Ahmad Irffan, Presales and Solution Engineer - Citrix,VMware, Nutanix

Ahmad Irffan

Presales and Solution Engineer - Citrix,VMware, Nutanix

Citrix Gold Partner Riyadh

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Technology - Telecommunication and electronics
Experience
18 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 6 Months

Presales and Solution Engineer - Citrix,VMware, Nutanix at Citrix Gold Partner Riyadh
  • India
  • My current job since February 2015

• Create, present, and implement competitive solutions by partnering with customers - analyze needs, gather specifications and situational 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.
• Drive Business and Service Layer development with the customer by finding new opportunities based on expanding existing solutions as well as creating new ones.

Consultant - Citrix, VMware at HCL Technologies Limited
  • India - Delhi
  • January 2014 to February 2015

As Citrix Consultant presenting solutions on long pending and nagging issues,
Citrix environment assessment/review and submit report.
Working with BAU team to raise RFC and get new changes implemented.
Ensuring Citrix Edgesight usability as support tool for BAU team.
Citrix User Performance Optimization in purview of VMware, Netapp, Network and DB.
Citrix XenDesktop 7.5 Implementation.

Senior Engineer / Project Manager at Ericsson India Limited
  • India - Delhi
  • May 2010 to December 2013

As End User Computing 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.

Senior Specialist - Citrix, VMware at HCL Technologies Limited
  • India - Delhi
  • April 2009 to May 2010

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
• Virtual Center server troubleshooting, ESX host and Virtual Machine management,
• VMs P2V, VMs datastore migration (VMotion), VMware ESX server Admin tasks and command line troubleshooting

Subject Matter Expert at FCS Software Solution Limited
  • India - Delhi
  • November 2004 to March 2008

Started as Technical Support Executive and later promoted as Subject Matter Expert.
As Subject Matter Expert:
• Prioritizing, tracking and taking escalations
• Meet Service Level Agreement (SLA) and metrics
• Team SPOC
• Actively participated in account Transition Process and knowledge transfer
• Citrix infrastructure management, VMware Virtual Machine system Administration
• Windows2003 server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Technology - Telecommunication and electronics
  • at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology
  • July 2005

Specialties & Skills

nutanix
Citrix Certified Administrator
VMware ESX
Technical Presales
Window 2003/2008/2012
Storage - Netapp, Nutanix
IT Service Management - ITSM
VMware ESX 4.1, Virtual Machine Administration
Citrix Product range - Xenapp, Xendesktop, Netscaler, VDI

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

ITIL V3 Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
January 9999
Vmware certified professional 4.1 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
January 9999
Citrix Certified Administrator Xedesktop 5.x (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
January 9999
citrix certified administrator xenapp 5.0 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2008
Valid Until:
January 9999
Prince2 Certified Project Manage (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999