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.