SUMMARY:

• Proven ability to analyze systems, uncover problems, troubleshoot complex system issues, and propose best practice solutions
• Ability to work within a delivery - centric professional services team
• Ability to clearly and effectively work and communicate with other team members, management and with customers
• Strong work ethic
• Strong ability to engage with the client through discovery, analysis and planning activities
• Strong ability to translate business objectives into technical requirements
• Proven ability to analyze systems, uncover problems, troubleshoot complex system issues, and propose best practice solutions
• Strong, hands-on experience installing, configuring and operating Confidential products and platform services
• Proven ability to support Production readiness activities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to produce clean, high-quality technical documentation
• Strong hands-on experience installing, configuring and operating Confidential and Citrix products and services
• Proven ability to support production readiness activities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to produce clean, high-quality technical documentation
• Uses self-motivation to keep abreast of latest technology and trends.
• Manages medium-small sized teams and/or work efforts.
• Adapts existing methods and procedures to create alternative solutions to complex problems.
• Understands the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals.
• Uses own judgment to determine optimal solution to recommend.
• Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor or teams leads.
• Determines methods and procedures on new assignments with minimal guidance.
• Ability to work within a delivery-centric professional services team
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft AD, i.e. GPO domain level; Local GPO; profile management, folder redirection; IE security settings
• Ability to clearly and effectively work and communicate with other team members, management and with customers
• Strong ability to engage with the client through discovery, analysis and planning activities
• Strong ability to translate business objectives into technical requirements

• Citrix NetScaler, XenApp, XenDesktop, and XenServer
• Application packaging and migration
• Windows OS configuration and troubleshooting
• Server protection (McAfee, TrendMicro, Symantec)
• Storage (IBM, EMC, Hitachi, HP and Symantec)
• Application Virtualization (Microsoft, Confidential, and Citrix)
• Blade server systems support and configuration (IBM, Dell, Cisco, VCE and HP)
• Disaster Recovery and business continuity (VEEAM, Confidential SRM, etc.)
• MS Visio, Office and SharePoint
• Confidential vSphere, vCenter, Horizon and vROps
• Active Directory/LDAP deployment migration
• Datacenter operations and management
• Server migrations and consolidation
• Clustering (Microsoft, Confidential, Citrix, Oracle)
• DNS, WINS, RIS, DNS, FTP and DHCP
• Microsoft System Center 2007/2012 (SCCM - SCOM)
• Hyperconverged Infrastructure (Cisco UCS, VCE vBlock)
• Linux OS (RHEL, CentOS, SLES)
• Cloud Engineering (Azure, AWS, vRealize)
• Microsoft SQL Server 5 - 2012

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2000 - 2016
• Citrix XenApp, XenServer, StoreFront and XenDesktop and NetScaler
• Microsoft Server support tools and debugging software (PowerShell, WinDbg, KD, CDB, NTSD)
• Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0
• Veritas Cluster Server 5.0
• Symantec Enterprise Vault 8.0
• HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management
• Dell OpenManage and Systems Management
• Appsense
• EMC Avamar
• Hitachi Storage Command Suite
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 6.1, 5.X
• Citrix XenDesktop, StoreFront and XenApp
• Confidential vSphere/vRealize 3/4/5/6
• Confidential vCloud 1.5/5.1
• McAfee VirusScan Enterprise
• TrendMicro ServerProtect and ScanMail
• Symantec NetBackup
• Qlogic SANsurfer Management Suite
• Emulex HBAnywhere Management Suite
• Scripting (PowerShell, PowerCLI, SSH)
• Microsoft Exchange/Communicator/Lync
• Microsoft System Center Suite (SCCM-SCOM)
• Cisco UCSM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SCCM Engineer, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Perform duties as an onsite resident consultant/Subject Matter Expert
• Consults on Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), Public, Private, and Hybrid cloud technology research, evaluations, scoring, and documentation.
• Design, Implementation, deployment and operation of Confidential vSphere environment for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure platform (Cisco UCS, Dell M1000e and IBM BladeCenter)
• Knowledge transfer to onsite team for support and maintenance of a modern agile environment
• Architect compute and network layout for baseline infrastructure to support vRealize suite
• Implementation and deployment of vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation
• Leads pre-production readiness efforts, POCs, lab testing, and knowledge transfer
• Defines engineering approaches for various SDDC and HCI initiatives
• Provides last tier support for operations and support teams, root cause analysis and preventative analysis
• Planning, Implementation and Deployment of vRealize Log Insight, NSX and vSAN
• Deploy, maintain and troubleshoot VDI using Confidential Horizon 6 and 7
• Create Custom views and dashboards in vROPs 7

