Waqas Khalid

About Waqas Khalid

Citrix certified Engineer with 8+ years of experience in the design, integration and implementation of complex virtual environments with in-depth experience with Citrix virtualization technologies.

Experience

1. Citrix Engineer

   StubHub

   Apr 2014 — Present

   Designed and Deployed Citrix XenApp 6.5/7.6 Farm project for users and 180 applications based on 400+ VMware servers based on ESXi 4.1/5.• Migrated environments from Presentation server 4.5 to XenApp 6 and finally to XenApp 6.5 involving more than 200+ Production VMware ESXi 5 servers.• Migration of 200 Citrix Servers from XenApp 5 to XenApp 6.5 without disturbing the old environment for 52 different applications.• Major role in redesigning Citrix architectures for improved performance as well as designed new farms for better application virtualization.• Deployed Extending XenApp 6.0/6.5 Farm strategy rapidly by installing and configuring Citrix PVS 5.6/6.0/6.1.• Tier 2 support role for maintaining and troubleshooting Citrix Presentation and XenApp farms with concurrent users and 180 applications. • Troubleshoot end user Citrix application access issues to other complicated presentation server related issues.• Redesigned Citrix architecture for improving Citrix end user experience over the WAN and increased printing speeds as well.• Managing 50 virtual machines used for both Citrix and Windows Core Administration Infrastructure Services.

Education

• University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

  Bachelor's degree, Electronics & Communication Engineering

Skills

• Thinapp
• Vmware Vsphere
• Vmware
• Citrix Xendesktop
• Vmware Esx
• Storefront
• Citrix Metaframe
• Citrix
• Netscaler
• Vmware Infrastructure
• Citrix Xenapp
• Active Directory
• Windows Server