SUMMARY:

To offer my computer and technical expertise within an organization that offers challenging opportunities enabling me to use my broad range of technical skills to benefit a company.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

• Windows (Desktop / Server), Linux (RHEL, Suse, Mandrake), BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD), Solaris
• Windows Active Directory, Linux NIS+ / LDAP
• Microsoft Hyper - V, VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Linux-VServer
• Citrix XenApp, Xendesktop, Citrix Director / Edgesight, Provisioning Services, Citrix XenMobile
• Citrix Netscalers, Branch Repeater / Cloud Bridge
• Linux NoMachine, Inuvika
• VMware App Volumes
• Firewalls: Windows Firewall, Symantec Endpoint Protection, iptables, ipcop, shorewall, pf
• Citrix Policies, Linux Snort, Tripwire, Windows Security Center, Windows Confidential ’s, Beyond Trust PowerBroker
• Lakeside Systrack
• Linux Nagios, Big Brother, custom scripts (perl, bash, php)
• Citrix Edgesight 5.4 / Citrix Director
• VMware VRealize and VCOPS
• Windows: IIS and Apache for Windows / SQL Server / Ipswitch MoveIT Confidential, Filezilla FTP / DFS and CIFS
• Linux: Apache / MySQL, PostgreSQL / ProFTPD / NFS and Samba
• IBM Compatible PC's, Channel Extenders/Switches
• Networking Products, Bridges, Routers, Firewalls, Switches, Dell / IBM servers, & PC Servers
• MS Office Suite, MS Sharepoint, Lotus notes, Cygwin, SAP client, Citrix Receiver, Mysql, SQL, Postgresql, Firebird, Google Chrome, Message boards, Baan clients, Norton Suite, Mcafee Suite, AVG, Automation Anywhere, Veritas, Nagios, Big Brother, MS Visio, Wireshark, tcpdump, Solarwinds, royalts

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Citrix Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved heavily on configuring / delivering 2 new XA 7.9 environments for 2 datacenters
• Involved converting Citrix XML services over to secure XML port 443
• Configured Storefront and Aggregation across 4 sites including the 2 new sites that were configured
• Customized Storefront with client needed customizations, i.e appearance, socket pooling, etc.

Citrix Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built Citrix environment for XenApp 7.6 consisting of 2 DC’s (fail over and load balanced)
• Configured SQL server 2012 for mirroring and failover to support XA 7.6 DC’s
• Upgraded Netscaler VPX devices to the latest Netscaler software
• Configured Netscaler VPX devices with storefront to access the newly implemented XA site

Citrix Consultant

Confidential, Lebanon, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Built Citrix Confidential ’s for 100+ users on windows 2008 r2 utilizing Provisioning Services and Xenapp 7.6
• Managed 3 different Confidential ’s environments, updating PVS vdisk and pushing them out from Maintenance to Test, then Production
• Participated in daily discussions related to work streams and transformation projects
• Worked on performance tuning Citrix / Windows 2008R2, and applications to deliver applications to the user quickly and reliably
• Implemented Beyond Trust ‘Power Broker Software’ for managing user privileges
• Built Confidential ’s for users to provide drive mappings, registry settings, startup scripts and more
• Transitioned users from a Confidential environment for Windows Desktop OS (Windows 7) to an environment to an Confidential environment for Server OS (Windows 2008R2)

Citrix Engineer

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Built / managed Citrix 6.5 environment with server hosted OS delivered for 125+ users
• Deployed over 50+ applications to Citrix users
• Built / managed a DR Citrix 6.5 environment and synced user files nightly using robocopy
• Used Citrix Edgesight 5.4 for customized reports on server health and server connections
• Built Citrix Xenapp 7.6 environment for testing with vmware esx 5.5 & provisioning server

SFTP Admin

Confidential, Hopewell, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Ipswitch MoveIT Confidential software to provide sftp access for Confidential clients
• Configured new folders on SFTP and assigned users and groups and set retention times
• Worked with users on generating RSA/DSA 256bit encryption keys so they could access the environment
• Worked on Juniper devices to pass users thru to the correct SFTP server
• Wrote Perl scripts to give daily reports of failed login attempts which were emailed to myself and my supervisor

Engineer

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Designed on demand system that ran on a Citrix Xenapp 5 farm
• Worked with hospital Doctor’s and Surgeons and IT to deploy Confidential ’s software across their network
• Deployed remote servers in NYC and configured remote servers in China to allow access globally to the product
• Optimized Citrix connections for users from China connecting to NYC.
• Used VMware workstation with a team to host a medical software package
• Automated installations of Citrix Xenapp 5
• Automation of software testing using Automation Anywhere
• Windows 2003/2008 administration including AD, NLB, DHCP/DNS/WINS custom bash scripts to automate tasks, user / group administration, OS hardening

Systems Administrator

Confidential, South Plainfield, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Migrated linux email servers using rsync to a new server with better hardware
• Created backup schema with shell scripts and a server with 8 swappable drives
• Worked in an environment of Linux and Windows servers about 25 servers in total
• Configured WSUS for Windows servers and client machines to use
• Worked on automating blacklisting of ips that were trying to login to our servers
• Troubleshot a lot of network issues that were occurring with BGP between linux servers
• Updated snort definitions and used tripwire on linux servers
• Wrote Perl scripts to run test credit card transactions against the companies gateway which used wget

IT Director

Confidential, Lafayette, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Moved all external hosted websites in house and hosted them on OpenBSD and Redhat Linux servers
• Built and configured all servers at 20-20 which consisted of Windows 2000 servers, Redhat Linux, and BSD
• Developed a warehouse inventory system to allow for barcode scanning and wireless uploading of inventory to a website
• Provided IT services for clients of Confidential throughout New Jersey
• Developed backup schemas for internal company data as well as external
• Built and assembled custom PCs for customers
• Installed wireless networks at clients with encryption
• Installed and configured shopping carts which were hosted on linux servers which used mysql database
• Worked migrating windows 2003 servers with older financial software to newer versions
• Setup Sonicwall devices for VPN access for users

IT Consultant

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Built custom PCs for the office users and a wireless network
• Provided technical support for their accounting system ADP which ran on Linux
• Provided ongoing support for user’s desktop computers, printing issues, etc
• Added new items to their inventory using MCL designer software

IT Consultant

Confidential, Garfield, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Built a shopping cart for selling postcards using squirrelcart, php which I hosted on a linux server with apache with https and mysql

IT Consultant

Confidential, Sparta, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Supported Windows 2003 servers that were used for financial services
• Installed Sonicwall device for users to work remotely via VPN
• Updated their backup schema and configured Veritas netbackup

It Consultant

Confidential, Dover, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Developed a warehouse inventory management system
• Used php / mysql on a linux server to host a site where users could see their inventory, and update the location of items using PPT8800 barcorde scanners