Workspace Architect

• Oct 2023 - Present

Solutions Architect

• Jul 2019 - Oct 2023

Projects to Date: • OjiFibre Solutions – Citrix Hybrid Cloud on-premises workloads Design and implementation • OjiFibre Solutions - Windows365 POC & Microsoft Endpoint Management • Sky City – Citrix 1912 enrollment and Citrix Session Recording • Spirit of Tasmania - Azure Health assessment • Author IT - Defender for Endpoint POC • Fidelity Life -Design and implement MFT Capability (Go Anywhere) • Bupa NZ – Citrix 1912 Upgrade with MCS • Bupa NZ - MFA and FAS design and enrollment Remote Access NetScaler • HYNDS - HP Device Management- Design and Enrollment • Tararua District Council - Citrix Cloud Migration - Intune - Defender for Cloud • Mid Central BHD - Citrix Cloud Migration on prem / Amazon • OjiFibre Solutions - Citrix Migration Hyper-V to VMware • Mainfreight Asia - Citrix 1912 Design • AIA- Citrix 1912 Design and Build - Citrix DaaS Migration Show less

Cloud Consultant (Contractor)

• Apr 2019 - Oct 2023

Citrix and Azure consultant : Projets : Energy Australia : Citrix XenApp 6.5 upgrade to XenApp 7.15 LTSR Scalzo Foods Australia: - High-level Design for Citrix Cloud Hybrid on-prem solution Moray & Agnew Australia: - Citrix Cloud & Azure workloads design and built Asset Insure Australia - Citrix Cloud support and WEM deployment Citrix and Azure consultant : Projets : Energy Australia : Citrix XenApp 6.5 upgrade to XenApp 7.15 LTSR Scalzo Foods Australia: - High-level Design for Citrix Cloud Hybrid on-prem solution Moray & Agnew Australia: - Citrix Cloud & Azure workloads design and built Asset Insure Australia - Citrix Cloud support and WEM deployment

Senior Technical Consultant

• Dec 2017 - Jun 2019

Senior Technical Consultant specialising in Citrix Products Citrix Migration Projects : BUPA Health - Citrix XenApp 7.15 LTSR detailed design / Build and assist 3DHB - Citrix XenApp 7.18 Detailed Design / Operations Manual / DR design Department of Conservation HLD - Thin Client Migration Design Ministry of Justice Citrix Migration Project Ministry for Primary Industries - BrightsSign Design Senior Technical Consultant specialising in Citrix Products Citrix Migration Projects : BUPA Health - Citrix XenApp 7.15 LTSR detailed design / Build and assist 3DHB - Citrix XenApp 7.18 Detailed Design / Operations Manual / DR design Department of Conservation HLD - Thin Client Migration Design Ministry of Justice Citrix Migration Project Ministry for Primary Industries - BrightsSign Design

Co-Owner

• Jul 2017 - Mar 2019

Sci-Fi Themed Eatery Drinkery and Photography space based in Wellington New Zealand Sci-Fi Themed Eatery Drinkery and Photography space based in Wellington New Zealand

Senior Consultant

• Nov 2014 - Mar 2015

Senior Consultant

• Aug 2012 - Nov 2014

My Responsibilities: • Citrix virtualisation high level and detailed designs. • Citrix Infrastructure Assessments. • Customer presentations and workshops. • Status reporting and Vantive updates. • Technical workshops and workshop agendas. • Onsite assistance including troubleshooting and product deployments. • Project management tasks. • Risk memorandums, Statements of Work. • Runbook and as-build documentation. • Citrix Quality Assurance on Infrastructure Assessments and Designs for other consultants. Projects to date: • Department of Defence - Citrix® XenDesktop Detailed Design. • Department of Defence Science and Technology Organisation - Citrix® XenApp / Provisioning Services Detailed design. • Virgin Australia - Citrix® XenDesktop Detailed Design. • Virgin Australia - Citrix® Onsite Assistance. • InterOil - Citrix® XenDesktop Detailed design. • Department of finance - Citrix® onsite assistance. • People’s Choice Bank - Citrix® Infrastructure Assessment and Onsite Assistance. • Ensyst & TAL - Citrix® Abbreviated Infrastructure Assessment. • Bank of Queensland - Citrix® XenDesktop High Level design review. • NAHS - Citrix® Infrastructure Assessment and On-Site Assistance Project. • Gen-i & Department of Corrections - Citrix® Infrastructure Review Project. • University of Auckland - Citrix® XenDesktop Detailed Design. • Beyond Bank Australia - Citrix® On-Site Assistance Project. Show less

Technical Consultant

• Nov 2009 - Aug 2012

• Specialising in Citrix virtualization (XenApp/XenDesktop) design and implementations. • Citrix virtual desktop solutions.• Windows Server 2000/2008/2012 AD Group policy configuration. • High level & detailed designs / statement of work/ status reports.• Citrix Infrastructure Assessments (IA).• Technical workshops• Implementing proof of concepts (POC) on various Citrix Products.• Citrix product Runbook and training.• VMware vSphere Basic knowledge. • Citrix Provisioning Services (6.0/6.1) design and deployments.• Citrix Profile Manager Implementation.Xenapp 6 Rollout for CCSDA New Zealand Xenapp 6 Proof of Concept NZ POstXenapp 6.5 Rollout HBRC Citrix Migration Project XenApp 5/6.5 Provisioning server 6.0 IAG New ZealandXenapp 6.5 POC LINZ Show less

