EXPERIENCE

Confidential November 5, 2008-February 12, 2009
Citrix Engineer

A short term contract. Responsible for designing a enterprise Citrix infrastructure. Implemented eight Xenapp servers with 150 users and twelve applications. Implemented Citrix secure gateway. Was responsible for creating Citrix enterprise standards at Blue Cross Blue Shield. Created all Citrix infrastructure documentation and build procedures. Trained staff on how to administrate and maintain there Citrix environment.

Confidential April, 2008-July 2008
IT Manager and Senior Systems Engineer

Short term contractor to Towne Mortgage. Responsible for managing the Information Technology department also bring stability to the server infrastructure. This involved Citrix servers, Active Directory and all network services. Was responsible for mentoring junior staff to be able to perform more complex tasks.

Confidential July, 2007-April 2008
Senior Systems Consultant

Contractor role. Responsibilities were project and service call based. Projects were server design, installation and support. Also supported client applications and network. Service calls ranged from desktop support to server and network support. Environments included Windows and Linux

Confidential October, 2006-May 2007
Senior Network Administrator

Contractor role at Textron. Responsibilities included supporting Active Directory, Windows 2000 and 2003 server infrastructure and Logical Security Policies. Responsible for 300 Windows servers in North America and 600 servers globally. Other responsibilities include administrative duties for DNS, DHCP, and backups. Maintained Citrix Metaframe servers, VMWARE ESX and GSX servers

Confidential February, 2005-October, 2006
Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities included designing Active Directory, Windows 2003 Server infrastructure and Logical Security Policies. Active Directory and Windows 2003 Servers were implemented at twelve (12) sites throughout Tecstar. Designed a new Linux infrastructure for our Wheel to Wheel Division. Designed and implemented SAN technology for file storage, data replication and disaster recovery. Designed and implemented a site to site VPN using state of the art Firewall technology. The VPN is a meshed network between twelve (12) sites allowing all sites to talk to each other. Designed and implemented Microsoft Exchange 2003 email system for all of the Tecstar companies. Also administrated an ERP system that ran on a Windows platform. The ERP system was delivered via Citrix to the end user. Was responsible for day to day administration of the ERP system at a server level.

Confidential, Rochester Hills, Michigan April, 2004-February, 2005
Senior Network Engineer

Self-employed doing network consulting for clients. Responsibilities included design and deployment of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Exchange 2000. Other major projects included the design of Citrix Metaframe servers and clients. The Citrix projects included Presentation Server 3.0 and WEB Services 2.0. Also included were a variety of client configurations. Provided my clients detailed documentation covering design, installation and support of their infrastructure.

Confidential, Royal Oak, Michigan June, 2002-April, 2004
Senior Network Engineer

Responsible for designing Windows 2000, 2003 Servers and Linux Servers. Designed Active Directory and Security Policies. Designed and implemented Citrix Metaframe Servers and Applications. Provided administration and support for all the technologies at Payroll1. Designed and implemented NAS technology for file serving. Also designed Red Hat proxy and radius servers.

• By introducing Active Directory, Windows 2000 Server and Citrix Metaframe to Payroll1, I was able to provide a stable infrastructure. There was also a large savings in support costs.
• Designed and implemented a migration from Novell5 to Windows 2000 Servers and Clients.
• By working on teams, all projects were completed successfully and on time. Working with various vendors, supplied different solutions and up to date methods.

Confidential, Auburn Hills, Michigan February, 1999-June, 2002
First Level Officer and Senior LAN Engineer

Worked on the LAN Engineering Team. Responsible for providing operating system and network standards. These standards included server builds, network configurations, security, and service pack deployments. Also, I was a team member on many projects that provided new technologies for Comerica Bank.

• Lead Engineer on the Citrix Metaframe project. Worked with vendors and team members to design the Citrix Metaframe infrastructure.
• Lead Engineer on the Active Directory design project.
• Lead Engineer on the Windows domain design project.
• Wrote technical documentation for server standards and installation procedures.
• Provided third level support for all Windows server platforms.
• Provided third level support for all Citrix Metaframe servers and applications.

TRAINING

• Microsoft Certified Courses
• Cisco Certified Courses
• Citrix Certified Courses
• Linux Certified Courses
• Novell Certified Courses
• Lotus Notes Certified Courses
• Intergraph Certified Courses

EDUCATION

Confidential Schools, 
Technical Degree in Electronic Engineering

Confidential High School
General Education