SUMMARY:

• A competent professional with more than 7+ years of rich experience in IT Infrastructure, including 5+ in Virtualization, Citrix XenApp version 4.5 to 6.5 and Windows Servers Administration. 
• Implementing and Configuring Data Protection and DR solutions using Snap Mirror and Snap Vault
• Experience with Horizon view VDI provisioning/process/procedure implementation.
• Experience with deployment to Horizon view VDI environment such as Updates/patches/Applications
• VMware experience to include Horizon VDI and server virtualization and Horizon View experience including technical knowledge in creating, maintaining, and troubleshooting virtual environments and experience in Remote Desktop Servers.
• Cisco MDS 9148 and Nexus 5k Unified based SAN fabric deployment in Vblock and Flexpod platforms.
• Cisco Unified Computing Systems Design, Deployment and Configuration for both Virtualized and Bare Metal (Linux/Windows) environments.
• Expertise on Virtualization & Deployments Products like VMware ESX / ESXI (4.0, 4.1, 5.0), Vcenter (4.0/4.1/5.0) and SCCM 2007 respectively.
• VMware vCenter Operations Manager deployment for Cloud infrastructure performance and capacity monitoring.
• Implementing vCenter Operations Manager for performance and capacity management of the private cloud.
• Implementing and Managing VMware Site Recovery Manager in the Private Cloud for providing Disaster Recovery services for the VM workload.
• Comprehensive management of Vblock platform leveraging vCenter, Cisco UCSM, EMC UIM, EMC Unisphere, Cisco Nexus and Fabric Manager.
• VMware Site Recovery Manager and EMC Recoverpoint Implementation and Management for Virtual Infrastructure Automated Disaster recovery.
• P2V (Physical to Virtual) and V2V (Virtual to Virtual) conversion using VMware Convertor.
• Knowledge Transfer, Best practices sharing and Run Book Documentation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Cisco UCS 5108, HP C3000 and C7000 Enclosures, Dell PowerEdge And Rack mounts servers.

OS: Windows Server 2003 & Windows 9x/XP/Vista, Windows 2008 and windows 2012

Applications: MS Office 2003, 2007 and MS Visio.

BackUp: BESR, Commvault, SRM, IBM TSM

VMWare: VMware ESX 5.0, 5.1, 5.5. &6.0 Virtual Center, Vsphere, VMware DRS & HA, VMware P2V Converter, vCenter Server 2.5, Virtual Infrastructure 3.0, VCenter 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 & 6.0, VMware Converter, VMware View, VMware Thinapp, VMware Update Manager, HA, VMware vCloud Director, VCAC, VPC, DRS, DPM, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Guided Consolidation, Lab Manager and VMware Workstation, VMware VDI 5.0.2, 6.1 and Horizon View

Terminal Service Application Servers: Citrix Metaframe PS 4.0, XenApp 4.5/5.0 Databases   SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 , Oracle 10g

Scripting Language: VBScript, Jscript

VMware Applications: Plate Spin power convert, Vision core, VCharter Pro, Plate Spin Power Recon, Solar winds, vFoglight.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administering and supporting 1800+ Citrix server environment on Windows Server 2003/2008.
• Responsible for Terminal server builds and Citrix XenApp server deployments in both Physical and virtual environments
• Certify home grown and third party applications to run in windows 2003 / 2008 Terminal server environment
• Supporting in - house application management in Citrix environment through Citrix Streaming.
• Implement Citrix Rollup Pack and Feature packs as per Citrix recommendation.
• Troubleshooted various issues related to Citrix resource manager, Printers etc.
• Monitored Citrix server’s health by using Citrix Edge Sight.
• 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.
• Provided 24/7 Production support for Citrix environment.
• Configured WYSE Terminals to provide thin client solution to Business users.
• Performed scripting through VBS, CMD.
• Implemented Quarterly patches to the servers suggested by Microsoft.
• Working with troubleshooting tools CDF Trace, PROC MON and Dependency Walker.
• Supported 5,000 plus User base
• Infrastructure testing on the new ESX builds to identify potential flaws/failures from implementations before its release in production.
• VSphere Performance monitoring and analysis using CA Spectrum monitoring solution.
• Implementing Change requests for different configuration changes within the virtual infrastructure.
• End to End Implementation of VMware based virtualization environments.
• VMware virtual Infrastructure ESX 5.0/5.5 Administration and Management
• Performance tuning of ESX hosts and Guest OS on VMs.
• Implemented a Proof of Concept for VMware on Cisco Unified Computing Systems.
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2008.
• Establishing ESX Deployment strategy, policies and procedures and deploying ESX cluster builds based on predefined policies.
• Auditing the ESX cluster builds to make sure all set configurations adhere to the Implementation guidelines.
• Implementation of stateless Cisco UCS service profiles with boot from SAN policy for ESX hosts.
• Cisco UCS Implementation and Administration in Vblock environment for ESXi and windows envirnment
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies
• Prepared Risk Analysis/Bug Scrub report for various firmware codes to support hardware, security vulnerability.
• Configuring VMFS based storage in virtual center.
• Configuring virtual networking related security, traffic shaping and load balancing policies.
• Configuring HA/DRS related advanced configuration settings per VMware Best practices.
• Implementation of Shared storage across ESX Hosts to leverage vMotion and svMotion capabilities.
• Establishing ESX Deployment strategy, policies and procedures and deploying ESX cluster builds based on predefined policies.
• Auditing the ESX cluster builds to make sure all set configurations adhere to the Implementation guidelines.
• Created and maintained Pools in VMware Horizon view 5.2 and 5.0.1 environments.
• Provisioned and maintained VMware VDI across entire environment.
• Upgraded VMware VDI components like connection servers and security servers from 5.2 to 6.1.
• Provided and maintained Persistent disks across all the VDI’S in the environment.
• Created linked clones and full clones for VDI’s and connected to the parent template across both the datacenter’s.
• Upgraded the version 5.2. to 6.1 and recomposed the pool for the linked clone virtual desktops.

