SUMMARY

• Microsoft Certified Engineer (MCSE) and a Certified Citrix Engineer Administrator (CCEA) with eleven years of rock solid experience in IS and R&D.
• Experience in supporting large enterprise environments with up to 60,000 desktops.
• Resourceful and expedient problem - solver. Industrious, enterprising, and analytical.
• Experienced with mid-sized to Enterprise size Active Directory implementations.
• Ability to design an Active Directory implementation as well as develop and detail cost estimates for an Active Directory implementation.
• Proven experiences in migrating from NDS (Zen Works) and Domains into an Active Directory environment.
• Extensive hands on and Knowledge of Citrix XenApp Server, XenDesktop5.0, XenServer 6.2 and VMware.
• Ability to plan organizes and leads large-scale migrations.
• Storage Area Network (SAN), host bus adapter (HBA), connectivity knowledge.
• Worked with Data Center Operations or Network Operations Center to Provide 3rd level technical support to end-users and administrators.
• Operating System: Windows NT 2012 R2/2012/2008R 2/2008/2003/2000/4.0/ XP/Vista/7/8/8.1, Unix, Wintel Server
• Strong presentation skills and strong organizing skills.
• Act as the technical liaison between project management staff and Technical Support on assigned projects intended to deploy to production.
• Responsible for ensuring that technical infrastructure details are consistently addressed and implemented for new systems and applications, improvement for future releases, and package implementations (Extensive experience with Microsoft SMS design, implementation, and administration).
• Responsible for analyzing, planning, installing configuring, testing, maintaining, documenting, and providing technical support for Microsoft Active Directory and Citrix Metaframe Environment.
• Experience working on large deployments across several geographical locations, implemented multi-language support for Microsoft and Citrix Presentation Server and Xen Products and international environments

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Citrix Architectural Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planed, scheduled and executed all stages of technical issues involving Microsoft's core business applications as well as virtual environments built on Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware and other virtualization tools.
• Coordinated the Designs, builds, manages, and troubleshoots Citrix, Xenapp, and Xendesktop 5.0 to 7.8, Citrix NetScaler and Provisioning server environments and associated components.
• Orchestrated the Installed and configured Citrix XenServer, VMware, Provisioning Servers and XenDesktop to include Citrix Profile Manager, redirect user files using Microsoft GPO, configure and created PVS Golden Images and Personal Virtual Disk.
• Detailed Knowledge of the operation and administration of a large Citrix on VMware and XenServer environment with a focus configuration and best practices
• Project Managed the Architecting, managing and testing disaster recovery strategies for various elements of the Citrix on VMware and XenServer infrastructure to include XenApp, Provisioning Server7.6 and 7.7, XenDesktop 7.6 and Netscaler.
• Development / delivery of customer and internal presentations
• Installed and configured AppVol for VMware and Deployed to Citrix Xenapp Servers and Desktops .
• Stay abreast of related technology and recommend future system enhancements, software purchases or system upgrades.
• Experience in Datacenters planning and monitoring to included power/cooling, design, and consolidation. Leadership in proposing and designing best path forward.

Confidential

Sr. Citrix Architectural Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designs, builds, manages, and troubleshoots Citrix, Xenapp, and Xendesktop 5.0 to 7.6, Citrix Netscaler and provisioning server environments and associated components.
• Participate as a subject matter technical expert Citrix Xenapp 7.6 on VMware 5.1, 5.6 and XenServer 6.2 architectural design, build, deployment, administration and maintenance/operations and all elements related to those products for all HW and SW installations.
• Contact for all monitoring, troubleshooting and problem resolution of various components of the Citrix on VMware and XenServer infrastructure and services.
• Designed Virtual Lab environment with VMware, Citrix and Hyper-V to support Project for production.
• Supporting the business, along with the rest of the Infrastructure organization, in deployment of Citrix, VMware, XenServer and Hyper-V infrastructure related solutions.
• Installed and administered Citrix products such as (Xendesktop 5.0 to 7.6), VMware Horizon 6.0 Services, Resources Management Services, Secure Gateway Services, Citrix Web interface and Citrix Storefront.
• Traveled to Company Sites to insure Citrix Xendesktop was preforming as Planed also to evaluate the end user experience.

Confidential

Sr. Citrix Architectural Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Collection, documentation and analysis of customer’s business requirements specific to End User Computing, including Desktop Virtualization.
• Developing and assembling the designs for End User Computing solutions to meet customers' needs.
• Present findings and recommendation prior to and during customer projects as needed.
• Estimate timeframes, quality and quantity required to successfully implement projects; develop project plans incorporating all project variables.
• Conduct periodic status checks with customers and team to verify requirements, assess progress against plan and acceptance.
• Prepare monthly/weekly status reports on all related project activities.
• Set up and configure Citrix License Server and CAG License Server
• Provide pre-sales support targeted at business growth and development for the End User Computing.
• Creating Statements of Work, budgets, roadmaps and proposals.
• Development / delivery of customer and internal presentations.
• Training sales team on the solution.
• Maintain a high level of utilization while ensuring projects remain on-time and on-budget.
• Contribute to the End User Computing service line including the definition or refinement of current/future solution sets, as well as offering such as tools, methodologies, and team development.
• Provided training and mentoring to team members.