Saleh Alaidaros

PMP®, ITIL, PRINCE*® Practitioner, SMC Certified

647-***-**** ady371@r.postjobfree.com Milton, ON https://www.linkedin.com/in/saleh-al-aidaros-a113556/ Overview

Customer-focused IT and project management leader with over 20 years of experience in:

Project management (Prince2 Practitioner certified) for IT infrastructure and application implementations

(Production, Development and Disaster Recovery environments) and ITIL V3 standards.

Expert in resource management, budget, vendor management, risk assessment (such as RAID log), change management, critical path identification in the WBS, incident management, request management, SDLC project phases and stakeholder management.

Expert in PMBOK methodology utilizing Agile and waterfall processes.

Working knowledge of AML (Anti-Money Laundering) regulations.

Working knowledge of Jira, Clarity, Service Now, MS Project, MS Office, RESMAN,, PS2 and RESREQ

.Security and firewall policy and procedures. Working with and managing people of varied experiences and skill levels (vendors, SMEs both local and off-shore).

Methodologies:

PMI’s PMBOK, ITILV3 and SDLC

Professional Experience

Scotiabank

Infrastructure project manager – Jan 2022 – Jun 2023

Managing End of Life Data Centre Network devices refresh project Firewall, Switches, and Routers (280) with a project budget of $9.5M.

Managing End of Life branches and Executive offices Network LAN and Wi-Fi devices refresh for executive offices location Canada-wide (145) with a project budget of $10M.

Peppering project plan using MS Project and managing project resources.

Create an implementation Walkthrough sheet (Run-book document) and discuss it with SME.

Identifying project IT owners and testers and reviewing Walkthrough documentation.

Updating project budget and forecast using the Clarity tool CA PPM.

Creating change and service requests using the Service Now tool.

Attending CAB and TAB change management meetings.

Creating bi-Weekly and monthly progress reports.

Coordinating with LoB teams and business testers on implementation dates and times.

Coordinating with third-party vendors (IBM, Quantum and BELL) and the procurement team.

Participate in creating project business case, project change notification (PCN).

Create privacy impact assessment (PIA), eARB, NIRA and PIR, PCR and operational readiness documentation. Canadian Java Management – Client: Kinan Real Estate Development Company Infrastructure Project Manager – February 2020 – Nov 2021

Managed concurrent infrastructure and compliance application projects with budgets between $100k to $500k in a matrix reporting environment (at program and project levels) – all projects delivered within budget and schedule.

Implemented Shared Services Infrastructure projects encompassing several applications and wide ranging project management tasks including resource planning and engagement, project scheduling, vendor management, risk and budget. Developing project scope and WBS for all projects

Managed Data Center relocations.

Resolving business issues and works with Architect teams to develop business solutions.

Managing projects resources, escalation and risk

Currency infrastructure upgrade for real estate document application (over 100 servers) o Windows Server & Desktop upgrade (over 30 servers) o UNIX & Linux OS upgrade (over 30 servers)

o SQL Server & Oracle database upgrade (over 30 servers) o Network device upgrade (Firewall, Switches, Routers). o Worked and managed team more than 40.

Saleh Alaidaros

ITIL, PRINCE2® Practitioner, SMC Certified

647-***-**** ady371@r.postjobfree.com Milton, ON

IBM Canada – Client: TD Bank and Irving Oil

Project Manager – January 2018 - January 2020

Projects: Managed infrastructure with over 400 Enterprise applications in DEV, PAT, PROD and DR environments

(team size: 5 to 15) – delivered within budget and schedule o SAN Fabric Storage Host Edge switches migration (300 servers) o GPFS upgrade (20 servers in 4 environments)

o Guardiam Agent deployment (30 servers in 4 environments) o HSM upgrade (20 servers in 4 environments)

o Agusta Servers consolidation and Migration - Atlantis and relocation of (25 servers) o Irving Data Centre relocation (40 servers & other network devices)

Created and managed Runbook for server’s migration

Worked with Hitachi & Dell as storage vendors.

HCL - Rogers Communications

Project Manager – November 2016 - May 2017

Projects: Managed concurrent (Agile) projects up to $3.8M for infrastructure and (SDLC) migration/upgrades of Performance, Dev, Prod, PAT and DR environments while working with HP (outsourcing vendor) – delivered within budget and schedule

Core Technologies: VMWare (AIX & Intel), Spectrum Technology Platform, Security Case Management System/ Policies and processes (SCMS), IBM InfoSphere 11.3 Platform, Encase Enterprise Analytics and Discovery, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project, SRM and migrate SiteScope to OMI monitoring tool.

