↵ SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience in architecture, deploying and upgrading systems; including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers, and peripheral equipment.
• 5+ years of experience with VMware ESX 5.x/5.5.
• Experience with VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5; vSphere4.x/5.x, vCenter Server, View, vRealize Operations, SRM.
• 5+ years of experience with Citrix XenApp 6.5 and 7.x servers on Windows Server 2008R2 environment.
• Design and implement virtualization, cloud networking, and mobility solutions based on Citrix XenMobile.
• Experience in publishing applications with Citrix XenDesktop 7.6
• Extensive experience with Windows Server 2012/2008/2003 OS’s.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, IIS (Web Server), WSUS, Microsoft Clustering.
• Experience in Application Packaging and Unattended Installations.
• Experience in Deploying Netscalar Gateway in users machines
• Experience in UtilizePower Shellto configure roles and features of Microsoft products.
• Experience in installing, configuring, administering Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 familiar with Database Creation, Database Security, Database Replication/ Migration, Database Performance Monitoring, User Management, Database Backup/Restoration, Import/Export of SQL Database.
• Experience in administrating, maintaining and troubleshootingEMC Symmetrix V - Max, DMX4, DMX3andVNX,ClariionCX-3/CX-4series.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) accountable for the companies Windows 20003/2008 Servers, Active Directory, Exchange 2003/2007 and IIS 6.0 infrastructure.
• Experience and Familiar with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, administering VMware ESX/ESXi and Citrix Xen Server. Created, managed and maintained VMs.
• Experience in administrating, maintaining and troubleshootingEMC Symmetrix V-Max, DMX4, DMX3andVNX,ClariionCX-3/CX-4series.
• Installed and helped deploy, manage and maintain the new environments in the SDDC/SRM technology.
• Experience in Server monitoring, capacity planning, application monitoring.
• Implement migrations from on-premise messaging platforms to Microsoft Office 365.
• Designing and Implementing Project Road Map for Migrating Windows XP To Windows 7 using Microsoft Tools like ACT (Application Compatibility Toolkit), MAP (Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit), MDT(Microsoft Deployment Toolkit) & USMT (User State Migration Toolkit).
• Implemented, deployed, administrated and used Windows 2003/2000, SMS 2003/SCCM 2007, WSUS 2.0. /3.0, Active Directory Designing.
• Experience in iSCSI, SAN, NAS/ NFS storage and RAID concepts.
• Installed and configured all the Linux servers in the network per specifications of clients. Managed Linuxuser accounts.
• Introducing RHEL Linux 6 servers to network environments: Performs OS installation and configuration: standard and advanced (net installation and jumpstart for RHEL; kick start installation for Linux).
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (i.e. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks.)
• Experienced with Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio and Outlook.
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Migrate IaaS, PaaS and SaaS instances between public and private clouds.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro-active System Administrator with an excellent 'can-do' attitude.
• Designed, built and maintained server architecture in a Red Hat Linux ESX VMware Virtualized environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems / Networking: Microsoft Windows 2012/2008/2003 , Microsoft Active directory 2012/2008/2003

Virtualization tools: VI 3.x, vSphere 4.x, 5.x, 5.5, 6.0 vCenter, VMware Update Manager, FT, HA, DRS, DPM, vMotion and Storage vMotion, SRM, Thinapp, VMware Workstation, P2V/ V2V Conversion, Citrix Xen Server, XenApp, Xen Desktop, Hyper-V

Remote Tools: RDP, DameWare, RADMIN, VNC, LogMeIn, Dameware, PCAnywhere, Team Viewer

Hardware: HP, Compaq, Dell desktops/laptops/servers, racking/cabling, network printers, Cisco Routers & Switches, 802.11x Wireless gateways, Access Points.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Citrix and Windows Administrator

