SUMMARY:

• Over 6 Years of IT experience in installation of Citrix Presentation server XenApp 7.6/ 6.5/ 6.0/ 5.0 & Citrix Client Tools and administration of Citrix XenApp Farms and XenDesktop Farms.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix Presentation Server 6.5/7.0 on Windows 2003 and 2008.
• Worked on Installation, Configuration and Administration of PVS 6.1/7.1 and creation of vDisk for Desktop Streaming and setup the device collections in PVS Server.
• Installation, Configuration Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix XenApp 7.1/ 6.5 Presentation Server 4.5 on Windows 2008R2 and 2012R2.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix Provisioning Services 6.1/ 7.1/7.5/7.6/7.9 .
• Installation, Configuration Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix XenServer 6.2.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix XenDesktop 5.6/ 7.6.
• Good working knowledge of Active Directory and Group policy management, designing GPOs for server farms and workstations to optimize Citrix end user experience and server performance.
• Implementation and management of AppSense Personalization Server 8.4/8.6 and Policies for VDI user profile management and Policy deployment.
• Implementation of Citrix Director 7.6 for Help Desk delegated tasks for troubleshooting end user issues and daily VDI monitoring.
• Good working knowledge of Powershell for routine Citrix server management, configuration and application management tasks.
• Experience in administrating and managing a VMware ESX 5.5 environment with multiple clusters.
• Experience in P2V and V2V conversions using VMware vConverter and DNS/DFS/DHCP Standardizations and Implementations.
• Expertise in Patch Management of ESX Hosts using VMware Update Manager and with VMWARE ESX 3.5/4.0/5.5 and Virtual Center, VMotion, Virtual machines 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Citrix: Metaframe Presentation server 4.0,4.5, XenApp 5.0/6.5/7.0/7.5/7.6/7.9, Installation Manager, Resource Manager, Load Balancing, Access Gateway, Edgesight, Web interface, Access Management Console, License Server, Netscaler 11.1, Store front VMware VMware ESX 2.01,2.5,3.0, 3.5,4.0,Vmware Infrastructure 2.0/3.0, Putty, Vmconverter, VMware vSphere, VM vCenter server, VMware vMotion, VMware view, VMware ThinApp, VMware Workstation, VMware Player

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008/2012R2, Windows XP/7/8/10

Applications & Tools: MS Active Directory, Microsoft App - V, P2V Assistant 2.0, Platespin nvert 6.5, Norton Ghost 2003, LDAP, VBScript, MS IIS 5.0/6.0, PatchLink Update, MS-SQL Server

Hardware: HP BL20P, HPProliant Servers DL360, DL380, DL580and DL585 Rack mount servers and ILO.Routers, Switches, SDSL/ADSL Modems etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Madison, WI

Citrix /VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed Citrix XenApp/ XenDesktop 7.6 for 10,000+ users and 500 applications based on 5000+ VMware servers based on ESXi 5.5.
• Designed and implemented NetScaler VPX version 11, XenApp version 7.8, and Storefront version 3.5.
• Regularly managed Citrix NetScaler for view, monitor and manage users, alerts, servers Familiar with Orion, used to view nodes, health of servers and load balance
• Built Citrix Presentation Server Farms to provide access to the most critical company applications for remote users and installed, monitored, and configured Citrix Secure Access Gateways.
• Managed XenApp 7.8 servers with Machine Creation Services and configured and implemented Citrix Profile Manager and Microsoft Folder Redirection.
• Automated the upgrade of Citrix Receivers to version 4.4 using GPO method and migrated Citrix users from XA 6.0 to XA 7.8.
• Monitored XenApp 7.8 environment with Citrix Director. Worked with Citrix across varying versions (XenApp 6.0, 6.5, XenDesktop 7.0, 7.6).
• Designed Citrix XenApp Farm of 60 virtual servers on XenServer using Citrix Provisioning service.
• Installed and administered Citrix products MetaFrame XPE and Pres. Server 3.0 and 4.0.
• Installed and maintained VMware esx5 servers. Build VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications of users.
• Installed Citrix XenApp 6.5 on VMware Servers. Configuration of Citrix migration work 4.5 to 6.5, PVS 6.1.
• Managed the AD, Citrix Farm and other core business systems.
• Responsibilities include provisioning new customer servers on Windows Server 2008R2 and Windows Server 2012 Standard and Enterprise.
• Responsible for P2V’s conversions (VMware v5) and V2V conversions (v4.1 to v5), migrated host and data stores of more than 1500 Virtual Machines and more than 1000 VMs tools/hardware upgrades.
• Implementation of major IS infrastructure changes, installations or upgrades related to Citrix and Terminal services.
• Responsible for Terminal server builds and Citrix XenApp server deployments in both Physical and virtual environments.
• Developed PowerShell script to automatically email disk spaces on File servers etc. every morning

Environment: Citrix XenDesktop 7.0, Provisioning Server 7.0, Citrix Web Interface 5.3, NetScaler VPX 1000, Server 2008 x64, IIS 7.0, VMware ESX 5, HP BL 460c Blade servers, OSPF, BGP, DHCP Profile, HSRP, IPV6,TCP/IP,RDP,ICA.

