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Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

• Development of reference architecture and repeatable patterns for mobility, VDI and load balancing solutions
• Strategic development and implementation for cloud and/or on premise infrastructure service delivery for SMB and enterprise customers
• Provide NetScaler VPX/MPX/SDX consultancy to the Auckland Council for SharePoint, SAP, Exchange and MSQL load balancing architecture reference and implementation designs
• Design application and desktop delivery for Mainfreight Global Citrix XenApp 7.6 infrastructure
• Pre Sales engagements for business opportunities
• Provide support escalation to both SMB and Enterprise customers for Citrix products including XenApp/XenDesktop/Provisioning Services/NetScaler

Auckland, New Zealand

• Contracted to this major technology company operating in 170 countries to provide Windows and Citrix expertise to the IBM Intel team in client enterprise environments:
• Set up IBM's new $80M Data Centre to offer Cloud VSS - Virtual Server Services (MS and Intel)
• Lead Project Specialist for NZ Intel Team
• Architect and Delivery Consultant for ANZ Investment XenApp 6.5 Project
• Developed high and low-level designs (HLD/LLDs) for projects
• ANZ Wealth Department Technology Specialist including Active Directory implementations, Delivery of Disaster Recovery environment for Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 farm (500 users)

Reading, United Kingdom

• Provided technical leadership on the server-based infrastructure for Europe, Middle East and Africa:
• Delivered server and storage projects, BAU and Tier 3 support globally
• Provided solution architecture for BG Server and Storage division
• Designed and delivered XenApp 6 Global project across UK, US, India, Asia, Australia and EMEA)
• Decommissioned Legacy Citrix Presentation Server 3/4 farm
• Delivered infrastructure demand projects: consultancy, provisioning of virtual / physical servers, load balancing, high availability, backup and recovery

London, United Kingdom

• Contributed to this physical / VNI solutions, company’s growth, through the promotion, design and delivery of end-to-end applications and desktop solutions in Data-Centre Network environments:
• Provided pre sales directly to Citrix UK on the NetScaler product suite
• Deployed NetScaler Global Server Loading balancing for online gaming companies including BetClic in Isle of Mann and International All Sports in Melbourne
• Implemented DDoS protection for online gaming companies
• Deployed XenServer, XenApp and XenDesktop for US Government, SMB and Enterprise clients
• WAN and Website Optimization and load balancing, global server load balancing, Citrix and MS design and disaster recovery for Online Gaming, Enterprise and US Military clients

Dunedin, New Zealand

• Joined this IT, voice data, Internet and mobile service provider to converge ICT solutions to 3,300 public and private sector clients across New Zealand:
• Installed and developed client infrastructures: Exchange 2000-2003, Windows 2000,XP,2003, Vista, Active Directory, Group Policy, RAS, IIS, Terminal Services, Citrix, Web/Mail Marshal, Backup Exec, Cisco, ArcServe, MSQL.
• Deployed and upgraded Microsoft infrastructure
• Delivered technical training and support to new recruits and junior staff
• Configured Cisco IPSEC/GRE connections for head end routers and site installations, involving the use of VLANS, Access Lists, SNMP and IOS firewall features
• Managed own and team projects, and delivered Tier 2-3 support to large portfolio of clients

Bachelor Of Information Technology

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General