
Senior Systems Engineer at Sunrise Senior Living
Washington D.C. Metro Area

Senior Systems Engineer at Sunrise Senior Living
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Windows Infrastructure Architect with 14 years of experience and Passion for designing, building, deploying and supporting enterprise architectures using Microsoft, Citrix and VMware products.
MCP, MCSA Windows 2000/2003, MCSA: Messaging in Windows 2000/2003, MCSE Windows NT/2000/2003, MCSE: Messaging in Windows 2000/2003, MCSD, MCDBA, MCTS: SQL Server 2005, MCITP: Database Administrator, CCA XP/PS3/PS4, CCEA XP/PS3, CCA in Access Gateway 4, VMware Certified Professional (VCP), VMware Sales Professional (VSP) with more than 45 Microsoft, Citrix and VMware exams and specialization in Windows Operating Systems.
Strong expertise in design, configuration, implementation and support of Active Directory, Exchange Server, Windows servers, Windows Clusters and High Availability, Citrix products, IIS, Virtualization (VMware/Microsoft/Citrix), SQL Server, Terminal Server, Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, DHCP and Firewalls), SharePoint servers, Project servers etc.
Microsoft Technologies (Windows, Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server, SMS, Sharepoint, etc)
Citrix Technologies (Citrix Presentation Server and other technologies related)
Virtualization (VMware, Citrix and Microsoft)
(Consumer Services industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Design, build and support infrastructure to create and support new business opportunities for the company in Europe and USA.
(Computer Software industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Developer and Founder of CtxAdmTools
FREE Tools for Citrix, Microsoft and VMware Administrators and Consultants
(Public Company; SRZ; Hospital & Health Care industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Technical leader for a large multizone Citrix farm with +4000 concurrent users in multiples countries and +150 Citrix Servers (HP) in 3 datacenters. Build, setup and 24x7 on-call support of Citrix PS 4.0 and XenApp 4.5 farms.
Assist Citrix Consulting in the rollout of a new Citrix XenApp 4.5 farm using Citrix Provisioning Server. Upgrade Citrix XenApp, Password Manager and Web Interface servers. Build, Test, Deploy and P2V of XenApp 4.5 (Win2003) and XenApp 5.0 (Win2008) Virtual Machines on VMware ESX 3.5.
Install and document Disaster Recovery (DR) architecture of Citrix XenApp application servers on a remote DR site. This site includes Provisioning Server, Password Manager, Presentation Server 4.0, XenApp 4.5, Web Interface servers and replicated SQL DataStore.
Research, build and test virtualization technologies (MS Hyper-V, VMware ESX Server and Citrix XenServer).
Develop tools and scripts using MFCOM with VB, VB.NET, VB Script (CtxAdmTools) and Command Shell.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Project management, design and implementation for medium to large companies. Work with internal resources and external partners to implement and deliver complex technical solutions. Work with customers face-to-face to enhance sales and customer satisfaction. Mentor junior systems engineer and provide resolution to level 3/4 escalated incidents. Team with sales force on proposal responses and sales presentations. Present project status information to management. Provide training in Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and Symantec technologies. Design, setup, documentation, support of projects related with Windows servers, Windows clusters, Exchange Server, SQL Server, Terminal Server, VMware Infrastructure servers, Citrix products, SMS, ISA Server, SharePoint, Backup Solutions, etc. Setup, configuration and support of Dell PowerEdge, HP Proliant, Fujitsu Primergy servers, Dell, HP and Fujitsu blades, HP MSA, HP EVA and Fujitsu FibreCAT storage solutions, HP StorageWorks backup libraries, etc
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2006 — November 2006 (5 months)
First Project: Project Manager of Active Directory migration (and merger) of the most popular TV channel in Spain (Telecinco) from several Novell NDS trees and 25 Windows NT/2000/2003 domains with over 2,100 users and 1,500 workstations in more than 20 sites to Windows 2003 Active Directory. Design, installation and setup of sites, replication, group policies, OUs. Centralization of multiple file servers (Windows/Novell) into a NetApp filer. Built Windows 2003 clusters for DHCP and printer servers and migrated multiple DHCP and print server. Development of several migration tools and scripts in VB, VB.NET and VB Script. Mentored junior systems engineer and provided resolution to escalated incidents. Presented project status information to management.
