TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Computer Programming: NRI Washington, DC. Correspondence Course, Dean's list Knowledge of MS Basic, VB 6.0, VBscripting C, HTML, Transact - SQL and C++ languages

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Citrix Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design, Administration of XenApp, VMware, XenDesktop, AppDNA, PVD and Provisioning Server.
• Health Check and performance review
• Support ticket analysis
• Management of user access to desktops and applications.
• Troubleshooting of users session using Vsphere, Insight and Director
• Management support ticking systems
• Break Fix end users support.
• PowerShell Scripting

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Citrix Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design, Administration of NetScaler, VPX, Citrix Access Gateway, XenApp, VMware, XenDesktop, AppDNA, PVD and Provisioning Server.
• Deployed and updating of PVS Desktop Images.
• Testing of application installs and updates for XenDesktop production farm
• Management of user access to desktops and applications.
• Troubleshooting of users session using Vsphere, Netscaler Insight and Director
• Management of multiple support ticking systems
• Break Fix end users support.
• PowerShell Scripting
• Appsense 8.x

Confidential, Braintree, Ma

Senior Citrix Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design, documentation, migration and implementation of NetScaler, SDX, Citrix Access Gateway, XenServer, XenApp, VMware, XenDesktop, AppDNA, Provisioning Server, UPM, XenMobile, RSA, SCCM, PowerShell and EdgeSight projects for small to medium environments.
• Server consolidation and migration. P2P, V2V and P2V.
• Design, documentation and implementation of application access and deployment using push based technologies, application streaming and conventional installation as well as XenApp.
• Thin client deployment, configuration and support.
• Project scoping, documentation and network assessments.
• 2nd level helpdesk support escalation engineer for networking and Citrix support.
• Design, documentation and implementation of Citrix proof of concept projects.
• Vcenter design, configuration and build
• Vshpere 5.1, 5.5 storage and network configuration
• Citrix onsite maintenance, review and audits. Analysis and reporting of environment status.
• Client architectural design, analysis consulting, documentations and assessments.
• Support and administration of SQL 2000, 2005, 2008 and 2012.
• Pre and post sales engineering support.

Confidential, Waltham, Ma

Senior Citrix Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design, documentation, migration and implementation of NetScaler, Citrix Access Gateway, XenServer, VMware, XenApp, AGEE, XenDesktop, Provisioning Server, Lab Manager, Application streaming and EdgeSight projects for small to large environments.
• Design, documentation and implementation of application access and deployment using push based technologies, application streaming and conventional installation as well as XenApp.
• Thin client deployment, configuration and support.
• Project scoping, documentation and network assessments.
• 2nd level helpdesk support escalation engineer for networking, firewalling, email, email security, application support and Citrix support.
• Design, documentation and implementation of LeftHand Networks SANS.
• Design, documentation and implementation of Citrix proof of concept projects.
• Design, documentation and implementation of Exchange 2007.
• Design, documentation and implementation of VMware ESX server.
• Citrix onsite maintenance, review and audits. Analysis and reporting of environment status.
• Client architectural design, analysis consulting, documentations and assessments. .
• Support and administration of SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008.
• Pre and post sales engineering support.
• In house technology training and mentoring.

Confidential, Boston, Ma

Citrix Application Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design, implementation and administration of a new Citrix 3.0 & 4.0 server farms hosting Confidential ’s new flag ship application for claims processing for Blue Cross of Boston.
• Created documentation for end users, backup support, disaster recovery, help desk process and line of business application deployment and upgrading.
• Manage production and implement lab Vmware server both GSX and ESX.
• Management of MS SQL 2000 Citrix data store and RM Summary database.
• Developed and consulted on solutions for Macintosh publications and Citrix Password Manager.
• Supported Confidential ’s development team’s testing environment.
• Citrix web interface customization and branding.
• Developed proof of concept menu application for end user access through Citrix.
• Development and implementation of go live testing and documentation.
• Design and pilot testing of Weblogic’s Unix hosted Citrix web interface.
• Designed and deployed lock down thin client desktop.
• Installation, configuration and management of Worksoft Certify and Winrunner.
• Deployment and installation of Citrix Hotfixes and security patches.
• Beta testing of CPS 4.5 and design and demonstration of Citrix Desktop Broker.
• Inter office Citrix solution consulting and documentation.
• Beta testing of Appsense 7.0 management suite.
• Migration of Production Citrix farm to version 4.5

