Infrastructure Project Manager

Top Skills: 5+ Years of Network / Infrastructure Project Management Experience. Experience driving projects/programs in complex, Fortune 500 type environments. Strong project management fundamentals: Project Plans, Stakeholder Management, Budget Management, Removing Roadblocks, Reporting, Communication, etc. Description Client is seeking a Technical Project Manager to assist with projects supporting their global Network Services division. The Technical Project Manager will be responsible for helping support Client's global initiatives for physical infrastructure and network services (LAN, WAN and Firewall) upgrades, implementations and deployments. Projects may include: Manage global Site related projects (new sites, site consolidations, site closures)- work closely with a Physical Infrastructure resource to manage all IT service related activities Coordinate and manage IT acquisition and divestiture initiatives related to integration and/or separation of IT infrastructure. This includes, but not limited to LAN, WAN and Border (firewall) technologies Facilitate IS War Rooms and participate in War Room on-call 24x7 rotation Candidates responsibilities will include: Align with IT business units and associated individuals from other companies as appropriate to plan and schedule IT tasks associated to successful acquisition and divestiture projects. Provide project management support during weekday and weekend implementation tasks, and hyper care support process for IT implementation tasks. Be able to produce and maintain status reports, meeting minutes, dashboards, milestones and other documents as part of project delivery. Maintain and drive closure of open risks, issues, and action item (registers) Provides primary communication point for all IT components and be point of escalation with other project managers and sponsors. Escalate plan slippage and/or resource constraints to the leadership Develop and manages the project plan, including project scope, WBS, development/delivery schedule, resource requirements and integration efforts Budgeting and Control - Responsible for putting together, tracking and adhering to project budgets. Familiarity and knowledge of all project budget components is a must. Communicate with designated users or point persons on schedules, testing requirements and integration support associated to IT tasks. Communicate with 3rd party service providers and IT hardware and software vendors as needed to support IT tasks. Support weekend and off hours infrastructure migration projects, including HyperCare' shift rotations. Additional Skills & Qualifications Ability to work well and build relationships with business stakeholders.