Confidential, Union, NJ

• Installed and Configured Citrix XenApp 6.5 and 7.x Servers on Windows Server 2008R2 environment. Experience over working with 400 plus Citrix Servers and over 300 plus Health care applications. Expertise in troubleshooting and resolving issues in enterprise Citrix environment, Including Web Interface, application enumeration and performance issues, Printing and provisioning issues, for internal and external clients. Publish applications in production server and added worker groups to use the applications Created a test server and published new applications on test server and made them test with the application teams for the connectivity. Installed Citrix XenApp Plug - ins for Windows - Citrix XenApp Plug-ins for Streamed Apps. Created Citrix Streaming Profiler and publishing it to the Citrix farms. Formulated group policies for Citrix and Netscaler Gateway. Configured and published Streamed Applications.
• Configured Sites for Streamed Applications.
• Installed, configured, and managed the firm's Citrix Access Gateway appliances and Netscalers 8.0., RSA two factor authentication.
• Installed Service Packs, Hot Fixes & Patches in the form of MSP & MSI files.
• Configured Printers and Resolved Citrix print related issues. Create Citrix Profiles, Policies and Procedures. Generate Policies for Printing. Performing all aspects of account management, User ID creation, Giving Rights to users and share folder. publishing application, Deploying ICA client, printer driver mapping, shadowing users, checking sessions, managing server load and CPU utilization. Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment. Review the Event Logs for Errors and troubleshoot accordingly. Upgraded many health care applications like ECW, Meditech etc...On production servers. Worked with the application vendors regarding application upgrades and new versions release etc. Created extensive technical documentations following company IQ/OQ SOP policies. Documented Installation of more than 60 applications. Created application packages (.msi files) in Citrix for installation on multiple servers. Created User accounts by using Active Directory Users and Computers. Daily duties included Level 2 support of facilities and to assist with setup of new users on the thin client solution. User rights and permission, disabling and enabling accounts. Created and managed organizational units.

Windows/VMware System Admin

Confidential, Atlantic City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Excellent knowledge with designing, installing and implementing VMware ESX server5.0 Setting up V - Motion, HA, DRS, VMware virtual center, and related VMware products. Performed Physical to Virtual Migration by using VMware Convertor and Platespin. Completed multiple conversions simultaneously with a centralized management console Installed, Configured & Trouble shoot of VMware ESXi Servers. Performed Monitoring VM'S & ESXi Servers using virtual center Created, Managed Virtual Machines using Templates. Enabling VMware features like vMotion, svMotion, High Availability (HA), Resource Scheduling (DRS). Provided lab support to test and dev Team by using VMware Features Snapshots, Cloning. Performed Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations. Experienced with VM Workstation, VMware converter and VM Backup. Excellent Experience with HW VMware Update manager to install patches and updates. Performed, designed and implemented VMware backup and disaster recovery. Integrated of Virtual Machine backups into existing physical server backup. Installed and configured vSphere5 and VM Provisioning. Installed and Tested VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 4.x/5.x) for the disaster recovery and managed recovery plans. Provisioning storage to UNIX, Windows and ESX servers from DMX4/DMX3 arrays using SYMCLI/SMC.
• Designed and implemented the virtual environment.
• Configured ESX 5.0 servers on Physical servers with SCSI & and Fiber Channel storage.
• Planned, documented and lead the server expansion from physical virtual servers
• Installed and Configured Citrix XenApp 6.5 and 7.x Servers on Windows Server 2008R2 environment.
• Joined the other Citrix XenApp 6.5 Servers to the existing farm in Windows Server 2008R2. configuring and managed of SQL and Oracle Database for Xenapp 5.0, 6.5and 7.x
• Installed Citrix License Server on Windows Server 2008R2 platform.
• Installed Citrix XenApp 6.5 Server client Xenapphosted.msi on Citrix client computers.
• Installed latest Roller Packs and patches on Citrix XenApp Server 7.6.
• Design and implement virtualization, cloud networking, and mobility solutions based on Citrix XenMobile. Build remote access systems based on XenMobile MDM. Published Line of Business and Off-The-Shelf applications in Citrix environment.
• Installed Citrix XenApp Plugins for Windows - Citrix XenApp Plugins for Streamed Apps * Client for Java, Citrix XenApp Plugins for Hosted Apps - Citrix XenApp Web Plugins,
• Knowledge in F5 Load Balancer for deployment of Citrix VDI application including Xen App and Xen Desktop with the BIG Ip system. Experience in connecting F5 Apps to the storefront.
• Planned and tested the application Virtualization for various new application releases.
• Created Citrix Streaming Profiler and publishing it to the Citrix farms.
• Provisioned new physical & virtual servers and installed Citrix on them for farms expansion.
• Analyzed Incident, Change & Problem tickets and provided status daily and weekly calls.
• Citrix XenApp Plugins, and Program Neighborhood.
• Installed Web Interface Plugins; Created Sites for XenApp Web and XenApp Services.
• Configured the Site Appearance of XenApp Sites of Citrix XenApp 7.6 Server.
• Published Server Desktops, Applications & Contents; Organized Publish Resources.
• Installed the XenApp Plugins for Streamed App and the Citrix Streaming Profiler.
• Configured and Managed Citrix Edgesite Server for Monitoring
• Configured and published Streamed Applications.
• Configured Sites for Streamed Applications.
• Installed Service Packs, Hot Fixes & Patches in the form of MSP & MSI files.
• Configured Display Setting, Speed Screen Browser, Multimedia, Flash, and Image Acceleration.
• Configured Latency Reduction and Progressive Display.
• Implementation of Windows 2008 Application Publishing to provide remote users.
• Excellent Knowledge in Application Packaging and unattended Installations.
• Created User accounts by using Active Directory Users and Computers.
• Used ldifde and csvde utilities to import and export user accounts.
• Troubleshot Group Policy issues using GPResult.exe and Group Policy Result wizard.
• Restored default setting through DCgpofix and created security policies.
• Used Event Viewer, Task Manager and Performance Monitor to resolve AD issues.
• Update SPs / CUs using Power Shell scripts and troubleshoot Exchange 2010 related issues in server 2012 R2 / 2008 R2 virtualized environment as well as granular level restores when required. Providing Microsoft Project and SharePoint Server 2010/2013, Office 365, Windows Azure and MS Team Foundation Server 2010/2013 consultancy services, including Microsoft Project and SharePoint Server 2010/2013 upgrade and implementation, support and . Conducted Office 365 deployment, infrastructure move towards SaaS private cloud computing. Executed migration to Project Server 2013, deployed Windows Azure Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services and MS Exchange synchronization. Drove migration to Exchange 2003 and played key role in the design, implementation, and migration from MS Exchange 5.5 to 2000/2003 for 25 national sites. Including the consolidation of the Exchange 2003 environment. Integrating MDT 2013 with SCCM for effective Migrations and Deployments. Managed Active Directory Database, did offline database defragmentation.
• Moved database transaction logs, restored deleted objects through Ntdsutil.
• Monthly Patch Management using WSUS3.0 /SCCM with using Microsoft s recommended patch management method.
• Resolved DNS issues in Active Directory environment by using Management Console.
• Tested DNS by using DCDiag /Test: DNS; DNS connectivity with NetDiag and NSlookup.
• Troubleshot, viewed and manually created the replication topology by Repadmin.
• Configured and viewed DFSR replication by using Dfrsadmin.
• Created and viewed snapshots of data that is stored in Active Directory with Dsamain.
• Viewed audit policies by Auditpol; used wbadmin to backup data.
• Configured DHCP scopes, servers and options. Backup and restored DHCP database.
• Resolved DHCP issues using Event Viewer, Perf Monitor, DHCP Statistics and Audit Log.

