Leonard Astick Email & Phone Number

Douglassville, Pennsylvania

I started Nuage Logic to help other businesses with their technology needs. My company provides a wide-range of services, including professional and managed services, primarily within the virtualization stack, including Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware solutions. Nuage Logic focuses on providing cloud services for businesses looking to make the journey to.

King Of Prussia, PA

• Designed and deployed Citrix products for private and public cloud solutions (e.g., Citrix Cloud, Azure, AWS) across diverse industries.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to facilitate Citrix-related projects and manage resource workloads effectively.
• Demonstrated expertise in troubleshooting and remediating complex issues in Citrix environments, ensuring top-tier performance.

Glen Allen, Virginia

• Virtualized Provisioning Services to enable the repurposing of physical hardware to address the absence of a development environment.
• Identified and resolved infrastructural issues, particularly related to disk IO and VDI performance, to enhance overall performance of 3,500+ virtual desktops.
• Spearheaded and managed significant projects and proof of concepts, facilitating the introduction of advanced technologies like Citrix App Layering within an agile framework.
• Achieved a promotion to the position of Citrix Design Team Lead, responsible for managing a team of three direct reports in London, resulting in adjustments to working hours as required.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

• Implemented Advanced Load Balancing to better utilize Citrix server resources, reducing the cause of production outages due to slowness for 1,800+ users.
• Designed and implemented business critical applications migrated from acquired companies to the internal Citrix farm and infrastructure.
• Analyzed Citrix DR and licensing, providing GAP analysis, while coordinating quotes and submitting Expense Authorization Requests for purchase review.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Started business and began consulting as an Independent Citrix Architect/Engineer while managing all business aspects
• Created relationships with other IT Solution companies as primary contact for Citrix engagements that were scheduled around current contract timelines, including many afterhours projects

Collegeville. PA

• Designed, implemented, and supported 1,200+ seat XenDesktop 7.1 solution using Provisioning Services to host both non-persistent and persistent desktops using personal vdisks, front-ended by a fully customized and.
• Designed entire VDI department process, from requesting VDI desktops to maintenance and support.
• Collaborated with multiple departments on the customization of their specific desktop images and provided process and documentation based around varied requests.

Greater Memphis Area

• Designed and implemented XenDesktop 5.6 with PVS 6.1 and XenServer 6.02
• Converted bare metal provisioned Citrix XenApp 5.0 servers to XenServer VMs
• Converted business critical application to work autonomously in a PVS environment; APX Portfolio Management
• Maintained and managed 3 Citrix datacenters consisting of provisioned XenApp 5.0
• Contract was extended to co-lead in Citrix XenApp 6.5 Project for Raymond James

• Involved in many projects such as a Windows 7 roll out to 20,000+ endpoints, responsible for TPM solution and BIOS scripting.
• Designed and Engineered Citrix XenApp 6.5 development environment
• Wrote many scripts to stay current with hotfixes, modify registry settings, and query information for the XenApp environment
• Maintained and managed over 120 XenApp 5.0 servers across 2 active-active datacenters

• Designed and Implemented Enterprise Citrix and Microsoft Networks
• Assisted with Novel to Microsoft Migrations
• Supported and consulted with multiple Citrix and Microsoft clients

• Administered a medium sized Microsoft and Citrix XenApp environment
• Conducted and managed large projects
• Upgraded multiple server infrastructures with minimal downtime
• Analyzed and reduced company's IT expenses by one third

• Completed large projects that advanced the company in the industry
• Implemented RFID technology to work with current information systems