SUMMARY:

• Seeking a role as an AWS Solutions Architect / AWS Cloud Lead Engineer where I can utilize my AWS knowledge, certification and experience in architecting solutions on AWS platforms. Willing to relocate.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional ( CSAP ) certification.
• More than 1+ years’ experience with AWS cloud infrastructure services.
• Over 17 years as Windows System administration including 13 years as a Citrix Engineer and 8 years as a VMware Engineer, in pharmaceutical, healthcare and financial sectors.
• Possess AWS, Citrix and Microsoft certifications.
• Mastery knowledge of key AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, EBS, ELB, etc.
• Orchestration experience with CloudFormation
• Proficient with PowerShell and batch scripting.
• Experience with designing HIPAA or FDA compliant solutions.
• Managed projects leading task force teams, internal and cross-functional teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Server Operating Systems: Windows 2012 R2, Windows 2008 R2

Application Servers: Citrix XenApp 6.5, Citrix XenDesktop 7.8, PVS, CAG, AAC, VMWare, ESX 4/5

Tools: AWS CloudFormation

Software: Blade Logic, Service-Now, Citrix AppDNA, NetBackup, Dell IT Assistant, Splunk 6.x¸ Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint

Languages: PowerShell, VBScript, Windows Batch Scripting, JSON

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Advanced Cloud Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed a mix of long term projects, short term service requests, and daily needs with a high degree of flexibility and effective delegation.
• Architected, documented, and built reference architectures for AWS compliant solutions for End User computing services.
• Employed automation, utilizing PowerShell and batch scripting best practices and CloudFormation templates, to ensure repeatable deployments and for automating the AMI image deployment.
• Executed cloud formation config to update stacks / create resources.
• Created and maintained library of AMIs.
• Facilitated working sessions with business, technology and infrastructure stakeholders to gather technical requirements and to review architecture artifacts.
• Designed a pre-Production setup for Windows servers for a business unit in the AWS cloud.
• Extensively used PowerShell scripting to prepare discovery reports, automated XenApp builds and application installations.
• Involved in XenApp farm reporting, monitoring and consolidation.

Confidential, Livingston, NJ

Citrix Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led a Citrix Infrastructure team of 3 engineers in Design Plan & Deployment of XenApp 6.5 installation, upgrade & migration as well as Single Image streaming and version management using Citrix Provisioning Services.
• Server readiness following Confidential standards and compliance policies from the build stage to valuation, testing, piloting and finally on-boarding users.
• Managed a Citrix Admin team of 4 engineers for a farm of 500+ servers and 1000+ applications with 8000+ user base.
• Reduced clients’ server turnover by 25% by evaluating, streamlining and improving current systems, processes and workflow.
• Managed and prepared weekly briefings on status of ongoing projects to track and meet deadlines. Projects included Citrix server farm consolidation, capacity planning and migrations.
• Managed a cross-functional project for decommission of legacy Citrix XenApp and infrastructure servers which involved coordination among domestic and international business teams.
• Was involved in the pre-valuation of new technology products related to Citrix environments.
• Implemented infrastructure project involving VMware ESX 4.0, ESXi 5.5, Citrix XenDesktop 7.8 and Citrix XenApp 6.5 platforms.
• Hands on experience maintaining Windows 2012 R2 environments.
• Hands on experience with vSphere 5.0 & later
• Involved in design engineering and deployment of Citrix XenApp 6.5 and XenDesktop 7 instances on ESX platform using image templates as well as through Citrix Provisioning Services.
• Followed change management and compliance procedures for OS Patching, server lockdown, policies and practices to perform upgrades, patches, and hot fixes and meeting SLAs.
• Used PowerShell scripting and automation.
• Deployed packages using Installation Manager.
• Analyzed & applied recommendations for best practices on the Citrix XenApp 6.5 farm setup using Citrix Scout and Citrix Insight Services.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Citrix Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented Citrix environment as a means of providing secure access to users in various hospitals meeting the regulations stipulated by HIPAA compliance.
• Managed Citrix Server farms across multiple domains.
• Provided end-user Citrix support on a 24x7 basis for 120+ servers and 45+ applications.
• Migrated Windows 2000 Active Directory to Windows 2003 Active Directory.
• Used Symantec Ghost Enterprise for ghosting of Citrix servers. Implemented Resource Manager.
• Provided high availability and redundancy to the Citrix Farm.
• Provided high availability to the data servers using NSI Double-Take software.

Confidential, Hopewell, NJ

Systems / Wintel Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Complied with the FDA regulations pertained to IQ/OQ documentation and procedures.
• Managed Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 and XPe implementation projects on Windows NT 4.0 and 2000.
• Designed, implemented, configured, administrated and supported Citrix MetaFrame XPe server farm for Clintrial, Query Manager and IReview clinical applications.
• Migrated MetaFrame 1.8 to MetaFrame XP.
• Implemented high availability through load balancing in MetaFrame 1.8 and Load Manager.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Citrix / NT Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Trained sales force in accessing Confidential system via Citrix MetaFrame.
• Installed & managed Windows Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 for SalesLogic application.
• Designed and implemented policies on Citrix Servers. Managed and supported over 25 servers.

Confidential

Assistant Production Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the operations team for the manufacture and on-time delivery of Styrene, Polystyrene and Expandable Polystyrene on a 24x7 basis.
• Optimized short term and long term production planning and resource scheduling and increased capacity of one of the plant by about 15% utilizing the existing equipment.
• Prepared company's financial analysis and budget proposals to secure funds from financial institutions for an expansion project.
• Managed a team in obtaining ISO 9001 certification by implementing quality management systems which reduced customer complaints by 20% and increased sales by about 10%.
• Managed budget and personnel expenses and delivered commitments by controlling cost, capital, inventory and assets by about 5%.