Description
IT PROJECT COORDINATOR
Duration: 6-month contract (W2) (approximately mid-March to mid-September)
Location: Minneapolis, MN 55487
Department: Technology Management Services
Project: To continue the efforts for release management with Office 2013, IE11, and other release coordination efforts. The position of Project Coordinator requires a full time person dedicated to helping the Project Managers coordinate and communicate new or changed services to reduce the impact to end users.
Specific Deliverables of this engagement include the following:
- Ensure proper level of release readiness is in place for a smooth and stable transition to production environment
- Coordinates the cross-organization needed to implement the release, facilitates the release meetings and develops and tracks release activities based of the Go Live schedule
- Monitor implementation, working closely with Incident and Event Management owners; identify trends of concern
- Ensure problems are generated for incident and event themes where root cause is required to be performed in order to ensure stability is attained for the newly introduced changes to the production environment
- Coordinate across the various support teams to ensure key support artifacts are updated and/or created for life cycle support
- Understand all aspects of end to end release process throughout the life of the change
- Participate in weekly Change Advisory Board meetings to represent production releases
- Make suggestions to continually improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the release and deployment process