Gopi Manickavasagam

• Operations & Transformation
• Created dynamic and high potential team with diverse skill and experience to transform and operate DC & Cloud environment
• Managing People budget of 3 Mil, Tech budget 1.5 Mil
• Vendor and Partner Management
• IT infrastructure Services delivery
• Private and Public Cloud operation
• Leading team of Journey to cloud & smart cloud transformation
• Leading team of DC consolidation and re platform
• Determining and defining clear deliverables and alter it effectively when needed .

• More then 7 Local Data Centers had been consolidated to single DC/Azure
• Manage and maintain existing LDC resources for project ready state, without impacting BAU
• Responsible for internal SLA with Vendors and Customer-agreed SLA
• Performed compatibility component suite from bare Metal to Application layer for migration ready .
• Collaborating with BAU Technical Leads (VM/Wintel/storage/Network/Firewall) for LDC to DC/Azure changes

• Successfully completed Citrix Transitions for UK's second large bank.
• Providing solutions for virtualizing Apps using Citrix Xenapp/Xendesktop .
• Find the solutions to deploy applications in Citrix using AppV, MSI or Standard installation
• Extensive test for critical applications in Dev and Pre prod environment in the short duration before Prod
• Design/Create the User security group for Citrix
• Resolving Application issue which have failed in Dev and Pre prod environment
• Managing and Maintain the VDI infrastructure

· Administration & Production Support of large Citrix Farms.

· Administration & Maintenance of PS 4.0,PS 4.5 and Xen Apps 6.0,5.0 Citrix Farms.

· Troubleshooting problems in Citrix & Windows 2003 with different severity levels.

· Troubleshooting of issues related to Citrix Farms Servers, Printing, ICA clients, WI, Terminal Services, and Configuration Logging etc.

· Daily and Weekly maintenance of Citrix servers, WI & (Reboots, profiles cleanup…).

Handling Severity incidents – Business Critical issues related to Citrix and Windows