PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior Citrix Specialist of 8+ years experience Installing, Administering and Troubleshooting Citrix Metaframe 1.8, Citrix Metaframe XP, Citrix Presentation Server 3.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Citrix Presentation Server (XenApp) 5.0, Citrix XenApp 6.0 and XenApp 6.5
• Established track record with about8+years of experience as a Windows Engineer and VMware Administrator
• Proficient in Windows 2000/2003/2008 server administration and active directory administration
• Performed QA testing for integrated applications and different OS builds as well as documentation related to the packages and Operating Systems
• Extensively experienced with the Active Directory tools
• Created the user accounts and provided access to the desired servers
• Extensive experience in working with the Wintel servers
• Establish user accounts and group policies and also troubleshoot the existing GPOs
• Extensive experience in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESX 4.0,4.1,5.1 and 5.5 servers,vCenter server 2.5, 4.0and vCenter Converter
• Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version
• Experience in Installing and administering IIS 7.5 and IIS 6.0
• Managed and dealt with changes, ITIL IT operations and their executions
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots
• Experience with Microsoft Share Point 2007/2010 and its tools
• Expertise in Thin provisioning, VMFS expansion, RAID technologies
• Expertise in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
• Experience in Windows clustering Administration, troubleshooting and Microsoft failover clustering manager
• Experience with enterprise backup systems and disaster recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; implementation with shared storage fiber channel, ISCSI, NFS / VMFS strategies for performance and optimization
• Hands on experience with the HP blade c7000 enclosures and the ML, DL, BL series servers
• Expertise in Microsoft Exchange server
• Experienced in VB Scripting and PowerShell scripting
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching
• Experience in working on the disaster recovery (DR) plan
• Experience in IIS 5.1/6.0/7.1
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual conversions by using VMware Converter, Platespin Power convert and vCenter Guided Consolidation
• Extensive experience in migrating virtual machines using the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite, virtual networking, wireless networks & Cloud computing concepts
• Experience in Confidential UCS Servers
• Administrating, creating and modifying DNS records, DHCP scope and reservation, DFS link, Web servers including record/scope creation, troubleshooting and managing user and group accounts Administration
• Expertise in FTP servers, ODBC for the database management and SSL certification
• Strong Experience in vNetwork concepts: vSwitch and dvSwitch
• Citrix CCIA, Citrix CCEE, Citrix CCAA certified (XenApp 6.5)
• Citrix CCA certified (Presentation Server 4.0, XenApp 5.0, XenApp 6.0, XenDesktop 5, XenApp 6.5)
• Upgraded Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 to Citrix Presentation Server 4.5
• Netscaler, CCA XenServer 6, CCA XenApp 6 and CCA XenDesktop 5

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Vmware Tools : VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 , VMware ESX 2.5/3.0/3.5, VMware ESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5.0 , VMware vCenter, vSphere Client, VMware VDI, VMware ThinApp, View 4.6/5.0, Microsoft Hyper - V, VMware Update Manager, vCenter Lab Manager 4, vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008/2008R2/2012, 95/98/NT/2000/XP/7, Apple Mac OS, VMware ESX server, Red hat Linux 

Server Services: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, Clean Server Installation/Migration