Confidential, NJ

Citrix and VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Excellent knowledge with designing, installing and implementingVMwareESX server 4.1.
• Setting up V - Motion, HA, DRS, VMware virtual center, and related VMware products. Performed Physical to Virtual Migration by using VMware Convertor and Platespin. Completed multiple conversions simultaneously with a centralized management console Installed, Configured & Trouble shoot of VMware ESXi Servers. Installed and configured vSphere5 and VM Provisioning. Performed Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations. Performed Monitoring VM'S & ESXi Servers using virtual center provided lab support to test and dev Team by using VMwareFeatures Snapshots, Cloning Excellent experience with VMware updates manager to install patches and updates. Performed, designed and implemented VMware backup and disaster recovery. Configured and manage SQL database for Xenapp 6.5 Upgraded more than 80 Xenapp 4.5 Servers into 6.5 in 4 months.Installed and Tested VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 4.x/5.x) for the disaster recovery and managed recovery plans
• Installed Citrix XenApp 6.5 Server on Windows Server 2008R2 in farm environment.
• Configured Printers and Resolved citrix print related issues
• Joined the other Citrix XenApp 6.5 Servers to the existing farm in Windows Server 2008R2.
• Installed Citrix License Server on Windows Server 2008R2 platform.
• Installed Citrix XenApp 6.5 Server client Xenapphosted.msi on Citrix client computers.
• Installed latest Roller Packs and patches on Citrix XenApp Server 6.5 and 7.0.
• Published Line of Business and Off-The-Shelf applications in Citrix environment.
• Installed Citrix XenApp Plugins for Windows - Citrix XenApp Plugins for Streamed Apps * Client for Java, Citrix XenApp Plugins for Hosted Apps - Citrix XenApp Web Plugins * Citrix XenApp Plugins, and Program Neighborhood.
• Configured the Site Appearance of XenApp Sites of Citrix XenApp 7.0 Server.
• Published Server Desktops, Applications & Contents; Organized Publish Resources.
• Installed Web Interface Plugins; Created Sites for XenApp Web and XenApp Services.
• Configured the Site Appearance of XenApp Sites of Citrix XenApp 4.5 Server.
• Server Desktops, Applications & Contents; Organized Publish Resources.
• Oversee delegated Infrastructure activities e.g. patching, upgrades, and DR exercises.

