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Nicholas Stapley
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Offering boutique consultancy services to a wide range of clients and incumbents.
Specializing in the design and delivery of leading-edge Virtualization solutions, facilitated by a synergy of consultants each specializing in their chosen fields. We offer a niche, bespoke service ensuring that our client's business objectives are clearly defined, understood, and expectations exceeded by designing non-cookie cutter, truly organic, professional solutions.
Specialties: Citrix, Microsoft, and Visualization Technologies, working on leading-edge Enterprise-class Cloud solutions.
Specializing in the design and delivery of leading-edge Virtualization solutions, facilitated by a synergy of consultants each specializing in their chosen fields. We offer a niche, bespoke service ensuring that our client's business objectives are clearly defined, understood, and expectations exceeded by designing non-cookie cutter, truly organic, professional solutions.
Specialties: Citrix, Microsoft, and Visualization Technologies, working on leading-edge Enterprise-class Cloud solutions.
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2017 - ?
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Technical Strategic Specialist
ULTIMA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS.
I have been collaborating with Ultima since 2005 on an adhoc/as-required basis, providing technical pre-sales and consultancy for a variety of projects and skillsets. Currently providing EUC Consultancy consisting of Solution designs, implementations, and support.
Working with the Enterprise Account Director qualifying requirements, seeking appropriate resource, and managing the engagement of high-end consultants particularly within the field of Citrix and Virtualisation expertise.
Working with the Enterprise Account Director qualifying requirements, seeking appropriate resource, and managing the engagement of high-end consultants particularly within the field of Citrix and Virtualisation expertise.
Citrix, Sales, Support, Enterprise
2017 - 2017
freelance
Citrix Consultant
AVIS BUDGET GROUP.
Approached directly by Avis to engage on a critical project to facilitate secure remote access for the Bulgarian supplier payments team to the existing Citrix XenDesktop 7.12 environment via F5 devices.
Held initial workshops to establish the exact business requirements and then to thrash out various solution strategies.
Uncovered major environment issues, VDI corruption, which resulted in having to think outside of the box to find a suitable workaround to facilitate the tight deadlines.
Re-engineered Group Policies, and developed new Citrix Studio policies to meet the lockdown requirements.
Documented the design updates, put these through change control, produced a Pock strategy and User Acceptance Test plan
Managed to produce a working solution within budget and before time expected timescales.
Held initial workshops to establish the exact business requirements and then to thrash out various solution strategies.
Uncovered major environment issues, VDI corruption, which resulted in having to think outside of the box to find a suitable workaround to facilitate the tight deadlines.
Re-engineered Group Policies, and developed new Citrix Studio policies to meet the lockdown requirements.
Documented the design updates, put these through change control, produced a Pock strategy and User Acceptance Test plan
Managed to produce a working solution within budget and before time expected timescales.
Design, Budget, Citrix, Test, Workshops, VDI
2016 - 2017
freelance
Citrix Consultant
SALFORD ROYAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST.
Representing VIQU Consultancy Services, offering technical assurance, strategic guidance, and high-level support during a mission critical migration from an existing XenApp 6.5 environment to a new XenApp 7.6 LTSR solution hosting 4,000+ users. Key areas of responsibility:
1. Performed a health check and review of the proposed new environment; produced a comprehensive report detailing the areas of concern along with remediation recommendations
2. Implement the recommended changes; VDA Optimizations, GPO changes, etc.
3. Produced solutions to the following challenges:
a. Migrate existing 2008R2 User Profiles from old to new environment, had to utilize a bespoke technique to facility this as the profile codebase between 2008R2 and 2012R2 are incompatible
b. Ensure that User Disconnect/Idle timeouts can be targeted and filtered per User Groups, previously their strategy was to rollout specific Worker group VMs
c. PNA Shortcut targeting has changed between IMA and FMA - it is now more challenging to facilitate, I developed a framework solution which facilitate only one icon being generated on the client's start menu without using complex workarounds
4. Provided on-call 4th line support throughout the user migration progress troubleshooting and providing solutions/recommendations to numerous challenging issues as they arose
Overall, the complex highly-pressured migration went very smoothly with minimal serious issues - allowing the NHS Staff throughout their departments, A&E etc., to continue to perform their tasks without interruption.
