Lead the engineering and architecture of hyper-converged infrastructure product that facilitated the company’s entrance into a new market.• Developed and delivered ESX and XenServer bare-metal virtual infrastructure appliance supported on all major server hardware vendors.• Reduced infrastructure deployment complexity by delivering an automated multi-node server infrastructure including ESX and XenServer high availability cluster, networking and storage using Python Linux.• Engineered Windows Desktop & Server OS build gold image template to speed up customer VDI deployments requiring only an ISO image and product key.• Built ready to use XenApp and XenDesktop VDI using Citrix Smart Tools.

Designed and built automated solutions to integrate product into large enterprise IT architectures. Engineered scale deployment automation tools to save money and increase productivity.• Designed a complete zero-touch VDI provisioning and broker service on Citrix XenDesktop and VMware Horizon View with PHP web-based maintenance and monitoring UI.• Engineered large scale Powershell Linux server deployment tool for ESX, XenServer and Hyper-V virtual infrastructure.

Lead the engineering and move to production efforts of next generation VDI architecture delivered in memory using a Linux based, software defined storage solution.• Fully automated the lifecycle management of the desktops across more than 20 global datacenters, resulting in over $30M savings.• Implemented deployment automation to scale to over 100,000 desktops, fully integrated with a Linux based software defined storage infrastructure.• Built multi-threaded Powershell monitoring Heat Map Dashboard to determine VDI application performance issues.

Engineered automated solutions to support the deployment and management of 250,000 physical and virtual desktops globally. Ownership of all engineering, release schedule and hardware lifecycle of global Windows desktop platform.• Designed and engineered wizard-based dynamic HTML WinPE menu system to simplify deployment of large Windows desktop real estate. Light touch fully automated deployment, including business applications using back-end DB.• Engineered various utilities to aid in the deployment and support of multi-vendor heterogeneous hardware using mechanisms such as USB, DVD, and network.• Engineered the global Windows Server Build 2000 & 2003 including multi-vendor hardware support utilities.• Worked on team engineering company first “Common Desktop Initiative” Windows Desktop and Server Builds. These global standardized builds spanned 3 generations of Windows Desktop and Server Operating Systems.