Interview Flashcards
Why am I the best candidate
Experienced leader
contract negotiation
Organized – business Manager, smartsheet
* Persistent – regular meetings with team, work overtime to get plans ready for testing
* Proactive – inspire go live, Arcfm Viewer, AUD
* Customer Driven – COVMS, user acceptance for 10.2.1, copy user files
Work history, tell me about yourself
- 12 years of experience leading the GIS team, 20+ years in IS
- led major GIS upgrade and conversion projects
- developed improvements in managing support for our customers
- like problem solving and working in a team environment
- I love my current position, and I am looking forward to the opportunity to apply and grow my leadership skills with new teams
Project Management
MIMS implementation
mentor developer in project management
develop project team
evaluate product demos
* Developed requirements – document systems, research technology, meetings with vendors, discussions at conferences, review with project team
cost sheets, demo requirements, reference questions
* Mentored Radhika to lead scoring of proposals, on site demos
* Complex negotiations
* Developed plans, schedules with vendors and team for pilots, testing and deployment - smartsheet
* Developed project plans with vendor, team, management –meet critical testing and deployment deadlines, track progress
* Delegate development of test plans
* Regular communication with vendors to review status, resolve issues
* Report performance – meetings, status reports, smartsheet project plan, Business Manager
* Manage expectations – emails
Written Communication
- Business Manager – developer and user reports, track progress
- Smartsheet – publish user reports
- Project plans – conversion project, upgrade project
- Wiki - document procedures and analysis, testing scripts
- System diagrams - new developer
- Training materials – ArcMap, MIMS, Clearance Order
- Maps – Consumption maps, Smartmeter progress, Lead tap inspections, storm response
Oral Communication
- Informal meetings regularly with Supervisor at desk
- Status meetings with team, users, vendors, management
- Evaluate different people whether they prefer to be contacted by email or by phone
- Situations where the amount of detail to cover would take too long by email – phone or meet.
- Needs assessment meetings with users
- Training- ArcMap, MIMS, Clearance Order
- Presentations conferences
- TH Allen 2015
kick off meetings for UN project
Pressure/Time Management
Storm recovery
hydrant inspections - organized, researched best solution, worked late
delegate tasks to most capable resources
10.8 upgrade - track progress of team
Strengths
Problem solving
view only database copy not working
met with supervisor, came up with some new things to try
able to resolve situation
Weaknesses
- Public speaking
- Presentations and MAGIC and EGUG
- Working on proactive communication
- Communicate status of system during weekend update to management
Conflict/Disagreement
portal licenses for GSR licenses
Mistake/Failed at a task
arcfm viewer - no evaluation, no input from stakeholders, no study.
Lost thumb drive, transparency
Initiative -
ArcFM Viewer upgrade
Laptops RAM
AUD
Work on something not trained on previously
COVMS
Leadership skills to motivate
10.8 upgrade, Andrew leaving
Difficult Decision
hiring latest candidate;
EAM Cap bank
- Cap banks in one system but on in the other, and vise versa
- I Met with end user to determine the scope of the problem
- I Reserached the scheudles in Oracle on work orders related to the assets, and found that some of the work orders in Oracle had not had their remove activity completed, even though they had been probalby removed in the field
- Met with Oracle team, developed a plan to make them non-maintainable in oracle, after the engineering group had field checked that they did not exist in the field
- Eam team talked with the group doing the removal