Confidential, Hanover, MA

Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing and administration of all technology solutions for multi - branch company.
• Support, administration and monitoring of Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Servers.
• Support for LANS, WANS, windows clients and Windows 2000, 2003 servers, VPN’s and Exchange.
• Design implementation and troubleshooting. Complete application support including narrow vertical market software, Design of windows Terminal Services and Active Directory 2003 Services.
• Support for CISCO routers, firewalls and switches. Installation of Citrix MetaFrame XPe fR3, SAM and SAG. Configuration of Vmware ESX servers with NLB clusters.
• Repair of both hardware and software. End user training and break fix support. Application and network printing design and support. Project management via MS Project and helpdesk setup.
• Design company intra and internet website using windows advanced server and IIS 5.0. Visual basic and batch scripting. Design of custom user interface via active X, vb and javascript.
• Design and configuration of GSX and ESX Vmware production servers.
• Design and administration of GFI & MicroTrend SMTP gateways.
• Other technologies implemented, Cisco VPN and PIX firewall. Windows 98, 2000 and XP pro. Office professional 2000 and Xp, Calyx Point. MS PPTP VPN. Norton Anti-virus, VNC, Project 2002 pro, Birchwood Financial, Mdaemon, MS Sql 2000, EDrawer Doc Center, Encompass and GFI LanGaurd.
• Design, implementation and administration of MS MOM 2005, Tricerat simplify suite and Appsense 6.2 Management suite.

Confidential, Boston, MA

MIS Manager

Responsibilities:

• IT management, system administration, network design systems upgrade and project management.
• Administration of Novell 5.1, Linux Red Hat 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, Mandrake 7.0, NT 4.0 and Win2k servers as well as Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, Professional, Xp, Macintosh clients, AD and VBscripting.
• Management of GroupWise 5.5 and upgrade, Norton Anti-virus Corporate Edition 7.51 and upgrade, Arcserver 6.6 and upgrade, Checkpoint FW1 & VPN, Windows PPTP, Linux Firewall, Fiery Print Server, IT budget planning, Hardware lease management, Compaq Proliant ML 370, 330, Dell desktop and laptop maintenance, Network monitoring, Network reporting, Network documentation, DHCP, WINS, WAN monitoring and troubleshooting, Remote user troubleshooting and administration.
• Support of Linksys and Sonic Wall firewall router soho’s, RRAS Win2k VPN’s, SHH 2.0, DNS name space administration, IIS 5.0, 4.0, Win2k FTP and Term server, Administration for SuperStack 3300 switches, Cisco 2600 Router, Xerox document centers, Hp Jetadmin and Hp printing systems.
• Software supported, MS Project 2000, Visio 2000, Office 97, 2000 and Xp, EtherPeek 4.0, People Soft 7.5, Outlook 2000, Compaq Insight Manager, CenterWare 4.3, Ghost 6.5, 2002, Didyma 1.6, Samba, Webmin, NCPFS, MailCheck 4.3, Timbucktu 2000 pro, Rumba 5.2, Adobe Illustrator 9.0, Acrobat 4 & 5 Pc/Mac, Photoshop 6.0 Pc/Mac, ATM 4 & 5 Pc/Mac, QuarkXPress 4x Pc/Mac, Macromedia Flash 5.0, UltraDev 4.0, Freehand 8, 9, and 10 for the Mac, Dreamweaver 4.0, GoldMine 5.0, Sound Forge 4.5, WS FTP Pro and Pinger, Cumulus 4.06, Hyena 3.5, Hp Cdwriter, Nero 5.5, Full Armor 6.0.

Confidential, Boston, MA

System Administrator, NT

Responsibilities:

• System administration for a Windows NT/2000 and Linux client/sever environment.
• Created and deployed system wide user environment via system policies, batch and vbscripting.
• Designed software license auditing via Lan auditor and vbscripting.
• Responsible for backup of production and R+D Unix and Windows systems via Backup Executive 7.3.
• Configuration and setup of APC SmartUps power backups.
• Maintenance and administration of Checkpoint FW1 version 4.0, Sonic Wall VPN, and Linux IPChains. Administration of Star Team software version control program.
• Installation and configuration of client SSH accounts. Proto-testing of Win2000 DHCP and DNS.
• Proto-testing of F-Secure 5.2 networked anti-virus.
• Beta and proto testing of ELRON clean pipe email virus scanning.
• Designed Lan alert and paging system via vbscripting, jscripting and perl.
• Support and administration of IBM Netfinity 5500, Exchange 5.5, IIS 4.0, Certificate server 2.0 and Outlook Web Access via SSL.
• Administration of 3com supperstack 1100 switches. Desktop support of 50+ users including development environments and Office 2000 Sr1a. Extensive use of NT and 2000 Resource Kits, Technet and Usenet. Testing of Firewall security via Nmap.
• Monitoring and Installation of Window system and security patches as needed.
• Administration of users desktop security. Troubleshooting, repair and replacement of existing hardware, administration of CISCO routers.
• Configuration and procurement of new PC’s.
• Installation and configuration of Bugzilla, MySQL and Apache webserver.