PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a Consultant, focusing on virtualization solutions powered by Citrix, Microsoft Hyper - V and VMware.
• He has worked across a wide range of industries and applications, integrating technology solutions for over 20 years.
• Server and Application Virtualization across Diverse Hardware Platforms (Dell, HP, IBM etc…)
• VMware Design, Implementation & Configuration & vRealize Operation Manager
• Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop Design, Implementation & Configuration
• Microsoft Hyper-V Design, Implementation & Configuration
• Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring, Backup and Recovery Design, Implementation & Configuration
• Microsoft Active Directory and Related Infrastructure Technologies
• Data Center Design and Implementation Experience & Support
• Detail Documentation (Health Check Reports, MS Visio Diagrams, Build & Checklist Documents)
• Successful Implementations of VMware vSphere 1.3 thru 6.5 environments & Monitoring Solutions
• Successful Implementations of Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop 5.6 thru 7.9 environments & Monitoring Solutions
• Successful Implementations of Microsoft Hyper-V 2008, 2012 R2 & 2016 environments & Monitoring Solutions
• Successful Implementations of SAN Storage (IBM Lenovo, HP, Dell, Hitachi, Compellent, FreeNAS)
• Orchestrated several data center infrastructure upgrades and relocations and technical architecture redesigns
• Continual learning path of today’s and tomorrow technologies (VMware, Hyper-V and Citrix XenApp & Desktop)
• Members of CBT Nuggets, Plural Sight & Exchange Experts (Personal Development)
• Full Service Lab to conduct real time scenarios (VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V & SAN Storage)
• Finally, the ability to shift gears when the need is required is important to today’s demand (You must be flexible )

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Windows 7, 8.0, 8.1, 2008, 2008 R2, 2010, 2012, 2012 R2 & 2016 (Roles & Features)
• Microsoft Office 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016
• Internet Information Services, Digital Certificates,
• Microsoft SQL Server Administration 2008, 2012 & 2014
• Citrix Web Interface, Storefront, PVS, Streaming Profile, App-V, APPDNA, NetScaler
• Terminal Services & Remote Desktop Services 2008, 2012, 2012 R2 (RDS Web Configurations)
• Dell Secure Copy, Robocopy 5.1 & Confidential Compare
• Active Directory Tools, Microsoft Systems Tools and Health Check Discovery & Troubleshooting
• Citrix Versions 5.0. 6.0, 6.5 & 7.x (XenApp & XenDesktop)
• HP Thin Clients (HP Device Manager)
• VMware Versions 2.54, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0 & 6.5
• Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 & 2012 R2 (Core) & SCVMM 2008 & 2012 R2
• Veeam One Backup and Replication 7.1 & 9.5 & VMware vCOPS & vRealize Operations Manager v6.2
• SAN Storage Configuration (RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50) Mirroring, CIFS, NFS ( Confidential, Compellent, HP, EMC Hitachi)
• SNMP Configurations (OpManager, What’s Up Gold 12 & Solar Winds)
• Windows Update Server Services
• Symantec Endpoint Server Protection & Trend Micro
• Auditing Account Management (Policy Changes) Change Control Documents & Group Policies
• Sniffer Analyzer, ClearSight Analyzer Forensic Toolkit, Fluke Network & NetIQ Analyzers

EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design, Installation and Support VMware 6 Environment (Production, Simulator, Development Environments)
• Veeam 9.5 Backup & Replication
• Active Directory 2012 R2 Implementation and Support
• RDS 2012 R2 Implementation and Support
• Provide technical support and implementation for VMware 6 Virtual Infrastructure for Confidential (Automations and Recovery).
• Provide details regarding migration processes, identified risk areas, create MS Visio’s diagrams, create technical documentation for Confidential deployments.
• Configure Dell Wyse 5010 Thin Clients to connected to the systems via HTTPS.
• Worked with Applications developers to implement Control Displays into the virtual environment.
• Finally implemented Veeam 9 Backup and Replication to backup virtual machines into the environment.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Support VMware 5.5 & 6.0 Environments
• Design, Installation and Support VMware 6 Environment (Test and Production)
• Installation and Support Monitoring technologies (vRealize) (New Installation & Upgrades) v.6.2
• Design, Installation and Support Citrix XenApp 7.6 Environments
• Conduct Health Check Analysis via PowerShell & PowerCLi & VMware Custom Tools (Citrix & VMware)
• Design, Installation and Support for Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 With System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2
• Provide technical support and implementation for virtual infrastructure. Provide details regarding migration processes, identified risk areas, create MS Visio’s of before and afterward infrastructure configurations and finally create checklist tasks for Server & Storage implementation and configuration.
• Install and configure Monitoring Appliance solution to review the virtual infrastructure to provide day to day analysis (vRealize Operation Manager) for Help Desktop and Infrastructure Team to review data via custom dashboards. Design and Implementing the NEW Citrix XenApp 7.6 environments for Test, Production to replace the current Citrix XenApp 5.1 infrastructure.
• Finally implement POC for Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 with System Center 2012 R2 products.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Support Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop 7.5 & 7.6 Environments
• Installation and Support Hyper-V Windows 2012 R2 Environments
• Installation and Support VMware 4, 5.0, 5.1 & 5.5 Environments
• Installation and Support of vRealize Operations Manager
• Provide technical support and implementation for customers across Houston & Dallas.
• Provide details regarding migration processes, identified risk areas, create MS Visio’s of before and afterward infrastructure configurations and finally create checklist tasks for Server & Storage implementation and configuration.

Confidential

Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support EMC Celera & Clarion
• Support for Hyper-V Windows 2008 ENT, R2 & 2012
• Support Dell Compellent and Power Vault (iSCSi & Fiber Channel)
• Provide technical support as a Senior System Engineer supporting EMC SAN Storage for remote sites preparing Data collection activities and statistics in order to replace Off Lease SAN Storage (EMC Celera/Clarion) with a comfortable pricing model for site.
• Work with Dell to get product presented, price and order for customer. Provide details regarding migration processes, identified risk areas, create MS Visio’s of before and afterward infrastructure configurations and finally create checklist tasks for Server & Storage implementation and configuration.
• Conducted SAN to SAN migrations using Dell Secure Copy and compare the differences with Confidential Compare for folder and file structures.

Confidential

Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support and Upgrade Citrix Farm XenApp 6.5 (Worker Groups, Citrix App Streaming) rebuilt Citrix environment
• Support and Upgrade VMware vSphere 4.1 to 5.0 & 5.1 migrations (vCenter 5.0 to 5.1 upgrades)
• Support Exchange 2010 for 1100 users with Single DAG & 2 Nodes Server solution
• Support Active Directory 2008 R2 (Domain cleanup - DNS, Replication for LAN/WAN)
• SQL 2008 R2 & SQL 2012 (Implementation and Configuration)
• Installation and Support SharePoint 2013 (Proof of Concept Design, Implementation and Configuration Only)
• Installation and Support XenDesktop 7.1 (Proof of Concept Design, Implementation and Configuration Only)
• Support for Confidential iSCSi SAN Storage (Re-Purpose for Backup Repository)
• Installation and Support NEW Compellent SAN Storage to support Virtual Infrastructure (8GB FC Backplane)
• Installation and Support Symantec Backup Exec 2012 SP2 (Windows and Linux Agent Backups - Redesign the backup strategy) Offsite Backups
• Installation and Support Veeam Backup and Replication (Virtual Machine Backups - File Level & Full VMDK Restores)
• Implement & Support Radiology Infrastructure with Scimage PAKS Gateways & Cloud Solutions
• Created detail documentation for Network, Windows, Virtual, Citrix & Exchange Messaging environments
• Support Meraki Wireless Infrastructure for LAN & WAN (3 Different SSID’s)
• Datacenter Management (COLO) at CyrusOne Southwest location (Hardware Reconfiguration)
• Provide technical support as a Senior System Engineer supporting Citrix XenApp 6.5, VMware 4.1, 5.0 & 5.1 environments, Active Directory, SQL Server et
• Created detail documentation for Citrix & Virtual environments for company audit.
• Provide technical support as Tier 4 engineer for other engineers such as Tier 2 & 3. Responsible for Radiology PAK’s implementation and deployment using Scimage Picom Cloud services, implementation and deployment of High Tech Video on Demand Services using Stryker ConnectSuite & Studio 3 applications.
• Finally provided a Proof of Concept design & deployment and configuration for Confidential Monitoring, SharePoint 2013 & XenDesktop 7.1 with the virtual infrastructure. Much more

