Irfan Ali, Lead Architect

Irfan Ali

Lead Architect

CIBC Bank

Location
Canada
Education
High school or equivalent,
Experience
9 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 5 Months

Lead Architect at CIBC Bank
  • Canada - Ontario
  • My current job since October 2019
Program Manager / Project Manager at Trillium Health Partners Hospital
  • December 2013 to December 2014

(6 x Projects) /Asst. To Director / ARB Lead - Merger & DCC (Data Center Consolidation & Transformation) HealthCare, Toronto - Canada

Program Experience:
•Master Program Planning to manage multiple projects, project managers, Resources, Vendors, Hardware/Software procurement, Daily, weekly & monthly tasks, meetings, milestones, project dependencies, SOW reviews, Budget and Steering committee reporting. To ensure all inter-project dependencies are understood across the program. Delivered via Waterfall methodology
•Managed Program of Users, Mailboxes, Servers, Network Infrastructure, Software’s, Data Center and Tools consolidations / migrations to consolidate 12, 000 applications, 11, 000 users on a Single Platform.
•PMO: Briefing / Assisting Infrastructure & Applications Directors in SLC (Snr. Leadership Committee) meetings with V. P’s / C-Level Executives (CIO & Senior Management). Holding Weekly 3 hrs. Program Workshops with PM’s, Eng., Directors, App Analysts., QA Analysts, Managers and producing Program Report on weekly basis on SharePoint. Maintaining project and program documentation, including status reports (Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly), issuance of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Project Reports, financial, and project schedules. Established PMO structure on SharePoint for centralized documentation Management. Compliance under (MFIPPA) Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
•Motivating, mentoring, leading Project managers and Team members. Resolving Team conflicts & addressing Project escalations and complaints. One-on-one Project updates with PM’s / Master reporting.
•Procurement Management:
•Led the procurement function and overseeing all aspects of purchasing, negotiations, strategy, tools and process implementation for procurement related to goods and services.
•Established Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), periodic RFP’s and supplier performance metrics reporting.
•Proactively managed all projects and program management areas, including scope, cost, schedule, resources, Hardware/Software procurement, risk, quality, Vendor Management, Program Governance, Projects Architecture, Critical Path Analysis, IT Roadmap and process Development etc. Based on ITIL framework.
Program (Multiple-Projects)
•AD (Active Directory) Migration: Create a new AD Forest/ Domain for the new organization and merge ~11, 000 users from the existing domains into the new Forest/domain via QMM (Quest Migration Manager).
•Led Data-centric projects to Deploy EMC BIG DATA solution EMC Isilon to consolidate Data from multiple systems from both Hospitals.
•DCC (Data Center Consolidation): Merging 3 x Data Centers into One Consolidated Data Center (PaaS, IaaS, Building of Racks, Rack Cabling SOA -architecture as per TIA-942 and Infrastructure within same facility - following WHMIS & Health & Safety regulations) / migration of NAS /SANs Data to EMC VNX, Windows Servers from physical to Virtual (VMWare Clusters (P2V, V2V), Linux, SQL / Application migration, Identity and access management (IAM), Cyber Security and re-Design of DMZ.
•Leading a Team of 10 x PM’s (Project Managers) for Multiple Applications. Generating Program Milestone Reports on Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly basis for Steering Committee Meetings (5 x Directors & 1 x V.P).
•Windows 7 Migration: Migrate 11, 000 computers to Windows 7 from Windows XP with Custom 12, 000 HealthCare Applications. In-Place upgrade ~5, 000, Hardware Refresh of 6000 PC’s. Stress / smoke testing applications / CiTRiX applications on Windows 7 & some Windows 8.1 computers / Laptops. Upgrading from IE 8 (Internet Explorer) to IE 10. Deployed via Dell KACE Systems Management appliance.
•BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) / Mobile Device: Migrate BES Servers from current Domain to a new Domain, Build & deploy new BES Servers and migrate Blackberry / other devices from BES 5 to BES 10.
•Common Exchange 2013 & MS Lync 2013: Implement a new common Microsoft Lync and Exchange 2013 organization and migrate 11, 000 users. Enable Custom VPN Tunnel with E-Health for Hospitals Email routing.
•Access Management: Implement new access management and user provisioning processes to support the newly merged entity. Consolidated Access Management project for the implementation of a new Imprivata Single-Sign-On environment to support the new Domain.
•Applications: Test and certify applications for use on Windows 7 and Active Directory 2008-R2 & 2012.
•Security: Review solutions to ensure they are secured and as per compliance standards.
•Networking: Remote Access, VPN (Appliance, Tokens (RSA & Vasco), VoIP and Telecom infrastructure.
•Storage & Backup: Provisioning space and ensuring all new systems are adequately backed up & get migrated to new EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems.