DR/P2V Tools: Plates pin migrator, Quest vConvertor and Double take DR tools

Programming Languages: C, C++

E-mail Clients: Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes

Designing Languages: MATLAB, VHDL

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Vmware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Migrated Virtual and Physical machines from one data center to the other using a mule
• Migrated Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 and Linux servers from ESX 4.0 to ESX 5.1 using the VEEAM tool
• Solid experience in administering, engineering, designing Wintel Solutions on VMware and UCS platforms.
• Administered the Citrix network and provided support for the Windows.
• Knowledge of Cloud Computing principles and practices as applied within a Linux environment.
• Installed and verified that all AIX/Linux patches or updates are applied to the servers.
• Administered production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2010
• Responsible for production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, GPP, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment
• Executed Power shell scripts for IP changes, extracting information of both Physical and virtual machines and also in automating several processes
• Created backups of the ESXi hosts using POWERCLI commands
• Worked with RVtools to extract complete information of VMs in a vcentre including the SILO and disk configuration details
• Maintained the Citric system by implementing the security systems such as monitoring the access and performing the routine checks.
• Troubleshoot the network for LAN and WAN that affects the working of the Citrix.
• Maintained the remote access system and the windows networking
• Build, implement and maintain system-level software packages such as OS, Clustering, disk, file management, backup, web applications, DNS, LDAP.
• Installing Redhat Linux using kick start and applying security policies for hardening the server based on the company's policie
• Worked on migrating about 500 virtual machines from Dell to Hitachi data store
• Upgraded the virtual hardware, IP information and installed the VMWare tools as part of the post migration process
• Worked with the HP Proliant DL380 G series servers and familiar with the PCI slots, the network ports and the ILO port
• Expertly handle all aspects of cloud deployment and business development to the cloud; ( AWS, Rackspace, Vmware)
• Extensively worked in the HP Integrated Lights Out (ILO) for managing, administering and monitoring the physical servers
• Worked with the HP cluster management tool for clustering the blade servers
• Configured and administered Dell Compel lent SAN
• Worked on the migration of servers from Hitachi storage to Dell Compel lent storage
• Migrated virtual machines between hosts and data stores using vmotion and svmotion
• Supported Microsoft Clustering in a multisite environment (Stretch Cluster)
• Extensively worked in the ESX 5.5 environment involving several actions relating to the virtual machines
• Supported SCOM environments with over 3000 servers which included configuring, installing and maintaining the SCOM in the Windows server operating system
• Configured Management Services in IIS 7.5 and Responsible for creating SSL Certificates
• Created, Installed and configured SSL certificates for secure communication using Microsoft tool SSL admin to ensure web site security
• Built new Windows 2008/2008R2/2012 and Linux servers as per the requirements of the servers
• Worked with the backup tools such as TSM, TSMVE and Commvault
• Dealt with server related issues and always played a critical role in war rooms
• Solved tickets related to the disk space adds and decommissioning of servers
• Updated/Upgraded ESX/ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades
• Responsible for Patch Management through Shavlik Protect and anti-virus protection (Symantec Endpoint Protection) of Servers for Client
• Increased space in LUNS for expanding the size of the data stores
• Installed the Symantec end point protection and Sophos antivirus and dealt with their issues
• Worked on solving the tickets in both HP Service Manager (HPSM) and Sales Force
• Created the user accounts and provided access to the desired servers
• Managed and dealt with changes, ITIL IT operations and their executions
• Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter
• Requested IP addresses essential in the P2V process
• Managed messaging environment with Exchange Server 2003/2007 and Blackberry servers in various locations. Ensuring highest availability of mail servers, monitoring exchange message routing, database backup and troubleshooting
• Maintained server health by checking performance monitor logs, disk-space utilization, events viewer reporting and taking corrective measures
• Performed the DNS reverse and forward look up tasks
• Worked in a multi forest active directory environment
• Created new user accounts with username and password and proficiently managed the accounts
• Administrated and Supported Email Server Exchange 2007/2010 which included the tasks of creating user mailbox, supporting outlook users, performing backup strategies, monitoring of email queues and server health
• Worked with HP Open View Software in managing the IT Infrastructure
• Created pools of networks, servers and storages using the VMware vCloud Suite 5.1
• Worked on the SQL servers and was involved in troubleshooting various issues with the server and access to the server
• Evaluated VMware View and Citrix Xen Desktop with HPBL490c servers. Evaluation also included PCoIP thin clients, as well as HP, Tegile and NetApp storage solutions.
• Strong skills in managing Red Hat Linux servers, SAN Storage (EMC, Hitachi), Virtualization. (VMware, Red Hat enterprise virtualization preferred), and system security.
• Understand server virtualization technology such as VMware
• Worked on Creating Service Profiles in UCSM from Service Profile Templates

Environment: Windows 2000/ 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012, Windows XP/Vista/7, VMware ESXi 4.0/5.0/5.1/5.5 , VMware Vsphere client, HP Proliant Blade Servers, Dell Physical Power-Edge servers,Dell Compellent SAN, Confidential UCS, Exchange server VMware converter, Domain Controllers

