Brad J. Wilkus Sr.
LinkedIn Profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradwilkus/
NETWORK PIPELINE INC.
IT Program Manager and Sr. Project Manager
- As a Program Manager, ensuring the cohesive alignment of the Portfolio to achieve the clients most successful outcome for M&A and Infrastructure projects
- Providing Project Management technical expertise in the design, planning, deployment and technical support for IT Infrastructures, Data Centers and Data Center Operations, Network Security, Change Management, incident Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Engagement and Application Rollouts
- Within the Client PMO, ensuring Compliance and Governance and reporting using KPIs, and weekly reporting
- Worked with Migrations of On-Premise applications to Cloud Solutions – AWS and Google using Virtualization Technologies
- Consulting with Clients for Capacity Planning, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- Heavy Vendor Management by defining Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Operational Efficiency
- and Budget Management for maintaining financial controls
- Utilized Waterfall and Agile Methodologies and Scrum Master responsibilities
- Provided Technical Leadership to Cross Functional Teams and adhering to the IT Strategy of the clients
- Managing projects that involved Systems Integration, Deployments and Cyber Security compliance, I have spent much of the last 8 years working in the Merger and Acquisitions (M&A) space and very comfortable as well as successful in this role for Ingram Micro, L3Harris and ADT corporate
- Demonstrated strong leadership skill while directing cross functional teams through high-priority, complex projects, which required considerable resources and high levels of functional integration and interaction with project sponsor team from start to finish
- Be a key stakeholder ensuring project success by understanding needs of the business, aligning leadership, identifying solutions, and determining how technology should be leveraged
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