Brad J. Wilkus Sr.
LinkedIn Profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradwilkus/
NETWORK PIPELINE INC.
IT Program Manager and Sr. Project Manager
Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures Project Manager and Program Manager
- Lead the full lifecycle of IT integration projects related to M&A, from initial assessment through post-integration handoff.
- Conduct detailed discovery and readiness assessments focused on infrastructure, systems, and application landscapes.
- Develop and execute comprehensive integration strategies for acquired entities.
- Align integration activities across internal teams, technical leads, and business stakeholders.
- Oversee and track planning, execution, and success metrics of the integration process.
- Ensure all integration activities comply with legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations.
- Facilitate knowledge transfer and support transition to steady-state support teams (Business-as-Usual).
- Partner with architects and technical teams to drive solution design, infrastructure planning, and system migrations.
- Use data analysis to support decision-making and ensure integration initiatives stay on schedule and within scope.
- Network and Infrastructure Project Manager
- Plan, design, and implement network infrastructure projects.
- Define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals
- Develop detailed project plans, schedules, and resource allocations
- Manage day-to-day project operations and coordinate with cross-functional teams
- Communicate project expectations clearly to stakeholders and team members
- Monitor project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies
- Ensure all project documentation is complete, current, and properly stored
- Conduct testing to ensure network systems meet performance and security standards
- Collaborate with vendors and suppliers for hardware, software, and services
- Prepare and present project status reports to leadership and stakeholders
- Data Center and Infrastructure Project Manager
- Collaborated closely with project stakeholders, to understand their requirements, provide expert advice on effort estimates and overall project feasibility and secure appropriate resourcing from business and IT teams
- Provide timely project updates and visibility into any factors impacting scope, schedule, or cost to sponsors and stakeholders
- Create and maintain project artifacts including stakeholder presentations, project charters & plans, status reports, risk management reports, retrospectives, etc.
- Bring knowledge of both Waterfall and Agile Project Management methodologies, processes and tools, including scope management, schedule management, cost management, quality management, resource management, procurement, change management, risks management, issues management
- Managed office buildouts including the design and implementation of office network and infrastructure including circuit provisioning, hardware rack and stack / configuration, wired and wireless LAN installation and testing, conference room technology installation and testing (AV and schedulers), large meeting room AV installation and testing, Wi-Fi Deployment and coverage for the sites
- Worked with Royal Caribbean and Renaissance Cruise lines for 5 years deploying new data centers shipboard and rollout of satellite dishes and POS applications
- Experienced with data center operations and public cloud, including infrastructure, database, networking, telephony, voice, call centers and information security
- Sr. IT Consultant, Sr. IT Instructor and NOC Deployment Manager
- Providing technical expertise in the design, planning, deployment and technical support for network operations centers (NOCs), trained over 4,000 network professionals, providing NOC and Active Directory training services for Fortune 1000 companies, military organizations and government agencies
- Instructing, Consulting and Project Management – design and deployment of Network Monitoring Management Systems 500 – 55,000 devices to be monitored, e.g., VISA, US Navy and Fortune 1000 companies
- Integrating NOCs into client data centers for government and commercial organizations
- Consulting with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and stakeholders to understand training needs in an expeditious environment
- Evaluating client and vendor existing training to identify opportunities to maximize the effectiveness of learning, through re-design
- Creating and updating internal processes, templates, and versions to minimize future content development time
- Acting as principle for development of storyboards and scripts, while converting them into appropriate interactive modalities and managing overall content enhancement within our LMS
- Migrated/Relocated 10,000 client employees for IBM, Royal Caribbean and ADT through the years in phased, coordinated moves, working with the Real Estate group, IT Workstreams and vendors (furniture, cable, etc.)
- Activities resulted in timely closing of leases and smooth transitions and no interruption to business
Sr. Consultant and IT Instructor
- Creating classes for Best Practices in IT Infrastructure Project Management, M&A Project Management and AI Strategy & Deployment
- Providing technical expertise in the design, planning, deployment and technical support for network operations centers (NOCs), trained over 4,000 network professionals, providing NOC and Active Directory training services for Fortune 1000 companies, military organizations and government agencies
- Instructing, Consulting and Project Management – design and deployment of Network Monitoring Management Systems 500 – 55,000 devices to be monitored
- Integrating NOCs into client data centers for government and commercial organizations
- Worked with Royal Caribbean and Renaissance Cruise lines for 5 years deploying new data centers shipboard and rollout of satellite dishes and POS applications
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
Designed and deployed new, expansions, relocations, decommissioning of data centers and deployment of Network Management and Monitoring Systems
Providing expert training on various toolsets for network management and monitoring, including AI
Designed and deployed robust IT infrastructure solutions for global clients, ensuring compliance and optimization
Successfully managed the transition and separation of IT assets during corporate mergers and acquisitions