Todd Van Vliet

Anderson, SC ***** 973-***-**** advdnp@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-van-vliet-5a1518212/ Energetic, strategically focused, hands-on leader

Passionate about providing strategic development and overall systems management within an IT organization. Years of technical expertise, recognized for the successful management and implementation of various workplace products and solutions. Background focused on direct interaction with stakeholders to reach their goals and needs within the organization. Delivered tangible, impactful results utilizing years of experience and ability to manage Solution Architecture and design, Project Management and as a Systems Engineer.

Professional Experience

BASF Corporation ~ Florham Park, NJ

2019 – 2023 Solution Architect / Senior Systems Engineer

• Achieve focused teamwork as the Scrum Master/Team Facilitator for our virtual solution’s global product. Tracking stories through use of Kanban board, assuring agile implementations by holding daily stand-up and monthly retrospective meetings.

• Solutions Architect for virtual products, responsible for design and implementation of leading-edge products in the field of virtual workspace including Citrix shared desktops, applications and VDI solutions.

• Major incident response team for the virtual workplace composed of 5000+ desktops, 300+ XenApp Servers, 1500+ applications with a customer base 24,0000.

• Achieve stability of Citrix infrastructure middleware and Operating systems by keeping all versions current and “Citrix Partner” compliant.

• Designed and implemented WEM (Workplace Environment Management) system allowing for centralized, streamlined profile storage and policy configurations.

• Improved end user support by creating knowledge base articles for service desk as well as documenting all configuration items in ITSM (Service Now). Enabling insight to all dependencies linked or affected by the virtualization platform.

• Apply CMDB processing to all changes enabling review by CAB as well as documentation of those changes.

• Assist businesses by interacting with stakeholder to assure best solutions are provided for their needs. 2016 – 2019 Enterprise Architect

• Developed IT strategies using TOGAF principles.

• Achieved are IS standards, guiding principles, and policies to steer the companies’ vision and goals.

• Satisfied businesses by creating a relationship with IT stakeholders to meet their needs.

• Published Architecture Definition Documents (ADD) and Statement of Architecture Work (SAW) documents used to ensure IT projects aligned with roadmaps and overall strategies. Redesigned a regional-based multi-farmed Citrix environment to a single global farm. Consolidated SAP Mobile Platforms (SMP) to use one Mobile Infrastructure Platform (MIP) solution. Remote Office solution to replace PCs for multiple business solutions. Dynamic computing solution based on Azure hybrid cloud. Gained control over uncompliant software and hardware by developing a lifecycle process. Todd Van Vliet

Anderson, SC 29626 973-***-**** advdnp@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-van-vliet-5a1518212/ 2000 - 2016 Senior Systems Specialist / Project Manager

• Responsible for overall management of Wintel based server infrastructure in North America. Specific technologies included Novell NDS, Microsoft Active Directory, Citrix, VMWare, Fax Senior, AccuRoute and other Windows applications.

• Design and implementation of Active Directory infrastructure in North America.

• Designed, implemented, and managed a centralized Citrix farm for North American region. Farm creation spanned from its inception on MetaFrame running on Windows XP all the way through to XenApp 6.5 hosted on Windows 2008. Farm included 65 servers and over 450 applications.

• Achieved extensive savings for the company by implementing Citrix Secure Gateway which allowed external business partners remote access to BASF hosted systems like SAP which eliminated expensive leased lines.

• Streamlined the support of the Citrix environment by creating KDB articles and CI relationships in ITSM.

• Smooth integration of several acquired companies into BASF by creating and implementing project plan for the technical transition of the acquired onto our existing platforms.

• Keeping IT modernized by migrating Novell file and print systems over to a Microsoft based solutions.

• Achieving datacenter migration for all Windows based systems transparent to the end user during several datacenter relocations.

Skills

Managerial:

Budgeting, Forecasting, & Controlling, Planning & Organizing, Project Management, Agile Master / Team facilitator / Scrum Master, Vendor management

Technical:

Citrix Infrastructures, Active Directory design and Administration, DNS, DHCP, GPO, VMWare Infrastructure, Windows Server 2003 - 2019, Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP, Azure AD, Active Directory, Citrix, VMWare, Tools:

Microsoft Project, Visio, CA Service Management, ServiceNow, CMDB, Office 2003-2019, PowerShell, Kanban, Education

Bachelor of Arts—Physics—Lycoming College, Williamsport PA. PMP Certified PMP® Number: 3365503

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals

Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

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