Environment: VMware vSphere 5.5., VMware VDI 5.0.2, 5.2 and 6.1, windows 2008, VMware update manager, Windows 2012 R2, Connection server, Security server, VMware view agent, VMware view client, Citrix XenApp 5.0/4.5, Windows server 2003/2008 X86 & X64, Citrix Streaming Profiler 6.5/6.0/5.2, SQL 2005/2008.  

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Citrix/ Virtualization Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining Windows and Citrix Servers which includes 10,000 user base and more than 100 plus applications.
• 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
• Adding Custom Actions to MSI Install Sequence using embedded VBScripts to customize MSI install behavior.
• Using Orca Tool for creating Windows Installer Transform (MST) files for customizing vendor provided MSI installs.
• 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
• Documenting Application Installation, Know issues which occur regularly.
• Installation of control - M agent software’s for production servers.
• Setting up VMware DRS affinity rules for the virtual machines.
• Responsible for ESX server deployments, system updates/upgrades, system health and status monitoring.
• Day to Day administration of Windows environment regarding user access, patches/updates management, hardware & network troubleshooting, performance and capacity management
• Performed UCS Firmware upgrades to support new hardware, security vulnerability fixes.
• Prepared Method of Procedure (MOP) for UCS Firmware upgrade, Collecting Application logs, Upgrading Hardware, etc.
• Supported Maintenance Windows for upgrades in the environment
• Upgraded UCS Firmware for PSIRT vulnerabilities like POODLE, Shell Shock, NTPD
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2008.
• Establishing ESX Deployment strategy, policies and procedures and deploying ESX cluster builds based on predefined policies.
• Auditing the ESX cluster builds to make sure all set configurations adhere to the Implementation guidelines.
• Managing all aspects of VMware vSphere environments like vMotion, HA, DRS and storage vMotion.
• Installing Site Recovery Manager(SRM) Server on the Source and the DR site and Integrating with respective vCenter.
• Implementing and Configuring Production Volumes, Production Journal, Replica Copies, Replica Journal, Consistency Groups, Replication Sets, Replication priority and other settings.
• Configuring SRM Resource mappings, folder mappings, network mappings, protection groups and datastore groups.
• Creating and configuring Recovery plans and Recovery network options.
• Planning and executing non-disruptive Disaster Recovery testing by creating isolated network bubble at the DR site.
• Managing SRM based protection in a highly dynamic environment ensuring newly deployed Tier1 VM’s are protected and on replicated datastores.

Environment: Site Recovery Manager, Cisco UCS, VMware vSphere 5.5, Dell DRAC, SCCM, Citrix XenApp 5/4.5, Windows server 2003/2008, SQL Server 2005/2008, Citrix Streaming Profiler 5.2/1.3/1.2,

