Jesse Boehm – On The Road Story..
I woke up destitute on a hard cold floor of an old welfare hotel in San Francisco in 1994. I had flown in the day before from Anchorage with nothing but $200 in my pocket. I would have had more, but I missed the last day of work at Barnes & Noble/Starbucks in Anchorage, the…
Citrix Web Interface 2.6 (SF1)
It’s been a lot of fun and also leaving me heavy with feelings looking back at all the work we did with Techstur.com. I still own the URL and the email still works, even though it is pretty much all spam, I mean all spam. I never had the heart to let the domain go,…
Citrix – Old School Style – Web Interface 5.4
Long ago, before there was StoreFront and NetScaler, there was Citrix Web Interface. After several years working as a Citrix Admin at a resort, I began taking on clients, which was no easy feat in the Florida Keys. The resort where I worked, Hawk’s Cay, had the most technology and networked systems on a 61-acre…
I Didn’t Find Citrix, Citrix Found Me
When I was a kid, my father would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I never had an answer. That question is hard enough for a teenager, let alone a kid, and it always left me feeling like I had no direction. At eighteen, I was still stuck in my…
From the Florida Keys, to Wall Street, and to the Cloud: Engineering, Architecture, and Beyond
Who would have thought that a migration project on the cusp of Y2K, on a 60-acre private island surrounded by water, pools, and dolphins in the heart of the Florida Keys, would spark a decades-long career—leading to enterprise architecture, the cloud, and the AI-driven future? Citrix has been the thread connecting every stage of my…
What Have I Been Working On…
I have been writing a lot, generating content, working on podcast interview questions, and talking to old friends and colleagues on the phone to discuss the new podcast, The Solutions Architect Experience Podcast. I’ve been practicing working with a microphone and editing audio, and collaborating with a graphic designer on new logos for the podcast…
The Solutions Architect Experience Podcast
In the past two weeks, I have immersed myself in starting a podcast. The subject matter was a no-brainer—I wanted to focus on Solutions Architecture and create an interview-based podcast. Two people inspired me: The first was Austin Belcak, whom I follow on LinkedIn and whose email newsletter I subscribe to. Austin talks about the…
A Story of My Life – 1 – Under Pressure
Do I feel the pressure? Every single day. When you work in a global environment, when you are part of a team of enterprise technologists supporting vital systems that keep people working from wherever they are, the stakes are high. When something goes wrong, the pressure builds fast. I remember the first time I felt…
The Network Loop
It was my first day at Hawk’s Cay Resort, eager and wide awake, full of energy. I was given the task to clean up the network rack behind the front desk area. Switches were mounted on the wall and daisy-chained from one another. Cables of all different sizes and colors looked like a tangled mess…
Wastin’ Away Again… Citrix, Room 244, Welcome to Technology Kid (Part 3)
At the end of the road… This Wastin’ Away Again story has been told out of sequence, as you may have noticed, much like one of my favorite movies from the early 2000s, Pulp Fiction. This story has jumped through time and order to tell a tale of a kid who lacked direction, stuck in…