IT Project Management
Project management for IT initiatives such as network upgrades, migrations, and security implementations. Services include planning, vendor coordination, milestone tracking, risk mitigation, and post-implementation validation to ensure projects meet objectives.
Suggested price: Flat fee per project or milestone-based;
Past projects include:
- Creating security foundation for major online retailer
- Creating security department for major healthcare provider
- Hardening 400+ servers, including hardening the deployment of new servers
- Hardening 3000+ endpoints
- Writing 100s of IT and Cybersecurity SOPs and Policies
- Impleneting CISA frameworks
- Spinning up vulnerability scanning platform for 3500+ endpoints and servers across 9 states
- Spinning up patch management platform for 450+ servers - in less than 9 months servers went from not being patched in 3 years to up to date
- Remediating vulnerabilities found by vulnerability scanning platform
- Creating security awareness training for multiple corporations, LLCs
- Creating online learning courses (LMS) for various IT subjects
Typical timeline
Short timeline (estimate):
- Discovery: 1–2 weeks — gather requirements, review existing systems.
- Planning: 1–2 weeks — produce project plan and milestones.
- Implementation: 2–6 weeks — execute tasks, coordinate vendors.
- Testing & Handover: 1 week — validate work and knowledge transfer.
What the client should provide
To keep the project efficient, please provide:
- Stakeholder availability: a named decision-maker and points of contact for approvals.
- Existing documentation: network diagrams, inventories, policies, and any previous project plans.
- Access: admin or delegated access to systems, devices, and vendors as needed for implementation and testing.
- Priority list: clear list of what must be delivered first (critical systems or deadlines).
- Procurement info: purchasing or vendor contact details when buying hardware or services.
- Acceptance criteria: simple success criteria for each milestone (e.g., "systems patched and verified", "migration completed without data loss").
Deliverables you can expect (plain terms): project plan, milestones, status reports, knowledge transfer, final checklist and handover documents.