Citrix Architect Resume
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Houston, TX
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential - Houston, TX
Citrix Architect
Responsibilities:
- Successful migration of Citrix Delivered EMR (EPIC) from XenApp 6.5 to XenApp 7.6 for 11000 users with 15 second login times
- Architect & Implement Ivanti solutions with Environment, Application and Performance Manager for Citrix and 25000 endpoints
- Architect VMware Solutions for vCenter 6.0 & ESXi 6.0 in collaboration with Infrastructure team involving over 200 hosts and 4600 virtual machines across multiple datacenters
- Successful migration from NetScaler MPX to SDX w/ HA VPX instances across multiple datacenters using NetScaler ADM for analytics and managment
- Implementation of NetScaler VPN solution for Android devices and apps in Azure
- Deploy AWS and Azure cloud-based applications with MFA with Citrix NetScaler Gateway
- Successful migration of 200 Published Applications from XenApp 6.5 to XenApp 7.15 LTSR for 1200 users with 15 second login times
- Architect Citrix solutions for Citrix Provisioning Server, XenApp, XenDesktop, NetScaler, Storefront and Web Interface
- Manage four Citrix Engineers daily activities and final escalation point for Citrix support
- Administration of NetScaler SDX 11520 for Citrix AGEE and load balancing components
- Develop process for Incident, Problem and Change Management processes for Citrix Team based on ITIL Foundations
- Technical documentation of environment; develop project proposals and presentations to Senior Leadership
- Leader of Citrix User Group Community (CUGC) for Houston coordinating local quarterly and Annual Statewide meetings with industry leaders and peers
Confidential
Citrix Architect / VMware Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain a multi-tenant Private Cloud solution for Citrix Infrastructure serving 12000 Plus concurrent users, hosting 400 plus published applications and desktops for customers across the United States
- Architect Citrix solutions for Citrix Provisioning Server, XenApp, XenDesktop, Netscaler, Storefront and Web Interface
- Architect Appsense solutions for Desktop Now and Data Now
- Architect VMware Solutions for vCenter 5.x & ESXi 5.x in collaboration with Infrastructure team involving over 300 hosts and 6000 virtual machines across multiple datacenters
- Project Lead on migration to Citrix XenApp 6.5 from legacy Citrix XenApp 6.0 and 5.0 farms
- Final escalation point for Citrix Team of Sr. Engineers for incident, problem and change management
- Direct Citrix Team with implementation tasks for infrastructure projects
- Administration of Netscaler 9500s including Citrix AGEE and load balancing components
- Administration of Citrix Provisioning Server, XenApp, XenDesktop, Citrix Licensing, Edgesight, Web Interface and Store Front servers
- Administration Appsense Management Console, Environment Manager, Application Manager and Performance Manager and develop policy configurations
- Develop Change Management processes for Citrix Team based on ITIL Foundations
- Technical documentation of environment; develop project proposals and presentations to Senior Leadership
- Maintain vendor relationships
Confidential
Sr. Citrix/VMware Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Project team member for architect, deploy and migration from Citrix XenApp 4.5 to XenApp 6.5 across 5 regions globally - project ongoing
- Daily administration & support Citrix XenApp 4.5 and XenApp 6.5 Farms
- 12000 Plus Citrix users across 5 regions globally across 380 Virtual Machines
- Administration of VMware 3.5 and VSphere 4 environments
- 130 Plus Physical ESX hosts with 800 Virtual Machines
- Administration of 123 Virtual Networks and 185 VMware Datastores
- Administration of Netscaler MPX 7500s
- Administration of Citrix Secure Gateway, Citrix Licensing and Citrix EdgeSight servers
- Administration of legacy Citrix Presentation 4.0 & Metaframe XP farms for site specific application dependency
- Administration of smaller Tier 2 Citrix XenApp 4.5 farms hosted on physical Dell servers across 5 regions globally
- Perform Physical to Virtual and Virtual to Virtual conversions using native VMware tools
- Successful migrations from VMware ESX 3.5 to VSphere 4.0 for DMZ hosts & guests
- Incident, Problem and Change Management based on ITILv3 standards
- Prepare project proposals, project plans, timelines and documentation
- Assist in design of disaster recovery procedures utilizing VMware and SAN based replication between multiple sites to insure business continuity and the successful meeting of business service level agreements (SLA's)
