SUMMARY:

• 7+ years' experience as a VMware and Citrix Administrator.
• Experience in Installation (Server Build) of all type of Windows Server Operating Systems (2003,2008,2012 R2 server), VMware and Application software under multi - platform environments, deployment & monitoring servers, disk quota management & distributed file systems.
• Hands on Experience on VMware ESX 4.0/5.1/5.5 Servers.
• Experience working in complex directory environments with experience supporting Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory (AD).
• Responsible in Building/Upgrading Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 6.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.12, 7.13 Infrastructure.
• Installing and Configuring NetScaler ADC 10.5/11.0/11.1.
• Configuring NetScaler Gateway on VPX/SDX instance.
• Experience in customizing Receiver for web in Citrix and NetScaler Login pages.
• Hands on experience on creating and cloning Virtual machines.
• Experience in configuring HA for NetScaler instances.
• Good experience in migrating virtual machines that is VMotion.
• Well versed using Vcenter web client.
• Hands on experience on working with monitoring tools like Citrix Director, eGInnovations, NetScaler Management and Analytics System(MAS).
• Installation, troubleshooting & performance issues related to virtual machines.
• Configuring Citrix policies, User profile management, Configuring load evaluator and configuring Edge sight monitoring.
• Experience in working with Citrix Session recording.
• Experience in working with Citrix App DNA.
• Experience in working with Citrix App Disk.
• Performance and load testing using Login VSI.
• Responsible for Design, implementation, Update, and support of Citrix Provisioning Services environment.
• Designing and implementation of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, and AD Enabled applications.
• Experience in Implementing Provisioning services MCS and PVS.
• Good experience managing provisioning services.
• Experienced in Load balancing citrix components using Citrix NetScaler 11.0/11.1.
• Microsoft applications including DNS, DHCP, SQL, printing, Proxy, IIS, Active Directory and Domain Controllers.
• Experienced in Application Virtualization using App V 4.5/4.6/5.0/5.1 and publishing them through App-V Management Console.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix Access Management Console
• Configure Hardware monitoring across the organization using HP SIM and or IBM Director.
• Hard working individual with excellent intercommunication skills to deal with both technical and non-technical departments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Citrix: Citrix XenApp6.5/7.x/ 7.8/7.9/7.12/7.13 , Installation Manager, Resource Manager, Load Balancing, Netscaler Gateway, Netscaler Insight Center, Web Interface, Citrix Policies, Access Management Console, License Server, Netscaler, StoreFront, Provisioning services- MCS/ PVS, Session recording, AppDisks, AppDNA.

VMware: vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5 , VMware Update Manager, VMware vCenter Converter.HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Capacity Planner

Operating Systems: Windows 2003/2008/12 R2, Windows XP/7/8/10

Applications & Tools: MS Active Directory, Microsoft App-V, P2V Assistant 2.0, Platespin Power convert 6.5, Norton Ghost 2003, LDAP, VBScript, MS IIS 5.0/6.0, PatchLink Update, MS-SQL Server, eG innovations, LoginVSI.

Hardware: Dell Power Edge M630, HP BL20P, HP Proliant Servers DL360, DL380, DL580and DL585 Rack mount servers and ILO.Routers, Switches, SDSL/ADSL Modems etc.