• Examined Active Directory integrated DNS. Installed and configured DNS Servers
• Raised the functional level of forests and domains.
• Implementation of Windows 2008 Application Publishing to provide remote users.
• Created User accounts by using Active Directory Users and Computers
• Created trust relationships between domains.
• Created trusts between the forest; verified and revoked trusts.
• Identify the requirements for installing Active Directory.
• Created child domains; removed the child domain from Active Directory.
• Created and managed organizational units.
• Created and implemented password policies.
• Created and managed accounts using the (Lightweight Directory Interchange Format).
• Delegated administrative control.
• Created and configured sites; managed Active Directory site topologies.
• Downloading and maintaining operating system, drivers, and application files necessary to perform operating system deployments on all enterprise hardware. Used Configuration Manager zero touch installation (ZTI) to manage and report on enterprise client operating system deployments.
• Enabled a global catalog sever.
• Monitored and troubleshot Active Directory replication failures.
• Manage and monitored Active Directory Replication using Repolmon and Repadmin.
• Transferred and seized operational master roles in Active Directory.
• Backed up Active Directory and restored Active Directory.
• Defined scope and scope range distribution.
• Excluded IP range and defined lease duration.
• Configured DHCP Options; reserved IP address and defined MAC addresses.
• Enabled DHCP services using the networking services console.
• Set aging and scavenging for Zones, Flush DNS cache.
• Part of a team that planned and performed a rollout of AutoSys 11.0 to the enterprise, encompassing two environments and 200 users, and managed the migration from AutoSys 4.5.1 to Autosys 11.1.0. Assist with migrating jobs into production. Used Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to create and deploy images over the site.
• Team Lead for Win7 Deployment for 700 users.
• Drove migration to Exchange 2003 and played key role in the design, implementation, and migration from MS Exchange 5.5 to 2000/2003 for 25 national sites. Including the consolidation of the Exchange 2003 environment. Executed migration to Project Server 2013, deployed Windows Azure Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services and MS Exchange synchronization.
• Performed application and infrastructure integration and migration, created policies * Performed environment builds and stability test, pilot and production environments.
• Documented Functional testing and Application Deployment Strategies and designing.
• Created collections, packages and advertisements with SCCM 2007.
• Created Patch Management for Desktops using SCCM 2007 for windows updates & office.
• Testing Application on Windows 7 Desktops and laptops.
• Update SPs / CUs using Power Shell scripts and troubleshoot Exchange 2010 related issues in server 2012 R2 / 2008 R2 virtualized environment as well as granular level restores when required.
• Work remotely and onsite to resolve migration and client issues.
• Monitored and troubleshot LAN installed and configured routers and switches.
• Create Transforms (MST) to customize existing MSI files.
• Used Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to create and deploy images over the site.
• Utilized Norton Ghost / ImageX Imaging to automate installations.
• Installed Citrix License Server on Windows Server 2003 platform.
• Installed latest Roller Packs and patches on Citrix XenApp Server 4.5
• Standardized desktop\laptop configuration. Configured and manage SQL database for Xenapp 4.5
• Installed Web Interface Plugins; Created Sites for XenApp Web and XenApp Services.
• Configured the Site Appearance of XenApp Sites of Citrix XenApp 4.5 Servers
• ScalingPut Place'ssolutions using Amazon's EC2 and S3 web services; implemented a one - click deployment system to deploy fullyproduction-ready grids of EC2-hosted servers. Implemented a machine-learning classifier to differentiate between web pages of different vertical markets at high speed, accurately; developed new scaling code for the vast backend using Amazon's web services (EC2, S3, SQS and SimpleDB).
• Published Server Desktops, Applications & Contents; Organized Publish Resources.
• Installed the XenApp Plugins for Streamed App and the Citrix Streaming Profiler.
• Configured and Managed Citrix Edgesite Server for Monitoring
• Configured and published Streamed Applications Performed Physical to Virtual Migration by using VMware Convertor and Platespin.
• Completed multiple conversions simultaneously with a centralized management console
• Installed, Configured & Trouble shoot of VMware ESXi Servers.
• Architect and deploy Symantec public/private cloud platforms (IaaS, PaaS & SaaS) across Amazon Web Services, Terremark, HP Cloud Services, DataPipe, Google Compute Engine, CloudStack and Rackspace. Migrate IaaS, PaaS and SaaS instances between public and private clouds.
• Performed Monitoring VM'S & ESXi Servers using virtual center
• Created, configured and managed Group Policy for printer redirection.
• Managed Linuxuser accounts. Administered user and system processes. Partitioned and formatted disks.Managed Linux services