Senior Citrix Consultant Resume

SUMMARY:

Cloud and Virtualization Architect with over 20 + years’ experience focused on Information Technology and Datacenter Operations.
Server Virtualization (VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper - V) Desktop Virtualization (Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View)
Application Delivery (Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop)
Microsoft core server platforms (Windows, Active Directory, Group Policy, SQL, IIS, MSCS) Enterprise Storage (NetApp, SolidFire)
Enterprise Monitoring (eg Inovations, SolarWinds, Service Desk, Login VSI, LogicMonitor) Capacity Planning, Disaster Recovery/High Availability
Linux Administration Project management

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Citrix Consultant

Responsibilities:

Design and Deployment of Full Citrix Platinum Solution (XA, XD, PVS, AppDNA, MCS, Netscaler)
Deployment and configuration of NetScaler SDX platform
Implementation of Citrix AppDisk application layering technology
Implementation of Citrix App Layering (Unidesk) application layering technology
Implementation of Login VSI for load testing, benchmarking and capacity planning
Implementation of eG Innovation eG Enterprise for monitoring
Implementation of Asana for project and task management
Evaluation of Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity/FlexApp f staff to support and administrate XenApp environment
Wrote operational procedures for production support teams
Managing day to day tasks of project team
I was also responsible for designing solutions for a few new use cases. These included:
Secure Jumphost for remote server administration
Windows 10 deployment with XenDesktop 7x

Confidential

Senior Cloud and Virtualization Consultant

Responsibilities:

Deployment of Login VSI for load testing, benchmarking and capacity planning of VDI
Deployment of SolidFire all-flash storage array
Deployment of VMware vSAN
Design and built out multi-tenant shared Citrix XenApp infrastructure on VMware vSphere
Implemented Citrix EdgeSight for monitoring and reporting
Day to day operation of NetApp Filers
Integrate Citrix ShareFile Enterprise for on premises cloud storage
Integration of Asana for project and task management
Implemented Mobileiron MDM for clients
Provide VMware/Citrix consulting service to clients

Confidential

Senior Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

Designed and built out XenApp 6.5 infrastructure on VMware vSphere 5
Designed and built out XenDesktop 7.x infrastructure on VMware vSphere 5
Implemented Citrix Provisioning Services
Implemented Citrix Profile Manager for profile management
Deployed Citrix CloudGateway
Deployed EdgeSight for monitoring and reporting
Virtualize applications with VMware ThinApp for publishing in XenApp
Migrated XenApp/XenDesktop infrastructure to new datacenter
Wrote operational procedures for production support teams.
Trained Level 2 support team on operational procedures for supporting Citrix products
Configured F5 iRules to support the Citrix XenApp infrastructure and load balancing
Published Windows application for access by mostly MacOS X clients
Secure Jumphost for remote server administration
Published Microsoft Outlook for executive admins with large mailboxes
Secure collaboration environments for 3rd party vendor access
Published web browsers (all versions) for testing web sites
XenDesktop for developers

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented virtualized MSCS SQL clusters for vCenter, Appsense and XenApp databases
Built out a highly scalable vSphere 4/ESX 4 infrastructure.
Built out XenApp 6 infrastructure. Scalable to 5000 seats.
Built out XenDesktop infrastructure. Scalable to 5000 seats.
Deployed read only domain controllers
Wrote operational procedures for production support teams.
Participated in requirements gathering projects for various use cases.
Worked on project team using the Agile Project Management with Scrum methodology.

Confidential

Senior Field Systems Engineer/Consultant

Responsibilities:

Build lab to conduct product comparison of XenDesktop and VMware View.
Upgrades of Vmware Virtual Infrastructure 3 to vSphere 4
Design and deployments of Citrix XenDesktop with Citrix Provisioning Server on XenServer, ESX and Hyper-V.
Design and deployments of Citrix XenApp 6

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer/Consultant

Responsibilities:

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed and deployed multi geographical site for VMware virtual infrastructure.
Consolidation of physical server’s workloads to virtual machines.
Replication of critical workloads between datacenters using vReplicator and PlateSpin Migrate/ Protect.
Designed and deployed virtual infrastructure backup solution using vRanger with VCB integration.
Designed and deployed VMware Lab Manager reducing time to market for critical projects.
Upgraded VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 to VMware vSphere 4.
Designed and deployed Citrix XenApp for use by offshore teams in China and India.
Designed and deployed monitoring solution using HP Sitescope and SolarWinds Orion
Troubleshoot hardware/software/performance issues on production and development workloads.
Responsible for 24/7 support of production Windows/linux workloads worldwide.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Responsible for datacenter operations and deployment of Dell and IBM servers. Introduced the very first virtual Infrastructure to NVIDA with VMware ESX 2 and Virtual Center 1
Deployment of multiple IBM FAStT 500 midrange SAN environments and NetApp Filers
Upgraded virtual infrastructure to VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3
Deployed Citrix Presentation Server 3
Installation and configuration of network services
Monitoring and maintenance of critical infrastructure
Setup and deployment of Ghost Multicast Server for company wide