SUMMARY:

• Around 6 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.
• Experience in publishing applications with Citrix XenDesktop 7.6
• Extensive experience with Windows Server … OS's.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, IIS (Web Server), WSUS, Microsoft Clustering.
• Experience in Application Packaging and Unattended Installations.
• Experience in installing, configuring, administering Microsoft SQL Server … familiar with Database Creation, Database Security, Database Replication/ Migration, Database Performance Monitoring, User Management, Database Backup/Restoration, Import/Export of SQL Database.
• Experience and Familiar with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, administering VMware ESX/ESXi and Citrix Xen Server. Created, managed and maintained VMs.
• Installed and helped deploy, manage and maintain the new environments in the SDDC/SRM technology.
• Experience in Server monitoring, capacity planning, application monitoring.
• 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 Linux user 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:

• VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter
• Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012/2016, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2007/2010, RedHat, Ubuntu, Solaris, Unix
• Active Directory, DHCP, IIS, DNS, SAN, VDI, SQL Server 2008/2010
• Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix NetScaler, Citrix App DNA, Citrix Presentation Server
• TCP/IP, VPN, LAN/WAN, Dell Servers RAID BladeLogic Server, Cisco UCS Blades, Compaq

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

VMware/ Citrix Engineer

Confidential, Needham, MA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in day to day management of Citrix NetScaler 11.0 for view, managed users, servers and monitored health of servers and load balance.
• Designed and Deployed Citrix XenApp/ XenDesktop 7.6 project for 10,000+ users and 500 applications based on 5000+ VMware servers based on ESXi 5.5.
• Migration of 200 Citrix Servers from XenApp 6.5 to XenApp 7. 6 without disturbing the old environment for 52 different applications.
• Experienced using Citrix App DNA 7.6.
• Major role in redesigning Citrix architectures for improved performance as well as designed new sites for better application virtualization.
• Experienced in deploying provisioning services both MCS and PVS
• Tier 2 support role for maintaining and troubleshooting Citrix Presentation and XenApp farms with 5000 concurrent users and 180 applications.
• Citrix NetScaler 11 Access Gateway configuration and maintaining.
• Experienced on Load Balancing Citrix components using Citrix Netscalers.
• Troubleshoot end user Citrix application access and document the root cause and solutions.
• Regularly managed Citrix NetScaler for view, monitor and manage users, alerts, health of servers and load balance.
• Redesigned Citrix architecture for improving Citrix end user experience over the WAN and increased printing speeds as well.
• Managing 800 virtual machines used for both Citrix and Windows Core Administration Infrastructure Services.
• Load Balancing technology and concepts - specifically the Citrix NetScaler platform
• Managed upgrades of Service Packs, Patches/Hot fixes at both physical and virtual environments
• Coordinated and worked closely with the SAN Admins for storage needs as per the requirements along with planning future storage needs.
• Planning and testing the application Virtualization for various new application releases using Citrix Streaming Profiler and publishing it to the Citrix XenApp 6.0/6.5 farms.
• Citrix Streaming Profiler/Citrix Administrator role in rolling out Virtual Desktops to 22,000 users globally.
• Testing and monitoring server health using Citrix EdgeSight for XenApp 6.5/7.6 environment.
• XenApp and Access Gateway Reconfiguration and NetScaler Global Server Load Balancing
• Responsible for more than 300 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.
• Participated in On-Call rotation for supporting production strictly maintaining SLA.
• Built new servers, Group policies for citrix servers and DHCP reservations and maintained new XenApp6 and XenDesktop5 farm.
• Designed a challenging Citrix Printing Strategies for improving printing over the LAN and WAN connections by enforcing Citrix policies.
• Worked extensively with BMC BladeLogic Server Automation for different jobs like OS patching etc.
• Worked extensively with Active Directory services, Citrix Studio, Group Policy Management & Computer Management.
• Install and document Disaster Recovery (DR) architecture of Citrix XenApp 7.6 application servers on a remote DR site. This site includes Provisioning Server 7.6, Password Manager, Citrix Director, Web Interface servers and replicated SQL Data Store.

Environment: Windows 2008/2008R2/2012R2, Citrix XenApp 5.0/6.0/6.5, XenDesktop 5, EdgeSight 5.x, Provisioning Server 6.1/7.6, Citrix UPM, VMware vSphere ESXi v4.1/v5.5, Secure Gateway Server Management, NetScaler Access Gateway Enterprise Edition, Citrix NetScaler MPX 5500, MSSQL 2008, MSSQL 2012, HP Blades.

