Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
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Additional Information
Roles as Citrix Administrator
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Manoj

Summary

Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer

CGI
Hyderabad
11.2023 - 04.2024

Citrix Administrator

Cognizant
Hyderabad
08.2019 - 11.2023

Education

B.TECH - Civil Engineering

Rise Krishna Sai Prakasam Group of Institutions
Valluru, Ongole , A.P.
01-2018

Skills

  • Xen Desktop
  • Xenapp
  • MCS
  • PVS
  • Citrix Adinistration
  • VMWare
  • Windows Administration

Additional Information

Server Virtualization : VMware vSphere (ESXI- 5.5, 6.0 and6.5) & MS Hyper-V

Apps and Desktop Virtualization : Citrix XenApp (6.5 & 7.X) Xen Desktop (5.6 & 7.X). PVS

Servers : Windows Server 2016 R2, 2012 R2, 2012, 2008 R2,2008.

OS : Windows 7, 8.1 & 10.

Storage Servers : HP storage and IBM Servers.

Hypervisors : ESXi, and Microsoft Hyper-V , Citrix XenServer.

Roles as Citrix Administrator

  • Having 4+ years of IT experience on Citrix, VMware & Windows admin proven skills in publishing applications and desktop in Citrix (XenDesktop, XenApp, PVS and MCS)
  • Current I am working as on L2 level
  • Creating, Configuring, Maintaining and Troubleshooting Pooled and Assigned Desktop groups
  • Configuring configuration logging for monitor admin user's activities on farm or site
  • Creating the Machine catalogs and updating the machine catalogs
  • Checking of the director, if any error User Connection Failures, Failed Desktop OS machines & Unavailable Capacity
  • We can increase the machines based on the capacity
  • Logon to Nutanix and Vcenter Console and launch the Master image do the changes as per client request
  • Whatever changes we need, we need to change those and shut down the master image
  • Take Snapshot of the master image
  • Logon to Citrix studio
  • Select the machine catalog and click on update (you need to select the newly take snapshot after update in order to update the VDI pool)
  • We will schedule the update on next shutdown so working user will not be impacted
  • And machine will be restarted in off business hours which is 4AM to 6AM IST and if any machine is in use they will be updated when user logoff
  • So, no force update to any machine which can impact users
  • Once update complete, launch the VDI of the pool to the validate the changes we made
  • Working on updates
  • Working on changes, services requests and incidents
  • Experienced in various Citrix components like Xen Desktop, Xen App, Provisioning Server and Net Scalar and VM Ware family
  • Installing and Configuring Citrix Xen Desktop - XD 5.6 and 7.x
  • Configuring Load Evaluators like Default, Advanced and Custom load evaluators
  • Publishing Hosted and Streaming Applications in XenApp servers
  • Working on daily Citrix issues and configuration changes
  • Configuring Citrix Policies and GPO's as per client requirement

Timeline

Software Engineer

CGI
11.2023 - 04.2024

Citrix Administrator

Cognizant
08.2019 - 11.2023

B.TECH - Civil Engineering

Rise Krishna Sai Prakasam Group of Institutions
Manoj