IT Infrastructure Project Management Simulations

BMO Financial Group · Financial Services — Banking

Data Center Consolidation / M&A Integration Project Manager Simulation

Lead the consolidation of Bank of the West's California data centers into BMO's North American footprint after the bank's largest-ever U.S. acquisition — roughly 180 residual applications and 640 servers that must come off two leased colocation floors before the leases expire. The cutover date cannot move, and two regulators — the U.S. OCC and Canada's OSFI — do not agree on what counts as proof that nothing broke.

27-day simulation →

FedEx Corporation · Logistics & Transportation

SD-WAN Deployment Project Manager Simulation

Deploy Cisco SD-WAN across 2,200+ sites spanning three FedEx operating companies — Express, Ground, and Freight — each with its own network ops team, its own priorities, and its own definition of 'critical site.' Coordinate three parallel workstreams under a single vendor engagement while managing a shared MPLS backbone that cannot tolerate downtime, automated sorting hubs that demand guaranteed bandwidth, and a hard peak-season freeze that blocks all network changes during FedEx's busiest quarter. The technology is straightforward. The coordination is not.

27-day simulation →

JPMorgan Chase · Financial Services

Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Project Manager Simulation

The OCC has issued a Matter Requiring Attention after a peer bank's catastrophic DR failure exposed industry-wide gaps. JPMorgan Chase's legacy disaster recovery infrastructure — dual data center hot/warm failover, tape backup for Tier 2 systems, and manual runbooks with 4-8 hour RTOs — doesn't meet heightened regulatory expectations. You have a hard deadline, a $14M budget carved from other teams' initiatives, a Markets Technology MD who treats every request as optional, and an OCC examiner who will accept nothing less than documented, tested, automated recovery. Nobody wanted this project. The regulator doesn't care.

27-day simulation →

CIBC · Financial Services / Retail Banking

Hardware Refresh / Mortgage Tech Project Manager Simulation

Lead a $1.2M refresh of 120 iPads for CIBC's Atlantic Canada mortgage specialists — the deskless advisors who close deals at clients' kitchen tables across four provinces. Get faster devices, Jamf management, and reliable in-home e-signing into the field before the spring buying season, without costing a single specialist a selling day.

27-day simulation →

Apple · Technology / Consumer Electronics

NOC Facility Build-Out & Operationalization Project Manager Simulation

Lead a $4.5M APAC Network Operations Center expansion for Apple in Singapore. Replicate the Austin NOC's gold-standard operations — 99.999% monitoring uptime, sub-30-second detection — in a new geography with new staff, new vendors, and Apple's legendary security requirements. The standard already exists. Your job is to match it perfectly on Day 1.

27-day simulation →

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) · Public Transit — Government / Public Sector

Decommissioning / Infrastructure Retirement Project Manager Simulation

Lead the decommissioning of the New York MTA's last on-premises SharePoint 2013 farm — ~600 surviving site collections, three years after the migration to SharePoint Online was declared done. Dispose of legacy content under public-records retention law, offboard the Crayon licensing vendor, and physically retire the servers. The catch: the farm everyone calls dead is still quietly load-bearing, and proving it is safe to switch off is harder than anyone budgeted for.

27-day simulation →

BHP · Mining & Resources

UC & Telephony Migration Project Manager Simulation

Phase 2 of BHP's Microsoft 365 transformation. After a successful Exchange Online, SharePoint, and OneDrive rollout, you're now leading the migration from Skype for Business and legacy Cisco telephony to Microsoft Teams — chat, meetings, PSTN calling, and meeting room devices across remote mining operations in the Pilbara and Olympic Dam.

27-day simulation →

Medtronic · Medical Devices

OS Migration Project Manager Simulation

Lead a $2.5M Windows 7 to Windows 11 migration for Medtronic's Cardiac & Vascular Group across 3,500 endpoints and 3 facilities. What looks like a standard OS upgrade reveals layers of FDA validation complexity — 47 GxP-validated applications that each require formal revalidation protocols before they can run on Windows 11 in a regulated manufacturing environment.

27-day simulation →

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust · Healthcare — NHS

Server OS Migration Project Manager Simulation

Lead a £1.8M Windows Server 2012/R2 end-of-life migration at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust — a 1,700-bed teaching hospital operating two major sites. What began as a routine infrastructure refresh becomes a compliance-driven race when NHS England tightens DSPT requirements, threatening the Trust's Cyber Essentials Plus certification and triggering board-level scrutiny. With 450+ server instances underpinning clinical systems that directly support patient care, every migration decision carries clinical safety implications that a standard infrastructure playbook doesn't cover.

27-day simulation →