Adel Eid Ali, Associate IT Project Manager Infrastructure

Adel Eid Ali

Associate IT Project Manager Infrastructure

Canadian Tire Corporation

Location
Canada - Toronto
Education
Master's degree, Master's in Business Administration (MBA)
Experience
33 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :33 years, 7 Months

Associate IT Project Manager Infrastructure at Canadian Tire Corporation
  • Canada - Toronto
  • My current job since April 2021

In charge of overseeing project personnel from Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) and monitoring project deliverables during the Agile and Waterfall project delivery lifecycles Using Jira, Kanban Boardsand Agile framework tools. EIS team supports and implements corporations voice, UNIX, Mainframe, Windows, Linux, Desktop, Database, Integration Architecture, Web Services, and Network Infrastructure.
• Managed the efort to modernise Maximo ERP. The goal of this project is to migrate Maximo to the IBM SaaS platform and update it to version 7.6.1 (Dev, QA, Prod).
• Managed infrastructure services for AML (Anti Money Laundry), PCI compliance, and post installation audits.
• Coordinated Work fusion upgrade from v9 to v10 in three environments (Dev, QA, Prod),
• Oversaw the v9 to v10 API Gateway upgrade project, which covered two business divisions and a multi-vendor project team.
• Using a Jira Kanban board, I oversaw an IT infrastructure project in a large warehouse in Calgary, Alberta, handling every facet of agile project management. Illumio deployment
• Contributed to several infrastructure project such as BlazeMeter implementation, OKTA MFA implementation, Knowbe4 Outlook Phishing Button

IT Infrastructure Project Manager at LOBLAWS
  • Canada - Toronto
  • May 2019 to November 2020

Managed multiple projects, DevOps, Cloud migration and implementation and infrastructure delivery, arranged kick of meetings, using Clarity and Jira to assign tasks and resources,
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followed up on budget and status reporting. Using Service Now to issue incidents, created intakes and change requests. Some managed projects:
• Coordinated Pivotal Cloud Foundation (PCF) implementation on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), migrated on premises application to GCP, accelerated pipeline delivery by 40%
• Orchestrated RedHat Openshift Platform 3.11 and 4.2 implementation on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), reducing application pipeline and increased DevOps operations by 25%
• Succeeded to implement 16 Dell/EMC VxRail 16 hosts in two diferent data centres, migrated +60 VM, reducing footprint and support expenses by 30%
• Managed NetApp storage capacity and disk shelves increase
• Supervised Bluecat appliance DNS migration that removed redundancy and increased query eficiency by 60%.
• Led Windows 2008 servers migration, +1800 End of Life servers migration to Azure and on-premise DC, eliminating licenses and support, reducing maintenance by 20%, and reducing non-functional servers by 40%.

IT Infrastructure Project Manager at Bank of Montreal Financial Group (BMO)
  • Canada - Toronto
  • August 2018 to March 2019

• Managed ESXi buildout Project, implementing ESXi servers solution at six diferent environments; the project involved purchase of blade servers, standalone servers, blade enclosures, fibre and cupper network infrastructure, storage allocation and coordination, preparation of Vcenter and DR site. Performed security compliance, followed up on security patching and updates with a project budget $600+.
• Guided and supported TSM (Tivoli Storage Management) upgrade project, hardware and firmware upgrade for IBM servers, updated TSM platform and agents, Increased storage capacity, upgrade Security Compliance Manager (SCM) with a project budget $1.3+MMM.
• Assisted in SCRM (Source Code Repository Management), upgrade, consolidated and retired SCRM including MS TFS, Bitbucket, ClearCase, and Clear Quest; Implemented secure access for developer, updated TLS (Transport Layer Security) to version 1.2 for more than 5000 clients with a project budget $1.8+MM.

Owner / Director at Centric Business Solutions
  • United Arab Emirates - Ajman
  • August 2014 to October 2017

Centric Business Solutions is an ofshore company, Registered at UAE, with main business activities of Consulting, Project Management and Trading
• Provided Technical Project consultation for Major Multinational Oil Companies, upgrading network and IT systems infrastructure including security appliance and secure access from one apartment ofice to 5 floors ofice building, PM consulting provided fast and secure network with less cost and increasing capacity of 75% than the previous system.
• Managed Projects for Major Touristic Company, implementing VOIP solution, integrate VOIP Fax service, ATA, 3 Network FAX and multifunction printing scanning workstations; Implemented access security system including CCTV system. The project saved +50, 000 annually.

Information and Communication Technology Manager at Dana Gas (Former Centurion Energy International
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2005 to November 2013

Dana Gas is an independent gas exploration company headquartered in Sharjah, United Arab

IT Manager at Megasoft, Ltd
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 1999 to February 2005

IT Manager for IT Service company spcialized in Oil and Gas exploration. Providing technical support and consultation. Targeting Oil Sector in Egypt. Performing all IT Tasks to Analyse, Build, Administer and upgrade computer systems and LANs.

IT Manager at Marathon Petroleum Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 1992 to October 1999

Performing all tasks releted to IT at a multinational Oil Company Loacted at Cairo, Egypt. Managing Windows NT LAN/WAn with 50+ users.

Systems Manager at Khalda Petroleum Company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 1988 to August 1992

Managing VAX/VMS Systems at Exploration department in a Multinational Joint Venture Oil Company.

Education

Master's degree, Master's in Business Administration (MBA)
  • at Major Information Technology, AAST
  • October 2024
Higher diploma, Higher Diploma in Applied Geophysics,
  • at Cairo University
  • October 2024
Master's degree, MBA
  • at Arab Academy for science and Technology
  • September 2024
Diploma, Applied Geophysics
  • at Cairo University
  • July 2024
Bachelor's degree, Geology
  • at Cairo University
  • May 2024
Diploma, Project Managment Profissional (PMP)
  • at PMI, Project managment Institute
  • May 2024
Master's degree, Master's in Seismic methods in Geophysics,
  • at Ain Shams University
  • May 2024
Bachelor's degree, B.Sc. Major in Geology,
  • at Cairo University
  • May 2024

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Project Collaboration
Administrative Support

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Egypttian Scientest syndicate
  • Member
  • June 1985
Project Managment Instisute
  • Member
  • August 2008

Training and Certifications

Project Management Profissional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2010
Valid Until:
May 2010

Hobbies

  • Computing, Reading, Fishing
    Project Management Skills 1. Implementation of ISO 27001 certification 2012-2013. 2. Backup to disk and Backup to Tape solution implementation 2013. 3. Web Portal based on Microsoft Share point server 2012. 4. Microsoft LYNC UC implementation and integration with AVAYA VOIP system 2012. 5. Virtualization of all physical servers, domain and Mail Migration 2012.