Professional Work Experience Paper

1. What has been your professional work experience with negotiating and managing contracts? Please be detailed in your response.

A: As an experienced and persuasive project manager with years of experience overseeing contract preparation, negotiation, and management, I am confident that I would be a valuable contributor to the City of Oakland.

My background encompasses excellent experience directing contract administration and management for the department. From maintaining relationship with contractors, vendors and service providers to negotiating optimal and cost-effective contract terms. I have more than 5 years work experience with negotiating and managing contracts, includes two years in government sector.

2. Describe your experience

I often develop a high-level budget plan in the Initiate Stage follows by a much more detailed estimate. My experience preparing budgets includes the budget specifies costs for staff labor, materials procurement, ongoing operating costs, contingency reserve, management reserve and other direct costs. The detailed budget provides the project sponsor with a best estimate of how much the project will cost. The budget plan helps manage expectations and gives the Chain of command, County officers and other key stakeholders, a better outlook on department strategic planning. Throughout the project, I would continually forecast the budget, regularly forecast resource usage, keep the team informed and manage scope meticulously to prevent project budget shortfalls.

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Tell us about a project you were responsible for managing from start to finish. Include details about the budget, staffing, vendors, and project outcome.

One of the projects I was involved with was a new software implementation project where I had the role as project manager. The department bought an automated testing tool software in order to improve the quality of their software releases. My role was to implement this tool in the IT department. At that time, testing of software was done manually with little or no documentation. The developed software suffered from quality issues with several defects, resulting in many

This stakeholder was disconnected from the project prior to the project planning (after the project initiating) and did not attend any of the project meeting. I proactively created a customize presentation, scheduled a meeting with this stakeholder and filled the gap of where the information may had lost. I made him a full partner in the project experience and the benefit of staying engage with the project progress. At the end of the project this stakeholder helped me to promote the value of project and volunteered to be the go to person for training.

Example two: At one project, an agency was having difficulty integrating data to the application in my organization. The stakeholder reached out to me with the issue that no one knew what went wrong. I listened to the stakeholder, collected facts, and conduct root-cause analysis. It turned out the vendor who was assisting in the project changed the data warehouse schema without consulting others. I scheduled the meeting with all parties involved and quickly implement change management to ensure the project stayed on time, within the budget and according to the scope.