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Houston, Texas Area

Vmware/Citrix/Wintel

Houston, Texas Area

*Oversaw 500 Citrix Node farm, covering Metaframe, Presentation Server 4.5, Xen Server 5, & Xen Server 6 Environments.*This includes all aspects of the Citrix Xen suite components such as Xen Desktop, VDI, Provisioning, Application delivery, streaming & virtualization. As well as NetScaler & WANScaller for improved performance and redundancy. *Administered VM creations, clones, scalability, and performance on VMware vSphere 4 platforms.*Cross platform Citrix environment spanning over multiple domains and farms hosted over 200 applications.*Worked with all existing farms of various versions to handle daily troubleshooting, load, and performance issues*Completed assigned plan to move core production applications to one single Xen Farm environment.*Also aided with Active Directory, Exchange, SAN, and DR issues when requested.

Houston, Texas Area

*Migration project from PS 4.0 to Xen 5.0.*Oversaw 2500 Citrix Node farm, covering PS 4.5 and Xen 5 Environment.*New server builds into existing farm via overseeing and implementing 300 new servers and 100 new published applications.*Worked with existing farms to handle daily troubleshooting, load, and performance issues.

College Station, Tx

SYSTEMS, CITRIX, & VMWARE ENGINEERINGSQL MANAGEMENT, QUERIES, INSTALLATIONS OF NEW CLUSTERING & RELATED DATABASE MIGRATIONS.DATACENTER MANAGEMENT, TRANSITION, AND PHYSICAL MIGRATION.

Houston, Texas Area

* Upgrades of the existing Metraframe XP 4.0 environments to XP 4.5 & Xen*Lab and development evaluation of the Citrix Xenapp suite that was due to replace Presentation Server 4.5.*Responsible for documentation of migration process.*Implement Citrix’s Access Gateway Appliance for external users to access locally hosted applications via various authenticated methods.*Produced and implement security standards as per Citrix delivered applications *Maintenance of Active Directory including replication across 15 AD sites, including group policies, user management, and OU structure.*Implementation of new Cisco switches and cabling to newly built wring rooms.*Implementation of date routing to 10 satellite buildings via T1 and DSL/VNP with Cisco hardware.*Aided in the project plan of a Dell PC thin client rollout utilizing a terminal solution and reducing cost of PCs.*IT environment consists of 600 Windows 2003 servers running Citrix Metaframe, MS Sequel, Exchange 2000/2003, IIS, SAN based storage and backups.

Houston, Texas Area

*Systems engineering and daily administration of a corporate data center that serviced 4000 remote and local users.*Engineered security producers and daily management of such process as per SQL, Exchange, File shares, external FTP, for end user and IT groups.*SAN Administration on EMC platform. Dell/EMC AX & EMC Clarion, ISCSI & fiber channel cabling, SATA and SCSI drives, all levels of RAID and LUN configurations. SAN backups, snapshots, production maintenance, and performance troubleshooting. *Server environment consists of 500 Servers running Windows 2000, 2003, & Red hat Linux servers *The hardware consists of a wide array of Dell enterprise products ranging from shared storage to high density blade servers.*Utilized scripting in many scenarios including the large scale rollout of applications, upgrades or installs, security changes and security management, the rollout of an OS and related optimizations, as well as many other tasks.*Support of clustered Exchange 2003 servers and end user issues*Design, implantation, and administration of MS Share Point 2003 & 2007 clustered environments.*Daily support and working knowledge of Cisco routers and switches. *Proficient with Security Control migrations. Evaluating a new policy or an existing policy encompassing user account management, access via AD tools and group policies. Such policies applied to specific application access, SQL management, Exchange, FTP, and Internet/Extranet sites. *Support of 150 remote locations across the US, as per the user base and 150 remote Windows 2003 based DB2 database servers.*Daily interaction with the following software: Citrix Metaframe XP, Crystal Reports, MacAfee EPO, MS Access, MS SQL, Magic Help Desk, HP Openview, SMS, Arcserve 2000/V6/V9/V10, NetBackup V4.5, Norton Ghost, Glory VAS, Jantek, Ceridian.

Lafayette, Louisiana Area

*Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT OS desktop support, Lotus Notes client support.*Desktop-level network support. Mixed Novell and NT environments. Network client configurations and trouble shooting.*IT environment consists of 50 local and remote Windows NT4, 2000 servers running Citrix Metaframe, MS Sequel, Exchange 5.5, & IIS*Shared network administration responsibilities with Novell and NT Administrator.*Conversion from a Token Ring to Ethernet network.*Y2K Application updates and testing.*Major desktop hardware rollout utilizing standard imaging.

Lafayette, Louisiana Area

*Microsoft Windows 95/98 OS desktop support for over a 300+ users Corporate Office.*Broad application installations and support including, but not limited to MS Office and company customized apps. *Desktop-level network support. Novell and NT environments. Network client configurations and trouble shooting.*PC Hardware support. Compaq Desktops and Notebooks. Hardware troubleshooting, installations, and replacements.*Assisting other internal IT teams to deliver the best possible support.*Enterprise-scale OS migration from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95 including Hardware and Software implementation.*Enterprise-scale applications roll out of Office 97 also including migration from MS Mail to Outlook 97.