2. Project Description
Black Reign Associates have been appointed to design an
infrastructure for Greenway Banks expanding to four other
locations in the United States.
The Greenway Bank (a St. Louis headquarters company) is in
the venture of expansion and acquiring four new branches
which are located in New York, NY; Settle, Washington; Orlando,
Florida and Los Angeles, California. Their secured venture capital
consist of savings, checking accounts, loans, mortgages, money
market accounts, certificates of deposit and wire transfers (both
domestic and international).
3. Project Objective
The project will meet the following objectives:
Guidance regarding technology maintenance, upgrades, and warranties.
Branch personnel: 1 administrator 3 loan officers, five tellers (drive-through)
Headquarters personnel: president officers’ receptionist; Number of agents in
call center: 20 agents one to two supervisors
Provide physical, electronic and data security in addition to complying with
the applicable regulations FDIC, SEC, SOX, and PCI-DSS
Backup and recovery plans for each computer server, including off-site
storage, for the backups or replicated systems.
Connect each branch to headquarters which will meet all stated requirements
and relevant data.
4. Project Scope
In Scope:
Design an infrastructure that connects each branch to headquarters
Will meet state requirements for the integrity, storage, and movement of
private data
Cover all desired functions in security, redundancy and operability
Create a backup recovery plan for each computer/server, including off-site
storage
Each branch will have its own Local Area Network (LAN)
5. Project Scope Continued
Out of Scope
Having a data center in the hub banks
Having more than one off-site storage
Having Wi-Fi in the bank
Having all computers on the same network (security camera,
bank vault and network nodes throughout the branches)
1Gbps is the fastest and cheapest LAN technology available right
now so nothing faster in LAN speed possible
6. Deliverables
All branches including the headquarters will have one file/printer server
They will be properly trained in all aspects of the new Operating System and
Network
All branches will have two high-speed network printers/copiers/scanners
Fax machines
All phones will be VoIP Voice messaging with beeping services
Each branch will have ten workstations
Router, firewall, switch and other devices will be supported on the LAN and
WAN connections
7. Stakeholders
Stakeholder
How Are They Affected, or
How Are They Participating?
Management
They will be given state of the art technology, upgrading their
software to more stable user friendly, while cutting the cost of
computer operating systems and costly upgrades by using Linux
system.
Staff (Tellers, receptionist, agents
and supervisors)
With the high speed connection and redundancy on storage, staff
will be able to access necessary information while avoiding
bottlenecking or down systems for upgrades.
Consumers
They will enjoy the quicker pace and faster file access due to the
high speed connectivity. Plus they will enjoy the phone app created
which can access their personal records and do much of everything
for them that a banker does
IT Support Team
Suggesting the company outsources the IT department we are
prepared to supply the company with the troubleshooting team
while training certain employees with security clearance to run
the daily minimum requirements operations before hiring a
team to combat troubleshooting situations
8. Requirements
State-of-the-art/compatible systems
All sites will use Local Area Network (LAN)
Sufficient system capability
Capacity to provide a centralized solution for data storage and
management
Must meet regulations such as FDIC, SEC, SOX, and PCI-DSS
The technology must allow for business growth overtime
10. Estimated Duration
Milestone
Projected
Completion
Date
Deliverable(s) Completed
Project Planning 04/03/15 Project Charter
Schedule
Milestone 1: Getting all the
necessary paperwork and
licensing approved
05/03/15 All paperwork is completed
Licensing is complete and ready for
milestone 2
Milestone 2: Labor work and
Installation
06/01/15 All wires and computers are setup and
wired
Milestone 3: Networking
Specialist
06/15/15 All nodes are connected to the system
and ready for programming
Milestone 4: System
Programmers and Database
Programmers
08/15/15 All systems up and running,
connections and communication is
enabled, database is created, and trial
and error troubleshooting period
Project Conclusion 10/15/15 Project Completed
11. Project Assumptions
In this section, we will cover the many assumptions made that our
company would expect any recovering company to consider during the
Reconstruction.
12. Assumptions
Manpower
Involving manpower, given
that many of the technicians
and staff for upkeep, security,
and redundancy will come
from their own companies:
they will supply the proper
field of expertise to keep our
system up to date without
the trouble of having to go
back and correct the
mistakes.
Software
Given that the software will
be built by other outsourcing
companies for example
Oracle with our template; we
expect the software to meet
a standard which is reformat
able and transferable in any
other system in the event of
change.
13. Hardware
Hardware no matter how
reputable the company to
which is produced, does not
function at peak performance
all the time. Over time of
use, the dexterity of the
product will not be what it
was in the beginning.
Laws
With the outsource business
being in control of whatever
they decide to use to an
output to the rest of the
world, we do assume that
the lawyers involved will read
over the contracts of
outsourced work before
agreeing to sign.
14. Project Ricks
Firstly, in order to deal with something as important as
banking information one should consider the ability to
protect it and utilize it no matter the issue.
The next tier of risk that we can encounter is within
the computer itself. The software most be structured in
such a state as it cannot be tampered with from within
or out.
The last area of risk comes from the entity of anomaly
and system glitches.
15. Project Constraints
The project manager should be aware of constraints
because they refer to limitations that the project must
execute within.
Constraint 1: Natural disasters
Constraint 2: Software
Constraint 3: Malfunctions, Glitch, Anomaly
16. Project Dependencies
Project Date Due Deliverable Dependency
Natural Disaster 9/21/15 Could be delayed by weather or other
things.
Physical Cabling 10/21/15 Could not show or cable could be bad
PBX system Setup 11/21/15 Could take longer than thought could break
before use
17. Project Approach
After Greenway bank has
cleared the office space, BR
LLC will commence the
physical cabling of the new
sites. Closely after we will
begin to attach the actual
hardware e.g. servers,
workstations, phones, etc.
After we will begin
configuring the hardware and
deploying the software.
Afterwards we will begin
setting up the call center in
the headquarters.
Lastly we will train the
employees to work with the
new equipment and maintain
it.
20. Project Organization
An appropriate project organization structure is essential to achieve
success. The following list depicts the proposed organization:
• Project Sponsor: Doug Albro (approves or disapproves of the project)
• Project Manager: Rhobert Love (duties include planning and
delegating duties, keeping group organized and meeting its deadlines,
and is part of the execution and finalizing of the project)
• Project Manager: Marlon Anderson (recorder, writer, gathering
teammate’s individual work and compiled it)
21. Project Organization continued
Project Manager: Kareem Jenkins (knowledgeable about protocol,
requirements, rules and regulations)
Project Manager: Christen Grove (Statistician and record keeping.
Located the supplies needed and implemented them into the project
where needed)
Project Manager: Sherrod Butler (researcher and security analyst for
LAN and firewalls)
Project Manager: Gertrude Cooper (Organizer. Accepted the
delegated duties from the Project manager and implemented them in an
organized and timely manner.)
22. Project Guidelines
Each team member will be required to give their best in either topic
that they have experience/ knowledge of. Our team consists of 6 N.S.A
students with different backgrounds in computer/ networking skills.
The teams members break down with emails are as such:
Kareem Jenkins – bigrheem26@gmail.com
Marlon Anderson --marlon90249@gmail.com
Christen Grove – cgrove869@gmail.com
Rhobert Love – tekrobot14@yahoo.com
Sherrod Butler – bergenboy973@gmail.com
