Cloud Architect / Senior Project Manager Resume
Alpharetta, GA
SUMMARY
- Results - driven technical leader with extensive experience directing highly complex virtualization implementation projects and Citrix environments for medium to large companies.
- Successful at building, empowering, and leading multi-disciplined teams to install, configure, troubleshoot, and maintain systems and software applications per business requirements.
- Effective at leveraging emerging virtualization technologies to design, deploy, and document scalable, high-performing desktop, server, and application-based solutions.Team Leadership & Development
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Software: Citrix MetaFrame 1.8; Presentation Server 3.0-4.0; XenApp 5.0-7.6; XenDesktop 4.0-7.6; Storefront 2.6; Web Interface 5.0-5.4; XenServer 5.0-6.0; Provisioning Services 5.0-7.6; Streaming Profiler 6.0; Director; EdgeSight (4.0-5.4) for XenApp/EndPoints/Virtual Desktops; EdgeSight for NetScaler 2.1; EdgeSight for Load Testing; EdgeSight Advanced Application Monitoring; Command Center (4-5); NetScaler Insight Manager; NetScaler VPX 9.0-10.5
Microsoft: Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.2-4.6; WSUS; Deployment Tool; Active Directory; MS SQL 2005-2012, Office Suite; FrontPage; Publisher;
Project Other Software: VMWare ESX (3.5, 5, and 5.5) and GSX Server and Workstation FSLogix 2.0, AppSense 8 Suite. Immidio Flex Profiles, Res Wisdom 2009, SysTrack 3.5, Clear2View, Dell IT Assistant, SolarWinds Orion, Avocent, Dell DRAC, Altiris Deployment Solution, PHD Virtual Backup for XenServer, SAP, Visio, Evernote, Visual Studio 2015, Notepad++, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, paint.NET, TeamViewer, WinSCP, 7-Zip, LastPass, Skype, Lync, Putty, Remote Desktop Manager, ASG-Remote
Desktop Hardware: Dell 3rd - 9th Generation Servers, IBM 345, 445 Servers, Dell/IBM/HP Laptops/Desktops
Operating Systems: Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2/ 2003 / 2000 Servers, Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, XP
Desktops Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, ICA, RDP, HTTP, SNMP, SMTP, NNTP, DHCP, DNS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Alpharetta, GA
Cloud Architect / Senior Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Oversaw the design and content of the Customer Services Americas SharePoint site that provided information and tools to 1,800+ Field Service Engineers and support personnel.
- Seamlessly migrated an installation order team generating $300+ million in annual revenues from an older Citrix system to a new Citrix environment with zero downtime.
Confidential - Middlebury, CT
Enterprise Architect
Responsibilities:
- Spearheaded a Citrix Virtual Desktop/Exchange/SharePoint project to develop and migrate new architectures to XenApp 6.5, Exchange 2010, and SharePoint 2010 across four data centers (including DR).
- Successfully led team in transferring operational and administrative support of all systems to a new support infrastructure with minimal customer impact.
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Team Lead / Senior Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Served as Team Lead on numerous projects to (1) launch AppSense Suite 8.1 (2) RES Automation Manager to provide server administration (3) WSUS / Res Automation Manager supporting monthly patch schedules for Microsoft / other software vendors and (4) Citrix EdgeSight for in-depth analysis of Citrix environment.
- Eliminated roaming profiles and reduced login times by leading a project to transition Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s XenApp farm to AppSense Environment Manager.
- Established a Wordpress blog to communicate changes across the Citrix environment as well as MS Project Web Server to help team with to-do lists, status reports, and SharePoint functions.
- Developed and implemented a plan to deploy a major XenApp software upgrade to a few servers at a time to ensure system stability with zero downtime to users.
Confidential, Johnson City, TN
Network Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Engineered and administrated 30+ Citrix servers supporting an available 1,275 connections from within and outside the network via Citrix Secure Gateway.
- Published approximately 30 business, clinical, and support applications across multiple servers, and worked with application analysts to implement and troubleshoot new and existing applications.
- Installed and configured 16 Windows 2003 servers supporting estimated 400 concurrent Citrix 3.0 (upgraded to 4.0) connections as part of implementing Confidential MAK (Medicine Administration checK) across multiple hospital locations.
- Planned and coordinated an infrastructure project to launch a multi-site emergency room tracking and charting system.
- Worked closely with vendors, contractors, and IT staff to deploy above hardware decisions at five emergency rooms ranging from 2 to 52 beds.