at IBM Canada Ltd
  • Canada
  • May 2013 to November 2013

(Consulting) Client TD Bank Financial Group
Snr. Program Consultant / Technical Migration Lead DCC (Data Center Consolidation), Toronto - Canada

BUSINESS
•Led Data-centric projects to consolidate / Migrate Users, Profiles, Users Data, Mailboxes across multiple Forests into TD Bank’s AD Infrastructure. DATA & Backup migration to EMC Data Domain and Isilon. Architecting PlateSpin, TDMF solution for P2P, V2V, V2P (DMZ) across multiple Data Centers.
•Led discussions and collaborates with business customers to analyze business needs and recommends potential technology solutions that align with business strategies and objectives.
•PROJECTS (TD Auto Finance & Meloche Monnex). Leveraging IBM “RDNG and RTC” for software development & Strategic requirements management. Led the Migration of Guidewire v7 to v8
•Assist the Director of IT in providing vision, leadership and management of IT resources to meet projects goals and objectives. Reporting to Director on Bi-weekly / monthly basis.
•Led the design and implementation decisions of current systems in Data Center Consolidations projects.
•Assist the Director IT in providing technology workflow including support & overall Project management.
•Leading multiple projects, priorities, Project / Transition planning (Agile), Application Test Strategy Deployment planning / testing criteria / migration checklist document and tasks from global perspective.
•Prepared RFQs, RFI’s and RFPs and recommendations for hardware, software, and services acquisitions, in conjunction with the purchasing department. Presenting Change Records to CRB for approvals.
•Led Team of Project resources / Technical Project Managers via management of end to end system life cycle development of major projects. Led Test Strategy deployment planning and preparation of Test Strategy documents. Overseeing minor projects being led by intermediate level staff.

at Jolera Inc
  • Canada
  • November 2007 to June 2008
Network Support Engineer at Yesmail Canada Inc
  • Canada
  • July 2006 to November 2007

June 9 - June 19, 2006 FORD - FMCC - Oakville, ON. , Technical Project Lead.

Technical Analyst at GTAA Airpor
  • Canada
  • May 2006 to June 2006
Team Lead - Technical Consultant at Teletech Ltd. – Xtra – Auckland
  • New Zealand
  • June 2002 to May 2003

Education

High school or equivalent,
  • at Sheridan Institute of Technology
  • July 2007

courses: Microsoft Windows 2012 •Completed ITIL online Training at TD Bank Financial Group •Certificate of Attainment - Teletech Ltd. on completion of “Business Communication Module” •Completed online CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) Training •Certificate of Attainment - Teletech Ltd. on completion of “Achieving outstanding Customer Service Program

High school or equivalent,
  • at Ames College
  • June 2004

courses: Enterprise Database Management •OCA: Oracle Certified Associate. •OCP: Oracle Certified Professional. •IBM: Certified Database Associate Aug. 2005 – Feb. 2006. Drake Education – Melbourne, CCNA (Australia) Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE

Bachelor's degree, Years
  • at W University
  • December 2000

courses: Microsoft Certified System Administrator (MCSA

Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
  • at Complex Institute of I.T
  • December 1999

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Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Complex Institute of I.T
  • June 1998

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Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Infrastructure
Technical Project Leadership
ACTIVE DIRECTORY
ADVERTISING
BUDGETING
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
FUNCTIONAL
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