CAREER EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Citrix Administrator/VMware/Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Client’s environment, existing infrastructure and proposing a solution.
• Responsibilities include creating and maintaining PVS Images.
• Responsible in building Citrix XenApp 7.6 and upgraded to 7.13 Infrastructure
• Experience in customizing Receiver for web in Citrix.
• Managed multiple projects, from application upgrades to Citrix upgrades.
• Hands on experience on creating and cloning Virtual machines.
• Good experience in migrating virtual machines that is VMotion.
• Installed, configured, and managed the firm's Citrix Access Gateway appliances and Netscalers RSA two factor authentication
• Hands on experience on working with monitoring tools like Citrix Director, Splunk.
• Configuring Citrix policies, Citrix Profile management and Folder redirections
• Install, configure and administer Citrix Provisioning services 7.x,7.9, 7.13.
• Install, Configure and administer Citrix WEM
• Planning and implemented HA and DR for XenApp and Xendesktop environments.
• Deploying Delivery controllers and provisioning services, deploying VDI.
• Configuring and managing golden image for windows7/10 and Windows server 2012r2 and optimizing VDisks.
• Building and configuring Netscaler Gateway on VPX and SDX boxes.
• Documenting the standard operational process for support groups. Documenting play books for help desk.
• Configured Load Balancing for PVS, Storefront, and Delivery controllers. Citrix Director using Netscaler’s.
• Attending and resolving escalated issues.
• Consolidating physical servers to virtual infrastructure.
• Installation, troubleshooting & performance issues related to VM
• Making templates for different servers as per business requirements.
• Updating /Managing Master Images in both MCS and PVS Environments.
• Monitoring ESX hosts and resolving critical alerts reported.
• Installing windows server 2008/2012 R2 for different roles and patch management.
• Deploying GPO for user and computer objects.
• Post installation configurations.
• Creating host records on DNS for websites.
• Handle Incident, Request, Problem and Change Management.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Citrix Administrator/VMware/Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Client’s environment, existing infrastructure and proposing a solution.
• Responsible in building Citrix XenApp 7.6 and upgraded to 7.7, 7.8, 7.9,7.13 Infrastructure
• Experience in customizing Receiver for web in Citrix.
• Hands on experience on creating and cloning Virtual machines.
• Good experience in migrating virtual machines that is VMotion.
• Hands on experience on working with monitoring tools like Citrix Director, eG Innovations, NMAS.
• Configuring Citrix policies, Citrix Profile management and Folder redirections
• Experience in working with Citrix Session recording.
• Experience in working with Citrix App DNA.
• Experience in working with Citrix App Disk.
• Install, configure and administer Citrix Provisioning services 7.x,7.9, 7.13.
• Planning HA and DR for XenApp and Xendesktop environments.
• Deploying Delivery controllers and provisioning services, deploying VDI.
• Configuring and managing golden image for windows7/10 and Windows server 2012r2 and optimizing VDisks.
• Worked with App-V Sequencer and Client for sequencing, streaming, testing and troubleshooting virtual applications.
• Participating in the Load test and sanity testing using LoginVSI.
• Buildig and configuring Netscaler Gateway on VPX and SDX boxes.
• Analyzing the application candidates for Citrix environment.
• Documenting the standard operational process for support groups. Documenting play books for help desk.
• Configured Load Balancing for PVS, StoreFront, Delivery controllers. Citrix Director using Netscalers.
• Attending and resolving escalated issues.
• Consolidating physical servers to virtual infrastructure.
• Installation, troubleshooting & performance issues related to VM
• Making templates for different servers as per business requirements.
• Updating /Managing Master Images in both MCS and PVS Environments.
• Monitoring ESX hosts and resolving critical alerts reported.
• Installing windows server 2008/2012 R2 for different roles and patch management.
• Deploying GPO for user and computer objects.
• Post installation configurations.
• Creating host records on DNS for websites.

Confidential, Dallas, TX.

Responsibilities:

• Manage 150+ XenApp servers with 300+ applications hosted on it and close to 2000+ concurrent sessions.
• Manage 1000+ VDI Desktop located across multiple data center locations in US.
• Installed and configured edge sight 5.3 for end to end monitoring. Generated alerts and reports on edge sight to monitor health of server farm.
• Installation, Configuration Troubleshooting of Windows 2008/2012 servers.
• Responsibilities include creating and maintaining PVS Images.
• Involved in Migration of Citrix Presentation server from Version 4.5 to XenApp 6.5
• Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix XenApp6.5/7.6.
• Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix XenDesktop 5.5/7.6
• Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix XenServer 6.1 and 6.2.
• Deploying Citrix clients with SCCM 2005.
• Configuring SSL/TLS on web servers.
• Responsible for Citrix server installation, configuration management, security, monitoring and tuning, troubleshooting and related vendor interfacing
• Responsible for working on trouble tickets created by users and Application Server's teams from various locations, working closely with business units inside the organization to deploy applications on Windows Servers. Coordinating with the various applications teams and deployment of new environment Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of printers and print drivers
• Handle Incident, Request, Problem and Change Management.

Confidential, Dallas, TX.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting and managing over 500 plus Citrix Servers Servers are in multiple locations with different of Citrix i.e. XenApp 6.5 /4.5, based on physical and VMs
• Involved with Change ticket, priority tickets and Supporting On-call for Windows, Citrix and Virtual machines
• Created a new server 6.5 Farm and migrated servers from farm through Replacement VMs and migration strategies.
• Installation, Configuration Troubleshooting of Windows 2003/2008 R2 Servers
• Responsibilities include creating and maintaining PVS Images.
• Load Balancing technology and concepts - specifically the Citrix Netscaler platform
• Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix XenApp6.5/7.5.
• Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix Provisioning Services7.0
• Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix XenDesktop7.0
• Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix XenServer 6.1 and 6.2.
• Responsible for Citrix server installation, configuration management, security, monitoring and tuning, troubleshooting and related vendor interfacing
• Responsible for working on trouble tickets created by users and Application Server's teams from various locations, working closely with business units inside the organization to deploy applications on Windows Servers. Coordinating with the various applications teams and deployment of new environment Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of printers and print drivers
• Installed VMware vSphere and ESX server 5.1 and 5.5 in a total of 4000+ Virtual Servers and 5 virtual centers.
• Increasing the Size of VM’s using Disk part, EXPART Partition Magic & other tools
• Up gradation of ESX server from 5.1 to 5.5 environments.
• Deploying VM's using PowerCli.
• Creating and managing VM Ware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations
• Creating templates from VM’s and deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resources
• Prepared detail documentation for the whole physical and virtualized the environment.
• Coordinating with team members and clients for issues, updates, service delivery and communicating with various levels of management hierarchy various applications teams for deployment of new applications or versions applications upgrades of Citrix based applications.
• Installation of Security Patches and service pack that releases by Vendors according to change management.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA.

