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Job Description:
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We are looking for a highly effective Project Manager with the skills to assist our growing User Experience team. This person is capable of leveraging structured project management techniques to effectively manage small to large-scale projects involving multiple disciplines – UI design, usability testing, information architecture, graphic design, and html/css development. Besides a proven project manager, we are looking for someone that is an effective facilitator, decision maker, problem solver, consensus builder, and exceptional communicator.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitate project planning and scope estimation
• Help create detailed project work plans
• Assign tasks to team members
• Help manage demand and resource allocation
• Facilitate, track and monitor activities, milestones and deliverables
• Manage project scope, timelines and deliverables
• Track project status and provide in-depth status reports
• Track and manage project related issues
• Help develop, facilitate and monitor delivery processes
• Institute, maintain and operate process checkpoints

Qualifications

• Major experience in a commercial consumer oriented web service development environment
• Sound proven skills and track record in project management.
• Some international experience and with exposure to human factors & usability elements of web development.
• Good knowledge of user centered design.
• Sensitive to business effects of UI decisions.
• Strong and consistent user focus, demonstrated through unfailingly putting the user and their needs ahead of features and technology.
• Excellent communication skills in verbal, written and formal presentation formats.
• Strong ability to influence and lead thinking up to senior management levels.
  Additional Job Info: * Professional Certification (PMP, CMM, ITIL) * Business Analysis * UI/Interactive Design * Usability Testing * Process Design * Roadmap Planning * e-Commerce Development or Migrations * CSS/HTML, Wireframes Software package expertise a plus: * IBM Websphere * Mercado * Bazaar Voice * Microsoft – Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project and Visio

****Please email resumes to mbawcum@teksystems.com. This position is a 6 month contract to hire opportunity that will sit either in the northwest suburbs of Chicago or downtown in the loop. Please only qualified candidates reply, no response will be given to those who are underqualified.