Senior Citrix Engineer Resume

SUMMARY

Azure, Citrix and Linux Certified Software Professional with 15 years of IT experience.
Over 10 years of work experience on Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.0/4.5, XenApp 5.0/6.0/6.5/7.5/7.6.300/ 7.6 LTSR / 7.15 LTSR, XenDesktop 5.6/7.5/7.6.300/7.6 LTSR/7.13 / 7.15 LTSR .
Proficient at designing and building new Citrix Environment, configuration, maintaining and upgrading Citrix environments from initial project architecture to product implementation, including testing and QA phases.
Experienced to Deploy DaaS environment on Azure and VMware Horizon Cloud.
FSLogix Office Containerization for Office, OneDrive, OneNotes and Teams.
Experienced with virtualization technologies including Nutanix Hyperconverged infrastructure, VMware ESXi, Hyper - V.
Configuration, maintaining and upgrading Nutanix clusters running on Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and VMware ESXi.
Analyze business requirements and recommend technical solutions.
Experience on server building process, patching, Operating System hardening and server OS image deployment, Hands-on experience on Nutanix, HP, Dell and IBM hardware.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Citrix Engineer

Responsibilities:

End to end analyzing, designing the architecture and deploying a new Citrix Site (on XenDesktop 7.13) for 5000 persistence business users (mainly Developer, QA, Network/Security, DBA, Sys Admin, Tester and special production support) using MCS.
The new Windows10 VDI environment running on Nutanix hardware (NX-3465S-G5 blocks) and the hypervisor is AHV.
Coordinated efforts between the Desktop Engineering, Desktop Packaging, SCCM and business line representatives to install, configure, and test Windows 10 Citrix Desktops.
Involved in Azure AD, Office 365, SharePoint, Cisco Jabber / WebEx and Zscaler proxy migration project.
Upgrade Nutanix AHV, Acropolis Operating System (AOS) and Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) when new stable versions release. Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) configured on AHVs on all 10 Nutanix Clusters, increased Nutanix Controller VMs from 24 GB to 32 GB, upgrade Nutanix AHV MCS Plugin for XenDesktop and AHV Plugin for Citrix Director.
Upgrade XenApp and PVS test environment from 7.13 to 7.15 LTSR version.
Upgrade Old XenApp and PVS 7.6 production environment to 7.15 LTSR version and

Confidential

Desktop production

Responsibilities:

Working closely with Automation team to replace all their 550 Windows 8 Citrix Desktops with Windows 10 Citrix Desktops.
Worked with Desktop Engineering team to upgrade Citrix VDI OS version from Windows 10 1511 to 1607.
Deployed Windows10 1709 Citrix Desktop to replace Windows10 1511and 1607 VMs.
Worked with Citrix Consulting Services team to build Disaster Recovery environment.
Deploy 2 new Citrix Sites (one for XenApp and one for XenDesktop) on Nutanix Clusters in our DR Datacenter which are exactly replica of our primary sites.
Configure Protection Domain (Async DR) over Nutanix clusters with Remote Sites and schedule replications over the night so delta will be in sync.
Involved to deploy new DaaS environment on Azure and VMware Horizon Cloud to replace existing Citrix environment.
Created Windows10 Farm for Persistence Desktops, Windows Server 2016 Farms for Non- Persistence Desktops and Published Applications.
Deployed FSLogix Office Containerization for Office, OneDrive, OneNotes and Teams access on Non-Persistence DaaS Desktop.
Working closely with VMware Consulting Team to fix issues on Horizon Cloud.
Migrating Citrix users to newly deployed Azure DaaS environment.