Confidential, VA

VMware/ Linux Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed Windows 2003/2008R2 in the created virtual machines and also installed the required software and tools
• Built the Wintel servers and worked on the QA of the servers
• Worked with the HP virtual connect enterprise manager
• Implemented NetApp V-series with EMC CX and HP EVA
• Troubleshoot issues related to AWS, Linux, NFS, Java, and deployment processes
• Administrating Symantec Endpoint Antivirus console, managing 300+ antivirus client’s computers like definition updates, Exception policies, Scanning, reporting etc
• Administered the IIS application efficiently installed and configured Virtual I/O Server V1.3.01 with fixpack8.1.
• Installed VMware tools and upgraded the virtual hardware
• Provided the infrastructure support for the whole network
• Set up V-Motion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and related  VMware  products such as VM Workstation
• Provisioned HP storage on VMware and configured the settings
• Migrated VMs between the data stores using sv motion .
• Installation and configuration of VERITAS Storage Foundation Suite::VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS File System, VERITAS Cluster Server and Oracle SF RAC.
• Built virtualized Linux servers on ESX and Blade servers to host multiple applications on same chassis across different server hosts
• Designing Firewall rules for new servers to enable communication with application, Oracle 10g servers.
• Designed, implemented and Demonstrated VMware Cloud for 2000 seat VDI deployment along with VMware SRM and NetApp Snap Manager for Virtual Infrastructure
• Planned, scheduled and Implemented OS patches on both Solaris & Linux boxes as a part of proactive maintenance.
• Worked with other IT teams, customers (users), and other managers in helping build and implement systems and standards.
• Created devices, Mapping and Masking of LUNS, with storage Ports, Hosts by Using respecting storage tools.s and weaknesses of VMware’s Cloud Platfo
• Administrated and Supported Email Server Exchange 2007/2010 which included the tasks of creating user mailbox, supporting outlook users, performing backup strategies, monitoring of email queues and server health
• Several tasks were managed and dealt with by using the VB Script and PowerShell scripting
• Provided user access to the users for any required server based on the requirements
• Worked with the SCCM software and managed a large no of windows systems and additional features like software distribution and patching
• Used ODBC for accessing the data in a heterogeneous environment
• Experience in implementation and deploying View 4.5(VDI) virtual desktops and ThinApps 4.5 Application packages with vSphere ESXi4.1 environment.
• Performed up gradation of ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.0, vCenter 2.5 to 4.0
• Handled snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments
• Installed, configured and troubleshooted VMware Lab Manager
• Installed and managed the Symantec Endpoint Protection
• Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter
• Provided research into VMware ThinApp initiative for increasing server virtualization
• Experienced with Microsoft Hyper-V POC environment
• Performed the day to day administration of Red hat Linux
• Updated/Upgraded the HP Onboard Administrator, Virtual connections
• Installed and configured Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Environment: Windows 2000/ 2003/2008/2008 R2, Windows XP/Vista/7, VMware ESXi 4.0/5.0/5.1, VMware Vsphere client, Dell Physical Power-Edge servers, VMware Lab manager, VMware update manager, VMware View, Exchange server, HP SAN Storage

Confidential

Citrix Administrator (Contractor)

Responsibilities:

• Administered the Citrix network and provided support for the Windows.
• Resolved all problems related to the network.
• Maintained the Citric system by implementing the security systems such as monitoring the access and performing the routine checks.
• Troubleshoot the network for LAN and WAN that affects the working of the Citrix.
• Maintained the remote access system and the windows networking
• Evaluated and recommended the new software, hardware and patches to optimize the working of the Citrix.
• Performed tasks for end users on the Citrix served application, maintained the back up and ensured recovery of data in time of need.
• Troubleshoot the network and resolve all the hardware as well as software problems that occur on the Citrix servers.
• Organized training programs for the Citrix administrators and end users.
• Analyzed the system and prepared the Citrix application according to the need of the user.
• Developed Virtual apps for in-house client server applications through Citrix Streaming profiler 6.5/6.0/5.2 .
• Vmware ESX/Vsphere implementation, support, maintenance and performance management of test and pool to users in Active DirectoryCitrix/Virtualization
• Provided 24/7 Production support for Citrix environment.
• Designed, Implemented, and Supported Citrix (XenApp) systems in Secure DOD environments
• VMWare ESXI 5.1, ESX Server 3.5, 3.0, 4.0, 4.1, 5.1, VMware Workstation, GSX Server

Environment: Citrix Presentation server 4.5/4.0, Windows server 2003/2008, SQL Server 2005/2008.Windows NT servers, Wise Package Studio 7.0

Confidential, Berkeley Heights, NJ

Virtualization Support Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in datacenter migration projects and P2V conversions
• Performed Preparatory work for physical and virtual migrations and worked with the storage team regarding the storage and LUN capacity
• Installed, configured and maintained Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 Operating Systems
• Provisioned Dell compellent storage on the VMware
• Performed P2V migrations of Production, QA and Development Servers
• Involved in the cut-over and decommissioning of the physical server after the P2V server
• Management of Snapshots, clones, templates
• Performed migrations of virtual machines using v motion and sv motion
• Migration of virtual machine from one enclosure to another within the same environment in different enclosure
• Monitored and managed the Exchange server which included the tasks such as the management of outlook users, backup administration and the mail queue
• Developed the cloud infrastructure using the vCloud Suite 5.1
• Experience in installing and administering the hyper V
• Installed and implemented Manage Engine monitoring application and configured SNMP and WMI on Servers and other network devices
• Deployed Windows 7 OS utilizing SCCM
• Installed and the managed the active directory and its tools
• Created the GPO’s based on the requirements and placed them as an OU
• P2V conversions of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers using VMware Converter
• 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
• VMware ESX 4.1 installation and configuration
• Installing VMware tools and upgrade of virtual hardware
• Migration of virtual machine from one environment (3.5) to another (4.1)

Environment: Windows 2000/ 2003/2008/2008 R2, Windows XP/Vista/7, VMware ESXi 4.0/5.0, VMware Vsphere client, HP Blade C7000 enclosures, IIS web servers, Dell Compellent storage, Exchange Server.