Sameer Sharma Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Canada Area

• Lead, design and develop a Citrix solution on Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud architecture framework and guiding roadmap combined with best practices for global high-visibility global enterprise clients from varying verticals such as healthcare, finance, oil and gas.• Pioneered a global centralized solution that aligned with the strategic needs of the client resulting in reduction on administrative overhead and increase business overall business value using cloud technology.• Managed and mentored a team of technical resources and direct the efforts to analyze and address specific customer business challenges related to Citrix on Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.• Provide recommendations on security leading practices, cost-benefit analysis, performance reliability and operational improvement• Provide guidance as a trusted advisor and participate as a subject matter expert on the highest risk and complex projects.• Continuously improvement, Continuous Delivery and Continuous testing on the Citrix and Azure or AWS or Google Cloud infrastructure.• Advises Business/IT command on IT enterprise architecture issues; participates in the IT Performance and Capacity Management processes and automation tasks.• Evangelise and educate enterprise clients on Citrix, Azure, AWS and Google Cloud components.• Developed and published leading practices on (1) developing a security framework for a virtualized / cloud infrastructure and top five common cloud-related risks encountered in an enterprise environment.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Lead, design and develop a Citrix solution on Microsoft Azure architecture framework.• Provide recommendations on leading practices, cost-benefit analysis, performance reliability and operational improvement• Advises Business/IT command on IT enterprise architecture issues; participates in the IT Performance and Capacity Management processes and automation tasks.

• Develop training programs and course materials for Microsoft, Citrix and Cisco training. • Conduct classroom training sessions, webinars, and informal Q & A sessions for participants.• Conduct training need analysis to determine clients training needs and develop effective training programs.• Write and revise training manuals and presentation slides to reflect updated training requirements.• Developed step-by-step technical guide for installing and configuring infrastructure components in custom training lab environment.• Conduct customer post training evaluations and analyze feedback for improvement, and further training requirements.• Mentored other trainers on specific technology and delivery techniques.

• Design and deployed multiple VMWare ESXi infrastructure for proof of concept, testing and production. • Advises enterprise customers on IT architecture issues and participates in the IT Performance and Capacity Management processes. • Provide pre and post sales support for the sales team. • Provide project management and technical leadership to the project team. • Train and mentor junior employees. • Manage data center relocation and service migration.

• Develop training programs and course materials for EC-Council training. • Conduct classroom training sessions, webinars, and informal Q & A sessions for participants.• Conduct training need analysis to determine clients training needs and develop effective training programs.• Write and revise training manuals and presentation slides to reflect updated training requirements.• Pre-sales support for EC-Council products.• Conduct customer post training evaluations and analyze feedback for improvement and further training requirements.

• Prepared, configured and managed ASA and CheckPoint firewalls, ACLS as well as Network management tools.• Provided support and troubleshooting on network security.• Prepared status reports on security matter to develop security risk analysis scenarios.• Conducted security monitoring via IDS, logs, network traffic analysis and incident response.• Created information security policies & implemented best practices.• Validated and implemented security controls on Windows 2003 servers.• Responsible for conducting vulnerability scanning and identify system and network vulnerabilities. • Responsible for researching and the network installation of security solutions such as: SSL, Windows 2003 security servers, firewalls, and IDS systems.

Master'S Degree, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Bsc, Computer Science, Honours