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK

Citrix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed, engineered, implemented and supported virtual Citrix XenApp Server Farm environment utilizing Citrix XenServer hypervisor.
• Installed, configured, administered, and supported virtual instances of Citrix XenApp server on multiple networks and hypervisors.
• Administer the Citrix XenApp 6.5 and experience in upgrading from XenApp 6.0 to 6.5. Branding the WFE and the Storefront server, and customizing to suite the business need.
• Responsible role on agent application/desktop delivery project, which affected 5000 users, 2000 concurrent sessions, based on 300+ Citrix Servers running in VMware ESX 3.5.
• Created virtualized sequenced packages with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 (AppV-4.6) by applying client specific standards and tested the packages in standalone client by installing the App-V generated MSI.
• Resolving user connections to the Citrix Web Interface server by recycling the IIS services.
• Created MSI packages using Citrix Installation packager in Citrix.
• Configuring Citrix Load balancing for XenApp 6.5 farm as per the environment demand
• Deploying Web interface/XenApp sites for thick, thin and mobile clients.
• Configured and administered users and groups in Active Directory to access published applications and server desktops within the XenApp Server Farms.
• Deployed, managed, and converted XenServer virtual instances and window server configurations (V2V, P2V) per project needs into VMware VSphere development and lab environment
• Analyze existing customer environment and helping them in migrating to virtual environment using various VMware products like VMware converter / Physical 2 Virtual, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
• Migration of Windows 2003 Server/ Active Directory Domain Infrastructure Security Administration of File Server, user accounts and security groups on a multiple Active directory and 2003.

Environment: Citrix MetaFrame XPe and Presentation Server 3.0, Web Interface, Secure Gateway, Microsoft Windows Server2000/2003, PowerShell, Exchange 2003, HP DL Servers, TCP/IP,VOIP, LAN/WAN,DNS.

Confidential, Quincy, MA

Citrix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administering and supporting 800 Citrix servers, 9000 Users and 300 application environment’s on Windows Server 2003/2008.
• Migrating from Citrix XenApp 5.0 to 6.5.
• Installing, Configuring and administration of Xendesktop 5.6 environment.
• Supporting in-house application management in Citrix environment through Citrix Streaming.
• Implement Citrix Rollup Pack and Feature packs as per Citrix recommendation.
• Troubleshooting various issues related to Citrix as applications, resource manager, Printers etc.
• Monitored Citrix server's health by using Citrix Edge Sight 5.4.
• Performed Citrix Farm and server health checks on regular basis
• Developed Virtual apps for in-house client server applications through Citrix Streaming profiler 6.5/6.0/5.2.
• Installing ESX 3.5/4.0 and Esxi 4.1/5.
• Creating VMs, Cloning sessions and also creating Templates through Virtual Infrastructure Client & vSphere client.
• P2V migration using VMware converter and V2V conversions using VMware converter and Plate Spin.
• Created User accounts and groups in Active Directory.
• Worked on DNS, DHCP and WINS

Environment: Citrix XenApp 5.0/6.0/6.5, Windows server 2003/2008 X86 & X64, Citrix Streaming Profiler 6.5, SQL 2005/2008, Vmware ESX3.5/4.0 and Esxi 4.1/5.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Windows Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining Windows and Citrix Servers
• Publishing Applications, Content and Desktops to users in Citrix Management Console
• Interacting with business users for gathering the requirements for on boarding the applications to Citrix Servers
• Created MSI packages using Citrix Installation packager in Citrix 4.0/4.5/5.0
• Managed Citrix application builds, release cycles and test schedules.
• Documented Citrix related IT activities such as down time, problems, and systems configurations.
• Resolving various connections of Citrix Printer issues for client printing over Citrix.
• Creating a test Environment in Citrix or VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
• Experience with Application Streaming and publishing Streaming profiles for user access.
• Supporting Citrix Password Manager and Access Gateway.
• Resolving user connections to the Citrix Web Interface server by recycling the IIS services.
• Working on XenApp 5.0 in test environment for migration of the current farm from Xen App 4.5 to 5.0

Environment: Citrix XenApp 5/4.5, Windows server 2003/2008, SQL Server 2005/2008, Citrix Streaming Profiler 5.2/1.3/1.2

Confidential, Toledo, OH

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administering Windows 2003 and 2008 servers.
• Experience in installing and decommissioning Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 servers.
• Configuring server using role based configuration and server manager.
• Troubleshooting backup issues and administering VMware servers.
• Installed VMware VSphere 4 and created virtual machines on ESX 4.0 Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESXi4.0/4.1 servers for server consolidation.
• Strong knowledge on DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server, System Management Servers (SMS).
• Implementation of Active directory and Group Policy Objects, DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server, System Management Servers (SMS).
• Involved in the VDI upgrade from VMware view 4.6 to View 5.0.
• Hands on experience in Installing VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0 Server on all the physical servers to host multiple Virtual Machines.

Environment: Windows NT/2000, Windows 95/98/XP, DHCP, DNS, Proxy, ISA, Veritas.