Summary

• Over 7 Years of IT experience as Citrix Administrator, Windows Administrator and Technical Support Engineer, Windows Systems Administration, Application Packaging, and Technical Support.
• Installation of Citrix Presentation server 4.0/ XenApp 4.5/5.0 Citrix Client Tools, Citrix Presentation Server.
• Experience in VMware vSphere- global virtualization and storage networking infrastructure.
• Diverse background in designing, implementing, integrating, optimizing, managing, and troubleshooting Citrix Server farms and Active Directory AD within multi-platform, multi-protocol environments.
• Expertise in Windows NT/2000/2003/2008/2008R2/2012 Active Directory design, deployment and troubleshooting. Exchange 2000/2003, WINS/DHCP/DNS, Citrix Presentation Server, Web Interface, Citrix, TCP/IP, Wireless.
• Expertise is broad in scope, including Citrix Presentation Servers 4.0/4.5/Xenapp5.0, 6.5, Citrix Client Tools, Active Directory, Server Backup, audit on Newly built servers, Commission and Decommission of windows servers.
• Design Implementation and troubleshooting of mission critical IT systems assignments.
• Deploy, upgrade and manage systems, including virtual infrastructure, hardware, software, networks, databases, servers and peripheral equipment.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2012 /2008R2/2008/2003/2000/NT4.0 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Install/configure/troubleshoot/maintain Citrix XenApp/Web Interface/Secure Gateway.
• Expertise in the area of Virtualization with vSphere 5.0/4.x, VMware ESXi 5, 4 and 3.x hosts and Virtual Center server.
• Expertise in building Microsoft Windows 2008 R2, 2008, 2003, 2000 2012 servers using HP Smart Start, Array configurations, diagnosing server, Updating Firmware and PSP, Application Software under multi-platform environments, deployment monitoring physical Servers.
• In-depth knowledge of Citrix administrative tools and utilities, coordinate with end users to provide support and resolve Citrix issues.
• Experience in with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, VMware vSphere. Installation and Configuration of VMware ESX/VSphere 4.x, administration of Citrix XenApp Farms, Citrix server policies, Load Management and Printers in the Farm.
• Expertise in creating Citrix Streaming Profiles and Publishing Applications to users in Citrix XenApp 4.5/5.0.
• Experience inP2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter / Plate Spin 6.8.x. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Citrix XenApp Web Interface Administration, SQL Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MOSS2007 .
• Skilled with sharp hands over APP-V and SCCM 2012 Integration and SCCM software distribution automation.
• Supported NetApp Snap Manager products for Exchange, Oracle, Virtual Infrastructure, MS SQL, and Hyper-V .
• Build new servers Server 2008 R2 and SBS STD/Essentials utilizing VMWARE on HP/IBM/Dell servers
• Detail-oriented, results-driven, excellent verbal and written communication skills with interpersonal and conflict resolution skills and possesses strong analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• VSphere, VMware View 4/5.0, VMware ESX 3, 3.5 and 4.1/4.0, 5.0, Virtual center server 2.5, 4.0 and 5.0,Vmware converter enterprise, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, DPM, vMotion and Storage vMotion, VMware ESXI server, SRM etc.
• Operating System
• Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, Windows Server 2000/2003 SP1/ 2008, Windows XP/Vista/7, VMware ESX/ESXi server, Citrix Xen Server, Hyper-V.
• Application Server
• Microsoft Active Directory Services, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0/4.5, XenApp 5.0, 6.0, 6.5 , Citrix VDI, IIS 6.0, 7.0, Hyper-V, Microsoft Clustering, MS Exchange Server 2003, 2007, Citrix EdgeSight, Citrix Metaframe PS 4.0, XenApp 4.5/5.0, XenClient, and Storefront/Web Interface / Netscaler configuration , VMware vSphere 4.1 , 5.1, Cisco UCS KVM.
• Serves OS / Hardware / Storage
• Cisco UCS Blades, HP Blade Enclosure C7000, HP Proliant Blades BL Series extender 2000, EMC NS480.
• Protocols
• TCP/IP, WINS, SNMP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, HTTP/S, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, LDAP, NNTP, RDP, Citrix ICA.
• Backup Software and Tools
• ADMT, MS Baseline Security Analyzer, Symantec Backupexec, MS Visio, McAfee EPO, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Trend Micro Office Scan 8.0, Acronis, Symantec Imaging /Ghost, Dell OpManager, VM backup tools/Scripts and vRanger Pro. Veeam tools.

