PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Citrix Engineer/Admin

Confidential, Cerritos, CA

Responsibilities:

• Citrix XenApp 6.5 and XenDesktop 7.5, Windows AD, Tricerat Printing, NetScaler 10.5
• Document Processes including Disaster Recovery, Server/Farm Monitoring, etc
• Created numerous Catalogues on XenDesktop 7.5 with VMware hosted on Nutanix
• Wrote/ modified numerous PowerShell scripts to enable Outsourcing conjoinment
• Managed multiple Group Policies in both Citrix and MS AD contexts.
• Worked closely with Field Service, Help Desk, VMware team. etc

Citrix Engineer/Admin

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Outsourcing Citrix L3 services at Confidential
• Document Processes including Disaster Recovery, Server/Farm Monitoring, and Server Cloning.
• Provide support for incidents and changes in XenApp 4.5, 5.0, and 6.0 and XenDesktop 5.0 on Windows servers
• Pushed numerous Patch Levels over various server farms
• Worked closely with New Locations Managers on Provisioning Permissions group s and enabling group - specific Citrix Policies

Citrix Engineer/Admin

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Responsibilities:

• Build Citrix XenApp 6.0 Wintel servers on Confidential blade hardware with Windows Server 2008.
• Upgraded firmware on several hundred thin clients.

Appsense Consultant

Confidential, Chatanooga, TN

Responsibilities:

• Build AppSense servers for Citrix clients.
• Collect requirements for implementation from users/requestor and built policies and actions.

Citrix Engineer

Confidential, Bristol, CT

Responsibilities:

• Build Wintel based Citrix servers using Altiris 6.5 on both VMware hosts and Compaq hardware.
• Collect requirements for installation from users/requestor and from software process to handover to packagers.
• Perform Quality assurance on completed packages.
• Assemble packages into builds for servers.

Confidential, Orange County, CA

Responsibilities:

• Provide infrastructure consulting services to small and medium sized businesses within southern California
• Ensure continuous improvement of technical skills by attending courses in virtualization technologies with a focus in VMWare and Citrix.

Senior Citrix Hosting Engineer

Confidential, Corona, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked within the Citrix implementation and Citrix Command Center at Confidential supporting, administering and ensuring the stability of the Confidential Connect project
• Senior consultant part of a team responsible for Fast Incident Response on one of the largest Citrix servers deployments in the world supporting an environment of over 3500 Citrix servers in over 40 Citrix farms servicing 70,000+ concurrent users daily.
• Deploying software across a national enterprise hosted in distributed multiple data centers.
• Remediating daily issues over entire Citrix architecture: XP, 3.0, Xenapp4.5 versions on Windows 2000, 2003, and 2008 in Production, Preproduction and environments.

Citrix Engineer

Confidential, Cypress, CA

Responsibilities:

• Approximately 100 users
• Evaluated Citrix farm and presented to IT leadership a list of recommendations for improved performance, user satisfaction and fault tolerance
• Implemented some of the more urgent recommendations.

System Engineer

Confidential, Cypress, CA

Responsibilities:

• Approximately 300 users
• Built and implemented File and Print servers in a Server Equipment refresh project
• Made recommendations for site readiness based on site survey findings.

Citrix System Engineer

Confidential, Lake Forest CA

Responsibilities:

• Approximately 300 users
• Upgraded application versions: Lotus Notes 6.0 and Java Engine.
• Built current Image versions for Rapid Deployment of servers
• Built several AD Hoc monitoring tools for performance aspects of server farm.

System Engineer

Confidential, Cypress, CA

Responsibilities:

• Approximately 300 users
• Built and implemented File and Print servers in a Server Equipment refresh project
• Racked and shipped new servers after bringing to production level with new image and patches etc.
• Determined possible install issues on Site-survey visits.
• Made recommendations for site readiness based on site survey findings.
• Maintained current Confidential onsite equipment.

Citrix System Engineer

Confidential, Orange, CA

Responsibilities:

• Approximately 300 users
• Installed over 300 new servers with W2K and Citrix Presentation 3 and 4
• Planned, built and implemented Citrix Secure Gateway
• Loaded Windows 2000 using Compaq Quickstart with Insight Manager agents.
• Physically built several Office Automation farms including: Clustered MS SQL Servers, IIS and Lotus Notes Servers with 4x processors, fault tolerant memory, and disk arrays and fiber-connected NetApp and Compaq/ Confidential SANs

Field Engineer

Orange County, CA

Responsibilities:

• Occasional work installing new XP workstations, printers, etc. and network cabling for Windows networks in small offices.
• Manager of Windows Services: NT, Citrix and Lotus Notes Services, ADT/Edison Security San Dimas CA.
• Approximately 1200 users
• Led NT services, Lotus Notes, Citrix and Helpdesk groups, also IT Asset Management and
• IT Purchasing, supervising 10 employees for this multi-site Security Company
• Project Manager on Windows 2000 rollout across company.
• WINS, DHCP/DNS maintenance and troubleshooting, User Management (~1200), Veritas Backup-Exec processes, File and print services, IIS, ISA, Confidential access, Confidential control, etc.

Enterprise Systems Engineer

Confidential, Orange, CA

Responsibilities:

• Approximately 10,000 users
• For a multi-site regional Healthcare Organization I built maintained and optimized Enterprise NT servers from Data General, Confidential, Compaq and Confidential .
• Optimized servers to run Meditech, a hospital management system. This includes database servers, three-tier servers, and background job processors.
• These servers are Enterprise class servers with features like multiple processors, large-scale hardware EMC Clariion RAIDS, redundant power supplies, etc.
• I was involved in multi-site EDI project using MSSQL along with other mission critical projects.

Network Engineer

Los Angeles, CA

• Approximately 3000 users
• Support Turnkey Market Data Delivery System using OS/2 servers, Windows NT Servers with DOS and Windows based workstations. 56K Frame relay & high speed communication equipment,

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Confidential Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012, some Linux, Citrix

Database Engines: Confidential SQL Server 7.0 & 2000

Hardware: Compaq, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Data General, 3Com, Linksys, ILO.

Fault Tolerance: EMC and Compaq and Confidential arrays and SANs, all RAID Models.

Troubleshooting Tools: Packet Analyzers, Security Analyzers, and Network/Performance Monitor

Applications: MS Office, MS Powerpoint and MS Project, MS Exchange, McAfee Enterprise Edition, Ghost, Tivoli, other antivirus solutions, management software