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Support current Citrix Farm migration 4.0 & 4.5 to XenApp 5.0 & 6.5
• Support current Citrix Farm New Build of XenApp Servers using PowerShell Method instead of using Provisioning Server
• Support current Citrix Farm Application publishing using Citrix App Streaming & Microsoft AppV
• Support current Citrix Farm Worker Groups configurations (Multiple Deployments of Different versions of Applications)
• Support current Citrix Desktop 5.6 deployment (Small Environment 15 to 50 Desktops) on Customer Vessels
• Installation and Support of EMC VMXe for SAN Storage for Citrix Environments
• Support and Upgrade current VMware vSphere 4.1 to 5.0 & 5.1 migrations (vCenter 5.0 to 5.1 upgrades)
• Created detail documentation for VMware & Citrix environments
• Provide technical support as a Senior Consultant supporting Citrix XenApp 5.0, 6.5 & XenDesktop 5.6 in company merger and deployment.
• Also, provide ESX 4.0 to ESXi 5.0/5.1 host migrations and configurations and upgrades and architect planning for Vessel (Ships) deployments (Virtual in Box).
• Created detail documentation for Citrix & Virtual environments for company audit. Finally provided a Proof of Concept design & deployment for Confidential Monitoring for the virtualized environment.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Converted VMware vSphere VM’s (.vmdk’s) to Microsoft Hyper-V VM’s (.vhd’s) using Microsoft/ Veeam Convertor Tool
• Implement, Troubleshoot & Document Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 Core Hosts & Clusters
• Design, & Documented a Microsoft Exchange 2010 Configuration Concept for 10,000 users
• Site Configuration of ROBO KIT’s (Mobile Virtual Environment to Offload production VM’s until production hosts are re-configured)
• Setup and Perform Virtual to Virtual Migrations (VMware VMDK’s to Hyper-V VHD’s)
• Provide technical support as a Senior Consultant for VMware to Hyper-V conversion for Microsoft case study (Pella Windows and Doors).
• In this process, we converted the customer’s Datacenter & Remote Sites from VMware 4.1 to Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 by using Microsoft VMMT tool to provide an automated process.
• Also during this time, I earned certifications in the System Center 2012 Suite to support Microsoft Private Cloud Configurations.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Network Administrator / Network Infrastructure Design

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support for the Network Infrastructure to include Virtualization (ESX 3.5 & vSphere4), Exchange (2003), Citrix (XP & XenApp 6.0), and Cisco Firewall/Switches/Routers, SAN Storage (SCSI & ISCSI), Active Directory & Multi Domains Support, and Windows Server supports (Windows 2000, 2003 & 2008).
• This position provides a high level of activity to the end-user community (External Branches), this position was a situation where allot of Break fix correction was needed due to past management of network Infrastructure (AD, DNS, DHCP & WINS Restructure, Firewall Clean-up & Route Changes, Implemenation of Server & Infrastructure Management, Desktop Imaging Standards, Virus Implementation & Clean-up, SharePoint
• Implementation and Deployment, Documentation Standard Details, Virtual Infrastructure Deployment, SAN Management, WSUS, Encompass360 (Mortgage Application), Exchange Environment Details & Backup & Recovery). Within a 3-month period the network went from 50% uptime to 95% uptime, and 50% stealibilty to 100% stealibity.
• Finally reviewed current service contracts for CyrusOne, AT&T, SafeSite, & Software Maintenance (Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, Modus and Alert Logic etc... to ensure if a reduction in service cost are available. Replace outdated software SPAM solution with Barracuda Spam & Virus Appliance.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided Technical Support for Virtual Infrastructure (VMware 3.5) 500 Hosts & 4500 Virtual Machines
• Provided Physical to Virtual Migrations
• Provided Project Management Support for Dynamic Shared Services Group & Confidential Employee’s
• Provided technical support for Virtualization environment (ESX Hosts 3.5) cluster (100% virtual) Dynamic Shared Services.
• Technical support services (Physical to Virtual Migrations) between the Shell Customer and Confidential, which is the provider for the Dynmanic Shared Services.
• Provide Website & Database migrations from Physical to Virtual, conduct data grabs and provide detail checklist processes and visio diagrams.
• This position provides a high-level detail to executive management of the Shell orgainization.