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GURSIMRAN KAUR

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Summary

SME with 8+ years of experience in troubleshooting/designing Virtualization technologies and good hands on knowledge of hybrid/public/private cloud and On-Prem virtualization solutions. Manage IT services, troubleshooting , design and integration, implementation virtual environment with Azure and Citrix Virtualization. Proficient in utilizing various technologies including Azure, Citrix CVAD, NetScaler, VMware and more.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Technical Lead (System Integration Specialist Adv)

Nttdata Pvt Lmt.
9 2018 - Current


  • Implemented Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Networking solutions including Virtual Networks, Azure SIte recovery DR solution , firewall , hubs ,Load Balancers, Vnets , scaling plans, AVD's, Vnet peering , Express routs
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning/ deprovisioning on Azure with KQL Queries and Automation accounts.
  • Conducted Proofs-of-Concept for migrating on-premises workloads to Citrix DaaS on Microsoft Azure, resulting in a decrease in user login time from 178 sec to 90 sec.
  • Troubleshooting escalated issues and performing all types of log analysis using Procmon ,Xperf , CDF network troubleshooting using Wireshark , crash dump analysis with winDBG
  • Automated user account provisioning, maintenance, and de-provisioning using Powershell and KQL to improve efficiency and accuracy.
  • Using new, more efficient instances and removing idle resources from AVD using NERDIO and Control up enabled us to cut the hosting costs for our quarter from $483K down to $423K
  • Provided data of any issues in the infrastructure related issues which involves Windows , networking, security, virtualization etc. technologies


Senior technical support engineer

Citrix Systems
08.2014 - 09.2018

• Citrix Cloud - Implementation, Deployment and Configuration of Citrix Cloud XenApp and XenDesktop services in Cloud and with combination of on-prem environment and Citrix Smart tools

• Intergrating XenDesktop MCS with Azure for catalog creation and provisioning for users

• Application virtualization - Implementation, Deployment and Configuration of Citrix XenApp on XenServer, VMware and Hyper-V

• Desktop Virtualization - Implementation, Deployment and Configuration of Citrix XenDesktop on different Hosting Environments as XenServer, VMware and Hyper V.

• Operating System virtualization – Implementation, Deployment and Configuration of Provisioning server on XenServer, VMware and Hyper-V and on various hypervisors

• Server virtualization - Basic working knowledge of Virtualization platforms like Hyper-V, VMware & Citrix XenServer

• Configuration and administration of desktop director, Web-Interface and storefront.

• Configuration and optimization of Citrix HDX policies

• Write & review complex technical articles and case studies for the knowledge base leveraging the customer reported cases, product specifications, and previous experience

• Reporting and Monitoring - Deployment and configuration for Monitoring and Reporting using Citrix EdgeSight.

• Troubleshooting and resolving escalated customer issues in Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop and Provisioning server

• Troubleshooting issues related to Citrix Cloud connectors and Citrix Smart tools

• Analyzing Citrix logs such as CDF trace, workstation agent logs, Port ICA logs, broker logs and Stream process logs

• Basic analysis of windows dumps which are collected using tools like WER, ADPLUS and Procdump

• Basic working knowledge of SQL database and PowerShell

Education

B. tech -

Chitkara university
Baddi, himachal Pradesh

Skills

Cloud Technologies: Azure,Citrix cloud

Virtualization Citrix CVAD, Netscaler, Vmware, Xenserver

Programming: KQL, PowerShell

Microsoft Technologies: Active Directory, Azure AD, Intune, MS Office 365

Certification

Microsoft Azure Administrator

Microsofttechnologies

  • Active Directory
  • DNS
  • DHCP
  • Azure AD
  • File server Cluster
  • Intune
  • MS Office365

Accomplishments

  • Received Performance Award twice for outstanding performance in team in various quarters
  • Received Kudos Award for 4 quarters at Citrix Systems
  • Best Technical Support Engineer
  • Nttdata Awarded for successfully implementing an IT solution across new client
  • Kudos Awards for highest KPI as technical support engineer in Citrix

Operatingsystems

  • Linux
  • Windows

Methodologies

  • Agile
  • ITIL V4

Databases

MYSQL

Programming

PowerShell

Hypervisor

  • Vmware
  • Xenserver
  • IDRAC

Profilesolution

  • UPM
  • Appsense

Cloudtechnologies

  • AWS (EC2, S3)
  • Azure (VM)

Virtualizations

  • Citrix CVAD
  • VMware
  • NetScaler
  • Hyper-V

Timeline

Senior technical support engineer

Citrix Systems
08.2014 - 09.2018

Technical Lead (System Integration Specialist Adv)

Nttdata Pvt Lmt.
9 2018 - Current

B. tech -

Chitkara university
GURSIMRAN KAUR