SUMMARY

Expertise with the following:

WORK HISTORY

Confidential Senior Advisor at CHP, I was responsible for the support and management of several large scale CHP XenApp Farms with over 500 Servers. I provided support and leadership to the after-hours support team. We also managed the deployment of HyperSpace client pack update as well as updating and managing the provisioned images for one of the XenApp 6.5 farms.

• Responsibilities include design and architecture of large and small XenServer VMware implementations at clients across the country.
• I also worked with other teams during Epic Client pack and RA upgrades and coordinated storage, network and other hardware upgrades that had an impact on the XenApp environment. I also provided support various other EMR applications at various CHP Sites
• Responsibilities include design and architecture of large and small XenServer VMware implementations at clients across the country.

Senior Consultant specializing in Desktop Virtualization.

• Project Manager for massive EPS store rollout to every Kroger and Kroger owned store nationwide involving Citrix, Altiris, HP Thin Client, Server builds, imaging, etc. After conclusion of EPS was moved to Enterprise Citrix team to help with migration to 5.0. Role is currently building XenApp servers, streaming applications, troubleshooting issues.
• Citrix/VMWare administrator for TEKSystems on an assignment at Comair. Responsible for all aspects of Comair's Citrix farm PS 4.5 including implementing improvements recommended by my health check. Includes Web Interfaces, Citrix Secure Gateway, and PS Servers.
• Senior Consultant responsible for designs, implements and documents VDI solutions including VMware, Provisioning Server, XenServer and XenDesktop as well as XenApp, EdgeSight, Access Gateway, etc.
• Senior Consultant, I was brought on board to help solidify Pride Technologies' Desktop Virtualization practice. I was responsible for architecting and designing solutions that were as large as 2000 servers, 20,000 users, and 1000 applications. In the last year David has architected and implemented numerous virtual desktop solutions.
• RCF Information Systems - Confidential Responsible for upgrading current Citrix farm from MF XPe FR2 to MF Presentation Server 4.0. Designed new farm including migration plan to new servers. Will implement Access Gateway, Web server, 10 application servers in the beginning. Will server 1200 users. Test all applications for packaging and publishing. In charge of AD for the Citrix users. Also provide backup for AD and for ISS scans. Possess Secret Clearance...
• Senior Systems Engineer. Responsible for upgrading current Citrix farms from MF XPs or MPS 3.0 to MPS 4.0. Design and implement new farms ranging from 1 or 2 servers to 30 servers. Expert knowledge and experience with Web Interface, CSG, STA, Citrix Access Gateway and IM. I also support Enterprise level clients with Microsoft 2000/2003 servers, Exchange 2003, Backup Exec and many other products.
• Senior Systems Engineer. Responsible for installing, upgrading and maintaining current Citrix farms from MF XPs or MPS 3.0 to MPS 4.5. Design and implement new farms ranging from 1 or 2 servers to 1000 servers. Expert knowledge and experience with Web Interface, CSG, STA, Citrix Access Gateway, EdgeSight, Provisioning Server and IM and Application Streaming. Also worked with VMWare. Helped design and implement Large Enterprise XenApp farms with Standard Register in Dayton, OH and AIG in Wilmington, DE.
• Company is a Silver Citrix Solution Advisor. Company has partnerships with Citrix, Microsoft, Solarwinds and Cisco. Company has client base of 10 customers. The Citrix farms supported range from 2-50 servers. Responsible for upgrading and maintaining all Citrix farms. Also design, implement and maintain Netscaler, Access Gateway, Citrix Secure Gateway, and Web Interface. In addition to Citrix support I also install/maintain Exchange 2000/2003 and Windows 2003 Servers. I also design and maintain the Active Directory for most of my clients, including GPO.
• ITE/Honeywell, Kansas City Consultant - Deploying and configuring Aprisma Spectrum and BMC Patrol Consoles and Knowledge Modules to the Honeywell Network over a 6 month period.
• Key Solutions/Corporex Consultant On going support of network including Cisco routers and switches. Administration of NT 4.0/2000 Dell PowerEdge servers, Citrix Metaframe 1.8 server farm, Lotus Domino 6.0, and Novell 4.11 servers. Desktop support for 300 users at 11 sites.
• Great Oaks -Confidential On-site for daily support of Scarlet Oaks campus. Duties included desktop support, 1st tier network support, Ghosting labs and classrooms.
• Intelligrated Confidential In charge of maintaining data center including Windows 2000 servers, Exchange 2000 server, Oracle 9i server, Veritas Backup Exec, Norton Anti-Virus server. Planned, installed, setup and maintained Citrix Metaframe 1.8 servers for client. Completed major mail migration from Exchange 2K server to another. Documented daily activity. Desktop support.
• Siemens Business Confidential Performed Citrix Administrative duties including server monitoring, publishing apps, documenting, solving client network and user issues, installing/maintaining Citrix servers in 40 server XPe farm serving 100 locations. Designed new farm infrastructure and migration plan to Citrix 4.0. Also help with network issues with firewalls and routers.
• The Kroger Company Consultant On-going support for Windows NT 4.0 Servers, Novell 3.12, Novell 4.X and Novell 5.X Servers. ArcserveIT support.
• Anthem Confidential - Team Lead for AMMS/Y2K Rollout Project. Site Assessments of old equipment. Coordinated rollout of 1500 PC's from Win95 to NT 4.0. Tested Software on new PC's and Transfer Data/Programs to new PC's. Desktop Support at all sites. Software packages tested and converted were Extra, Lotus Notes, and cc: Mail, Terra Nova, MS Office, Winframe, HMG Online, various Oracle DB's, and various Sybase apps. Citrix Winframe Administration.
• Reynolds Reynolds 8 Months - Project Lead - Created desktop standard image for Reynolds Reynolds using Windows 95, Microsoft NT, Linkwiz, and all applications including ProComm and Office 97. Also provided services for converting Lotus Organizer to Microsoft Outlook. Support desktop services by providing solutions for hardware and software problems.
• Lead member of transition team for closing of current location. In charge of moving data from Exchange, NT and AIX servers to Rhode Island and Indy servers. In charge of arranging the moving of all equipment to other locations and termination of all data and voice lines. Responsibilities include maintaining and fine tuning Oracle Database, creating and running stored procedures and PL/SQL and SQL reports for Finance, Accounting and Operations. Install, maintain and administrate AIX, NT 4.0, Citrix Metaframe 1.8 servers, MS Exchange servers. Project Manager for numerous projects including designing new IP system, the design of Kronos Time Keeping server, Image server for Baker network, and upgrading Confidentialt.
• in Confidential. Project Leader of 2000 workstation Windows 95 and Office 97 migration from Windows 3.1 and Lotus SmartSuite for Reynolds Reynolds. This involved creating project plan, creating images for workstations, benchmarks, pilot testing, data conversion and implementing plan. Installed and administered Microsoft NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 servers, Lotus Notes servers and Citrix Winframe servers in Ethernet, Token Ring and TCP/IP environments. Installed, configured and maintained Citrix Winframe for remote access. Used network tools such as Openview, Sniffer and Site Manager. Major account was TriHealth.