SUMMARY

Highly motivated and adaptable IT professional who is a team player and can work well independently. A specialist in the design, integration, implementation and migration of complex virtual environments with 24 years in - depth experience with Citrix, VMware Virtualization, Oracle and Wintel technologies. My major strengths lie in successfully owning, designing technical solutions, leading projects, delivering solution architecture blueprints, ensuring effective communications to users at all levels, and creating and maintaining IT documentation for the infrastructure and services within fast paced high profile environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows Server 2012 2008 (R2)/2003/2000/NT, Windows Client 8/7/Vista/XP/2000/NT/98, Linux, Unix (HP, Confidential ) and VMS (Alpha/VAX)

Protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, LDAP,DHCP, WINS, NFS, VPN, SSl, TSL POP3, IMAP, Telnet, FTP, NetBIOS, BOOTP

Hardware: HPE ProLiant DLGEN9, HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage,, Store Once Series, HPE 950 Tape library, Arista Modular Switching DELL VRTX, Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall, Sonic WALL SSL VPN, Cisco routers

Software: Citrix XenApp, VMware, Internet Information Server (IIS), HPE Data Protector, System Center Operations Manager, System Center Configuration Manager, Virtual machine Manager, Exchange/ Send mail, Microsoft SharePoint,, Oracle/ SQL Server/ Access, ISA/ Elron/ X-Wall/ Backup Exec

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Citrix Administrator

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of XenApp 7.x, XenApp 6.5, XenApp 4.5, XenDesktop 7. 9 and higher, Storefront, Netscaler Web interface, Citrix Director
• Citrix maintenance tasks such as cleaning storage, upgrading software
• Windows server and workstation OS (Server 2008, 2012, Windows 7, Windows 10) working with Citrix Vendor and other vendors
• Working in virtual server technologies, specifically VMWare
• Partner with other Infrastructure teams (network,server, desktop, support desk) when troubleshooting issues

Data Center

Specialist, Springfield, OH

Responsibilities:

• Installed and administered Windows 2000/2003/2008/ R2/2012, Active Directory, DNS, GPO, XenApp, XenServer, XenDesktop, EdgeSight, Citrix NetScaler.
• Managed 120 Virtual Servers supporting 500 applications, accessed 24 X 7 by 1500 concurrent users
• Expertise in troubleshooting and resolving issues in enterprise Citrix environment, Including Web Interface, application enumeration and performance issues, Printing and provisioning issues for clients.
• Resolved various issues such as Windows Policies, Application licensing, RDP and ICA..
• Monitored Citrix servers health by using Citrix Edge Sight, Performed scripting through VBS, CMD.
• Apply Citrix Hotfixes as recommended.
• Managed and assisted all phases of project - scoping, design, deployment, testing, rollout, user support, and documentation.
• Vendor and SLA management for datacenters (US, Europe).
• Interaction with (VMware,Citrix, Wintel, Active Directory, Backup, Database) support towers for streaming and optimizing resource utilization delivering high availability, secure, Fault Tolerant Datacenters operations across all continents .
• Plan and test H/W, S/W and Firmware upgrades during Global Service Break.

Systems Center Configuration Manager

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Responsibilities:

• Inter and Intra forest Active Directory migration
• Experience in SCCM, SCOM and SCVMM to provide Enterprise IT Infrastructure.
• Deploying these tools for O/S Deployment, Configuration Management, S/W distribution, S/W Updates
• MSI creation and modification for zero touch installation, transform and mst creation
• Power Shell, Primal, VB Script, Auto it programming
• Collection creation and task sequencing complex software packages and OSD deployment.
• Advertisement management for S/W distribution
• Experience supporting large Windows environments ( 400 Servers, 8000 Workstations)
• Planning and implementation of upgrade/install to Windows 7 from Vista and XP.
• Extensive use of user state migration tool.
• Imaging and Virtualization using VM Ware.
• Virtualization of packages using Hyper-V, MED V

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall planning and implementation of migration strategies for Operating Systems and applications (Servers/Workstations).
• New hardware (NAS/SAN) and software integration with existing infrastructure.
• Designed Messaging Infrastructure using Exchange, Virus Protection and Anti spam using both software and hardware solutions.
• Network Security Design and Implementation using ISA firewall and rules creation
• Centralized administration and management of virtual environment to increase physical server utilization, and enables rapid provisioning of new virtual machines.
• Extensive experience in designing, planning and implementing backup and recovery strategies.
• Automation and testing of backup strategies for Servers, Workstations, Exchange, SQL Server, and Oracle.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in setting up Clearinghouse centers using Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) across Confidential .
• Solution involved both Non-Imaging (Conventional) and Imaging options.
• Managed team for implementation of the solution at multiple sites across Confidential .
• Various milestones of the project were installation, configuration, testing, training, dummy runs, trail runs and, hardware and software acceptance tests.
• Project required close interaction with Confidential customer support, Confidential Software development team in St.Antonio, Texas.
• Responsible for all aspects of Customer Relationship and Vendor management.

System Administrator/Database Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, Administration of Oracle 6.0/ 7.0 and VMS (AXP) 6.1on Confidential ALPHA 2000/500 for Power Plant (Joint Venture with Enron and GE for 2000 MW power plant). Oracle version 7.0
• Installation, Configuration, Administration setup (Windows NT) for Rock savage Power Plant (Joint venture with InterGen U.K.).
• Responsible for maintenance and design of networks using different protocols (TCP/IP, Decnet, IPX).

Software Engineer (MCS)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Internetworking of various operating systems.
• Provided software and database support to major corporate customers like Confidential