Senior Citrix Engineer Resume Los Angeles, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Hands on project management with strong organizational, oral and written skills.
Train and mentor other engineers to improve their skills in order to have successful projects.
Deep technical understanding of XenApp/XenDesktop Core
Hands on citrix design and engineering to implementation
Perform assessments and provide recommendations to improve current farms and design new farms.
Ten plus years of experience in IT operation and supervising/hand on: Networking, Servers Design, Server set up and Administration, Software Licensing, Hardware inventory and vendor management.
Super - fast learner, with ability to rapidly acquire and employ concepts, methods and technologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Citrix Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designing, Testing, and Rolling out PVS 7.12, XD 7.12, XD 7.15
Designed and tested, and rolled out PVS 7.6 and XD 7.6
Manage XenApp 6.5, XenDesktop 5.6, PVS 6.21
Create new vDisk and Update vDisks on PVS 6.2, 7.6, and 7.12
Visio graphic and document all aspects of the new VDI environment. vCenter and vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 to Provision Virtual VMs.
Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows 2008 R2, and Windows 2012 R2 Servers.
Support and troubleshoot tickets on Xen Desktop 5.6 and XenApp 6.5, XD 7.6 to XD 7.12
Performs overall solution Quality Assurance (QA) tasks for all projects delivered against assigned project deliverables
Work on many banking software: DNA, FSB, Varant ID scanner
Implemented Fiserv DNA 4.1 and upgraded to 4.2
Manage Netscaler Appliances.
Documented all works done by me as well as the XenApp and XenDesktop Environment.

Confidential

Citrix Engineer/Project Management

Responsibilities:

Member of a group that Design, Engineer, and implement migration from XenApp 6.5 to XenDesktop 7.6
Responsible for Configure, and Roll out PVS 7.6 using Extreme IO fast drive
Responsible Redesign and revamp Citrix structure in AD to make it easy for delegation.
Create Windows 2008R2 and Windows 7 vDisks from scratch
Store Front Install and configuration
Install Citrix Studio and Citrix Direct and Configuration
Perform Servers/Windows Optimizations using Citrix and Windows best practices to improve vDisk performance
Install and publish over 400 Nuclear, Fossil, and Energy applications
Create Citrix Run Book for PVS 7.6 and Run Book for XenApp/XenDesktop 7.6
Train and manage other Citrix Consultants
Knowledge transfer to Citrix support Team
Manage multiple projects from inception to production: Migration of 4 Nuclear Sites with over 10,000 users.
Manage migration of four major business divisions and all Citrix apps and Servers: Three Call Centers with over 480 users, three offshore outsourced personnel in India and Philippine with another 200 users
Coordinate with Change Management to move project to production on a timely manner.

Confidential

Citrix Consulting Lead

Responsibilities:

Designing and testing, and rolling out PVS 7.1 and XD 7.1
Manage XenApp 6.5, XenDesktop 5.6, PVS 6.21 and MCS
Update vDisks on PVS as well as on MCS.
Visio graphic and document all aspects of the new VDI environment. vCenter and vSphere 5.1 to Provision Virtual
Windows 2003 R2, 2008 R2, and Windows 2012 R2 Servers.
Support and troubleshoot tickets on Xen Desktop 5.6 and XenApp 6.5
Work with AppSense Team to roll out AppSense.
Work with EMC to roll out ExtremeIO to speed up logon for Citrix VDI.
Documented all works done by me as well as the XenApp and XenDesktop Environment.