RoundTower, LLC is now part of AHEAD, a leading provider of platforms for digital business. The acquisition creates a national reach and a more holistic services portfolio for AHEAD. During this transition period, RoundTower looks forward to rolling out the AHEAD brand to the West Coast, and kicking-off 2021 as the fully integrated team of AHEAD.** Deploy the latest Citrix and VMware technologies to our customers: delivering applications, VDI, and Hosted Desktop sessions to companies of all sizes. ** Deploy VMware Horizon 8 Instant-clones/Full clones to support up to 3000 users in a multi-datacenter environment. Configured Unified Access Gateway for secure external communication. ** Deploy VMware AVS (Azure VMware Solutions) multi-region SDDC in Azure to support upwards of 8000 users.** Deploy HCoA (Horizon Cloud on Azure) multi-region utilizing Universal Broker, App Vols, TrueSSO and RDSH farms to support up to 3000 users.** Experience with Liquidware Profile Unity profile management solution and Liquidware Stratusphere for environment health checks and assessments.** Deploying Citrix Cloud (CVAD) utilizing Machine Creation Services in a highly available environment.** Deploy Citrix Application Layering and Provisioning Services in a highly available multi-datacenter environment. ** Deploy Citrix hypervisors to support XenApp/XenDesktop environment in a multi-domain and multi-datacenter environment.

** Deploy the latest Citrix and VMware technologies to our customers: delivering applications and VDI/hosted server sessions to companies of all sizes. ** Deploying Citrix Cloud (CVAD) utilizing Machine Creation Services in a highly available environment to support companies of all sizes. ** Deploy Citrix Application Layering and Provisioning Services in a highly available multi-datacenter environment. ** Deploy Citrix hypervisors to support XenApp/XenDesktop environment in a multi-domain and multi-datacenter environment. ** Deploy VMware Horizon 7 utilizing Composer linked-clones to support up to 3000 users in a multi-datacenter environment. Configured Unified Access Gateway for secure external communication. ** Experience with Liquidware Profile Unity profile management solution.

** Deploy and support the latest Citrix technologies based upon: Application, Desktop, Server, and Storage virtualization to companies of all sizes.** Deploy XenServer 6.x hypervisors to support a highly available Citrix implementation consisting of Xendesktop 7.6, Provisioning Services 7.6, Storefront 2.6, and Netscaler 10.5. The solution provides ~ 200 Win7 VDI’s for end-user computing.** Deploy a highly available XenDesktop 7.6 implementation utilizing Citrix Machine Creation Services which provides single image management for ~ 35 XenApp 7.6 servers. Storefront 2.6, Netcaler 10.5 and Netscaler Insight Center were also configured for high availability.** Perform Citrix infrastructure upgrades like XenDesktop 5.6 to XenDesktop 7.6, XenApp 5.0 to XenApp 7.6, Provisioning Services 5.6 to Provisioning Services 7.6, Web Interface 5.4 to Storefront 3.0 and XenServer 6.0 to Xenserver 6.5 ** Deploy IGEL Management Suite for superior thin client management and support. Also deploy IGEL thin clients and deployed the IGEL UDC2 (Universal Desktop Converter) which converts most vendor’s thin clients and/or desktops into a managed IGEL thin client.** Manage and support our Citrix managed services clients.** Provide Citrix infrastructure engineering support to our clients.

** Manage Citrix and VMware farm** Manage corporate firewall and WAN links which includes 15 remote sites connected via AT&T MPLS ckts.** Manage AD, DNS, DHCP in a multi-forest/multi-domain environment.** Provide tier 2 support to our helpdesk staff.** Infrastructure project engineer.

** Implemented both Exchange 2007/Exchange 2010 in coexistence as a migration path for companies wanting to migrate from Exchange 2003. ** Implemented Microsoft Exchange Online hosted solution which enables clients to push their email services to the cloud.** Implemented Citrix XenServer v5.6 with Provisioning services as the hypervisor and built XenApp6 VM’s running on Windows 2008 R2.** Installed and configured VMware vSphere ESX v4.0 and v4.1 with datastores configured on HP Lefthand SAN. Conducted P2V’s/V2V’s, configured HA/DRS and built Windows templates for rapid server deployments.** Deployed several Symantec Backup Exec 2010 upgrades enabling clients the ability to backup Exchange 2010 databases.** Implemented several Windows Server 2008 Terminal services environments configured with a TS Gateway front-end for secure communications back to corporate resources. Published applications using RemoteApp as well as full desktop options.** Implemented Windows 2008 Server Core with hyper-V. Managed the Core implementation from both the CLI and a Vista machine configured for remote management.** Implemented a new Citrix Presentation Server v4.5 farm utilizing security lockdown GPO’s for “Best Practice” terminal server environments. The GPO also redirects user’s My Doc’s, Desktop, Application Data, and Start Menu’s using dynamically created security enhanced folder redirection.** Installed, configured and troubleshot Microsoft Active Directory and DNS services on windows versions 2000/2003/2008.** Implemented VMWare v3.5 servers configured with switch-assisted load balancing ether-channel groups for improved network performance as well as iSCSI VLAN for HP Left-hand SAN connectivity. ** Experienced using the following VMWare products - VMWare Converter, VMWare Player, VMWare Server, VMWare ESX 3.5/4.1 and VMWare Capacity Planner.

** Managed 65 IBM Blades in a pure Windows 2003 Terminal Server environment.** Supported ~ 3500 Terminal Server clients on both desktop and thin terminal devices.** Managed (4) Exchange servers: (1) Exchange 2003, (3) Exchange 2000 servers and one Blackberry Enterprise server.** Supported Windows 2000 Active Directory with replication to DR site in Milford.** Provided Tier-2 support for approximately 15,000 users.** Supported 300+ Windows 2000/2003 servers.** Assisted with data and server roll-ups as a part of Cintas acquisition team.

** Citrix Administrator – Managed and maintained 34 Citrix Presentation Server 3.0 Servers running Windows 2000.** Piloted a parallel network of HP blades running Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 on Windows 2003 servers. Assisted in developing a migration plan to convert 900+ users off of the old farm onto the new.** Maintained 55+ windows 2000/2003 servers.** Supported a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain with 900+ users.** Tier-2 support for 900+ users nationally.** Supported clustered Exchange Server 2003 active/passive nodes.** Managed and configured 100 branch office’s fractional T1 frame-relay circuits on Cisco routers.

** Mentored and supervised (6) computer technicians and co-op’s.** Managed all IS vendor’s, contractor’s, and network engineer’s for the department.** Supported, configured and maintained a Cisco switched gigabit network along with (2) Cisco 506 PIX firewalls and (2) Cisco 2620 routers.** Managed and maintained 2 International Sprint Frame-relay connections to Brussels, Belgium and Melbourne, Australia.

I was stationed in Long Beach, CA. aboard the USS Wabash AOR-5