Ahmad Irffan

Working as HCI Consultant for world renowned healthcare organization Pfizer Belgium. As onsite consultant helping customer to achieve IT automation goals using Nutanix Prism Self Service integrated with Jira,ansible. Creating Blueprint, Runbooks & playbooks.Setting DR environment with capability cross cluster VM live migration. cross hypervisor VM migration, replications. 11 clusters upgrade from 5.20 to 6.5LTD in zero downtime. Prism Central 2022 to 2023 migration. Migration of Karbon cluster to new PC. Destroy and Rebuild cluster to lower RF3 to RF2 while keeping Rack Awareness.

High-Security Infrastructure: Managed and optimized a complex Citrix farm within a strictly regulated banking environment, ensuring 99.9% availability for mission-critical financial applications. • Agile way Migration Project: Created Project plan as per Scrum EPIC, Story and PBIs with story point estimation to Migrate Legacy CVAD to Latest Citrix LTSR version to run on Nutanix, Cisco ACI, SCCM, Ivanti. • Environment Segregation: Expertly managed zone-based architectures to separate development, UAT, and production workloads, adhering to stringent internal audit and security policies. • Performance Tuning: Conducted deep dive troubleshooting of VDI performance bottlenecks, resulting in improved application responsiveness for global banking operations. • Audit Readiness: Maintained comprehensive documentation and infrastructure hardening standards to meet European financial regulatory requirements.

On the Payrole of CES Antwerp, working for different Belgium Banking Financial Services & Insurance giants to design, revamp or run EUC platform using Azure, Citrix, VMware, Nutanix, and Microsoft windows products.

Custodian of Citrix infra of du telecom in UAE. Managing projects, Operation and System Integration for Citrix products (Xenapp, VDI, netscaler ADC on SDX MPX VPX, PVS) one Xenserver and VMware builts with HP enclosures and EMC storage also Nutanix HCI with AHV all all flash storage. Citrix Xenmobile EMM solution and sharefile with SAML IDP and Netscaler VPX as access gateway. Accomplished:- Migration of Citrix 6.5 Infra to Citrix CVAD 1912 infra on Nutanix HCI. GSLB active active site from planning to go live. 2factor authentication integration for Netscaler access gateways Citrix PVS migration from 6.1 to 7.6 for 11vdisk with reverse imaging. Multiple netscaler HA pair version upgrade from 9.x to 12.1.x.x current ver. StoreFront upgrades from 2.6 to 3.18 PCI DSS security compliance with A certificate on ssllabs.com for entire citrix infra. Penetration Tested and complaint environment to ensure zero penetration.

Working as Citrix, VMware and Nutanix Presales and Solution consultant. •Create, present, and implement competitive solutions by partnering with customers - analyze needs, gather specifications and situation requirements, work with business development personnel to create effective solutions specifically tailored to the specific customer account. •Write and review customer solution documents, RFP response, and Review cost estimates for project planning and customer adaptations. •Effective & Successful proof of Concepts (POCs) implementation of Citrix, VMware and Nutanix products. •Post Sales Project Plan for Assess, Design, and Integration. •Project Documentation such as Handbook, RunBook, Installation/Solution Document. •Drive Business and Service Layer development with the customer by finding new opportunities based on expanding existing solutions as well as creating new ones. •Citrix xendesktop 7.6 VDI solution on Nutanix Cluster with HyperV managed via Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), also Nutanix with ESXi cluster. •Citrix Netscaler as Monitored Load Balancer and External SSL Gateway/VPN.

Worked as consultant for UKAR, presenting solutions on long pending and nagging issues, Citrix Xendesktop Migration from legacy 4.5 to Citrix Xendektop 7.5. Citrix environment assessment/review and submit report Ensuring Citrix Edgesight usability as support tool for BAU team Citrix User Performance Optimization in purview of VMware, Netapp, Network and DB

The GT&T is Ericsson Global program for Regions to drive efficiency improvements according to their tactical plans (TRCP) and covers three major types of activities: • Off-shoring according to contracts: • Off-shoring per Competence Domain: • Local efficiencies As Project Manager - Transition & Transformation: Project starting up and Initiation: • Working with Region to help achieve their Offshoring Targets and Hiring avoidance offshoring after SDPs (Sales Decision Points) • Working with Engagement Practices (EP) team to identify location where work can be transferred • Working with Resource Managers (RM) to understand resource availability • Working with Line Management (LM) to understand resource Man Hour Rate & competency for the available work • Working with Learning & Competency Development department (L&CD) to understand trainings availability, schedule and cost estimate • Preparing project Business Case and ramp up plan after the input available from EP, RM, LM and L&CD • Preparing TG2 Deck for Steering Group approval for project. Deck has Project Specification, Budget, Time Plan, Risk Register and various other project artifacts • Calling Pre-TG2 meeting to build consensus before TG2 call (Decision to start project execution) • Getting TG2 approved, and call for Project Initiation meeting with project stakeholders (LM,RM,EP and Sending Line) to specify RACI matrix and communication process in project Project Execution: • Setting up and running Weekly Project status call with project stakeholders • Meetings with Talent Acquisition team • Risk Review and update risk register • Preparing for TG3 if needed (Continue execution after Scope, Time or Budget change) Project Control: • Monitoring and Control – Scope, Cost, Schedule Project Closure: • Preparing ORT (Operational Readiness Tracking) • WLA/SLA documentation between Ericsson India and Region • Calling Pre TG4 call to build consensus on Project Closure initiation meeting (TG4 & TG5 meeting)

As MSDP specialist working in close co-ordination with Project Managers, Solution Architects, Delivery Managers/Heads and Process Quality Managers for Citrix Infrastructure and VMware infrastructure design, review, capacity and stability. • ESX4.1/3.5 Management. • Citrix Infrastructure management, Managing Citrix Secure/Access Gateway, Citrix NetScaler and Password Manager Deployment. • Worked with Citrix consulting for Citrix VDI implementation for 60 concurrent users with environment scalable to 1000 users • Creating/Managing and configuring Virtual Machines, working with Clone and Templates, managing Virtual Machine migration and Snapshots • Resolving Virtual Machine day to day Networking and storage issues • Design and Review Citrix Edgesight Monitoring solution for Citrix environment • NetApp Storage Management via DFM

Senior Specialist responsible for Citrix Infrastructure Management of Ceva Logistic and EMI Music. Wintel (Citrix/VMware): • Citrix Infrastructure management, Citrix Secure Gateway and Access Gateway deployment. • Citrix infrastructure set up, Citrix Licensing, Load balancing, User Policy management. Printer management, Citrix Web Interface, Citrix Password Manager Management. • Problem Management role on demand, to write Root Cause Analysis and submit Request for Change (RFC). • Virtual Center server troubleshooting, ESX host and Virtual Machine management, • Taking care of any VMs P2V, VMs datastore migration (VMotion), VMware ESX server Admin tasks