Confidential

Resident Consultant/SME, New York City, NY

Responsibilities:

• Perform duties as an onsite resident consultant/Subject Matter Expert
• Consults on Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), Public, Private, and Hybrid cloud technology research, evaluations, scoring, and documentation.
• Design, Implementation, deployment and operation of Confidential vSphere environment for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure platform (Cisco UCS, Dell M1000e and IBM BladeCenter)
• Architect compute and network layout for baseline infrastructure to support vRealize suite
• Knowledge transfer to onsite team for support and maintenance of a modern agile environment
• Implement and introduce IaaS and PaaS models into corporate support model
• Update and enhance existing infrastructure to tightly work with other business units
• Implementation and deployment of vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation
• Leads pre-production readiness efforts, POCs, lab testing, and knowledge transfer
• Defines engineering approaches for various SDDC and HCI initiatives
• Provides last tier support for operations and support teams, root cause analysis and preventative analysis
• Planning, Implementation and Deployment of vRealize Log Insight, NSX and vSAN
• Deploy, maintain and troubleshoot VDI using Confidential Horizon 6 and 7

Confidential

Resident Consultant/SME, Ashburn, VA

Responsibilities:

• Accomplishments
• Stood up NSX environment suitable for testing of BGP peering
• Stood up ESXi environment suitable for testing of BGP peering
• Update and enhance existing infrastructure to tightly work with other business units
• Implementation and deployment of Confidential NSX and vRealize Automation
• Configured and deployed NSX Edge, Gateway and Routing functions
• Helped define engineering approaches for various SDDC and HCI initiatives
• Provides last tier support for operations and support teams, root cause analysis and preventative analysis
• Planning, Implementation and Deployment of vRealize Log Insight, Network Insight and vSAN

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer, Audubon, PA

Responsibilities:

• Design, implementation, deployment and operation of Confidential vSphere environment for converged infrastructure platform
• Implemented and Deployed Microsoft AD, SCCM and SCOM for Hyper-V Servers and Desktops
• Design, Implementation, deployment of Citrix XenApp, AppSense and App-V for app delivery
• Deploy Windows Servers 2012 R2 Infrastructure platform
• Create Citrix Design for Citrix XenApp, StoreFront and XenDesktop 7
• Configure Citrix NetScaler for Extranet and Intranet functionality
• Configure Server environment to spec for various applications
• Implemented and deployed Citrix NetScaler Load-balancing and interface functionality

Confidential

Agile Hosting Infrastructure Engineer, Dearborn, MI

Responsibilities:

• Migration and implementation of Cloud technology ( Confidential vRealize and HP Cloud Automation)
• Design and implementation experience with blade servers and virtual connect technologies.
• Design to size, implement and support large Confidential environments
• Install, configure and manage Confidential vSphere, Confidential vCloud, & VDI Environments
• Create orchestrations for multi-tier virtual machine deployments using Confidential tools (vCAC, Orchestrator and Director)
• VCE vBlock systems and hardware installations, deployments and implementation
• Configure Confidential Distributed Resource Scheduling, High Availability and Fault Tolerance.
• Desktop imaging and VDI pool creation in a Confidential View environment.
• Design and configuration of vRealize Automation workflows and schemas
• Cisco UCS blade server and hardware installation, deployment and implementation
• Update and migration of VDI and applications from legacy platforms
• Configure Confidential (SRM), Distributed Resource Scheduling, High Availability and Fault Tolerance.

