SUMMARY

• Senior Citrix Engineer and Solutions Architect with 10 plus year - experience in virtualization technologies. Worked on XenApp, XenDesktop, Netscaler, Citrix Cloud, XenServer, Mobility and VMware Suite. Experience with Pre-Sales, Project Management and Vendor Management contracts.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2000-2016 / Windows XP to Windows 10 / Ubuntu / Cent OS

Microsoft Active Directory (AD) / Microsoft Group Polices Objects ( GPO):

Scripting Language: PowerShell

Citrix Suite: Citrix XenApp 4.5 to 7.14 /Citrix Xendesktop 4.0 to 7.14 /Netscaler 9.0 to 12.0

Vmware Suite: vSphere 4.0 to 6.0 / Vmware View /Horizon

Mobility: Citrix XenMobile

Hypervisors: VMware Vsphere /XenServer/Acropolis AHV/Hyper-V.

Monitoring tools: Stratusphere / Managed Engine /Systrack / EdgeSight / ExtraHop/EG Innovations

Cloud: AWS /Azure

Network Protocols: TCP/IP, ISCSI, FC, NFS,CIFS

Routers and Switches: Cisco

Firewall: Cisco ASA and Palo Alto

Wireless: Cisco and Aruba

VOIP: Avaya

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York

Senior Citrix and Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Able to communicate and explain problems and propose solutions to C-Level Management.
• Managed VMware Vsphere 5.5 hypervisor.
• Created and Managed Miscrosoft GPO policies and Citrix Policies
• Built Master Image in Windows 2008 /2012 R2 using Citrix PVS and MCS.
• Built Citrix ShareFile POC with other Business Departments for evaluation.
• Implemented Netscaler MPX 5550/5650 ver 11.x in HA Pair and GSLB mode - Across 3 active Datacenters
• Installed and Configured Netscaler Insight Center
• Implemented Citrix Profile Management and reduced logon time to under 30 secs from 2-minute time.
• Designed and Built DR as a separate Site with an unique URL.
• Built Liquidware Profile Unit as POC.

Confidential, New York

Senior Citrix and Virtualization Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked for several clients in verticals including Medical, Legal, Educational, Commercials and Financial Companies.
• Performed Client Assessments using Citrix diagnostic toolkit
• Wrote SOW (Scope of Work) for new and prospected clients
• Built POC ‘s and Pilots using Citrix Products Suite for prospected customers
• Designed, Implemented and Configured Citrix VDI XenDesktop5.x/ 7.x, XenApp6.x/7.x in Vmware/Xen Server/Hyper-V / VMware Hypervisors on Cisco UCS CPU blades.
• Design, implemented and configured Citrix XenMobile 8.x, Citrix Sharefile
• Managed VMware Vsphere 5.5 hypervisor
• Installed and Configured XenServer 5 and 6.
• Built VM Templates of Windows 2008 R2 in VMware/Xen Server
• Worked on Netscalers 5500,8200,3000 MPX/VPX performing Load Balancing for XenApp/ XenDesktop, Access Gatway, High-Availability, SSL installation, SSL Off-Load.
• Managed Persistent (MCS) and Non Persistent (streamed) Xendesktop Clients
• Worked on Wyse Terminals and HP Terminals.
• Performed V2V and P2V conversions
• Designed and Implemented Atlantis ILIO for Streamed VDI’s
• Initialized and configured EMC VNX 5300
• Supported RecoverPoint
• Installed and configured Microsoft SQL 2008/2012 with Mirroring
• Built Nutanix POCs for VDI

Confidential, New York

Lead Citrix Systems and Virtualization Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coached other Citrix Engineers in the team
• Supported Citrix Xendesktop 4 and 5 Version with Citrix PVS 5.x
• Deployed published/streamed apps in Citrix Farm
• Integrated Xendesktop 5.5 Farm with Citrix XenApp 4, 6 Farm
• Migrated users from Citrix XenDesktop 4 to Xendesktop 5.5
• Supported Citrix Presentation Server 4 Farm
• Built Citrix Xenapp 6.5 Infrastructure using Citrix PVS 6.x
• Installed/Configured Citrix EdgeSight 5.x
• Installed/Configured Citrix Agent Database Server
• Installed Citrix Edge Sight Agent on XD/XA clients.
• Created and Managed Miscrosoft GPO policies and Citrix Policies
• Created and supported Active Directory OU for Citrix infrastructure
• Managed Citrix Universal Profile management (UPM) 3.x
• Built VM Templates of Windows 2008 R2 in VMware/Xen Server
• Managed Citrix Netscaler 5500/VPX - AGEE/LB for XA/XD services )
• Managed Persistent (MCS) and Non Persistent (PVS) Xendesktop Clients
• Installed Vsphere 4.x /vCenter 4.1 to manage VMware Infrastructure
• Created Windows 7 Golden Image
• Supported App Sense suite and Desktop Authority Suite
• Created datastore in Dell Equallogic and NetApp 3240 Storage
• Supported HP and Dell Blade Servers
• Worked on Riverbed technologies (Wan Accelerator)

Confidential, New York

Systems and Virtualization Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built POC‘s and Pilots using Citrix Products Suite for prospected customers
• Built and Configured Citrix XenDesktop5.x/ XenApp6.x in Vmware/Xen Server/Hyper-V Hypervisors.
• Introduced to Netscalex VPX - Access Gateway Enterprise Edition)
• Troubleshot existing Xendesktop logon problems for existing customers.
• Configured Wyse Terminals.
• Installed Vsphere 4.x /vCenter 4.1 to manage VMware Infrastructure
• Supported App Sense Suite
• Introduced to Storage Dell Equallogic Storage

Confidential, New York

Senior IT Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed Persistent (MCS) and Non Persistent (streamed) Xendesktop clients
• Worked with Engineering team to create a Golden Image
• Worked on several critical projects including Active Directory Migration / BCP/ and Security remediation
• Participated in Several Disaster Recovery exercises using virtual desktops as solution.
• Installed Citrix Routers and Switches.
• Supported applications in the environment:
• Attachmate Extra 6.5, Lotus Notes 4.x, 5.x, 6.x 8.x,, Ghost Software, In-House bank applications, Microsoft-Office 97/2000/XP/2003/2007/2010, Visio 2000/2003/2007, Sybase 11.x/12.x, IBM DB2 clients 5.x/6.x/7.x/8/x/9x, RAS clients, VPN Clients using Juniper Networks, Proventia Firewall Desktop, Exceed 7.x/8.x/10.x/13.x, Symantec AV 9x,10x 11, Safeboot 4.x/5.x, Citrix Webclients, Citrix Receiver, Altiris, Aruba Wireless Install and troubleshooting, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5.