1. Performed a health check and review of the proposed new environment; produced a comprehensive report detailing the areas of concern along with remediation recommendations
2. Implement the recommended changes; VDA Optimizations, GPO changes, etc.
3. Produced solutions to the following challenges:
a. Migrate existing 2008R2 User Profiles from old to new environment, had to utilize a bespoke technique to facility this as the profile codebase between 2008R2 and 2012R2 are incompatible
b. Ensure that User Disconnect/Idle timeouts can be targeted and filtered per User Groups, previously their strategy was to rollout specific Worker group VMs
c. PNA Shortcut targeting has changed between IMA and FMA - it is now more challenging to facilitate, I developed a framework solution which facilitate only one icon being generated on the client's start menu without using complex workarounds
4. Provided on-call 4th line support throughout the user migration progress troubleshooting and providing solutions/recommendations to numerous challenging issues as they arose
Overall, the complex highly-pressured migration went very smoothly with minimal serious issues - allowing the NHS Staff throughout their departments, A&E etc., to continue to perform their tasks without interruption.
C, Citrix, It, Hosting, Support, Health, Framework
2016 - 2016
freelance
Citrix Consultant
TOTAL COMPUTER SERVICES (TCS) LTD.
Representing TCS at various clients designing, implementing and supporting Enterprise-class Citrix solutions.
Working for Citrix Consulting Services (CCS) on-site at the Metropolitan Police to offer on-site assistance to try and resolve numerous service impacting issues.
Deep-dive analyse, and forensic troubleshooting identified many faults/bugs with the underlying infrastructures; ranging from the Netscape's, to the Hyper-V, Citrix Delivery Controllers, Storefront Servers and the provisioned Windows 7 VDI operating systems.
Following extensive testing, the services impacting issues were finally resolved and the project rollout was able to proceed as planned.
Working for Citrix Consulting Services (CCS) on-site at the Metropolitan Police to offer on-site assistance to try and resolve numerous service impacting issues.
Deep-dive analyse, and forensic troubleshooting identified many faults/bugs with the underlying infrastructures; ranging from the Netscape's, to the Hyper-V, Citrix Delivery Controllers, Storefront Servers and the provisioned Windows 7 VDI operating systems.
Following extensive testing, the services impacting issues were finally resolved and the project rollout was able to proceed as planned.
Consulting, Citrix, Service, Windows, Hyper-V, Testing, VDI, Enterprise
2012 - 2015
freelance
Citrix Consultant
Technical Governance.
Since returning to the UK I have been commissioned by various incumbents, including Citrix Consultancy Service UK (CCS), working on various XenApp and XenDesktop projects offering Technical Governance, Mentoring, and implementation/support services. Main achievements include:
Mentoring, Citrix, Service, Implementation, Support
2015 - 2015
job
commissioned my services
DX Group.
Jan 2015• May 2015 - Citrix Consultancy.
DX had a time critical requirement to migrate services from a legacy internally hosted datacentre to a new fully managed datacentre. The end-to-end solution comprised circa 250 individual components, one such critical component to the success of the project was the underlying Citrix environment, which was the main access portal for all users.
DX had internally built the existing Citrix solution in an organic approach, so there was plenty of complexity and non-standardisation across the Farm including the Application layer which contained many legacy/dirty applications and configurations making a migration very challenging. DX commissioned me to design and implement the new Citrix Greenfield environment to enable a parallel migration. My tasks included creating the entire Citrix estate end to end, along with assisting the applications teams and handover to operations. This project was high-pressured and came with a one-off migration opportunity over the Easter weekend as this was the only permitted time (once a year) when any downtime could be organised.
Thankfully, owing to the entire teams' awesome efforts and due-diligence the migration was a complete success. Following on from this project DX commissioned my services for a further four weeks to setup another Citrix solution for a separate business division utilising the new Citrix Blueprint standards that had been developed.