Second Project: As Data Manager, improved data quality and optimize a .NET application (ASP/C#/PL-SQL) running on Oracle 9i/10g databases for the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS-CASA).
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Security and Investigations industry)
July 2004 — June 2006 (2 years )
Project management, design, implementation and 24x7 technical support for medium to large companies. Coordinated a team of support engineers working on-site to provide technical support and resolution to escalated incidents. Teamed with sales force on proposal responses and sales presentations.
Active Directory design, migration of Windows NT/2000 networks to Windows 2003, setup and migration of Exchange Server 2000/2003, implementation, support and configuration of Windows 2000/2003 servers, Windows clusters (File & Print, Exchange, SQL Server), Internet Information Server web servers, Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame XP and Presentation Server 3.0/4.0 farms. Creation of group, security and backup policies. Implementation of TCP/IP , VMware ESX servers, McAfee/Symantec Antivirus, VERITAS backup, SMS 2003, SQL Server and SharePoint servers.
Setup, configuration and support of Dell PowerEdge, IBM xSeries, HP Proliant and Integrity servers, HP StorageWorks, HP MSA, HP EVA.
(Public Company; MLS; Real Estate industry)
May 2002 — June 2004 (2 years 2 months)
24x7 technical support of headquarters and 30+ remotes sites in USA, Canada and Europe (servers, network, users). Installation, setup, and administration a CISCO network of 150+ HP/Compaq servers, SAN EMC, desktops, notebooks. Design, installation, configuration, documentation, testing and support for several projects with SQL Server, Windows 2000/2003, Active Directory, Exchange 2000/2003, SharePoint, VMware, Project Server 2003, IIS, Windows Clusters, Blackberry, SMS, VPN, etc.
Project leader migration (and centralization) from Windows 2000/Exchange Server 5.5 servers distributed in 30+ branch offices to Windows 2003/Exchange 2003 running in cluster.
One year assigned as IT Manager, Telecomm Manager and Senior Network in Madrid Xanadu (Madrid Spain)
(Financial Services industry)
April 2001 — May 2002 (1 year 2 months)
Responsible for the installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of the company’s LAN/WAN; the direction and coordination of the telecommunications system; and addressing issues relating to business system programming. Installation, setup, and administration of web servers running IIS, database servers running SQL Server 7/2000, mail server running Exchange Server 2000, firewalls (hardware and software) and VPN servers. Implementation of Windows 2000 Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame XP servers, TCP/IP (DNS, WINS and DHCP), group, security and backup policies, recovery plan design, Symantec antivirus, and telephone systems. Administration, design, and development of the web site and internal applications built in HTML, ASP, SQL Server and COM.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2000 — April 2001 (10 months)
Extensive work in Active Directory design, implementation of Windows 2000 servers, migration of Novell and Windows NT servers to Windows 2000. Installation and migration of e-mail servers to Exchange 2000. Installation and configuration of ISA Server 2000, web servers running IIS, database servers to SQL Server 7/2000, Windows 2000 Terminal Server. Migrated workstations to Windows 2000 and implemented group, security and backup policies. Implementation of Symantec applications (Ghost, Norton Antivirus Corporate, etc), mail servers, database servers, and communications support.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1997 — June 2000 (2 years 8 months)
Senior consultant for the design and implementation of networks using Microsoft technology and integrations with UNIX and Novell. Lead development and support team of 10. Specialized in implementing Symantec applications for corporate accounts.
Training client and internal support staff in Windows NT Server, Exchange Server, IIS, Proxy Server, SQL Server and Visual Basic. Handled or oversaw the installation, implementation, and support for Active Directory design, TCP/IP, e-commerce sites, Exchange Server, Windows NT 3.5x/4.0/2000, Terminal Server, SQL Server, Novell 3.x/4.x, SCO Open Server and SCO UnixWare.
Developed client/server and web applications in Visual Basic.
Founded Net Solutions with two partners; the company was purchased three years later by a private investor group.
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
February 1996 — November 1997 (1 year 10 months)
Demonstrated Microsoft products, and providing training and technical support for Windows NT, Internet and Intranet technology in various venues including the “Comdex 96” and “Computación 96” expositions.
Provided operating systems support as a Microsoft Technical Support Engineer (DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95) and subsequently BackOffice and Development Tools products (Windows NT, Exchange Server, SQL Server, SMS, Proxy Server, IIS, SNA Server, MS Mail, Visual Basic, etc)
1994 — 1997