Project Manager Senior

Nate Aldridge

COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE: US

PROFILE

Highly accomplished Project Manager with US Secret Clearance and over 20 years of experience with an extensive track record of managing large complex IT Infrastructure projects while meeting and exceeding expectations.

CORE COMPETENCIES CERTIFICATION

Infrastructure Project Management

Program Management

PMI Certification

PMP Certification

EXPERIENCE

Senior Infrastructure Program Senior Project Manager May 2023 – Present

BRENNTAG - Reading, Pennsylvania

Responsibilities:

Conduct Brenntag Due Diligence for Brenntag Merger and Acquisition Agreements

Present Kickoff Presentations with Clients and Stakeholders for M&A IT Integrations

Conduct On-Prem IT Infrastructure Surveys of Client Facilities

Convert Client M&A SOW into an IT Infrastructure Integration Plan

Conduct Executive Stakeholders Meetings

Coordinate Planning, Scheduling, Execution/Delivery of Projects

Manage and Control M&A IT Infrastructure Deliverables

Managed Application Integrations: SAP, ServiceNow, Email, OneDrive, Bartender, SharePoint

Manage M&A Equipment and Service Orders from Project Initiation through Project Closure/Hypercare

Brenntag Merger and Acquisition - IT Infrastructure Projects Deliverables:

Conduct on-site walk-through for assessment/inventory of Data Centers for validate Scope-of-Work

Develop Project Plan/Schedule to delivery Scope-of-Wok

Coordinate Projects Kickoff Meetings

Align resources to support cross functional deliverables

Develop Financial Estimate for Labor and Material CAPEX

Order Computer Equipment and services {Circuit(s), Routers, UPS’s, Printers, APs, Air-Handlers}

Managed 24X7 Mission Critical Support

Brenntag Merger and Acquisition - IT Infrastructure Projects Delivered:

Brenntag Coastal Chemical Acquisition – Lafayette, GA

Brenntag Colony Gums Acquisition – Monroe, NC

Brenntag Lubricants Sites Consolidation – Fort Worth, Tx to Dallas, Tx

Brenntag Valdosta Office Renovation – Valdosta, GA

Brenntag Chattanooga New Customer Service Office Buildout – Chattanooga, TN

Brenntag TEEHAI Acquisition – Singapore

Brenntag JM Swank Acquisition – North Liberty, IA

Senior Infrastructure Program Senior Project Manager Mar 2022 – May 2023

DELL- EMC - Dallas, Texas

Managed Deliverables for Dell-EMC Solutions: VxRail, PowerMax, Unity, Isilon-Data Domain, Connectrix Switches

Responsibilities:

Conducted Kickoff Presentations with Clients and Stakeholders for Project Deliverables

Interacted with Dell Sales Account Managers and Client Resources to properly identify Scope-of-Work

Developed Project Plan for Planning, Scheduling, Delivering Projects

Generated IMAC Requests for Solution Architects, Network Engineers and Field Service Engineers

Coordinated Project Statuses in Dell Financial Force Portal

Managed Third-Party Vendors involved with equipment installations and de-installations

Generated Purchase Orders to reimburse Vendor for services rendered

Senior/Infrastructure Program Senior Project Manager Oct 2020 – Feb 2022

Bank of America - Dallas, Texas

Manager Cisco 9300 Series Network Switch upgrades at Bank of America MDFs and IDFs throughout the United States. Responsible for planning and managing Cisco equipment Decommissioning and Commissioning with Bank of America TCC (Technical Control Center). Maintained and updated Bank of America IT Infrastructure MDL (Master Data Library) for at-a-glance inquires, Dash-Board Reporting and developed Disaster Recovery Plans.

Responsibilities:

Scheduled and Conducted Site Surveys and Assessments for Planning, Scheduling, Delivery of Projects

Submitted CRQ via Remedy for Cisco 9300 Switches and Dell OptiPlex 7090 Computers installations.

Complied management requirements and transformed requirements into Projects pipelines.

Worked with Resource Management to plan resource planning, availability and allocation according to Projects pipelines.

Provided Scope and Requirements to translate to tasks, schedules and assignments.

Worked with Project Team to keep Project on track according to schedule.

Provide oral and written Communication to Management concerning project scope, project schedules and project costs.

Tracked and analyzed project performance and improvements.

Provided daily Projects Reports and Statues to Management

Senior/Infrastructure Program Senior Project Manager Mar 2017 – Oct 2020

Southwest Airlines - Dallas, Texas

Southwest Airlines and AirTran Merger and Acquisition

Delivered effective cross-organizational projects utilizing SWA Technology, Facilities and Business Teams to support SWA Airport Terminals: (Cleveland, OH, Harlingen, TX, Indianapolis, IN, Jacksonville, FL, Long Beach, CA, Montego Bay-JM, Memphis, TN, New Orleans, LA, Oakland, CA, Omaha, NE, Norfolk, VA, Phoenix, AZ, Providence, RI, Louisville, KY, San Francisco, CA, San Juan-Puerto Rico)

Responsibilities:

Coordinated Meetings and Communications with Project Stakeholders and Project Owners

Determined the Scope for IT Projects and Created Equipment Cost Estimates to support Budgets

Developed Project Plan for Planning, Scheduling, Delivery of Projects

Managed the procurement and installations of SWA IT Equipment (Dell Computers, Cisco Switches, APC UPS, Air-to-Ground and Ground-to-Ground Radio Equipment/Antennas, Cisco Voice-Gateways, Cisco Firewalls)

Establish and ensure adherence to Timelines, Milestones and Budgets

Ordered and Managed the Installations of AT&T, SPRINT and CenturyLink Network Circuits at MDFs and IDFs

Coordinated on-site Construction Walk-Throughs to approval Facility Readiness

Manage Electrical and a Low-Voltage Cable Installations

Managed VLAN and Circuit Extensions Connections

Manage the Support of Above-Wing and Below Wing Networks and Computer Equipment; Dell EMC PowerEdge XE Servers, Dell EMC-ME4084 Storage Arrays

Developed Redundancy backup configurations and Disaster Recovery Plans.

