'•Manages medium to large customer facing projects – deployment, integration, and migration of TE(CISCO) equipment to new/existing Telco network infrastructure.
- Corelate deployment, integration, and migration plan into a project implementation plan from Scope in the Statement of Work
- Creation of a project schedule and plan with resource and material requirements.
- Lead the risk assessment, maintain control over identified risks and mitigations
- Participate in the preparation of proposals and agreements at customer level as well as with vendors.
- Oversees project staff including project engineers, vendors, partners, and subcontractors.
- Manages the project from start to completion including the resolution of project issues.
- Presents service business value to customers for new or existing business
- May manage internal projects/programs within Cisco
- May manage ongoing optimization service to deployed customer network
- Present detailed status reports on a weekly basis, both internally in Cisco and towards customer
Qualifications:
•Project Management experience in the deployment of leading-edge technologies in a complex commercial environment.
•Project management experience in a complex integration and migration environment, preferably for service provider/telco operator
•Has experience in working with both onsite and virtual team, with ranges of skillsets and seniority level
•Has strong ownership/commitment on a project
•Has completed significant part of formal Project Management training program
•Has basic knowledge of routing, routing protocols, switching, internet and general network architecture.
•Has leadership skills and experience working with large project teams and strategic account teams.
•Has a working knowledge of the sales process including risk assessment and scoping
•Has a good understanding of the legal issues with contracts
•Has advanced negotiation and presentation skills
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