Confidential

Citrix Architect, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Create Citrix Design for StoreFront 2.1 and XenDesktop 7
• Configure Citrix NetScaler 10.1 for Extranet and Intranet functionality
• Cisco UCS blade server and hardware installation, deployment and implementation
• Design solutions for integration of hybrid/public clouds (AWS, Google Cloud)
• VCE vBlock systems and hardware installations, deployments and implementation
• Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop farm implementation and deployment
• Microsoft Windows 2008 and 2012 R2 implementations
• Desktop imaging and VDI pool creation in a Citrix XenDesktop environment
• Application Hosting and Streaming in a Citrix XenApp environment
• Create orchestrations for multi-tier virtual machine deployments using Citrix tools (CloudPlatform)
• Update and migration of VDI and applications from legacy platform
• Interface with all levels of infrastructure support

Confidential

Citrix Design Consultant, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Create Citrix Design for StoreFront 2.1, NetScaler 10 and XenDesktop 7
• VCE vBlock systems and hardware installations, deployments and implementation
• Design and implementation experience with blade servers and virtual connect technologies.
• Cisco UCS blade server and hardware installation, deployment and implementation
• Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop farm implementation and deployment
• Microsoft Windows 2008 and 2012 R2 implementations
• Desktop imaging and VDI pool creation in a Citrix XenDesktop environment
• Application Hosting and Streaming in a Citrix XenApp environment
• Design solutions for integration of hybrid/public clouds (AWS, Google Cloud)
• Update and migration of VDI and applications from legacy platform

Confidential

Systems Engineer, Fort Worth, TX

Responsibilities:

• Cisco UCS blade server and hardware installation, deployment and implementation
• Design and implementation experience with blade servers and virtual connect technologies.
• Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop farm implementation and deployment
• Microsoft Windows 2008R2 implementations
• Server and application migrations from 2003 server to 2008R2 server
• Create orchestrations for multi-tier virtual machine deployments using Confidential tools
• Design, Implementation, deployment and operation of Confidential vSphere 5 environment for infrastructure platform
• Migration and implementation of vCloud using technology vCAC (version 5.1)
• Update and migration of VDI and applications from legacy platform
• Create orchestrations for multi-tier virtual machine deployments using Confidential tools (vCAC, Orchestrator and Director)
• Capable to size, implement and support large Confidential environments
• Install, configure and manage Confidential vSphere, Confidential, vCAC ESX hosts & VDI Environment.
• Configure Confidential Distributed Resource Scheduling, High Availability and Fault Tolerance.
• Desktop imaging and VDI pool creation in a Confidential View environment.
• Design solutions for integration of hybrid/public clouds (AWS, Google Cloud)

Confidential

Senior Virtualization Engineer, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Design, Implementation, deployment and operation of Confidential vSphere 5 environment for infrastructure platform
• Migration and implementation of vCloud technology (version 1.5 and 5.1 including vCAC 5.2)
• Design and implementation experience with blade servers and virtual connect technologies.
• Design to size, implement and support large Confidential environments
• Install, configure and manage Confidential vSphere, Confidential vCloud, & VDI Environments
• Create orchestrations for multi-tier virtual machine deployments using Confidential tools (vCAC, Orchestrator and Director)
• VCE vBlock systems and hardware installations, deployments and implementation
• Configure Confidential Distributed Resource Scheduling, High Availability and Fault Tolerance
• Configuration and implementation of Oracle RAC on Confidential
• Desktop imaging and VDI pool creation in a Confidential View environment.
• Cisco UCS blade server and hardware installation, deployment and implementation
• Update and migration of VDI and applications from legacy platforms