Integrated the events from the TSM platform to the OMi event console and the project covered planning, testing, implementation and threshold/event tuning of servers.

Worked & negotiated with HP, Cisco & Dell vendors to procure and installation servers.

Managed decommissioning of multiple servers/SAN as part of a currency upgrade project.

Managed application security testing/policies/deployment (SDLC)

Created and managed Runbook for server’s migration

Worked and managed team more than 20.

Aynet Consulting

Project Manager – January 2016 - September 2016

Projects: Managed concurrent projects up to $3M for infrastructure upgrades – delivered within budget and schedule

Iron port, Juniper and Palo Alto Firewall

Managed Windows Server mitigated to cloud & Desktop upgrade (over 500 users) Synergy Real Estate

Implemented Iron port, Juniper and Palo Alto Firewall projects and preformed firewall data mining and analysis

National Express (BPTC)

IT Manager – March 2015 - January 2016

Projects: Managed concurrent projects up to $10M for infrastructure & application deployment – – delivered within budget and schedule

Online Ticketing solution (SDLC) application deployment (vendors: Xerox, Dell)

Implemented AVL (SDLC).

Networking deployment for Bus Station

Building of 2 Data Centres with deployments of servers, networking and databases (London, UK & Bahrain)

Managed office 365 deployment

Worked and managed team more than 40.

Managed implementation of VoIP telephony.

Managed 2 project managers activities and deliverables AutoWorld

IT Manager – August 2013 - March 2015

Projects: Managed concurrent projects (at a program level) up to $3M for application (SDLC) & infrastructure and data centre deployments – delivered within budget and schedule for retail LOB Saleh Alaidaros

ITIL, PRINCE2® Practitioner, SMC Certified

647-***-**** ady371@r.postjobfree.com Milton, ON

Juniper and Palo Aalto firewall implementation

Carried out security and risks assessments and addressed the security threats

Implemented CarPro solution (SDLC) and deploy to cloud.

Managed office 365 deployment.

Mitigated CarPro application to cloud (Azure).

Worked and managed team more than 40.

IBM Canada - Rogers Communications

Senior PM, Procurement & Delivery – October 2010 - August 2013

Projects: Managed concurrent projects up to $2M for infrastructure and data centre relocation – delivered within budget and schedule

o Windows 7 to Windows 8 upgrade for all Rogers Comm. Users (Canada wide) o Managed projects governance IT hardware and software purchases and escalation o Virtual machines, servers & database upgrades in production and development environments

Managed and migration:

o Firewall and Iron Port Security Appliances, LAN, WAN, SAN storage, Cisco switches, F5 intelligent o load balancer, Service Registry & Repository Intelligent Load Balancer implementation for the Middleware infrastructure.

o Managed VoIP implemention.

o Created and managed Runbook for server’s migration American Express Canada

Senior Project Manager – June 2010 - October 2010

Projects: Managed concurrent multi-national projects (Canada, USA, UK, India, Japan, Mexico, Argentina) for application and infrastructure – delivered within budget and schedule.

Utilizing Clarity tool as book of records for PMO. Canoil Mississauga limited

Project Manager – June 2008 - June 2010

Projects: Managed concurrent projects for application and infrastructure – delivered within budget and schedule o MS Exchange deployment

o Data Centre (built with Cisco switch/routers, firewall and DR solutions) SEDCO Group

Project/Infrastructure Manager – June 1997 - June 2008

Projects: Managed concurrent projects (at program level) up to $10M for infrastructure and applications – delivered within budget and schedule

o Data Centre and Business Continuity barometer recovery solutions implementation o VoIP telephony migration

o SDLC Deployment:

Oracle Financial solutions (GL, AP, AR & FX).

Real Estate operation Synergy.

Service Desk.

Enterprise vault (for MS Exchange mail) implementation

Network Performance Management solution implementation.

Worked and managed team more than 40.

Education and Professional Development

Bachelors in Computer Science – 2004

Master Certificate in Project Management, 1997

Associate Applied Science in Computer Programming 1992

Reliability Security Clearance.

ITIL / IT Service Management: Foundation Certified.2016

PRINCE2® Practitioner Certificate in Project Management, since 2016

Certified Scrum Master, since 2018

Certified Project Manager PMP Since 2022

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