Senior/Infrastructure Program Senior Project Manager Sept 2014 – Jan 2017

American Airlines - Fort Worth, Texas

American Airlines and US Airlines Merger and Acquisition

Managed Enterprise planning of new AT&T State-of-the-Art Network Circuits and Cisco Routers within Budget in conjunction with Financial Control for all American Airlines and US Airlines Data Centers Migrations (Plano, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Charlotte, NC, Tula, OK) Successfully migration US Airlines Sabre Cloud environment (Phoenix) to American Airlines Data Center in Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

Coordinated Cloud Capacity and Facility/Gate Requirements with HP and Third-Party Vendors for Data Center Migrations

Developed and Announced Change Notifications for after hour migrations

Scheduled and developed after hour Hour-by-Hour bridge Migration Plan

Developed Test Plans and Migration Roll-Back Plans for Key Stakeholders and Project Sponsors

Developed Implementation Plans and Project Schedules for all Data Center Migrations

Documented and distributed detailed post Implementation results following Data Center Migrations

Deployed Citrix XenApp service for multi-user operating system: provided access to Microsoft.

Windows Server with the Remote Desktop Session Cloud Host feature allows multiple users to independently access a server via Cisco ASR Routers. Users can connect to individual applications or session-based.

Managed Global Re-Routing of all American Airlines Sabre Traffic from Phoenix Data Center to Cherokee Data Center to Tulsa, OK MDFs and IDFs in compliance US Bankruptcy Court agreement for U.S. Airways merger.

Managed distributed Computing Rate Card Planning to Chargebacks Departmental Director based on their CPU Utilization

Managed Execution and Implementation of a permanent Global Redundancy Failover Process supported by Cisco System for all Sabre Cloud Traffic in the event of an emergency or disaster.

Successfully created, executed, and documented non-compliant findings for Corporate Merger

Remediation Strategy based upon an AT&T and Sabre Audit to reroute all Sabre Network traffic from Tempe PHX

Data Center to Tulsa CDC in order to optimize bandwidth, prevent data slow down and deviate network bottlenecks.

Senior Infrastructure Program/Project Manager Apr 2008 – Sept 2014

DELL DSD-OPAS Data Center Migration - Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

Establish an application architecture for DSD and OPAS, which capitalizes upon excess DSD compute resources and software licensing agreements while improving the business continuity posture of both applications and Cisco Systems Architecture

Define the systematic activities needed to achieve the desired application architecture and complete the consolidation of the Atrium instances in order to save $1M in License Agreements.

Develop Single process Infrastructure by Consolidation DSD and OPAS hardware management and maintenance.

Senior Infrastructure Program/Project Manager

NASA Data Center Renovation - San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

NASA N233 Central Computer Facility houses the Center’s critical IT infrastructure systems that are essential for day-to-day operation of NASA’s Ames projects and administrative functions. This facility was constructed in 1961 and was presently operating with the original plant equipment.

Solution: Migrated existing platforms to state-of-the-art Data Center equipment.

Senior Infrastructure Program/Project Manager June 2006 – Apr 2008

Citigroup – Irving, Texas

(Construction Build-Outs and Inspections, System Migrations, Software Development, Citi-Realty Build-Outs, Network Upgrades, Admin Infrastructure Moves, Acquisition Integration)

Managed Construction Build-Outs and Inspections Manage System Migrations, Software Development, Network Upgrades, Acquisitions Integrations and Admin Infrastructure moves during green-zones/non-peak hours.

Utilize Citigroup standards and project management processes including documentation and enterprise tool (Planview, Profits).

Coordinate migration resource efforts along with upper-level management to identify critical paths, minimize downtime and ensure minimum impact to business.

Develop project plan to Initiate, Design, Test and Implement and Control business objectives.

Coordinate Platform Consolidations to accommodate business centralization efforts and Cisco Systems Hot-Spot/Disaster Recovery Strategies.

Deploy a state-of-the-art Riverbed technology solution to enhance and reduce SAN storage backups and remediation effort to support a business Application Service Provider (ASP) initiative.

Develop layouts and coordinated the efforts to produce finish drawing for Computer Rooms raised-floor-areas, Telcom-Closets and Admin areas.

Coordinate Corporate Management approvals for PAAD-Project Authorization and Approval Documents, CEP-Capital Expense Packages and Change Requests.

Coordinate product modeling for capital equipment justifications.

Implemented common application across local Conducted on surveys/site due-diligence, assessment and feasibilities studies.

Performed accurate inventory and provided/ensured network capacity, power and space availability to conform to a detailed Project Plan.

Coordinated all platform licenses, maintenance agreement efforts, and change requests.

Developed deployment scheme for installations and site turn-ups.

TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY

Tools:

Ariba, Bluebeam, DASH/ServiceNow, Telnet, MS-Project, SharePoint, Visio, ACAD, Microsoft-Office-Suite, Rally-Agile

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration – Amberton University Garland, TX - December 1988

Master of Management Information Systems - Amberton University Garland, TX - May 1995

Master of Project Management - George Washington University Washington, DC December 2000

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