PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Pleasanton, CA

Citrix & Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Providing 24/7 operational support for Citrix NetScaler, XenDesktop & XenApp7.15 production environments
• Working interactively with business customers and resolving day to day Citrix VPN, XenApp & XenDesktop related issues
• Migrating Citrix Xenapp 6.x to Xenapp 7.15 LTSR
• Planning system, application migration, troubleshooting and Consolidation
• Upgrading and patching the Citrix and Windows environments to meet security, audit and business requirements
• Maintaining Windows 2016 & 2012 R2,configuring and implementing AD group policies
• Troubleshooting issues related to Citrix VPN, XenDesktop & XenApp 7.x

Confidential - Springfield - MA

Citrix & VMware System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementation and configuration of Active Directory
• Managing Xenapp 7.6, PVS 7.6, Managing VDI Xendesktops & Vmware Horizon
• Data Center Planning, migration and Consolidation
• Implementation and maintenance of Virtual machines in MS Hyper V and VMware environment
• Management of SAN, NAS for VMware Infrastructure setup.
• VM provisioning, management and troubleshooting
• Migration of physical servers to virtual servers in Hyper V and VMware environment
• Citrix XenApp 6.5 server provisioning, migration, application troubleshooting
• Planning, Implementations, administration and maintenance of Files Servers and Application Servers

Confidential

Citrix Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Windows Infrastructure team in providing Infrastructure management services for the following: More than 1500+ Windows 2008, 2012 Servers. Windows 2008 AD, Group policy, DNS, DHCP, DFS, MSCS, Terminal Services infrastructure across the enterprise spread across 2 major datacenters .VMware Virtual Infrastructure 5.5 including components like HA, DRS, Virtual Center, VMotion, VCB, backup and disaster recovery
• Currently responsible for all day-to-day systems operations like building a server, managing Active Directory Services, DNS, DHCP, ADFS, certificate Service, Exchange, DMZ server setup, DMZ web site deployment, IIS administration, VC center Administration, Citrix XenApp FARM administration, External FTP configuration, LDAP, High availability Cluster setup, SQL Cluster setup, server Harding, Monitoring Servers and Troubling server issues and users request.
• Primary technical resource on Active Directory Services, VMware, Citrix XenApp 6, XenServer 6.2, VDI, VM environments in Rose Hills, Houston, Dallas and Jefferson locations and utilizing 5.1 ESX (HP ProLiant Blade Systems). Administer DMZ environment and managing IIS web servers and commercial web sites on DMZ environment Managing of Wintel environment of more than 1500 servers which includes Windows2008, Windows 2012 and Linux servers
• Implement, administer, maintain and support Window, Citrix and VMware systems. Support physical and virtual servers with a concentration on HP and Cisco hardware, Windows Server 2008/2008R2/2012R2 platforms. Support infrastructure needs including but not limited to datacenter operations, SCOM, IIS web Server, messaging, backups, SOX compliance, etc. Manage all SQL environments, including all administration and maintenance plans. Experience with implementations, testing and documentation for Disaster Recovery. Technical documentation, application support and handing users request and tickets

Confidential, Geneva

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managing of Wintel environment of 300 servers which includes Windows 2003/2008 servers, Citrix presentation server, Citrix XenApp, Exchange 2007, SCOM, SharePoint server, VMware and IIS web servers. Administration of Active directory services, Exchange 2007 organization and VMware based infrastructure
• Managing Citrix Xenservers, XenDesktops, Provisioning Server, publishing applications, implementing policies, server load balancing and monitoring server performance. Configuring of incident alerting system and implementation of Client-server management tools such as SCOM and HP Open view on the management server and the agent servers
• VMware Virtual centre 4.0 & ESX server 4.0 Administration. Implementation and administration of Citrix environment using Citrix presentation server and Citrix Xenapp Managing and administering print queues on Print servers and disk quotas on File servers implemented on SAN box. IIS Administration of web servers on more than 15 servers in various environments implemented on NLB clusters.
• Exchange 2007 environment administration and managing anti-virus and spam control tools such as GFI Mail essentials. Building a server for a particular environment by installing various applications such as Application center 2000, Citrix Management server, SQL 2000 server, back office applications.

Confidential

Microsoft Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Technical Consultant with Confidential Spectramind Services Ltd., Mumbai India (PSS Microsoft) Handling on an average of three cases per day from international clients . Microsoft Exchange Server Enterprise Support Process, with Confidential Spectramind being the Global Support Partners for Microsoft Corp. Collaboration with Active Directory Team of Microsoft Corp Working as Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003
• Handling client issues, request and troubleshooting. Migration from Exchange 5.5 and 2000 to Exchange 2003. Documentation of all the cases handled and preparing accurate case notes for technical reference. Troubleshooting the servers all problems like, replication, policies applications and Hardware issues. Co-ordination with other team to resolve technical issue and providing technical solutions

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing of Wintel environment of 150 servers which includes Windows NT/2000 servers, Citrix Metaframe and application servers. Remote Server Maintenance and Troubleshooting
• Work with Citrix Metaframe Suite, publish, unpublished applications and Printer driver installation and replication .Network Design and Configuration
• Software Installation and managing server performance issues. Configuring and monitoring the health of Active Directory and Server. User Maintenance, Backup and Troubleshooting. Proxy Server, Firewall, Internet and Router Configuration. Mail Server Configuration and Maintenance
• Troubleshooting the servers all problems like, replication, policies applications and Hardware issues