Heading a VDI project "Desktop Anywhere" from Kuala Lumpur accountable for delivery & Operations.

Standard Chartered Bank is planning to migrate all Desktop/Laptops to VDI and upgrade to Win 10 in parallel. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a modern desktop technology, allowing Windows desktops and applications to be operated within secure Datacenter facilities, enabling many benefits, particularly around Security, Flexibility, and End User Productivity. VDI is the key enabling technology for A3 allowing SCB staff to access bank systems Anywhere, with Any Device, at Anytime in the most secure way. VDI enables automation of the desktop compute environment, for the entire user desktop compute lifecycle, from Birthright provisioning, to application installation and configuration, through to decommission of the user environment on exit from the bank. VDI is the key technology, enabling Software-defined-workspace, and ultimately migration of the desktop compute environment into the cloud. Existing desktops and laptops are physical devices which store data locally, thus exposing the bank to significant risk and risk and exposure. As the PCs are located across multiple locations, patching and security updates are a challenging and a time-consuming exercise which leaves the bank exposed to risk. Physical Infrastructure doesnt allow the bank to become an agile / flexible environment and thus the TCO of the desktop is higher. Remote working is limited to SCB devices and costs the bank more money than allowing users to bring their own devices.

ACCO Brands is planning the migration of their current SAP environment (within an on premise Data Center) to a hosted environment within the Azure Cloud. Simultaneously, an upgrade to the primary technologies of SAP will be targeted. ACCO Brands is planning to upgrade their SAP systems from the older versions to more recent SAP versions and hosting them in Azure Cloud platform which will result in a lower total cost of ownership and additional cost flexibilities. The new SAP environment on the Azure Cloud will support Development, Testing/Quality Assurance, and Production along with Disaster Recovery capabilities – for a total of 5 distinct environments, namely, DEV, SBX, QA, PROD, and DR. Based on limitation of SAP version hosting on Azure ARM, ASM based model will be used Responsibilities: This project includes creation of resources and provisioning of 70+ servers, setting up the storage and backups and backup policies for the servers that are created in azure ASM. Infrastructure analysis, Client discussion. Based on analysis, implemented new backup policies and modified existing policies for streamline storage issues. Providing End to End Support for different SAP landscape builds. Implemented storage design as per SAP requirement and worked on failover cluster and SIOS for SAP.

Worked on " Tech Refresh" Project for UBS client. Uplifting the hardware stack, VMWare 5.x & Citrix 5.x for delivering VDIs to UBS staff.

Worked on Azure cloud to migrate SAP servers to cloud.

Training on AWS

Tech Refresh for UBS: Tech Refresh project provides stability and better experience to UBS VDI users having Microsoft windows 7 with VMware Esxi 5.5 on the upgraded hardware (HP Virtual Connect Flex Fabrics with Gen9 blades) & all flash Storage solution Support with services include- Citrix Xen Desktop 5.5,5.6,7.6 Responsibilities: Planning and designing the POD builds by working with different teams right from paper work, rack mount to moving the PODs to production and supporting VDI infrastructure. Working on Projects and supporting BAU as L3. Supporting UBS RCAS VDI infrastructure by providing the cutting edge solutions for the stability and better user experience. Building PODs on HP Virtual connect flex 20s with the latest Gen 9 blade servers to deploy & migrate VDIs with upgraded specs & faster accessibility having Atlantis USX solution on NAS storage & HDS storage. Firmware upgrades on the latest Gen9 blades and working with HP directly for the FM compatibility issues. Configuring Flex 20s on HP Virtual Connect, creating uplinks, Ethernet & applying server profiles. POC for FAS8080 and HDS which delivers Performance, Reliability, and can Scale for Business-Critical Workloads. Staging Esxi 5.5 using scripts with PXE mode. Upgrading CPU, HDD via scripts. Working on ICV Remediation: Remediating the bank RCAS infrastructure to the standards of Vmware on Esxi Hosts, Virtual networks and Virtual machines. As per hardening document provided by standard Authority, prepared a plan to come up with scripts to remediate the RCAS infrastructure without having the downtime by making progress month on month with change in place.

In house private cloud for UHG using Cisco UCSM / Vsphere

Deploy, configure & Install & maintain using VMWare Vsphere for client "DOC project".