Responsibilities:

• Setup, Configured and Published application in Citrix Fat and Thin Client via Citrix Presentation Server
• Installed and Configured Window 2003 and 2 Terminal Server, Terminal Licenses and IIS 5.0/6.0 Servers
• Extensively worked in Active directory, group Policies, and DHCP for optimal performance
• Built-out infrastructure/servers for XenApp 7.0 farm and decommission infrastructure servers in the old farms.
• Installed and configured Citrix XenApp 6.5farm with multiple zones based on geographical locations.
• Migrated servers from multiple decentralized farms to a centralized global farm.
• Build application servers based on the business requirements and assisted various test teams in pre-production environments to validate the application functionality
• Installed and configured edge sight 5.3 for end to end monitoring. Generated alerts and reports on edge sight to monitor health of server farm.
• Ran CDF traces and worked with Citrix to troubleshoot IMA issues
• Created, tested and applied new Citrix policies and custom load evaluators based on line of business requirements. Customized applications using windows policies.
• Created user guides for Citrix application access via Web Interface website and Citrix client installation.
• Streamed virtual applications using Microsoft App-V to Citrix servers and delivered to end users as published applications.
• Migration of ESXi host and Vm’s across datacenters.
• Upgrading from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.0.
• Creating and managing resource pools and adding the VM’s into the pools.
• Updated Firmware and ProLiant Support Pack for Windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Used tools such as VMware Converter, Plate Spin Power Convert, and Veeam FastSCP to work on ESXi Environment for the P2V conversions.
• Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), Group Policy and Profile Management.
• Expertise in remote control, patch management, software distribution, operating system deployment, network access protection, and hardware and software inventory using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
• Maintained Web Servers by installing IIS 6, FTP Sites and creating Virtual Directories in IIS 6.
• Involved in Managing, Installing, and Supporting Windows 2003/2008 R2 Servers, and VMware ESX Servers 4.0/4.1/5.
• Building ESXi 4.0/5.0 Hosts and maintain those ESXi servers through vSphere Client.
• Taking care of capacity planning for new clusters, ESXi and VM storage issues.
• Configured HA, DRS clusters, FT for important VM’s.
• Capacity planning using Capacity planner and VMware guided consolidation for gathering the physical machines CPU and Memory usage metrics.
• Performance monitoring using Vizoncorev fog light.
• Created vSwitches and different ports groups for different purposes.
• Taking care of NIC teaming at ESX server level for redundancy.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi servers using vCenter update manager.

Confidential, Boston, MA.

Responsibilities:

• Built and maintained the system infrastructure to host the EMR, Titan, and Docutrak application in Citrix farm both in physical and virtual servers.
• Published application in Citrix, worked in citrix policies, citrix access gateway and web interface
• Installed and configured Edge sight for performance monitoring
• Handle the request for the RSA token, User Creation in Active Directory, Server issues.
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates.
• Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware convertor and HP Blade servers resulting in a reduction of racks and power usage, decrease downtime during maintenance and upgrades and improved monitoring.
• Created and managed resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual Center Server for HA, DRS.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.
• Administered and setup print servers in Windows 2003 server.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of ESXi & Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and deploying VMs from templates.
• Administer for windows server and all related server services including FTP, AD, DNS, DHCP and VPN.
• Created Virtual environment by using VMware ESX Server.
• Creating a test Environment in VM Machines for Production Team to test their applications.
• Experience with data center hosting web sites maintaining application servers.
• Perform regular maintenance of Server 2008 and 2003, which consist of adding users, editing user login scripts and granting permission to directories and shared files.
• Monitor Sonic wall CDP (Continues data protection) 6.0 services for offsite backup.
• Provided technical support to troubleshoot network connectivity, network printing and user access issue.
• Researched with other team members in new products and technologies for optimal utilization of the Blade Servers, cost cutting and site-to-site redundancy.
• Administered and implemented VMware ESX server 4.2 hosting VM in window 2003 standard.
• Successfully migrated physical server and VM in ESX server using VMware Converter.

Confidential

Windows System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configure and troubleshoot computer hardware, operating systems, network configurations and software.
• Managed the installation and configuration of Windows 2003 Server/2008.
• Installation & administration of Windows 2003 Domain Controllers, Active Directory Design& Architecture, File/Print/Database Servers
• Provided Norton Antivirus support for virus security
• Replaced defective Computer and Network equipment as needed such as switches and routers.
• Windows 2003, Installation and configuration and designing of Active Directory
• Configured Group Policies, Active Directory, password resets etc. Secured client Wireless Networks using encryption and redeployed their Wi-Fi equipment for proper signal and usage hence improved their bandwidth and productivity.
• Configure, troubleshoot and monitor core services such as Active Directory, TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, DHCP and group policy
• Created PowerShell GUI to make internal audits improve IT workflow
• Supported 75 end users in many aspects of the hardware and software environment.
• Installed hardware, applications, maintained LAN / WAN / Wireless networks, support remote access users, develop documentation, the IT team.
• Managed network servers and components including installation, configuration and maintenance.
• Prepared and presented report to management on organization’s security and virus protection audit.