Systems Admin

Confidential, Kansas City

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Managing ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL and Installation of vCenter Server, vCenter Components and upgrading VMware Tools.
• Planning, managing and Installation of VMware ESX 5.0 /5.1 server, Installation and configuration of virtual center database and installation of VMware infrastructure virtual machine.
• Management and integration of ESX server, create a new storage space, creation of VMFS data store, Configuration networking for the virtual machines.
• Broad experience with designing, implementing and troubleshooting VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, P2V converters, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• Generated reports with Health analyzer giving recommendations and resolving performance and tuning issues in the HA, DRS clusters and virtual Datacenters.
• Windows Server 2003/08 R2 installation, deployments, troubleshooting, automation and performed P2V migrations of production, QA and development servers.
• Involved in the cut-over and decommissioning of the physical server after the P2V server by working closely with the command center during the process.
• Migration of virtual machine from one enclosure to another within the same environment in different enclosure
• Planning and testing the application Virtualization for various new application releases using Citrix Streaming Profiler and publishing it to the Citrix farms.
• Provisioning new physical & virtual servers and installing Citrix on them for expansion of Citrix farms.
• Installed, configured, upgrade and maintained Windows2000/03/08, Exchange Server2003/07/10Operating Systems.
• Work with NetApp support when issues arise to troubleshoot and NetApp sales team to provide the best solutions for company storage needs.
• Monitored and responded phone and e-mail requests for technical support
• Maintained professional knowledge of WebSphere MQ and provided MQ administration support.
• Troubleshoot and resolve the Storage related issues generated in the production, Development and testing environments using vCOPs.
• Implement and Customize Remedy out of box Help Desk Application.
• Developed and recommended solutions utilizing Remedy to support defined business processes and operational goals.
• Worked with off-shore team and provided required support.
• Installed and implemented Manage Engine monitoring application and configured SNMP and WMI on Servers and other network devices
• Installed and the managed the active directory, Created the GPO's based on the requirements and placed them as an OU
• P2V conversions of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers to 2008R2 using VMware Converter & PlateSpin.

Environment: Windows 2008 R2/2012 Std/R2 core /R2 data center /Enterprise, HP ProLiant BL Series, Smart Start 8.4, VMware VSphere 5.0/5.1, EMC & NetApp SAN/NFS, Virtual Center, Wyse Management Server, ESX 4.0&4.1, ESXi 5.0,5.1,5.5, Vcenter Operations Manager 5.0 Symantec Endpoint(SEP), TSM Backup

Jr. Systems Admi

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Citrix XenApp 6.5 migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of Citrix Server farm running Physical & Virtual Windows 2003 servers, XenApp 6.5 on Windows 2008 R2 for production and test environment.
• Managing of Citrix XenApp 6.5/4.5 Farm using Citrix Management Console, App Center, Server Management, Publishing & Managing of Applications.
• Testing XenDesktop 7 for VDI project and moving XenDesktop application running from Provisioning Server.
• Managing Citrix core infrastructure including web interface, application, SQL and data collector servers. Maintain Citrix datastore, license servers, Zone Data Collectors and Edge sight.
• Monitoring Citrix farm alerts and enabled scheduled Citrix server reboots
• Virtualization implementation using VMware, Citrix XenServer.
• Installation of applications on Citrix servers. Respond and resolve to monitoring alerts escalated to the team and Support Client applications installed on Citrix XenApp Servers.
• Configure applications on Citrix Presentation and XenApp servers.
• Designed architecture, deployed, and maintained all Citrix Provisioning Services and Citrix XenDesktop virtualization environments in the company.
• Performs on-site and on-call level 3 technical support on Citrix and VDI administration
• Provisioning new physical & virtual servers and installing Citrix on them for expansion of Citrix farms.
• Handling Citrix presentation/XenApp Server Migrations & Consolidations.
• Responsible for installing configuring and troubleshooting on 2008 R2 servers using enterprise standards.
• Responsible for administering and supporting Citrix server environment on Windows Server 2003/2008.
• Work with software vendors to provide optimum system performance and availability.
• Responsible for production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and giving appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Responsible for troubleshooting the servers with SCCM client problems and installing clients on servers and desktops
• Collaborate extensively with other teams within the IT organization such as System Architecture, Network infrastructure and Applications Development for any projects
• Administration and troubleshoot of published application in XenApp farm.
• Create PowerShell script to automate deleting old log files.
• Proficient in deploying windows patches using SCCM
• Installed, Configured and Implemented Terminal Server (TS) on Windows 2008 R2.
• Responsible for all load testing of applications within the Citrix infrastructure
• Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Configured DFSR (Distributed File System Replication) and File shares on Windows 2003/2008 R2 Servers.
• Generated adequate documentation to support migration of applications, communication of application migration progress upward and outward on regular basis.

Environment: Migration of XenApp 4.5 to 6.5