Senior Solutions Architect Lead Resume

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Solutions Architect Lead

Responsibilities:

Architect and forecast the needs of the infrastructure team
Collaborate with our executive management team to prioritize projects and meet deadlines
Mentor server team members in their professional growth
Implement new systems and schedule system upgrades and maintenance
Ensure system stability and up times meet our SLA’s
Assist with escalated troubleshooting for critical issues
Build and maintain virtual servers
Agile scale out into our HA Data Centers
Assist in hardware procurement and pricing negotiations

Confidential

Server Team Manager \ Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Confidential

Technical Engineering Lead

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Citrix environments at Ascension hospitals across the US in 24 states.
Directly work with local administrators and engineers on design work, upgrades, and escalated troubleshooting for critical issues.
Design and troubleshoot Citrix platforms to 53 Ministries across the US
Implemented PVS standards across Ascension and converted physical servers to PVS
Help consolidate datacenters to remote hosted datacenters
Coordinate projects with key stakeholders to ensure successful project deployments
Train team members on new Citrix and virtualization environments

Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Responsible for 265 Citrix and supporting servers
Supported approximately 2200 concurrent Citrix users
Responsible for planning and execution of annual server obsolesce
Created standards on server and storage platforms
Administered XenServer and VMware Virtual Servers
Made recommendations of hardware requirements for new projects and upgrades
Created cost estimates for capital projects
Explored and made recommendations on new technologies that will improve our reliability and uptime
Assisted in auditing enterprise licensing to ensure compliance
Maintained and tested system backups
Built a Windows deployment server for quick and consistent server deployments
Helped maintain and create active directory Groups, OUs, and GPOs
Assisted fellow team members with issues and projects
Implemented Citrix Virtual Desktops for ePharmacy to reduce operational costs associated with the project