The Project Manager Who Could

Q:  Select a career goal and communicate how their education has prepared them for their chosen career and continual learning after they graduate. A: I think I said it before - my education really hasn't prepped me for the career that I have been doing for 8 years now.  I went in to Network Administration for school but came out a few years later a project manager when I hit the real world.  I was better at talking with people and gaining their trust throughout the different project phases through launching. Post school, I am continually learning on the job of how to be better at my career.  Each failure or setback is a learning opportunity.

  Admin Stuff: Hours Worked This Week: 40      Total Hours Worked This Quarter: 200   This week I was dedicated only to getting a contract executed for our new Dialer Solution.  I spent most of my week in meetings with legal and the company that we are looking to work with. Back to BAU next week.

  What are your personal professional IT strengths (technical and soft skills)? So here is the weird thing about this question…I don’t know that I have my IT strengths in the traditional sense.  Years back I was laid off from the banking / mortgage business and needed a new career to provide for my family.  I went back to OC to get my AA-S in Information Systems with a focus on Cisco Networking / Network management.  I was okay in school, struggled a lot with many concepts…but one thing I was always good at was learning the new concepts and explaining them to people in a non-technical manner and then providing the IT teams their feedback but in technical terms.  Thus, this is why I believe I went in to project management vs. going forward with my Network Engineer career pathway.   What are your professional IT goals? Be  CLEAR (Links to an external site.) , and include at least 1 immediate goal (0-1 year) and 2 long term goals (5-10 years out). In...

     Admin Stuff: Hours Worked This Week: 60 Total Hours Worked This Quarter: 160   Current Work Load: Project Packing Boxes : Global Data Center Migration for our company & 17 clients: Consolidating all of our data centers for all of our clients in to 3 main data centers  Project Everest : Ramp for 500 agents for a Healthcare Client  Project Cotton Candy : Closing out a project for an Outbound Dialer program - still have 4 weeks of efforts remaining Expected Progress This Week vs. Actual Progress: Project Packing Boxes   - Daily touch points continued with daily project plan review and updates for internal efforts and customers - Created a deck to review with our executive leadership reviewing our overall progress - Worked with our internal teams to connect our existing network to our newly set up network.  This was the final network we needed to connect at one of our new data centers. - Worked with our internal teams to prep to move our...

  What is your internship? describe it as if you had an elevator ride to do it in My internship is centered around the work that I currently do as an Implementation Project Manger for a Global company.  I will be working with various team, resources and vendors to implement new client business and/or specialty IT projects. What do you know about it? I have been a project manager for just under 10 years.  I am aiming to get my PMP in 2023 and my MBA in project management by 2025. What will you need to learn to accomplish it? I don't know that what exactly more I need to learn to accomplish it but I do know that the more practical application I get, the more effective I become. How does it represent your BASIS learning and IT skills? I think that what I do for a living gives me an edge in the BASIS learning program and it is the degree program is what gave the opportunity to break in to this world.

    Admin Stuff: Hours Worked This Week: 40   Total Hours Worked This Quarter: 100 Current Work Load: Project Packing Boxes : Global Data Center Migration for our company & 17 clients: Consolidating all of our data centers for all of our clients in to 3 main data centers  Project Everest : Ramp for 500 agents for a Healthcare Client  Project Cotton Candy : Closing out a project for an Outbound Dialer program - still have 4 weeks of efforts remaining Expected Progress This Week vs. Actual Progress: Project Packing Boxes:    This week was a slow week for our team after the over night activities that we have had.  Daily touchpoint meetings to review the project plan and progression.  We also had some production VPNs that needed to be moved after hours and were done so successfully.  Over the next few weeks we will be focusing on getting equipment and circuits delivered to the data center from our clients and the we need to beg...

  Admin Stuff: Hours Worked This Week: 65 (plus an over night project on 04/09) Total Hours Worked This Quarter: 65 + Special Project on 04/09 Current Work Load: Project Packing Boxes : Global Data Center Migration for our company & 17 clients: Consolidating all of our data centers for all of our clients in to 3 main data centers  Project Everest : Ramp for 500 agents for a Healthcare Client  Project Cotton Candy : Closing out a project for an Outbound Dialer program - still have 4 weeks of efforts remaining Expected Progress This Week vs. Actual Progress: Project Packing Boxes:    This week was a pivotal week for this project.  We have to be out of our main data center by June 30th of this year so client engagement, ordering equipment and executing upon the internal efforts we need to do in order to be ready to receive the clients circuits and equipment and connect them to our newly migrated network.  When the week began we had 14 o...