Summary of Skills

• 7 years of experience in Citrix and Microsoft, Citrix and Terminal Server environments, Proficient in Citrix NetScaler, Citrix XenServer, VMware virtualization, storage design, Microsoft technologies, network infrastructure and VMWare ESX.
• Extensive experience in deploying and managing almost every Citrix product, switches and security products
• In-depth knowledge of VMware vSphere- global virtualization and storage networking infrastructure, Citrix administrative tools and utilities, resolving network system issues.
• Experience in with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, VMware vSphere.
• Creation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual servers and clients.
• Ability to coordinates with end users to provide support and resolve Citrix issues.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter / Plate Spin 6.8.x. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Configuring Rules And Alerts, Group users and entire organization through Active Directory in Windows 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2, SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2008 R2 installation and administration
• Microsoft Sever 2003/2008 Administrator. Terminal Server, IIS, RAID, Patches, Printers, HW break/fix, Security, Windows Clustering, Windows Load Balancing.
• Citrix Metaframe XP 1.0, Presentation Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition, XenDesktop, XenApp, XenServer, Windows 2008 Terminal Services RemoteApp/Gateway/Web Services
• Windows Scripting VBS, CMD, Bat , Wise Studio Packaging/Scripting, Citrix Installation Manager installs/scripts, Altiris Imaging.
• Backup and Recovery systems CommVault, BackupExec, DFS, HW: Dell MLT 6000, SAN local SCSI Storage solutions.
• Proficient Application Virtualization XenApp , Server Virtualization XenServer , Desktop Virtualization XenDesktop, Presentation Server 3/4/4.5, XenApp 5/6/6.5, XenServer 5.6, XenDesktop 4/5, Provisioning Server 5.x, Desktop and Application Streaming, Metaframe 1.0, 1.8, design Citrix's project Excalibur, XenDesktop 6.0, XenApp 3.0, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0 and XP.
• Installation Management Services, NetScaler, Branch Repeater and Access Gateway CAG with Advanced Access Control, Application Profiling, Streaming, Certification and Management.
• Maintaining IT infrastructure including server hardware, VMware environment, data storage, switching and routing, backups, email, firewall, spam filtering, AV, VPN, mobile devices, VOIP systems, network monitoring, and all Microsoft technologies.

Technical Skills

Professional Experience

Confidential

Responsibility:

• Engaged as Citrix Consultant, which range from architecture and design, to engineering and implementation, to post implementation support and administration.
• Technical lead for the Windows NT/Citrix Metaframe 1.8 implementation, designing and implementing an Enterprise Windows NT domain and designing a Citrix Metaframe 1.8 Farm.
• Managed load balanced Citrix web farm environments hosting applications on systems
• Responsible for all aspects of the Citrix product suite, including XenApp, XenServer and XenDesktop.
• Remote design, implementation and administration of multiple Citrix farms including Presentation Server 4.0 and 4.5, XenApp 6.0 and 6.5.
• Perform remote administration, support and management of multiple Citrix farms utilizing Citrix Provisioning Services, EdgeSight and XenApp 5.0.
• Responsibilities included the maintenance of Production and Backup XenApp farms, troubleshooting issues and resolving these problems in a timely manner, design and architecture recommendations and implementation.
• Perform an Assessment on the existing Presentation Server 4.5 Farm and develop recommendations for the migration of the existing farm to XenApp 6.0.
• Design and implement the recommended strategies for provisioning XenApp 6.0 server images using Provisioning Server 5.6 for Data Centers.
• Design and implement a high-availability, high-performance XenApp 6.0 server farm on VMware ESX hosts.
• Assist with the administration and management of the Citrix environment during the migration to XenApp 5.0.
• Design and implement the migration from Citrix Program Neighborhood application access to utilizing Web Interface 5.4 to access applications hosted by a XenApp 6.0 farm.
• Develop and implement the migration from Presentation Server 4.0 to XenApp 60.
• Led all Microsoft Integration testing/production rollout projects Microsoft AD, Exchange, SQL, IIS, Terminal Server, Citrix Servers Farms

Environment: Citrix XenApp 6.0 and 6.5, Citrix Web Interface 5.x, AppSense Environment Manager, EdgeSight, Windows Server 2008 R2, Active Directory, Group Policy Objects

Confidential

Windows/Citrix Administrator

Responsibility:

