Kenneth Thomas Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

Technical Resource Manager supporting AppSense products to customers.

Greater Boston Area

Senior XenDesktop Architect for a major financial organization in the Boston area. Responsible for design, implementation and day to operations of 30,000+ XenApp and XenDesktops users.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Citrix Consultant for a Citrix Platinum Reseller
• Worked Citrix XenDesktop to customers ranging from SMB to global enterprises with 25,000 users
• Deployed VMWare, XenServer, and Microsoft virtualization
• Deployed Citrix Provisioning Server for both servers and desktops
• Integrate Citrix and Desktops with AppSense user profiles.

• Systems Architect for a Citrix Gold Reseller
• Worked Citrix XenDesktop, XenServer and XenApp deployments
• Deployed VMWare, XenServer, and Microsoft virtualization
• Deployed Citrix Provisioning Server for both servers and desktops
• Designed large scale solutions for customers throughout the country and followed many of them through deployment
• Install Citrix XenApp solutions for customers throughout the country

Greater Seattle Area

Citrix consultant deploying Citrix XenDesktop to enterprise customers throughout the country.

• Director and Senior Engineer for a data center support 100 customers with over 600 servers
• Responsible for backup and disaster recovery plans for the data center and all clients
• Manage multiple environments including Windows 2003, Windows 2008, VMware, UNIX and Linux
• Maintain and built out customers Terminal Services, Citrix XenApp 4.5/5.0 and XenDesktop hosted solutions
• Maintain data center infrastructure for N+2 with APC, Metro Ethernet and generator backup.
• Managed and deployed nine 2007 Exchange servers for customers with the largest deployment of around 1000 users

• Director, Architect and Administrator responsible for all LAN and WAN network operations, systems disaster recovery; database and systems backup, and network security of the system
• Designed and managed all aspects of technology for over 400 employees, including 1300 computers and 3200 students
• Supervised 6 person technology support team for 4 schools and School Board Office
• Managed all IT needs including policymaking, RFP’s, and Documentation
• Maintained 99.9% up time for critical servers during operational hours
• Managed and deployed Exchange 2003 and then upgraded the environment to Exchange 2007

• Systems Engineer responsible for the management, deployment, administration and maintenance of technology needs for multiple clients throughout the southeast region
• Managed communications between company leaders and clients
• Cultivated client relationships by maintaining open lines of communication
• Reviewed client needs, evaluated existing systems and proposed network designs to leverage effective use of resources
• Ensured uniform standards though network documentation, including server and backup configurations, naming conventions and network diagrams
• Worked with diverse infrastructures to include Novell, Microsoft 2000, and Microsoft 2003 environments

• Systems Engineer responsible for the management, deployment, administration and maintenance of technology needs for multiple clients throughout the southeast region
• Cultivated client relationships by maintaining open lines of communication
• Reviewed client needs and proposed network designs to leverage effective use of resources
• Worked with diverse infrastructures to include Novell, Microsoft 2000, and Microsoft 2003 environments
• Supervised deployment teams as Lead Engineer on complex projects
• Designed and administered LANs and WANs

Associates Degree, Applied Science Electronics

High School Diploma, Information Technology