Adam Drake Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Certified Citrix Engineer, and MCITP Professional. Working closely with inside sales both from Microsoft and Citrix. I also work with many other vendors delivering not cutting edge technology, but ensuring success in critical projects that require not only attention to detail, but effective communication and leadership skills. Currently receiving periodict assignments with several large vendors, mostly assisting pre sales staff with onsite physical presence developing accurate SOW's, network assessments, or POC's. I provide my own professional liability coverage.I also may be able to assist you in the first steps of partner/reseller status with Citrix, or a few other notable vendors. Contact me for details.Clients include -Ameriprise FinancialElement TechnologiesNew Jersey DHS US Bank Target Corp Best Buy

Thief River Falls

Serve as Consultant for an extremely talented department. Technologies consisting of Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp, Provisioning Server, Unidesk, and VMware. Various projects involved - XenDesktop/XenAppUpgrade (7.7) , Unidesk Upgrade and migration, 2012 VDI Pilot, Sharefile implementation. XenMobile 11. CWS. Netscaler rollout. PVS 7.6 Build/Deployment. Complete Citrix/Unidesk DR scenario and design. Insight Center/Director. Created a set of scripts, monitors, and processes for our helpdesk/operators to substantially reduce the average ticket length for anything related to our Citrix environment. Primary responsibilities include overall support of Citrix infrastructure, and virtual user workspace. Evaluating existing infrastructure, and any new components that will increase user experience, and strengthen the technology roadmap for Digikey Electronics.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Providing infrastructure engineering support for a premier IT outsourcing firm. I specialize in cloud integration, virtualization, and performance testing.Currently helping one of the largest financial enterprises tackle a problem with their demanding HPC needs.Working with the business, developers, and cloud vendors and developing a unique way of managing and provisioning a hybrid private cloud infrastructure. Changing middleware, and being able to deliver complete stack for their HPC needs. Assistance in designing the entire grid solution. Also developing the policies and procedures for provisioning, build and managing all assets in this grid. Developing some critical scripts (Powershell and cygwin) and developing a custom CMDB solution.

Richfield, Mn

Helped hand off from Accenture into Best Buy onboarding team. Helped select and hire individuals for that team. Created new provisioning environment, along with a series of automation tools and utilities. Developed runbook for administration team, and helped develop XenMobile/Sharefile POC.

Responsible for development, installation, and migration from a Citrix Metaframe 1.8 and a Presentation Server farm to a Quest Vworkspace environment. Assisted internal staff with implementation of Adminstudio, and helped package all critical home dev apps. Prepared turnover documentation and knowledge transfer to internal staff. Met deadlines.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Citrix SME

Project EverestResponsible for the design, development, testing, and implementation of Lab, contact center Citrix XenApp and XenDesktopPlaced in Wintel Server Engineering team. Helped p2v Citrix environment, and bring over both Target apps, and Amazon apps to help the contact center build. Helped develop the powershell scripts that supplemented the SCVMM/Hyper-V build and standardize Citrix server deployments. Designed/built the Citrix Profile Manager, flex profile kits Worked directly with end users, QA all applications, and capacity performance testing to ensure desire performance would be achieved. Worked with the performance team (Good ol floor 16) using tools like Loadrunner to simulate loads for both the front end Citrix servers, and the backend IBM DB resources.

Contractor for TRICARE ProjectAdministrator for. Citrix XenApp environment.

Citrix Administrator for a premier hospital in the Midwest.

ContractNetwork/Citrix Administrator for a call center environment. Assisted with engineering and development of new Citrix environment.

Remote network administrator for several SMB's around the Fargo/Moorhead area.

Associate'S Degree, Network And System Administration/Administrator

Honorary degree - AAS

Diploma