• Responsible for administering and supporting 350 Citrix server environment on Windows Server 2003/2008.
• Responsible for Terminal server builds and Citrix XenApp server deployments in both Physical and virtual environments.
• Supporting application management in Citrix environment through Citrix Streaming, Citrix Rollup Pack and Feature packs as per Citrix recommendation, troubleshooted various issues related to Citrix resource manager, Printers etc.
• Planned, configured, and installed hardware, network connections, and communications hardware.
• Managed Citrix application builds, release cycles and test schedules will be primary duties of this role.
• Documented Citrix related IT activities such as down time, problems, and systems configurations.
• Escalated issues to System Administration Manager to meet documented service level requirements for ticker resolution.
• Developed application packages for deployment to the virtual desktop environment.
• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining Windows and Citrix Servers, publishing Applications, Content and Desktops to users in Citrix Management Console.
• Created MSI packages using Citrix Installation packager in Citrix 4.0/4.5/5.0
• Resolving various connections of Citrix Printer issues for client printing over Citrix, creating a test Environment in Citrix or VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
• Resolving user connections to the Citrix Web Interface server by recycling the IIS services.
• Working on XenApp 5.0for migration of the current farm from Xen App 4.5 to 5.0

Environment: Citrix XenApp 5/4.5, Windows server 2003/2008, SQL Server 2005/2008, Citrix Streaming Profiler 5.2/1.3/1.2.

Confidential

VMware and Windows Engineer

Responsibility:

• Installing and Managing ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL and Cisco hardware, and installation of vCenter Server, vCenter Components and upgrading VMware Tools.
• Migration of ESXi host and Vm's across datacenters.
• Upgrading from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.0.
• Updated Firmware and Proliant Support Pack for Windows 2000/2003 servers.
• Used tools such as VMware Converter, PlateSpin PowerConvert, and Veeam FastSCP to work on ESXi Environment for the P2V conversions.
• Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS , Group Policy and Profile Management.
• Expertise in remote control, patch management, software distribution, operating system deployment, network access protection, and hardware and software inventory using System Center Configuration Manager SCCM .
• Created Snapshots according to user's requests and requirement.
• Involved in Managing, Installing, and Supporting Windows 2003/2008 Servers, and VMware ESX Servers 4.0/4.1.
• Building ESXi 4.0/5.0 Hosts and maintain those ESXi servers through vSphere Client.
• Configured HA, DRS clusters, FT for important VM's.
• Capacity planning using Capacity planner and VMware guided consolidation for gathering the physical machines CPU and Memory usage metrics
• Performance monitoring using Vizioncore vfoglight.
• Presenting FC SAN LUN's, RDM's iSCSI LUN's and NFS mounts.
• Created vSwitches and different ports groups for different purposes.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi servers using vCenter update manager.
• Performing tasks such as vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Performed troubleshooting of DNS, DHCP, IIS and Active directory.
• Performed technical expertise for windows systems environment on issues related to servers, local services, data centers, and server configuration.

Environment: VMware ESX 5.1/5.0/4.0, vSphere 4.0, 5.0, Windows Server 2008 R2/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, HP Proliant DL and Blade Servers and Cisco UCS blade servers.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibility:

• Primarily responsible for production NetScaler 9.X, upgrading production NetScaler from 9.x to 10.x, NetScaler configuration and setup on all sites.
• Secondarily responsible for design of VMware 5.X hypervisor, overall design of Virtualization initiative.
• Installation of ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS.
• Installation of VC server and Installing Virtual center components
• Multiple cross platform support for Microsoft Active directory integration
• Migration from XenApp 4.5 to 6.5 while in full production without and downtime or user interruption.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Working on Migration concepts like VMotion and cold migration, Storage VMotion
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Citrix XenApp installation, configuration, and management
• Setup of Citrix NetScaler for all customers.
• Migration from XenApp while in full production without and downtime or user interruption.
• Multiple Citrix and Hyper-v roll outs and P2V migrations.
• Active support of multiple Citrix XenApp managed services customers.
• Design, implementation, and deployment of large scale App-V farms
• Deployment and management of large Hyper-V and XenServer farms.
• XenDesktop, XenApp, and App-V setup, installation, and maintenance
• 24x7x365 availability for unplanned outages.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, SMS, Microsoft WWSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server, VMware Workstation.

Confidential

Systems/Network Administrator

Responsibility:

• Provided technical support in a W2k environment.
• Performed application compatibility testing on hundreds of third party software ensuring integration with windows and standard desktop configuration.
• Created and configured network accounts using Netware
• Administrator and Console one.
• Provided technical assistance with network access.
• Maintained IT Asset Tracking database.
• Remote Access administration.
• Created and configured VPN accounts via Cisco Secure ACS client, Citrix ICA Client and Active Directory.
• Maintained and Updated Software database on external hard drives.
• Assisted remote users with testing access and installation procedures.
• Configured laptops for RAS and local connections on the VLAN DHCP or Static TCP/IP configuration.
• Wireless Services Support.
• Blackberry Server Enterprise Server 4.0
• Reactivated user accounts on server and reset
• Blackberry accounts for Blackberry upgrades.
• Activate and configure blackberry devices
• Trained constituents on blackberry features and use.
• Provided Tier II support for blackberry activation, maintenance and replacement.
• Installed synchronization software for PDA's and assist with email synchronization.
• Hardware support and repair for workstations.

Environment: Windows XP/NT/2000/2003, My SQL 2000, Exchange NT/2000