Public Worldwide Group in the Fortune 1000, Citrix creates software that allows individual of an enterprise to work and collaborate remotely regardless of device and network within the main areas of desktop and apps, cloud and software as a service (SaaS).
Establish the Vision, Frameworks, Capabilities, Principles and Budget of the World-Wide Citrix Laboratory
Responsible for the Laboratory capital and operation expenditure. Approve purchase requests and orders.
Manager, responsible for supervising, leading, coaching, directing and evaluating the Global Laboratory team members.
Establish Lab Architecture and implementation roadmap.
Primary Product Architect of the Global lab deployments of the entire Citrix portfolio and third party products.
Report to Citrix Senior leadership/VPs.
Responsible for functioning as Member of the Citco Technology Management Enterprise System, Application, Data Architecture and R&D Team. Reporting to C-levels.
PoC and Prototype of IaaS OpenStack with:
o Cisco Metapod, RedHat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, Mirantis OpenStack, HPE Helion OpenStack
PoC and Prototype of PaaS with:
o OpenShift Enterprise, CloudFoundry Pivotal, Docker, Kubernetes, Marathon, Chronos, Zookeeper Framework Mesos
PoC Public Cloud provider: AWS and Azure
Efficiently purchased new hardware maintained, administrated, installed & organized a laboratory dedicated for experiments, evaluation, proof of concept, benchmarks and other tests
Conducted Financial Analysis, ROI and calculate TCO
Successfully developed Template, Documentation & Processes for Architecture Work entailing standard documentation & review of MS-SQL, WAS/Websphere, Windows Server, Oracle Database, JBoss and VMware standardization documentation
Introduced a Configuration Management tool to the Operation and Development teams:
o Evaluation of Puppet, Chef and Ansible, for finally choosing Ansible
o Creation of the Citco Ansible Technology Standards and define the Pipeline/Workflow for development with Atlassian Bitbucket, Bamboo, jFrog Artifactory and Vagrant
Organized Oracle Exadata X3-8 training carried out in-memory database research of alternatives and evaluate investment
Assigned with a budget of $250K to reference a future storage and backup architecture:
o Recruited consultants for a period of 4 months to work on the current and future state and finally deliver designs, reference architecture document valid for the coming 5 years
o Used Arxview (from Arxscan) to assess the current storage environment, vCops for the VMware platform, NetBackup 7.5 Operations Manager for the backup
o Involved in vendor selection and governing the implementation of future state architecture design
o Introduced EMC DataDomain, NetBackup Appliance, ScaleIO and Network 10G Technologies
Carried out research of BPM tools to select for PoC: Bonitasoft, Intalio, jBPM and BRMS, IBM BPM Advanced Edition, Appian, Tibco, PegaSystem with installation, administration and simple process development in BPMN2 for a demonstration purpose to the business stakeholder chose to implement Tibco BPM and SOA
Planned & organized Solaris 11.2 Hands-On Training encompassing creation of the Citco Solaris 11 Standards, Installation Operation Guide
Actively involved in:
o Oracle 10g/11gR2/12c Installation and Administration, ASM, RAC and EM configuration
o VMware ESXi vSphere 5-6, RHEV 3 KVM oVirt Installation and Administration for the lab environment
o DRDB, cLVM, GFS2, Ceph, RADOS, Docker, OpenStack, Cumulus Tests
o Private Cloud Product Research for DevOps environment, and Microservice development
o Prototyping MongoDB NoSQL and Hadoop Cloudera solution
Provided the last line of internal support on Unix/Linux, Storage, Network, Hypervisor, Tomcat, Java and Configuration Management
Actively involved in spearheading solution architecture design and documentation functions of CA IdentityMinder 12 identity management platform, Oracle E-Business 12 HCM, NICE Actimize 5 AML and SAM, Digiterre Communica CRM, Aerohive Enterprise Citco Wifi, Application Performance Management Compuware DynaTrace 5.6, Automate complex data processes & requirements WSI Xceptor Data Hub 3.3 and Enterprise Owncloud 8 File Exchange
Deftly:
o Designed new solutions such as ERP, Anti-Money Laundry, CRM, etc.
o Handled laboratory operations viz. PoC, Benchmarks, Prototype, Technology Evaluation
Contributions towards:
o Restructuring the operational team to support the DevOps initiative and the storage, backup and cloud infrastructure
o Implementing Solaris 11, Linux, Ansible and Owncloud Standards
o Operational data store research and Cloudera Big Data tests
A worldwide group leader of independent financial service providers serving the world&rsquos elite hedge funds, private equity and real estate firms, institutional banks, Global 1000 companies and high net worth individuals.
Accountable for overseeing wide gamut of tasks involved in FRS Global Report Generator Technical Architecture Design & Documentation for the Citco Bank Nerderlands Luxembourg Offices.
Pivotal in installation & testing of:
o RHEV VDI solution with SPICE protocol and VMware Horizon View with PCoIP
o Tomcat7 Clustering/Session Replication with on front-end an Apache server configured with mod_jk
o Liferay on top and validation of the all Architecture validating the new portal ******** release
Significant contributions towards creation of the:
o Citco Tomcat7 and Tomcat6 Standards and Installation Operation Guide
o Citco Red Hat 6 Standards, Installation Operation Guide and RPM Creation Standards
o Citco Linux Security Standards
o Citco Hardware Standards
Instrumental in handling following activities:
o VDI research on hyper-converged infrastructure, Nutanix, Symplivity and VCE.
o Architecture design of the Citco Online Portal
o Instituting Tomcat and Java Standards
o Starting an Architecture team