DX are now benefitting from new modular and centrally controlled Citrix solutions, which conform to best-practices and ensure the best end to end performances for an enhanced end user experience.
DX had a time critical requirement to migrate services from a legacy internally hosted datacentre to a new fully managed datacentre. The end-to-end solution comprised circa 250 individual components, one such critical component to the success of the project was the underlying Citrix environment, which was the main access portal for all users.
DX had internally built the existing Citrix solution in an organic approach, so there was plenty of complexity and non-standardisation across the Farm including the Application layer which contained many legacy/dirty applications and configurations making a migration very challenging. DX commissioned me to design and implement the new Citrix Greenfield environment to enable a parallel migration. My tasks included creating the entire Citrix estate end to end, along with assisting the applications teams and handover to operations. This project was high-pressured and came with a one-off migration opportunity over the Easter weekend as this was the only permitted time (once a year) when any downtime could be organised.
Thankfully, owing to the entire teams' awesome efforts and due-diligence the migration was a complete success. Following on from this project DX commissioned my services for a further four weeks to setup another Citrix solution for a separate business division utilising the new Citrix Blueprint standards that had been developed.
DX are now benefitting from new modular and centrally controlled Citrix solutions, which conform to best-practices and ensure the best end to end performances for an enhanced end user experience.
Design, User Experience, Operations, Citrix, Portal, ME
2014 - 2014
job
Program Architect VDI
unknown.
Reporting to the Program Manager - accountable for defining architectural Solution Outlines for major programs and projects, acting as a design authority to ensure that all proposed solutions are consistent with the approved architectural standards and that all business and IT requirements are being met. Managed the resolution of architectural risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies to minimise impacts to the solutions integrity. Presenting to the Design Authority Board, and business Stakeholders progress, issue, and general status of the program from a technical perspective.
Technologies: 8k+ users Citrix XenDesktop VDi solution, PvS, AppSense, Hyper-V, Cisco Flexpods, Netapp storage, Hybrid - Wyse - and BYOD devices facilitated via Netscaler portals.
Technologies: 8k+ users Citrix XenDesktop VDi solution, PvS, AppSense, Hyper-V, Cisco Flexpods, Netapp storage, Hybrid - Wyse - and BYOD devices facilitated via Netscaler portals.
Design, Cisco, Citrix, Hyper-V, It, Presenting, Storage, VDI, NetScaler, Hybrid, Manager
2012 - 2012
job
CPA
Four Seasons Hotels.
May 2012- Commissioned to rescue their new failing XenApp 6.5 Farm, which was suffering from numerous issues including poor WAN performance, and printing problems.
Certified Practising Accountants (CPA) Feb 2012 - Based in Melbourne, commissioned by DSG to design and implement a new resilient PvS 6.1 Solution hosted on vSphere 5 for the streaming of new XA 6.5 and 5.0 Farms accessed by ~650 users across 10 sites.
Certified Practising Accountants (CPA) Feb 2012 - Based in Melbourne, commissioned by DSG to design and implement a new resilient PvS 6.1 Solution hosted on vSphere 5 for the streaming of new XA 6.5 and 5.0 Farms accessed by ~650 users across 10 sites.
Design, Streaming, WAN
2009 - 2012
freelance
Citrix Consultant
Cloud and Virtualisation technologies.
Based in Sydney for the past two and a half years, offering freelance consultancy services to various consultancies including Citrix Consulting Services (CCS), specialising in Cloud and Virtualisation technologies, along with settings up and mentoring a new Citrix Practise for Applaud Services to help them redefine their Citrix Standards and Methodologies along with Designing and Implementing a new DaaS solution for their Cloud based offerings.
Work also involved various projects for numerous clients, including; Designing and implementation leading-edge Citrix XenApp 6/6.5, XenServer 5/6, XenDesktop 5.0/5.5, and App-V 4.6+ infrastructures to offer rapid Windows 7 migrations. XenApp Healthchecks, Security Modelling, User Profile Management, DR Readiness, Printing Topologies, etc. Main projects included:
Work also involved various projects for numerous clients, including; Designing and implementation leading-edge Citrix XenApp 6/6.5, XenServer 5/6, XenDesktop 5.0/5.5, and App-V 4.6+ infrastructures to offer rapid Windows 7 migrations. XenApp Healthchecks, Security Modelling, User Profile Management, DR Readiness, Printing Topologies, etc. Main projects included:
Mentoring, Cloud, Management, Consulting, Citrix, Windows, Security, Implementation, App, UP
2008 - 2009
job
Technical Specialist
NRMA.