Experience

Citrix/Windows Administrator

Confidential

• Responsible for administering and supporting 350 Citrix server environment on Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2.
• Responsible for Terminal server builds and Citrix XenApp server deployments in both Physical and virtual environments.
• Responsible for successfully upgrading all hosts and vCenter servers to vSphere 5.5.
• Supporting in-house application management in Citrix environment through Citrix Streaming.
• Implement Citrix Rollup Pack and Feature packs as per Citrix recommendation.
• Troubleshoot various issues related to Citrix resource manager, Printers etc.
• Monitored Citrix server's health by using Citrix Edge Sight.
• Installed and configured ESX 4.0 Servers on Blade Servers.
• Performed physical to virtual P2V migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Experience of FC SAN/iSCSI SAN/NAS EMC CX3 , NetApp, Dell MD3000i, Dell MD1000 storage technology and work with SANs in VMware environments.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View, performed V2V Migration
• Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines, deploying VMs Through Templates
• Created Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches
• Installed following servers Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003, Win 2008 etc.
• Configured DNS, DHCP etc.
• Performed Citrix Farm and server health checks on regular basis
• Developed Virtual apps for in-house client server applications through Citrix Streaming profiler 6.5/6.0/5.2.
• Provided 24/7 Production support for Citrix environment.
• Worked with business clients to evaluate, streamline, and improve current systems, processes, and workflow.

Environment: Citrix XenApp 5.0/4.5, Windows server 2003/2008 X86 X64, Citrix Streaming Profiler 6.5/6.0/5.2, SQL 2005/2008.Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, VMware Lab Manager.

Vmware and Windows Engineer

Confidential

• 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.x.
• Creating and managing resource pools and adding the VM's into the pools.
• 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 , client SCCM 2012 backend infrastructure.
• Administrated designed and module large scale of SCCM 2012 migration from SCCM 2007, SCCM 2012 deployment automation in client deployment, objects' migration.
• Involved in Managing, Installing, and Supporting Windows 2003/2008 Servers, and VMware ESX Servers 5.x.
• Building ESXi 4.0/5.0 Hosts and maintain those ESXi servers through vSphere Client.
• Performance monitoring using Vizioncore vfoglight.
• Performing tasks such as vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Performed troubleshooting of DNS, DHCP, IIS and Active directory.
• Provide Level 2 support to end-users. Performed technical expertise for windows systems environments on issues related to servers, local services, data centers, and server configuration.
• Maintained records for event, audit and application logs.
• Monitor all windows backup and perform fine-tuning every 15 days.

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

Citrix Administrator

Confidential

• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining Windows and Citrix Servers
• Publishing Applications, Content and Desktops to users in Citrix Management Console
• Interacting with business users for gathering the requirements for on boarding the applications to Citrix Servers
• Created MSI packages using Citrix Installation packager in Citrix 4.0/4.5/5.0
• Managed Citrix application builds, release cycles and test schedules.
• Documented Citrix related IT activities such as down time, problems, and systems configurations.
• 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.
• Experience with Application Streaming and publishing Streaming profiles for user access.
• Supporting Citrix Password Manager and Access Gateway.
• Resolving user connections to the Citrix Web Interface server by recycling the IIS services.
• Working on XenApp 5.0 in test environment for migration of the current farm from Xen App 4.5 to 5.0
• Documenting Application Installation, Know issues which occur regularly.

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