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1. ClusterTek Case Studies
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2. Case Study 1:
Transition and Transformation
PROJECT: Plan and set-up barrie data center for Scotiabank
ROLE: Senior Project Manager
SCOPE:
Leading Barrie Data Center set up for Scotiabank. This project will fit up the
IBM Barrie Data Centre to be able to receive migration workloads from the
Scotiabank Front Street Data Centre. IBM will place new equipment in the
Barrie Data Centre which will refresh the hardware as the workload moves.
The scope of this project includes constructing the storage and server
environment. Migrated workloads to be received at Barrie include iSeries,
xSeries, pSeries, HP Tandem and Mainframe.
• Develop a Detailed Transformation and Services Transition Plan.
• Assign resources to support the Detailed Transformation and Services
Transition Plan.
• Use applicable IBM internal project management tools to assist with the
management of the program and each project
• Align to Scotiabank’s Operational Readiness Review (ORR) process
• Post production implementation service called HyperCare which is a
period following the migration of specified systems as they are promoted
to production. This includes a war room defect triage process until all
Severity 1 and a mutually agreed Severity 2 short-list defects are resolved
that are identified during the Hypercare period.
Result: Delivered on time and within the agreed window for
cutover.

3. Case Study 2:
Transition and Transformation
PROJECT: Wave Migration of Workloads at Scotiabank
ROLE: Senior Project Manager
SCOPE:
Wave PM for International Banking. This project involves utilizing a
technology refresh to facilitate the migration of the xSeries and pSeries
workload from the Front Street Data Centre to the IBM Barrie Data Centre.
The planning was done in phases:
• Performing inventory verification, discovery, finalize baselines and
server groups; and
• Perform planning, define waves, technical design and implementation.
Execute Runbooks and perform Pre-migration, Cutover and Post migration
activities.
Create change logs, work with various internal and external resource
groups during cut over.
• Pre-migration steps for AIX V2V. AIX V2V IBM DB2 HADR. AIX
PowerHAXD NON-PRD. AIX V2V Cross-Site GPFS, AIX P2P
Standalone, Intel V2V, Intel V2V WinFCIClus, Intel P2P Standalone, Intel
P2P WinFCIClus.

4. • Hour by hour cut over steps for different migration methods such as AIX
V2V Hr by Hr, AIX V2V Cross-SiteGPFS Hr by Hr, AIX PowerHAXD
NON-PRD.Cutover, AIX V2V IBM DB2 HADR Hr By Hr, AIX P2P
Standalone Hr by Hr, Intel_V2V Hr by Hr, Intel V2V WinFCIClus Hr by Hr,
Intel P2P WinFCIClus Hr by Hr, Intel P2P Standalone Hr by Hr.
• Shutdown Startup, timeline by ecosystems, Command Center, Contact
List, Issue Sheet and communication plan were created for server
migrations.
• Set up and ran status call and manned the command center bridge.
• Visits to Data Center to evaluate Decommission of servers, storage
devices, network and non-server devices.
• Lift and shift items were identified for early resolution during cut over time
period.
Result: Delivered Wave 3 for several ecosystems for international
banking.

5. Case Study 3:
Infrastructure Refresh
PROJECT: Consolidated Infrastructure Solutions for Various
Lines of Businesses for CIBC
ROLE: Senior Project Manager
SCOPE:
ACC receives three types of files (gateway files) from CMSI who source these data files
from DealerTrack application. The three types of files are Bureau (equifax format
ASCII), DTN inbound (XML), DTN outbound (XML). At the end of business day, ACC
will send three folders to CIBC feedhub. Informatica BDE 9.2 (Big Data Environment)
will ingest files into EDH using file listing methodology.
• Large-scale, complex projects often involving multiple internal and external
constituents and matrix partners.
• The key work package for technology was to establish the Interface
Agreement between ACC (the vendor) and EDH for the Master File/s
ingestion.
• Mass migration from one data platform to a new data platform that has
Migration of thousands of data and applications
• Hadoop users were grouped under line of business to transfer packaged
codes and process the data in parallel.
• The consumers (GOW, Treasury-Risk and Lending BI) will then be able to
pull data out of Enterprise Data Hub(EDH). In case of Treasury-Risk, there
will need to be a Push by EDH and A Pull from EDH.
• Auto Capital Canada the Automotive Financing company, is delivering the
content of their data feeds (a.k.a Master Files) and CIBC technology teams
found a way to absorb change in specifications. The original number of
master files to be sent by
• ACC was 4 and increased to 13 files.
RESULT: Change Request for PROD in ServiceNow were expedited with buy in from
change management administrators

6. Additional Case Studies for CIBC:
Infrastructure Refresh
PROJECT: Multiple Projects
ROLE: Senior Project Manager
One:
Regulatory Reporting Services for Investment Industry
Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) under Capital Markets
line of business. Project delivered under Scrum methodology.
Counterparty data was made available to downstream systems
for testing. PROD environment comprised of:
1. Presentation layer
2. Analytics layer
3. Work flow layer
4. Reporting/ETL layer
ETL layer had shared layer (BO server, feed hub, scheduler) NAS
layer(three volumes) DB layer(Apollo, OMR, IMPACT, Marven) DB
2012 (IIROC). Deployed RSS thick client to users in trading floor.
large-scale, complex projects often involving multiple internal and
external constituents and matrix partners. Daily sprints helped
ship product releases and ensure timely vendor participation in
DBA incidents. Trade event testing due to missing counterparty
info, speedily resolved due to the agility in the team. Some of the
discovery of the product teams were:
1. Auction trades are ineligible for IIROC reporting
2. double booked trades
3. New column in counterparty table maintenance screen
added BFS application referred to in the Canadian Prime
Brokerage (CPB) dependency

7. Two:
ATM Reconciliation Application Replacement with Vendor FiServ
under Intria Line of Business with Non Prod Servers hosted on
CIBC Internal Cloud Environment and Prod Servers on HP Early
Adopter Cloud Environment. large-scale, complex projects often
involving multiple internal and external constituents and matrix
partners.
Three:
Retail Pre-paid program with Enterprise Gating Model.
Connectivity from CIBC to VISA Data Processing Services (DPS)
was achieved leading to the delivery of 5 unique Prepaid cards;
USD, GBP, EURO, MXN Peso and CAD. mass migration from one
data platform to a new data platform that has Migration of
thousands of data and applications.
Four:
CRM2 Cognos Portal to report annual statements of mutual funds
and private wealth accounts with Vendor SS&C. Database, Data
warehouse expertise in transforming data to thousands of users.
Hadoop users were aligned with the cognos user community in
the CRM portal.

8. Five:
Feed Hub Set up for Capital Markets Technology. Database, Data
warehouse expertise in transforming data to thousands of users.
Change Tickets under expedite category were presented to
Enterprise Change Management with prior approval of ITSM head.
Six:
Corporate Security CMU Infrastructure Security move with
CHUBB.
• Corporate Security users access surveillance video 7x24 with
Citrix and VPN.
• Move users from being managed by CHUBB to CIBC.
• Security CMU users will use RDP Protocol to connect to
CHUBB VMware servers where videos will be hosted.
• Set up site to site VPN Tunnel between CHUBB and CIBC.
• SCC VPN firewall rules security and MCC VPN firewall rules
undergoing security changes.
• Production environment on AD domain and Non-production
on ADP1.
• Mass migration from one data platform to a new data
platform that has Migration of thousands of data and
applications
chander@clustertek.ca | 647.886.9280