Monday, August 06, 2007

My current duties as technical project coordinator

Job Summary
Responsible for regular contact and examination of contributions by the project’s stakeholders, encompassing user representatives, service providers and others as a appropriate, bringing about a “meeting of the minds” as to requirements and/or performance according to established policies and guidelines, and reporting so that corresponding action is taken.

Functions and Responsibilities


Coordination

  • Maintain contact with owner’s stakeholders to ascertain project requirements and/or level of satisfaction with progress and performance.
  • Maintain contact with the project’s service providers to ensure timely activity, integration and efficient use of resources to meet requirements.
  • Produce detailed reports and notifications as appropriate.
  • Take pro-active or corrective action if authorized to do so.
  • Coordinate inspection and report progress of the work.
  • Coordinate practical details of the transfer of the care, custody and control of the final product, including assembly and transfer of operational and maintenance documentation.
  • Create, deliver and insure project delivery notes documents with the company clients.
  • Create, deliver and insure project signoff documents with the company clients.
  • Create, deliver and insure project work order documents with the company clients.
  • Work hand in hand with project managers throughout the project phases and insure that
    project execution is smoothly met.
  • Identify risks and reply them to the project manager and occasionally propose solutions.
  • Coordinate meetings, and write its minutes and insure that Attendees get their copy of the minutes of meeting documents.

Business Modeling

  • Help in modeling the business of the client and creating a business case
  • Help in developing a product vision
  • Work with business owners and business analysts to identify, prioritize and document business requirements
  • Facilitating sessions and working with business owners and business analysts to drive out detailed functional requirements
  • With the help of the development team, transforming business/functional requirements into high level technical requirements and designs (including user interface)
  • Work with the TTL, DBA, System Admin and business owner to identify conversion points for legacy system.
  • Working with project team to develop support materials and processes.
  • Capture and create a common glossary.

Requirements gathering and documentation

  • Gather, analyze, and prioritize customer and business requirements
  • Requirements proper documentation

Handling requirements

  • Understand the clients requirements
  • Clearly define the deliverables of the project
  • Makes sure that the client requirements are properly documented in clear way to the client and the technical team

Change Management

  • Help in establishing a change management and control plan and make sure it is executed
  • Own the process of creating new Change Requests and follow it while executing.

Deployment

  • Onsite project updates deployment.
  • Makes sure that a deployment plan is created and executed.
  • Manages the clients Beta testing and solicit feedback.

Quality assurance

  • Functional test Analyst (with the help of the Unit Leader and the and System Analyst)
  • Identify system defects and propose technical solution if applicable

Risk Management

  • Help in creating a risk management plan
  • Identify issues and mitigate risks

Project Tracking and Monitoring

  • Define a process for tracking and monitoring the project.
  • Follow up on day to day activities of the team.
  • Report any possibilities of delay and changes on the plan.
  • Report project status.
  • Handle minor exceptions and problems.

User training

  • Conduct training sessions on the company products
  • Insure that client are fully aware of any functional and workflow aspects on any of the company products.
  • Help in creating products manuals.

Customer satisfaction

  • Insure customer satisfaction by fulfilling their needs using excellent communication skills.
  • Handle client exceptions and problems

New projects prospects

  • Identify prospects and guide clients to certain product which fulfills his needs
  • Propose solutions to clients in which may lead to new prospect

Sales/Pre-sales

  • Conduct onsite technical presentation on the company products.
  • Full awareness of company products technical details.
  • Deliver and follow up on payment invoices with clients.

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