Location: Chantilly, VA
Travel: Some travel may be required
Skill Level: 4 Expert (18+ years total experience)
Overall Assignment Description:
Expert Schedule Analysts work with systems engineers and program/project managers to provide leadership of schedule management activities: developing schedules, collecting and reviewing project and program data for updating and maintaining schedules, conducting critical path analysis, identifying dependencies, conducting predictive analyses, and providing comprehensive visualization/reporting. Expert Schedule Analysts provide definition, planning, and maintenance for robust tools and services to accomplish schedule activities, employing capabilities such as MS Project/Project Server, Primavera, or similar tools. Expert Schedule Analysts lead and oversee regular reporting of schedule information to designated review activities and for leadership awareness.
Duties may include:
Skills and Experience:
Required:
Travel: Some travel may be required
Skill Level: 4 Expert (18+ years total experience)
- 2 years of school = 1 year of experience relevant to the PD
- 2 years of experience relevant to the PD = 1 year of school
Overall Assignment Description:
Expert Schedule Analysts work with systems engineers and program/project managers to provide leadership of schedule management activities: developing schedules, collecting and reviewing project and program data for updating and maintaining schedules, conducting critical path analysis, identifying dependencies, conducting predictive analyses, and providing comprehensive visualization/reporting. Expert Schedule Analysts provide definition, planning, and maintenance for robust tools and services to accomplish schedule activities, employing capabilities such as MS Project/Project Server, Primavera, or similar tools. Expert Schedule Analysts lead and oversee regular reporting of schedule information to designated review activities and for leadership awareness.
Duties may include:
- Create, manage, maintain, and operate an automated enterprise schedule activity using government approved schedule tool (e.g. Microsoft Project/Project Server) to allow for the integration and assessment of schedule files and schedule data from Segments and Offices to support the Program schedule.
- Lead overall response for Engineering Program meetings both internal and with NGA/NSG, and schedule presentations for projects, programs and activities, by providing reports, Gantt charts, and other visualization products, clearly communicating schedule expectations and/or status.
- Identify system development milestones that drive phasing of capabilities to meet enterprise epics or equivalent planning timeframes.
- Develop, manage, and maintain connection of strategic-level and enterprise-level effectivities with lower-level Program/Segment/Project effectivities and milestones.
- Oversee program/segment/project scheduling, executable technical roadmap development, incremental reviews of schedule milestones and activities, and maintain schedule baselines as directed to ensure an informed enterprise level schedule.
- Assure critical path analysis and "what-if" scenarios are available to identify schedule change impacts, associated risk, and develop mitigation plans.
- Collaborate with the Enterprise Release Management to facilitate coordinated capability releases.
- Work with Enterprise MBSE tools to provide input and extract data.
Skills and Experience:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related science, technology, and mathematics (STEM) degree.
- Expert-level experience with IT technical development project or program scheduling.
- Demonstrated proficiency in management and operation of Microsoft Project and Project Server for definition, maintenance and reporting of project/program schedule information.
- Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.
- Demonstrated proficiency in management and operation of Primavera or similar scheduling tool/service for definition, maintenance, and reporting of project/program schedule information
- Demonstrated experience in government or industry in establishing, managing, and/or leading a tool-based, schedule management and reporting process.
- Experience in government or industry in IT and Information Systems program management, or development and maintenance support procedures or processes.
- Experience in government or industry leading schedule management for developments using traditional or Agile and Scrum based methodology or application of methods.
- Project Management Institute-Scheduling Profession Certification (PMI-SP), AACE PSP Certification, or Microsoft Project/Project Server Certification
- Demonstrated experience overseeing and directing automation of scheduling tasks through preparation of macros, scripts or custom procedures.
- Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.
- Experience with Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) as defined by DI-MGMT-81861
Integrated Program Management Report - Experience implementing MIL-STD-881D Work Breakdown Structures for Defense Material Items.
