Systems Engineer/Citrix Admin
Chicago, Illinois, Us
• Maintain and troubleshoot Citrix Server XenApp 5 running over 50 Windows 2000/2003/2008 servers in a virtual environment.• Responsible for creating a highly automated Citrix environment ranging from automated installations, maintenance and updates of Citrix servers, ICA clients, application packaging, delivery and testing.• Engineer high-quality solutions as per Citrix and Microsoft Best Practices and Quality Assurance.• Perform infrastructure assessment and provided client with deliverables such as, Citrix Presentation Server Infrastructure Assessment, Logon Script Design, Windows Profile Design, Disaster Recovery Design, and Server Scalability Testing methodology documents.• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000 and 2003 servers. • Support enterprise network consisting of 200+ servers, 6 IBM blade servers, 350 VMWare virtual servers in 4 data centers, 1,200 Citrix users, and 6,000 workstations.• Mentor level 1 and 2 help desk technicians and resolved any escalated issues.• Work with data center vendors to support and maintain server infrastructure.• Provide second level support to Technical Support Center. • Provide network administration to include LAN, Server and Desktop troubleshooting and resolution. • Support more than 10,000 end-users with computer, network systems and peripheral devices. • Citrix and VMware environment that housed over 10,000 employees using published desktops and apps, • Install, configure VMware ESX (4i), ESXi, and vSphere 4 environments with VirtualCenter management. Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates.