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Leading the team of 13 experienced engineers (Citrix & Azure) to support big retail client having environment inclusive of Citrix DaaS & VDI. Workloads are hosted on Azure (IaaS).Projects: • Spearheaded the team in successful Migration of client on-prem Citrix environment (7.15 LTSR) to Citrix Cloud (Control Plane) / Azure (Resource layer). This involves, phase wise planning, capacity planning, resource allocation, application deployment, UAT, Dev & Production environment. Citrix FAS (SSO), AppV & Citrix WEM.• Successfully managed and mentored a team of 13 engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work culture. Encouraging team members to generate ideas which bring automations, cost reduction and process improvement.• Providing support to team members, supervising daily operations, assessing team members performance, identifying training needs and regular interaction with client weekly and monthly service review.• Conducted regular Citrix environment capacity reviews which resulted into the optimum utilization of resources and cost benefits to the customer.• Have reviewed the Security restrictions and user permission in the Citrix environment which has made environment more secure.• Prepare SLA Dashboards, availability reports and trends.• Have conducted regular review of Incidents and generated reports which has resulted into the identification repetitive issues and incidents reduction. This has resulted into the better user experience.• We regularly do POC of all new addition is Citrix Cloud or Azure IaaS and showing benefits of the same to the customer. Citrix environment security audits & vulnerability fix.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams (like SCCM / Intune, Networking & Firewall) for successful delivery.• Have good understanding of Azure, like VM creation, Resource Group management, Virtual Network management, Firewall Management, Azure Load Balancer, Backups, resizing etc.

Industrious Citrix Administrator in step with all facets of Citrix and related software and Windows applications. Proficient in Citrix administration in both smaller and larger business and corporate environments.

Citrix XenApp 6.5, 5.0, 4.5, 4.0, PVS 6.1 (Provisioning services), Citrix XenDesktop 7.5, 7.6, Citrix UPM.Application virtualization - Microsoft App-vWindows 2003 and Windows 2008 Servers Configuration and System Administration.Virtualization - VMware Esx 3.x, Citrix XenServer

Major Skill Set - Citrix XenApp 6.5, 5.0, 4.5Other skills - Vmware, Active Directory, Wintel, System Administration