SUMMARY:

• Cloud and Virtualization Solutions - oriented Information Technology Professional with proven expertise designing, implementing, managing and integrating high-performance technology solutions to meet challenging business needs within diverse modern business structures.
• Solid expertise administering, optimizing and supporting multi-platform LAN/WAN infrastructures under MS Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008/2012 and Citrix/VMware systems with Cisco networking infrastructures.
• Specialized techniques for network security, routing/switching, firewalls, Active Directory, VPN, back-up/recovery, anti-virus, TCP/IP, DMZ utilization, Application Virtualization using App-V 4.5, 4.6, 5 and VMWare ThinApp Platforms…deploying and maintaining both infrastructure and application components.
• Outstanding analytical, project management and problem solving skills; strategically manage time and expediently resolve problems for optimal productivity, improvement and profitability.
• Strong technical background with a solid history of working with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) controls, HIPAA processes, documentation, and SDLC/ITIL methodologies used by today’s more successful entities.
• Highly effective liaison and communication skills proven via effective interaction for Project Management, users, team members and vendors.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems and Enterprise Server / Application Technologies: MS Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008- R2/2012-R2 Server, MS Windows 9X/NT/2000/XP-Vista-7-8-10 ClientsClustering, Network Load Balancing high availability solutions. Full Citrix suite of technologies.: VMWare ESX(i), ThinApp, XenServer, XenApp, XenDesktop, and Microsoft Hyper-V & App-V technologies. Linux (various flavors), OS/400 for the iSeries IBM Server, UNIX from HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX. Exchange Server 2003, 2007, 2010, SQL 2000, 2005, 2008, OCS 2007, and Share Point Server systems. ISA Server and Forefront Technologies, ColdFusion 5, 6 (MX) and 7, IIS 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 and 7.x. Nutanix NNP 4.5 and SDN for HyperConverged Infrastructures.

Methodologies: ITILv3, SDLC, Modeling, TOGAF,FEA, Agile, Zachman, around Virtualization.

Testing & Monitoring Tools: Microsoft Security Configuration and Analysis Tools, Wireshark Protocol Sniffers for network performance monitoring, analysis, and forecasting. Websense, NetQoS packet controlling, SolarWinds network management. LoginVSI and LoadRunner for stress and load testing.

Software: MS Office Suite, Symantec, McAfee Suite, Norton Suite, ERWIN, BPwin, Client Access, Bossanova, Adobe Suite, Visual Studio .NET, EDI, RES Workspace Manager, AppSense.

RDBMS: MySQL, MS SQL 2000 and 2005, DB2, Access, Oracle, and some Sybase Platforms.

Protocols: ICA, PCoIP, TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, HTTP, FTP, WEP, WPA, RADIUS, IPSec, L2TP, SSL

Hardware / Storage: Cisco UCS, Nutanix, Sanbolic, Dell, HP, IBM, BladeCenters, and Workstations / Cisco Nexus, EMC, NetApp, Juniper, Sonicwall, IBM Fast-T / XIV SAN and HP EVA solutions.

Tools: System Center 2007 and 2011 suite technologies, Operations Manager, Virtual Machines Management Center Network Assistant and other mgmt tools from MS, Cisco, and VMWare.

Languages: Cold Fusion, ASP.NET, VB.NET, Visual Basic 6.0, ASP, HTML, JavaScript, XML, PHP, SQL Scripting and Powershell commands for application development and admin automation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Citrix Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Citrix Partner Consultant for the full Citrix portfolio of technologies for clients across the entire East Coast. Heavy deployments and migrations of all XenDesktop / XenApp / Insight / and NetScaler CPX, VPX, MPX and SDX to include GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing) solutions. vGPU deployments to extend HDX.
• Customers include large financial firms, government entities, top Universities, manufacturing and many others. App - V integration and app virtualization, as well as RES and AppSense, are typical components deployed with our Citrix Solutions. Complete soup to nuts solutions architected, engineered, deployed, and managed all while holding the all public Citrix certs as well as the private Citrix Networking for Apps and Mobile Security Specialist Practicum cert.

Confidential

Senior Citrix Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Citrix SME for the full Citrix portfolio of technologies. AppSense for Workspace Management and management of NetScalers while maintaining VMware, Cisco, and F5 application delivery controllers. Application orchestration for the entire end user delivery matrix.

Confidential

Senior Citrix Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Citrix SME Team Manager responsible for architecting and engineering new Citrix technologies while administering 9 Citrix farms in a distributed global environment in 7 data centers. Citrix technologies include XenApp 5 and 6.5, XenDesktop 5, Provisioning Services, and NetScaler / Riverbed appliances delivering to Traditional workstation and Wyse Thin Client based computing endpoints.
• All additional Citrix requirements were also supported, including, Active Directory, file services, VMWare 4.1 ~ 5.1 and XenServer hypervisors, SQL Server, IIS and just about any other component of a WinTel based technology imaginable. I deployed the company s 1st application Virtualization environments leveraging mainly App - V 4.6 and some ThinApp for the VMWare team.

Confidential

Senior Citrix and Exchange Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided administration and engineering for the Citrix suite of technologies including Presentation Server 4.5 farm, XenApp 6.5 farm, Citrix Access Gateway appliances, VPX 9.1 NetScalers, XenDesktop 5.6, and Provisioning Services 6.1 in QA and Production environments. Using the Golden Image technique, I m serving hosted shared desktops and pooled desktops via streamed disks on vSphere 5.0. Exchange 2010 and 2003 environments are also my responsibility for 2000+ users.

Confidential

Network Systems Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Sole member of the IT Operations for this Microsoft Gold Partners Infrastructure with consists of HP / Dell mix in Peak10 Colocation. Current successes include Exchange 2010 migration; Forest / Domain function level upgrades to 2008 R2, and selected plus implemented their new VoIP system from ShoreTel systems. Citrix Virtualization services were also introduced by me to overcome the delivery of .NET applications to non - Windows customers using XenApp 6.

Confidential

Senior Systems Specialist

Responsibilities:

• DFS Rollout - migration of many UNC storage locations to a manageable DFS standard.
• Infrastructure - Confidential ’s first implementation of blade computing with Dell R910s and VMWare ESX(i), switched with Cisco Nexus 00v appliances and FCoE backbones, spinning on EMC Celerra and IBM XIV SANS.

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer II

Responsibilities:

• System Policy and Change control process development for this company’s first Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) audits.
• Engineered and stood up Hong Kong datacenter in MCI co-location, while maintaining 24/7 availability.

Confidential

Systems Engineer - Level III Support

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded Sonic Automotives’ Windows 2000 Forest to Windows 2003 Forest. Prepared the sonic.com domain to expand using Active Directory so that new dealerships could be brought on to the domain.

Confidential

Network Systems Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Employee of Wachovia's Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) Department and member of the Business Monitoring Solutions (BMS) team at the Customer Information Center (CIC) located in Charlotte, NC.

Confidential

Network Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Credited for creating a Windows 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure and automating backup processes.

Confidential

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

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