It Support Project Manager
San Francisco Bay Area
Project Manager, working with IT department, setting standards and policies, writing documentation as well as managing several key infrastructure projects. * Contractor managing a variety of internal projects. Projects included revising IT strategy and policy, network and system upgrades in the IT department, and managing project for setup of SaaS HR systems. Projects included PBX, wireless and wired network upgrades along with email and calendar system upgrades. * Hired and trained help desk personnel. * Responsible for project timelines, resource and personnel allocation, scheduling and communication to all project stakeholders. This included budgetary or time constraints, gaining approvals, and any necessary work order changes made to the project scope. * QA for all projects, documentation, troubleshooting and process steps for IT department.* Managed help desk personnel. Directing and prioritizing daily activity, ensuring tickets resolved to customer satisfaction. Scheduled and facilitated weekly team meetings, along with weekly 1:1 discussions with direct reports. * Established and maintained extensive vendor relations for mobile devices, external internet, procurement of hardware, software and repair of systems. Managed relations with external contractors brought in to work on infrastructure projects.* Google Migration: Directed the mail migration of existing user base from in-house system to Google Apps for business, created documentation, provided training for new products and work-flow.Interface with company-wide departments on implementing security procedures and processes then worked to implement so that network and user-based information met company standards.* Planned, documented, and organized backup and disaster mitigation procedures. * Establish and maintained documentation on all IT-related systems, process and determine best practices for on-boarding, system triage and help desk procedures.