Senior Systems Support Engineer

• Jan 2009 - Nov 2010

Citrix Presentation server 4.0 Administrator for IAG New Zealand3rd level Server support 2003 BAU IBM Blades and IBM Director 5 and 6.2Application Support

Senior Systems Engineer

• Apr 2006 - Aug 2008

Project Carlsberg -On site @ Carlsberg Copenhagen for 15 months Date Sept 2006 to December 2007 o Citrix Presentation server 4.0 migration project. o Design, setup and support IBM Director version 5.10 o Design and deploy Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 testing environment. o UAT testing assistance on Citrix published applications. o Citrix application packaging testing on test farms in conjunction with an application packaging team, setting up test sessions with users in different countries to test the applications. o User migration from Citrix Presentation server XP to Citrix PS 4 environment for the following countries: Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. o Citrix Group Policy configuration and optimisation. o Design and setup a second Citrix farm dedicated for IBM call Centre in Dublin Ireland. o Support Citrix MetaFrame XP for Legacy users in UK and Norway, o Built documentation and handover training for Dublin support staff. Show less

Systems Administrator (Citrix )

• Nov 2005 - Jun 2006

Responsibilities: Citrix and Microsoft Systems Administrator for BP Global Part of a team of 25 engineers responsible for third level support for users based in United Kingdom and United States. The BP global Environment consist of +/- 3500 servers and 950 000 users in multiple BP domains running Microsoft server 2000 and 2003. On different hardware platforms such ad HP/Dell/IBM servers. Support remotely from Johannesburg South Africa, connecting via RDP to servers in different countries: • BAU second and third level support for Citrix Presentation Server 4.0. • Microsoft DHCP scope design / setup and support • Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 user support on 500 servers in multiple farms running in multiple zones. • Microsoft Active Directory user’s data and profile migrations. Show less

Team Leader / Senior Systems Engineer

• Nov 2003 - Oct 2005

Responsibilities: Consulting, managing and Support Responsible for new Clients on a terminal server and Citrix environment Responsible for Managing 10 Technical staff aka site controllers, it was more like a team leader role but I was in a management position Hands on and involved in all the project down below , worked with a small team that I managed 2nd level Exchange 2003/server 2000 and Citrix metaframe support for Regent Insurance ,Workstation Support on Win 95/98/ME/2000/XP and CE Complete Symantec Antivirus server and client rollouts Projects: Terminal server and Citrix Rollouts for 6 different Customers in South Africa Date: Jan 2004 to Feb 2005 Show less

Domain Administrator

• Sep 2003 - Nov 2003

Contracting in a team of 50+ systems administrators for ABSA Bank South Africa with over 45K domain users, domain maintenance 2nd level BAU support. AD account maintenance , Profile creation and user setup. Contracting in a team of 50+ systems administrators for ABSA Bank South Africa with over 45K domain users, domain maintenance 2nd level BAU support. AD account maintenance , Profile creation and user setup.

Technical Consultant

• Jan 2003 - Sep 2003

Responsibilities Compatibility audits, Remote support and Training Softbrands formally Fourth Shift (at time of employment) is a UK based company responisible for ERP applications running on Titanium database and SQL. 2nd level support for UK based customers on SoftBrands ERP systems. responsible for training customers and database administrators in the UK to utilize the SoftBrands ERP application in their environment, these training courses would last one week and hosted in Reading UK. Infrastructure Assessment and gap analysis for implementing the SoftBrands ERP systems. Show less

Systems Administrator

• Sep 2000 - Dec 2002

Virgin Active is South Africa’s biggest chain of fitness clubs with over 54 branches in Gauteng South Africa alone. Each Club have 2 servers and between 15 and 30 workstations running different versions of Microsoft. Responsibilities: BAU support, audits, and club visits • Responsible for maintaining 15 health clubs server and desktop infrastructure .Support and maintenance of workstations and printers hardware & software Installations • Microsoft Desktop support. Maintenance, updates and antivirus updates. • Replacement and maintenance tasks on Printers, Desktops and Monitors. • Windows Server 2000 support and maintenance tasks, updates, backups and user account maintenance. • IT auditing tasks. • Virgin Active application support and updates. Show less

IT Technician

• Nov 1999 - Sep 2000

ProCom is a small IT Company in a Tzaneen South Africa where I started my IT career doing Network cabling , Building workstations and servicing Printers , I worked in a team of 15 other technicians Responsibilities: Technician ,sales and repairs •Network Installations Coax and UTP 5 , patching and the actual installation of the cables •Hardware(PC) and Printer Sales , including Symantec, Microsoft windows 95 and 98 and office 97 software •Building workstations and installing operating systems and applications •LAN setups Show less