XenServer/XenApp/Softgrid 4.5 (App-v) TA (Citrix XenApp 5 Suite)
Working internally for the NRMA based in North Sydney. Technical Specialist brought in to help the NRMA improve on their existing Citrix Farms and related infrastructures, projects included:
• Forensic analysis of existing farms, reported on numerous issues and concerns with recommendations where applicable
• User Profile redesign; Managed Profiles
• Complete OU/GPO Security Re-design
• Printing Topology Re-design; UniPrint
Working internally for the NRMA based in North Sydney. Technical Specialist brought in to help the NRMA improve on their existing Citrix Farms and related infrastructures, projects included:
• Forensic analysis of existing farms, reported on numerous issues and concerns with recommendations where applicable
• User Profile redesign; Managed Profiles
• Complete OU/GPO Security Re-design
• Printing Topology Re-design; UniPrint
Design, Citrix, Security, App, Redesign
2003 - 2006
temp
Technical Architect
EDS.
Largest Citrix Server Farm running on Windows 2003 in Europe to date (10,000 Users)
Based in the Technical Design Office (TDO), responsible for the Technical Design and Authoring (Following strict EDS Documentation Standards) of the Server Based Computing (SBC) Solution for Barclays Bank, the largest deployment of Citrix in Europe.
Multi-zone, 250 Applications, 500 Citrix Servers, 10,000 concurrent users
Member of Project Team responsible for scoping, analysing, designing, and implementing the entire SBC solution hosted within a highly secure Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain.
Responsible for Design and Implementation of:
Citrix Metaframe 1.0 FR3 Phase 2: Citrix Access Suite 3.0 / 4.0 (Development)
- Still in use to this day, I was involved in this project from start to finish (3 years) and was responsible for all HLD and LLD authoring and operations handover during that period.
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Based in the Technical Design Office (TDO), responsible for the Technical Design and Authoring (Following strict EDS Documentation Standards) of the Server Based Computing (SBC) Solution for Barclays Bank, the largest deployment of Citrix in Europe.
Multi-zone, 250 Applications, 500 Citrix Servers, 10,000 concurrent users
Member of Project Team responsible for scoping, analysing, designing, and implementing the entire SBC solution hosted within a highly secure Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain.
Responsible for Design and Implementation of:
Citrix Metaframe 1.0 FR3 Phase 2: Citrix Access Suite 3.0 / 4.0 (Development)
- Still in use to this day, I was involved in this project from start to finish (3 years) and was responsible for all HLD and LLD authoring and operations handover during that period.
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Design, Operations, Active Directory, Deployment, Citrix, Windows, Implementation, Development, Office, Server, Citrix server
2006 - 2006
freelance
Citrix Consultant
SCHLUMBERGER.
(Citrix Access Suite 4.x)
Technical Authority for the complete PS4 infrastructure
Working for Schlumberger for their client BG Group PLC. Responsible for determining the business requirements and scoping the design through to implementation and Operational handover.
Develop a new Presentation Server 4 Farm along with the required infrastructure:
• AD Integration: OU/GPO Design Topology
• Citrix Deployment: Automate the installation of Citrix with the latest hot fixes applied based on server role
• User Profile Management: Design and configured a Managed Profile Solution to offer optimal performance and stability
• Web Interface 4.2: NLB Cluster Design Strategy with centralised WI Configuration
• SQL DS: Clustered with auto-replication to "HOT-swap shop" DR Site
• Scripting: Creation of user logon scripts and application launch scripts to fit required business models
• Server Builds: DL380G4 Rapid Racking, creation and deployment of a new Window 2003 Server build using Altiris imaging coupled with automated scripting techniques
• WSUS v3 (BETA): Design and configuration of WSUS to ensure all servers are patched to the desired levels
• Printer management: Policy design and configuration, driver replication topology and standardisation techniques
• Virtualisation: Design and configured server virtualisation strategy to enable the resilience of specific application license servers, using the latest version of VMWare Server
Oct 2005 - Feb 2006 HP (CONTRACT) Citrix SME CCIA (Citrix Access Suite 4.x)
Citrix FR2/FR3 to PS4 Migration, 5k users
Working on site at Vodafone (Newbury) on behalf of HP. Responsible for the design and implementation of the migration from their existing FR2 and FR3 farms to Citrix PS4.
