Joshua Groda

3942 banks Landing Court  |  Fulshear, TX 77441  |  (832) 409-9971  |  Joshua.groda@outlook.com

Objective

Experienced professional with a  proven track record of working on high level large scale projects looking to obtain a challenging information technology position that allows me to showcase my technical skills and leadership as it relates to technical planning and implementation, design and project work.

Skills Profile

-      Enterprise Virtualization systems, VMWare, Hyper-V, XenServer

-      Microsoft Server and affiliated Technologies

-      AWS and Azure Cloud IAAS Offerings

-      Large Scale Citrix Environments, XenApp and XenDeskop and associated technologies.

-      Red Hat based Linux administration

-      Planning and implementing large scale environments with an emphasis on technical documentation and compliance

-      Experience with Datacenter and networking stacks

-      Automation and Scripting, emphasis on PowerShell

Employment History

Technip - Cloud and Citrix Architect

9/1/2011 — Present

Houston, TX

-      Responsible for developing standards and creating documentation for wide release around cloud IAAS  standards for security, performance, and availability of Cloud IAAS solutions, focusing on AWS and Azure Services. Train and educate technical and business personnel about cloud offerings.

-      Design charge back models and service generation and request procedures for the business as it relates to cloud services.

-      Participated on project that successfully migrated on site backup solutions to utilize AWS S3 and Glacier

-      Architect and document Citrix XenApp and XenDeskop solutions for best practice in order to support business needs. This includes virtualization strategy, automation, application rationalization, image builds, and life cycle strategies.

-      Collapse numerous Citrix farms of various versions into a cohesive single farm. Extend Technip applications to new business units that were a result of mergers and acquisitions as well as joint venture partners.

-      Develop large scale Citrix environment for 3D applications for global workshare, with access to GRID hardware prior to general consumer release

-      Oversee Citrix technical team for their day to day responsibilities, set priorities, and manage tasks and workloads.

-      Manage virtual (VMWare) and physical design and logical infrastructure for Citrix Servers.

-      Work on project implementations of various non citrix services in a general Technical Architecture Capacity, such as the re-engineering of the DMZ, delivery of engineering application stacks, and creation of secure standalone environments for Joint Ventures with outside parties, and HPC solutions.

-      Create documentation for wide release around cloud IAAS standards. Train and educate technical and business personnel about cloud offerings.

Huntsman - Global Team lead/Virtualization Architect

5/1/2010 — 9/1/2011

The Woodlands, TX

-      Act as third level support for Wintel Based technology, focusing on VMware and Citrix.  Supported other teams technically for roll outs, implementations, POC and maintenance of the overall virtualization environment.

-      Acted as senior resource on team that led the effort for implementation of VMware globally, successfully migrating a completely physical 1500+ server environment to 95% virtualized. Generated Global standards documentation for VMWare implementation and ongoing operation of the environment.

-      Worked on design and implementation team that successfully collapsed globally over 10 Citrix farms into a single global farm utilizing PVS and APP-V.

-      Acted as Technical architect, evaluating all changes generated by team members before they went to global CAB to insure that proper technical assessments had been done and completed in regards to technical accuracy and scope, as well as ITIL procedures and Auditory compliance.

-      Worked as senior resource on team to complete project to implement large scale SAAS vendor Workday.

Consolidated Graphics

Citrix Architect/Senior Application Service Engineer

11/1/2009 — 5/1/2010

Houston, TX

-      Develop Citrix Strategy to unify local and remote work share application environments. Design and implement a Citrix infrastructure including NetScaler, XenApp, and PVS with App-v and Citrix Application virtualization

-      Oversaw day to day duties of Citrix Team as Team Lead

-      Linux Red hat General Management

-      Implemented Microsoft Certified Authority infrastructure.

-      Migrated DNS from Microsoft to BIND

-      Acted as Change Manager for application server changes.

U.S. Concrete

Senior Systems Administrator

7/1/2007 — 11/1/2009

Houston, TX

-      Manage Windows Server, Hyper-V, and VMWare and Cisco environments. Act as Senior Active Directory Resource. Oversaw Citrix implementation for remote work share.

-      Led effort to introduce server virtualization

-      Led effort to refresh all networking gear nationally across all remote sites

TekCom

Systems Engineer

8/1/2006 — 7/1/2007

Houston, TX

-      Worked as consultant for I.T provider for small businesses and County agencies primarily regarding windows server and Cisco networking environments.

Texas young Autism Project

I.T. Coordinator

7/1/2003 — 7/1/2006

-      Oversaw all aspects of IT, Desktop, Helpdesk, Server environments.

Schlumberger

Consultant \ Systems Engineer

7/1/2003 — 7/1/2006

-      Worked as consultant for internal I.T. and large scale clients such as Shell, Nestle and Chevron to roll out Schlumberger's enterprise PKI and smart card implementations focusing on windows and Citrix.

Galveston County

Systems Engineer

8/1/1997 — 7/1/1999

Galveston, TX

-      General I.T. Support for Microsoft server and Desktop environments.

-      Participated in Windows NT 4.0 Rollout and Common computer environment standardization.

Certifications

-      AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

-      AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

-      VMWare VCP Vsphere 4.1

-      VMWare VCP Vsphere 5

-      MCSE Server 2003

-      MCITP Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator

-      CCA Citrix Certified Administrator For Citrix Xendesktop

-      CCA Citrix Certified Administrator For Citrix Xenapp 5

-      CCA Citrix Certified Administrator Xenserver 6.0

-      CCA Citrix Certified Administrator For Citrix Xenapp 65

-      CCA Citrix Certified Advanced Administrator For Citrix Xenapp 65

-      CCEE Citrix Certified Enterprise Engineer

-      CCIA Citrix Certified Infrastructure Architect