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Converged Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in using Citrix Access Management Console and Presentation Server consoles.
• Profiled and deployed over 500 Business Applications and 200 Technical Tools through Citrix to the end users.
• Worked with application owners and gathered requirements for our project.
• Profiled and streamed applications on Citrix Profiler 1.2 and 1.3 versions and Citrix Streaming Client 1.2 & 5.2(5.2.1) Versions.
• Packaged applications in Wise Packaging Studio 5.0 which are not compatible in Citrix.
• Involved in fixing the interoperability among different applications and setting the rules on profiles in Application Isolation Environment (AIE). Involved in troubleshooting functionality errors of the applications in isolation environment.
• Used CDF Trace, ProcMon, FileMon & RegMon to trouble shoot application profiles in Isolation environment.
• Involved in pre-Delivering applications to Presentation Servers through Rade deployment Scripts (deploy.bat & psexec.bat) provided by Citrix.
• Scripted and tested applications in Citrix Edge Sight for Load testing version 3.0 to Load Test for multi-user compatibility in terminal services environment. Experience in Edge Sight Server console to monitor application performance in Citrix Farm.
• Hands on experience on Virtualization technology- VMware Workstation, ESX Server.
• Performed server builds utilizing VMware ESX 5.5 Server.
• Responsible for Administration of Active Directory and delegating control / permissions.
• Extensively worked in Windows Active Directory to create users & groups.
• Documented step-by-step process used when profiling using Application Profiler
• Having good knowledge in Administration of VM clones, Templates and snapshots.
• Responsible for Virtual Environment maintain and well-organizing.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and  building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project
• Was involved in building, configuring and hardware upgrades of Windows servers.
• Worked on Performance Analysis and Tuning/Optimization Operations, Virtual machine creation, cloning, configurations.
• Installed and configures software updates using Update manager using patches and created the baselines for the updates  
• Creating Backup and restore of data by using windows backup and recovery utilities.
• Deploying vSphere Infrastructure from the ground up including vCenter, Database Server, Update Manager, and ESXi hypervisor hosts.
• Implementing vCenter Operations Manager for Performance and Capacity management of the virtual infrastructure.
• EMC VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management for ESXi, Linux (RHEL) & Windows hosts.
• Implementation of stateless Cisco UCS service profiles with boot from SAN policy for ESXi and Linux hosts.
• Deploy and manage EMC VNX 5700 array as the shared storage for frontend vSphere and Linux environments.
• Managing all aspects of the vSphere environments, troubleshooting and resolving configuration related VMware issues.
• Advanced Performance Analysis and Troubleshooting across all layers of the Converged infrastructure platform.

Environment: Cisco UCSM, VMware Vsphere 5.1, EMC Unisphere, VMware vCenter Converter, Citrix Presentation server 4.5/4.0, Windows server 2003/2008, SQL Server 2005/2008.Windows NT servers, Wise Package Studio 7.0

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

System Analyst (Citrix)    

Responsibilities:

• Involved in maintenance of Citrix XP, PS 3.0 and PS 4.0 farm, which includes more than 100 Servers and 100 various applications.
• Involved in Installation and upgrading the various applications on Citrix Servers and publishing the Application on Citrix PS 4.0 farm.
• Installing Hot Fixes (Rollup Packs and Feature packs) released by Citrix on Citrix Meta frame Presentation Servers through Installation Manage.
• Monitored and Maintained the Citrix Web Interface server
• Implemented the Cluster Environment for Citrix Data Store servers.
• Configuration of Farms, Zones, DC’s, DS, TS License servers, Web Servers.
• Installed, Managed and Monitored VMware ESX 4.0/ 5.0 environment
• Created VM Session for Test Environment for testing Application before deploying to Production
• Used Virtual Infrastructure Client for managing VM Machines
• Created MSI Packages using Rapid Install Packaging.
• Worked on Change Management, Incident Management and Request Management Tickets in Remedy Tool
• Resolved various issues such as Windows Policies, Application licensing through RDP, Net - meeting. Coordinating with Vendors regarding production issues & solving problems.
• Created a test Environment in Citrix or VMware for Production Team to test their applications.

Environment: Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 . Visual Studio 2008, ASP.Net, C#,   HTML, Java Script, SQL Reporting Services, SQL Server 2005 and Windows XP.

Confidential, AZ

Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and administration of VMware ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Virtualized 450+ servers using VMconverter.
• Responsible for ESX server deployments, system updates/upgrades, system health and status monitoring.
• Establishing ESX Deployment strategy, policies and procedures and deploying ESX/ESXi cluster builds based on predefined policies.
• Auditing the ESX cluster builds to make sure all set configurations adhere to the Implementation guidelines.
• Infrastructure testing on the new builds to identify potential flaws/failures from implementations before its release in production.
• Implementing Change requests for different configuration changes within the virtual infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting vSphere performance related issues.
• Managing/troubleshooting HP and IBM Blade systems.
• Maintain and monitor all VMware ESX hosts, clusters and virtual datacenters with Virtual center.
• Configured and Troubleshoot Virtual Center features such as Vmotion, DRS and HA.
• Troubleshooting VMware ESX related issues.

Environment: VMware VSphere, HP ILO, VMware Converter