Multi-zone, 500 Applications, 600 Citrix Servers, 5,000 concurrent users
• Citrix Access Suite 4.0 inc the latest MS and Citrix Patch levels (as of 31-12-05)
• Clustered Citrix License Server
• NLB and Site resilient Web Interface 4.0 coupled with Round-Robin DNS Strategy
• Created custom scripts to automate the upgrade process from FR2/FR3 to PS4.0 including the automatic deployment of all pre-requisite software
• Liaised with software vendors and Vodafone business to ensure application compliancy
• Produced a complete software and hardware audit of all farm members to determine scope of work, using self-developed methodologies
• Prepared and cleaned member servers in preparation of in place upgrade (inc. Zone Consolidation, and Data Store validation)
• Developed upgrade schedule and raised change control requests
Technical Authority for the complete PS4 infrastructure
Working for Schlumberger for their client BG Group PLC. Responsible for determining the business requirements and scoping the design through to implementation and Operational handover.
Develop a new Presentation Server 4 Farm along with the required infrastructure:
• AD Integration: OU/GPO Design Topology
• Citrix Deployment: Automate the installation of Citrix with the latest hot fixes applied based on server role
• User Profile Management: Design and configured a Managed Profile Solution to offer optimal performance and stability
• Web Interface 4.2: NLB Cluster Design Strategy with centralised WI Configuration
• SQL DS: Clustered with auto-replication to "HOT-swap shop" DR Site
• Scripting: Creation of user logon scripts and application launch scripts to fit required business models
• Server Builds: DL380G4 Rapid Racking, creation and deployment of a new Window 2003 Server build using Altiris imaging coupled with automated scripting techniques
• WSUS v3 (BETA): Design and configuration of WSUS to ensure all servers are patched to the desired levels
• Printer management: Policy design and configuration, driver replication topology and standardisation techniques
• Virtualisation: Design and configured server virtualisation strategy to enable the resilience of specific application license servers, using the latest version of VMWare Server
Oct 2005 - Feb 2006 HP (CONTRACT) Citrix SME CCIA (Citrix Access Suite 4.x)
Citrix FR2/FR3 to PS4 Migration, 5k users
Working on site at Vodafone (Newbury) on behalf of HP. Responsible for the design and implementation of the migration from their existing FR2 and FR3 farms to Citrix PS4.
Multi-zone, 500 Applications, 600 Citrix Servers, 5,000 concurrent users
• Citrix Access Suite 4.0 inc the latest MS and Citrix Patch levels (as of 31-12-05)
• Clustered Citrix License Server
• NLB and Site resilient Web Interface 4.0 coupled with Round-Robin DNS Strategy
• Created custom scripts to automate the upgrade process from FR2/FR3 to PS4.0 including the automatic deployment of all pre-requisite software
• Liaised with software vendors and Vodafone business to ensure application compliancy
• Produced a complete software and hardware audit of all farm members to determine scope of work, using self-developed methodologies
• Prepared and cleaned member servers in preparation of in place upgrade (inc. Zone Consolidation, and Data Store validation)
• Developed upgrade schedule and raised change control requests
Integration, Audit, Design Strategy, Server, Web, Software, Hardware, Infrastructure, Implementation, PLC, Design, Citrix, Management, DNS, Scripting, VMware, Deployment, Audit, Sql
My education
Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education
BSc, Business Information Technology
BSc, Business Information Technology
n/a
Secondary, Mathematics
Secondary, Mathematics
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