level processes
- Eliciting detailed procedural and technical information through one-on-one interviews
- Eliciting detailed procedural and technical information through facilitation of group sessions
- Analyzing, validating, and assessing procedures and processes
- Identifying process improvements
- Designing process based on analysis gathered through interviews and group facilitation
- Assessing process weaknesses and proposing alternatives
- Presenting process options to Management in small group and formal settings
- Creating process documentation and process models at both a high level and a detailed functional level
- Providing knowledge transfer to resources, as required
Qualifications:
- Years of experience, as outlined above
- Strong interviewing skills
- Ability to write clear documentation for a technical audience
- Broad-based technical knowledge
- system application development processes e.g. RUP, development lifecycle
- VOIP, IT Security
- Must be adept in Word, Visio, and PowerPoint
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English, written and verbal
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and/or to a strict deadline
- Ability to pay attention to detail
- Knowledge and experience with the .NET development framework is highly desirable
- Knowledge and experience with Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is highly desirable
- Significant experience in writing technical operational procedures
- Ability to generate consensus in a group setting
- Experience in analyzing, designing, and re-designing processes
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Systems Analyst/Developer
Required experience as applicable to this skill-set:
Intermediate = Three (3) to seven (7) years of relevant experience
Senior = > Seven (7) years of relevant experience
Functional Description
- Analyzing functional requirements to identify information, procedures and process flows
- Participating in software development projects using software Configuration Management practices and Software
Development Lifecycle
- Defining and documenting interfaces of manual to automated operations within system sub-systems, to external
systems and between new and existing systems
- Business background experience relevant to Software implementations for business solutions
- Defining input/output sources, including detail plan for technical design phase, and obtains approval of the system
proposal
- Developing and documenting a detailed statement of requirements for a proposed systems initiative using techniques
such joint application design (JAD) and structured development methodologies
- Defining and documenting all system components, their interfaces and operational environment
- Designing developing and coding of data structures and files, sub-systems and modules, programs, batch, on-line
and production monitoring procedures, testing strategy and systems
- Documenting system design, concepts and facilities, presents and obtaining of approval of detailed system design
- Participating in development of user manual covering manual processes and operational procedures, user acceptance
testing checklist and obtains user acceptance thereof
- Identifying and documenting system specific standards relating to programming, documentation and testing
including test plans and test scripts, covering program libraries, data dictionaries, naming conventions, etc.
- Commitment to Quality Assurance best practices
- Providing mentoring and knowledge transfer to resources, as required
- Demonstrated effective communications with clients, team member and management
Qualifications:
- Experience analyzing, designing, developing and testing computer systems using structured methodologies
- Experience developing applications in Internet/Intranet based environments
- Experience using development tools and case tools
- Experience as a programmer / analyst using one or more programming languages
- Experience / knowledge in Project Management in particular Project Life Cycle (PLC)
- Experience as a systems analyst / developer on projects in some of the following environments:
- Windows-based client
- Windows CE / 200 / XP / 2003
- Sun Solaris
- Novell Netware 3.x network servers
- Palm OS
- Experience using some of the following software products:
- MS SQL Server
- Powerbuilder
- MS .NET 2003,2005
- MS-Access
- Oracle RDBMS v8, v9, and / or v10
- Oracle Application Server
- Oracle Internet Developer Suite
- C
- C++
- Visual FoxPro 5
- Vision
- Peoplesoft
- SAP
- Cold Fusion
- AppForge
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Quality Assurance Analyst
Required experience as applicable to this skill-set:
Three (3) to seven (7) years of relevant experience
Functional Description
- Writing test plans and scripts, analyzing results
- Reviewing operational procedures
- Assessing operational procedures
- Documenting operational procedures
- Documenting detailed work instructions
- Analyzing, validating, and assessing procedures and processes
- Designing process based on analysis gathered through interviews and group facilitation
- Assessing process weaknesses and proposing alternatives
- Creating process, application and training documentation
- Providing knowledge transfer to resources, as required
Qualifications:
- Years of experience, as outlined above
- Strong interviewing skills
- Ability to write clear documentation for a technical audience
- Broad-based technical knowledge
- Must be adept in Word, Visio, Acrobat, and PowerPoint
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English, written and verbal
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and/or to a strict deadline
- Ability to pay attention to detail
- Experience in:
- Writing test plans and test cases
- Executing test scripts
- Analyzing test results
- Tracking and reporting defects
- Verifying fixes for reported defects
- Working in a project environment where Rational Unified Process Methodology or other iterative software
engineering processes, ex. Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) was applied
- Testing applications within the Windows based client/server and/or Smart Client applications using VB.NET or
VB 6.0
- Desired experience in:
- Working in a municipal government environment
- Writing technical operational procedures
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Technical Architect
Required experience as applicable to this skill-set:
> Seven (7) years of relevant experience
Functional Description
- Mentor staff on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology as it applies to the design of the application.
Mentoring will involve working with the IT development team to transfer the skills and knowledge for use in future
projects.
