SUMMARY

• Experienced in Designing, Implementation and support of information management systems. Extensive experience in Windows, Virtualization technologies (Citrix, VMWare)
• 8.9 years of experience in designing, deploying Virtual and Physical systems, including hardware, software.
• Hands on Experience with Blade and Rack Servers CISCO UCS, HP
• Proficiency with Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, Citrix Netscalers, Provisioning Services, Storefront, and experienced in performing engineering for a global Citrix environment.
• Implemented Citrix Xen - desktop solution 7.5 using MCS and PVS 7.1
• Worked on Migration of XenApp 4.5 to XenApp 6.5, Implemented XenDesktop 5.5 environment for ABI users
• Upgraded XenServer 5.6 to XenServer 6.0 and migrated the VM’s from VMWare ESX to XenServer
• Experience in P2V, V2V Migration using VMware Standalone Converter.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, HA and DRS
• Extensive experience in Windows 2012 R2/2012/2008 R2/2008/2003Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Experience in Data Analysis using Tibco Spot Fire, Control-Up, Lakeside Systrack and Edgesight
• 8+ years of experience with Datacenter Infrastructure involving work with maintenance on server hardware, storage devices
• Strong communication, people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VIRTUALIZATION PRODUCTS: Citrix XenServer 6.X. Citrix Xen App 7.X, VMware ESXi 5.x/6,x, VMWare Stand-alone Converter, VMware Lab Manager, Citrix Xen Desktop Infrastructure, Confidential Hyper-V

OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows Server 2012/2012R2/2008/2008R2/2003, Windows 7/8

APPLICATION SERVERS: Confidential Active Directory, Share-Point, DHCP, DNS, Solarwinds

HARDWARE: Cisco UCS B200/C460, HP ProLiantDL320/360/380 G5/G6/G7/G8 Servers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CITRIX CONSULTANT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performing the transition
• Prepared project run book, segregating L1, L2, L3 tasks and preparing the technical documents for L2 team
• Development of Citrix Xenapp architecture design and implementation across the organization.
• Design,Installation and Administration Xendesktop 7.6, Provisioning services 7.x, Xendesktop 5.6, Xenapp 6.5, Edgesight 5.4, license server
• Administration of citrix netscaler MPX
• Installation configuration of citrix command center 5.2
• Planning, Installation and configuration of provisioning server (Farm,site,stores,Device collections).
• Creating and Managing Vdisks,master images,Target devices, High availability in provisioning services (PVS).
• Monitoring and troubleshooting provisioning services (PVS)
• Managing and monitoring XenDesktop through Desktop studio and Desktop Director.
• Installation and configuration of Desktop controller.
• Creating and managing Desktop catalog and Desktop groups.
• Creating XenDesktop policies.
• Design,Installation and Administration storefront 1.2 and 3.0.1
• Testing new applications, Citrix rollups, and windows hotfixes in QA server and implement in production servers.
• Supporting 3000 users and resolving the issue with users and environment

CITRIX SYSTEM INTEGRATOR

Confidential, PARK AVENUE, NY

Responsibilities:

• Performed the Citrix Transition from Delaware to Capgemini
• Prepared project run book, segregating L1, L2, L3 tasks and preparing the technical documents for L2 team
• Supporting environment of 150+ server managing 1500 Users
• Designed and Implemented XenDesktop 5.5 environment for ABI Users
• Provided high-level analysis, input, and technical designs for computing solution automation
• Working on the Data Analysis tools (Edge sight, Control-up, Spot-Fire) to compute the Environment data
• Providing technical solutions for virtual computing environment that addressed identified business needs
• Managing multiple technologies in farm include XenApp, XenDesktop, VMware servers, monitoring tools
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of Citrix Server farm running 150+ servers
• Worked on Migration of XenApp 4.5 to XenApp 6.5
• Designed and Implemented XenDesktop 5.5 environment for ABI Users
• Upgraded XenServer 5.6 to XenServer 6.0 and migrated the VM’s from VMWare ESX to XenServer
• Responsible for performance tuning and providing a high availability XenApp environment to eliminate single points of failure.
• Working as Citrix L3 SME and resolving the tickets generated
• Working knowledge on xenmobile
• Assisting the L2 team as a SME
• Upgraded the UCS firmware
• Administrating the Netscaler - storefront load balancing
• Experience on the PHD Virtual backup solution and EMC Networker backup
• Deploying and building XenDesktop virtual machines as per business requirement
• Patching (Patch Manager for MS patches) and updating the virtual desktop images
• Adding applications to the virtual desktop images
• Antivirus management using Symantec System center across globe.
• Provisioning new physical & virtual servers and installing Citrix on them for expansion of Citrix farms.
• Troubleshoot the Environmental Issues with Desktops.
• Perform remote administration, support and management of multiple Citrix farms utilizing Citrix Provisioning Services, Edge Sight and XenApp.
• Creating XenDesktop Sites, Desktop Catalogs, Desktop groups and adding the desktops
• Build servers for production and test environments following strict build procedures.
• Performance tuning of the servers and capacity planning Successfully implemented new VMware Infrastructure using Cisco UCS and IBM Servers for consolidating existing Physical and Virtual infrastructure.
• As a part of System optimization project work involved migrating VMs from old VMware platform ESXi 4.0/4.1 to new ESXi 5.1/5.5 to increase the performance and stability on the systems.
• Support and maintenance of 250+ VM’s
• Environment analysis using PlateSpin Recon
• Configured the disaster recovery in the environment
• Performing the capacity planning
• Recommend and install software upgrades, patches, and firmware upgrades as needed.
• Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS)
• Configured Resource Pool, V Motion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter)
• Created the PowerShell scripts for repeated tasks
• Executed performance tuning tasks on the connected systems to improve the performance of the Systems.
• Migrating of Virtual Machines using V Motion
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations
• Creating Templates from VM’s, deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resources
• Monitoring of Virtual Machine’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization) for Security.
• Converting P2V and V2V using VMware Standalone Converter, Double-take Migration.
• Creating duplicate Virtual Machine’s using cloning technology (hot & cold).
• Works closely with Application teams and business owners to provide assistance, support, and trouble shooting
• Monitoring systems performance issues and addresses problems in a prompt and efficient manner
• Troubleshooting issues related to Virtual Machine VMotion, snapshots, clone and converter.

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built, test and deployed Citrix XenApp PoC labs for each virtualization technologies ( Confidential Hyper-V, VMware ESX Server and Citrix XenServer).
• Consolidated, built, test, deployed and P2V of Citrix XenApp 4.5 (Win2003) and XenApp 5.0 (Win2008) VMware ESX VM on HP ProLiant servers.
• Deployed Citrix XenDesktop 5 PoC to evaluate the benefits, performance and scalability of Windows 7 hosted virtual desktops.
• Performing data analysis using Edgesight, Lakeview Business Analytics and internal tools.
• Performing Virtual environment analysis using Plate-Spin, Quest convertor
• Setting up and troubleshooting features like HA/FT/DRS for the Virtual Machines for business continuity

SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Building Server Clusters for Confidential Different Properties including Hotmail, Outlook
• Understanding server architecture for various HP Models includes HP ProLiant DL series, Blade servers.
• Deploying OS on new server clusters part of Build engineering
• Performing the patching activity
• Provide regular project status reporting to project stakeholders and involve/escalate to stakeholders as appropriate.
• Ensure that all final Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) tasks are scheduled and completed.
• Coordination with offshore project team for service delivery and operation issues and escalations.
• Problem & Change Management, actively participation in DR Planning and implementation Weekly review meeting with customer (ASD Team) to understand any issues or concerns and address them within the specified time.