Architecture and Design:
●Senior technical consultant, addressing the establishment of Virtual Environments/Cloud
computing of Windows Terminal Server, Citrix Metaframe XP to Xen 6.5 projects from small
to corporate customers.
●Concept designs covering: Farm architecture, planning and configuration, environment security, session connectivity security, Active Directory infrastructure design, GPO definition, software management concepts, service reliability, emergency fallback, system maintenance scenario’s, network design, internet/intranet/Access Gateway and VPN access, farm performance tuning, License servers, IIS Web portal access, SQL database instances, provisioning installations and user profile definition.
●Determining convention definitions and procedures.
●Data modelling and XML Schema design.
●Analysis of existing infrastructures and future requirements leading to implementation of WTS/Citrix environments.
●Close client liaising to achieve desired requirements.
●Realising designs on both physical and virtual environments.
Engineering and Development:
●Implementation of automated Metaframe installation concept, addressing: server farms, zones, data store, licensing, systems and complex development configuration problems
●Scripting in VBS and WSF applying ADO, ADSI, MFCOM, WMI, XMLDOM, XML Schema, XPath, MSI and COM objects. Establishing scripting class libraries.
●Scripting in Powershell for system automation
●Application compatibility integration and scripts, AD domain main logon scripts
●Proof of concept realisation on both physical and virtual environments
●MSI packaging, App-V (including Sequencer)
●Development in Visual Studio C# utilities and Web services
●GPO creation and customisation of (adm) policy files
●Realisation of Hyper-V, XenServer, VMWare together with respective management tools
●Application and customisation of AppSense, policy management
●Development of security template standards and system hardening
●Business application integration and prototyping for both client and server platforms
●Citrix & Microsoft 3rd level problem research and analysis covering: systems, standard and
business applications, networking
●Escalation and direct conferring with manufacturer/developers
●Application analysis and system compatibility
Systems and Applications:
●Systems: Server Based Computing, Citrix XenServer 5.0, XenApp 5.0, 6.0, 6.5 Metaframe:
4.5, 4.0, 3.0, XP, Terminal Server, Windows: 7, 2008 R2, Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, ME, 97, 95,
3.11, 3.0, DOS. Domain controllers, Print and file servers, SQL 2005, IIS Web portal, License
servers, Data collectors, Hyper-V, VMWare 3.0, Basic Unix skills:Solaris, AIX, Linux.
●Hardware: IBM, Siemens, Compaq/HP server platforms. Robotic CD-ROM & DLT, DAT mass
storage devices, Fat and Thin clients, Embedded Windows systems, Remote Inside Manager,
PC peripherals: Printers, scanners, network cards, modems, raid, card readers, USB,
Firewire/IEEE1394, Bluetooth devices. Remote devices: Labtops, Tablet and mobile
communications devices.
●Management Applications: AppSense, NetIQ Group Policy Administrator, Wise Package
Studio, Orca, Novadigm Radia, Matrix42 Empirum, WSUS, NetInstall, visionApp Application
Delivery Management Suite and Cloud Cockpit, Mercury test manager, Mantus bug tracker.
Security and Networking:
●System security definition, implementation and management. Configuration of Secure
Access Manager, Password Manager, Secure Access Gateway, PKI security, ICA encryption,
DMZ/Extranets.
●Experience with Network planning and configuring covering WAN, LAN, WLAN, TCP/IP,
Ethernet, Token ring, sub-netting, DHCP, DNS, WINS, gateway, router firewalls, VPN,
NAT/Proxy server, RAS, ISDN, DSL, A/DSL switches, PtoP leased line, NTU’s, modems.
●Troubleshooting and performance testing Citrix inter-network data transfer of network
environments.
Assessment and quality assurance:
●Benchmarking and assessment of thin client devices together with respective OEM
management products
●Terminal Server application load testing and system sizing
●Terminal Server application analysis and application quality assurance testing
●Installation and compatibility testing of in house developed custom products for WTS/Citrix.
●Windows 7 prototyping
Team work and Management:
●Project management roles involving: customer facing, planning, manpower instruction,
project control, risk management, quality control and project review.
●Practice of ITIL standards applying: implementation, configuration maintenance, change,
release, capacity, availability and security management. System and environment change
management, software life cycle management.
●Execution of Farm roll outs, upgrades and migrations to Metaframe 4.5 and Xen 5.0/6.0.
●Effective communication and negotiations directly with clients, project managers and team
members. Coordinating internationally dispersed teams.
●Coaching, mentoring, motivating and organising team members. Workshop presentations
and training for application developers and senior support staff.
●Use of Microsoft Project and accompanying Office suit packages (2007 & 2010), i.e. Visio,
OneNote, Publisher, InfoPath, Sharepoint Workspace.
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Qualifications and Professional accreditations
Eur. Ing from the European Federation of National Sept. 05
Engineering Associations (FEANI), Brussels, Belgium
C.Eng from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Engineering Council, United Kingdom.
D.I.C. from Imperial College, University of London, Oct. 91 - Oct. 92
Post graduate Research and Development
M.Sc from Imperial College, University of London,
Read : Industrial Robotics & Manufacturing Automation.
B.Eng (Hons) from University of Middlesex,
Read: Electronic Engineering.
Oct. 91 - Oct. 92
Sept. 87 - Jul. 91
Certification
Microsoft Partner
Citrix Access Gateway 4.5
Citrix Password Manager 4
Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server 4)
Citrix XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2003
Citrix Certified Administrator XP
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
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