Asst. Director - Web Marketing, Simsbury, CT

well, I did it! on 4.24.03 I posted at the hartford's web site for the position on web marketing!
the questions that came up as a pre-interview screening included describing your functions on a project you coordinated, and talk about your statistical analysis and management experiences. and I did! Did you know that I have managed teams of 5-10 people? Normally I get assigned to direct the work of any interns or business analysts on my team, since I typically develop, document, and manage any web development process.

On a market research job once I had a side responsibility of full managmenet responsibility for a maintenance team. There were 3 of them maintaining the empty apartments back then, and as a Sales Agent, it was my responsibility to make sure that the apartments were in ship top shape. If the property mgmt company was going to charge an extra 200 for their apartments, they wanted to make darn sure the gunk around the bathroom water fixtures was cleaned and the sinks sparkling! Besides, my director was dating the head maintenance guy, so maybe she thought it would be better to delegate management to someone else. I am responsible and trustworthy, so I got the job.

Back in my help desk and network control days, I was a senior member of the staff, so when the boss had a week long trianing, two week vacation, or other leave of the office, I often found myself in charge. Nationwide system outages? I had to make sure the team could respond efficiently and effectively to get the country's business offices up and running. Internal bickering? Disapated. Senior Management Meetings? I was point person. Vendor marketing visits? I always attended and freqnethly was lucky enough to be the person responsible for coordinating the architecture, implementation, training, and documentation of any emerging technologies we took advanatage of.

Recently? Project Management means being the key person responsible for effective communciations, financial management, risk and issue management, human resource management, security issues, planning and estimating, and reporting. Project management requires effective communicatin from business areas to project team to senior management team. It means when you are managing 5 simultaneous application conversions you have senior management team, client project business team, user acceptance team, remote development team, all looking to you to keep administration in order, keep abreast of the work, and manage any issues that may arise. So yes, I suspect it's fair to say I managed a team of 5-10.

*sigh*

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