- Assist in the prioritization of the features/requirements of the system from a technical perspective
- Build an executable architecture prototype which addresses the critical use cases identified in the inception phase
- Develop a software architecture document (the implementation and deployment views)
- Mentor and assist with the creation of the data model
- Identify and document the architecturally significant aspects of the system
- Propose and develop candidate solutions to solve specific problems in high risk areas
- Identify, assess and mitigate the technical risks Reviewing operational procedures
- Assessing operational procedures
- Documenting operational procedures
- Documenting detailed work instructions
- Documenting high-level processes
- Analyzing, validating, and assessing procedures and processes
- Identifying process improvements
- Assessing process weaknesses and proposing alternatives
- Creating process documentation and process models at both a high level and a detailed functional level
- Providing knowledge transfer to resources, as required
Qualifications:
- Years of experience, as outlined above
- Strong interviewing skills
- Ability to write clear documentation for a technical audience
- Broad-based technical knowledge (of specific technical discipline, such as IT Security or VoIP)
- Must be adept in Word, Visio, Acrobat, and PowerPoint
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English, written and verbal
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and/or to a strict deadline
- Ability to pay attention to detail
- Ability to generate consensus in a group setting - for Intermediate and Senior
- Experience in analyzing, designing, and re-designing processes
- For Intermediate and Senior demonstrated experience in:
- Applying Rational Unified Process Methodology or other iterative software engineering processes, ex.
Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF)
- Architecting, Designing and implementing .Net n-tier solutions
- Working in an object-oriented environment
- Demonstrated experience in:
- Oracle 9i
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Data Warehouse Architect
Required experience as applicable to this skill-set:
Required years of relevant experience identified as part of the "Qualifications" outlined below:
Functional Description
- Assisting in the development of an enterprise-side warehouse strategy
- Evaluating, recommending, and implementing selected solution(s) for data warehousing tools (construction, data
transformation, mapping, loading, mining, etc.)
- Participating in the development of data model(s) for the data warehouse / operational data stores
- Assisting with the integration of data warehouse solutions into the business application environment
- Participating in business analysis, data acquisition and access analysis as well as back-up, recovery and data loading
strategies
- Performance tuning and monitoring of data access to data warehouse and operational data stores
Qualifications:
- A minimum of three (3) years experience developing data warehouse strategies and architectures to address
business information requirements / business decision making processes
- Experience planning, designing, developing and implementing data warehouses
- Experience with Oracle RDBMS as the data warehouse platform including IBM DataStage ETL tool
- Experience with IBM Cognos suite of BI tools
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Database Administrator
Required experience as applicable to this skill-set:
Required years of relevant experience identified as part of the "Qualifications" outlined below:
Functional Description
- Identifying requirements for improvements to existing databases by determining users' information requirements
and system performance and functional requirements
- Database conversion and version upgrade
- Developing and implementing procedures that will ensure the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of data stored
in the database
- Developing and implementing security procedures for the database, including access and user account management
- Maintaining configuration control of the database
- Performance tuning the database
- Controlling and coordinating changes to the database, including the deletion of records, changes to the existing
records and additions to the database
- Establishing database back-up, disaster recovery and virus protection procedures
- Data model review and database design
- Database replication
Qualifications:
- A minimum of three (3) years experience as a database administrator on business application development projects
depending on complexity of the assignment:
- Experience designing and developing database structures
- Experience using database modeling tools
- Experience designing and developing procedures that include database back-up, restore and recovery procedures,
database monitoring and database optimization procedures
- Experience performance-tuning databases
- Extensive experience with Oracle RDMS
- Experience with MS SQL Server technology
- Experience with MySQL technology
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Desktop Specialist
Required experience as applicable to this skill-set:
Entry Level = > Six (6) months to three (3) years of relevant experience
Intermediate = Three (3) to seven (7) years of relevant experience
Senior = > Seven (7) years of relevant experience
Functional Description
- Administering, maintaining, supporting and upgrading the Microsoft Windows desktop computer configurations
- Monitoring and diagnosing and troubleshooting problems for the installed Microsoft Windows computers
- Providing assistance in the patching of Microsoft Windows desktop computer products, including the office suite
- Developing desktop computer images for the rapid deployment of equipment
- Developing application packages for deployment using Microsoft SMS
- Planning and deployment of new Microsoft desktop operating systems and office suite
- Providing technical assistance to system developers, maintenance personnel and to management
- Developing and maintaining documentation and operating and testing procedures as required
- Performing beta testing if required on new technologies, as directed
Qualifications:
- Experience with Microsoft products, in particular Windows XP (and future releases) and Microsoft Office
- Experience with Microsoft Active Directory
- Experience with Microsoft Outlook clients
- Experience with Microsoft SMS package deployment techniques
- Experience with Wyse Studio application packaging
- Experience with desktop and laptop Intel-based server hardware
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Service Desk Analyst
Required experience as applicable to this skill-set:
Entry Level = > Six (6) months to three (3) years of relevant experience
Intermediate = Three (3) to seven (7) years of relevant experience
Senior = > Seven (7) years of relevant experience
Functional Description
- Answering user calls coming into the Service Desk call centre
- Initiating the incident record for all incidents and service requests within the incident management system
- Ensuring incidents are resolved in an efficient manner
- Ensuring activities are performed as necessary for the immediate short-term resolution of incidents so clients can
resume their work as quickly as possible
- Ensuring completion of incident data record
- Keeping the user informed on the status of their incident
- Monitoring all open tickets they have assigned to support groups
- Disseminating status information on incidents and service requests to clients
- Installing equipment and software as needed
Qualifications:
- Call Centre/Help Desk experience
- Experience using SupportMagic
- Demonstrated aptitude for providing positive customer service
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with technology users
- Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills
- Experience providing support to end users of MS-Windows and MS Office in a Microsoft Active Directory
environment
- Experience with IP-base networks
- Experience with Microsoft SMS package deployment techniques
- Experience with desktop and laptop Intel-based server hardware
- Experience with various end-user peripherals such as printers, scanners, etc.
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