1. Siva Srinivasan
Citrix & VDI Engineer / Architect
Email: sivasub2000@gmail.com
Cell: (904) 228-9475
Career Profile
 Accomplished Citrix XenApp / VMWare Horizon View VDI architect. Exceptional record
of design, administration and support of Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop / VDI / Virtual
App Delivery Infrastructure in several organizations for the past 15 years.
 Provide Citrix / Virtual Delivery Infrastructure that becomes a backbone of Enterprise
Virtualization infrastructure / Remote Application delivery.
 Design, Deployment, Administration and Support for Remote access, remote desktop
and remote application delivery
Academia
 Certified Project Management Professional (2010-2011) – UC Berkeley, California. GPA
of 3.0 in a scale of 4 and Awarded with distinction.
 B.Tech Bachelor of Technology (Information Technology) from University of Madras,
India. With Consistent CGPA of 3.4 in a scale of 4 and the degree is awarded with
distinction.
 CCA – Citrix Certified Administrator and
 ITIL – V3 certified professional for Change Management Incident and problem
management in IT Infrastructure.
Experience Summary
Citrix XenApp 6.5 Migrations and XenApp 7.x implementation
 Installation, configuration and administration of multiple XenApp farms.
 XenApp datastore management.
 Utilization of XenApp and XenDesktop machine and user polices; including printer
policy.
 XenApp 7.9 FMA architecture and deployments of Satellite Sites and zones for version
7.9
 Citrix Receiver client management and configuration for Windows and mobile devices.
 Citrix Web Interface, publishing/disabling applications.
 Group Policy management, User profile management
 Print server management and Printer session policies
 Client drive mapping, Network drive map policies

2. Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6
 Installation and configuration of Citrix Provisioning Server sites, vDisks and stores.
 Streamed services for servers and desktops on bare metal and physical target devices.
 Built provisioned image for users connecting in through web interface.
 PVS Versioning and Microsoft DFS-R implementation for easy management and
resilience.
App Virtualization and Desktop Virtualization using Horizon View 6.2
 Setup, configure and deploy VMware-based systems for high-availability and
efficiency, including vCenter, vSphere, and ESXi v5.x, Horizon View VDI.
 ThinApp production applications and printing capabilities.
 Leverage virtualization capabilities to further automate systems management,
analysis, and performance monitoring.
 Responds to and logs end user support calls
Citrix NetScaler 10.x Experience
 Perform load balancing of Citrix StoreFront servers, creating monitor, assigning SSL
VIPS and perform load balancing
 Load balancing of Horizon View servers
 Comprehensive application security using Citrix Access Gateway
 Load balance internal DMZ and External DMZ for web servers, Active directory and
exchange environments
 Configure and support RAIDUS / RSA authentication engine integration platforms
Company: AHS (Atlantic Health Systems) Aug’16-till date
Consultant for Citrix Migration Project
Location: Morristown, NJ
Major Migration Project for XenApp 6.5 to XenApp7.9
 New farm Installation, configuration and AppDNA for Application migration and
administration of multiple XenApp farms.
 XenApp data store management and migration to Satellite zones.
 Utilization of XenApp and XenDesktop machine and user polices; including printer
policy.
 XenApp 7.9 FMA architecture and deployments of Satellite Sites and zones for version
7.9
Company: CIT Group
Client Location: Livingston, NJ Nov’12 – Jul’16
Title: VMWare/ VDI / Citrix / File and Print L3 Architect, Global IT
 Migration of Citrix hosted application from XenApp 4.5 to XenApp 6.5
 Implementation of XenDesktop 7.1 / XenApp 7.6 Migration platform for Remote access
infrastructure and Remote PC
 Delivered production Horizon View VDI Infrastructure
 Provisioning servers for Finance modernization
 PowerShell scripting and utilizing inbuilt Citrix modules for administrative tasks
 Knowledge and experience on Citrix Netscaler 11 – Storefront load balancing and two

3. factor authentication
 Coordination for Datacenter migration tasks
 Deploy, Deliver and support VMWare Horizon View, VMWare Workspace, VMWare ESX
and EVO Rail converged Architecture
 VMWare App Volume manager for application deliver, ThinApp Packages delivery and
deployment on Windows Desktop OS
 Drives Infrastructure changes through high-impact enterprise strategies and practices.
Follow the change management process
 Deployment of XenApp 7.6 with PVS 7.6 to automate build deliverables
 Provide support for Exchange 2010 environment
 Deployment of GOOD Technologies for Mobile
 Knowledge of administration and Support for Symantec Altiris software distribution
environment.
 Managing DNS for Citrix StoreFront and DHCP scope for VDI Infrastructure.
Company: CSX Technology
Client Location: Jacksonville, FL Jan ‘11 – Nov ‘12
Title: Citrix Systems Engineer
 Creating the required Farm Data Store on SQL server 2008
 Rolling out the most recent version of any receivers, plug-ins, and agents, Citrix
Receiver for Windows 3.0 (with plug-in 13.0). The Citrix Online Plug-in (Web and Full)
12.1 was also tested.
 Implementing Citrix Universal Print drivers for printer mapping
 Administration and support for applications hosted in XenApp server.
 Group XenApp 6.5 machines based on a business vertical
 Capture master vDisk image for the Specific business unit
 Crate a template and clone the required number of machines in a pool and spin up the
pool
 Upgrade Provisioning services 5.6 Sp3 to PVS 6.1
 Deploying Desktop Studio for easy administration
 Provisioning Virtual desktops, creating pooled desktops and assigning users
 Deployment of Citrix User Profile management 4.1 service
 Administration and support for day-to-day operations on a Persistent and pooled
desktops.
 Administration and support for Active directory (AD), Group Policy (GPO) management
Company: ING
Client Location: Minneapolis, MN Sep’09 – Dec'10
Title: Citrix servers support and Administration
Description:
Installation, Configuration, support and maintenance of Citrix XenApp servers, Citrix Secure
gateway, Citrix EdgeSight for end points, Design documentation, Deployment guide and
standardization.
Responsibilities:
 Implementation of Citrix XenApp server 4.5 and upgrade existing 4.0 environments.

4.  To support and maintain Metaframe XP farms, Database servers and legacy application
support.
 Integrate Web Interface servers with Citrix Secure Gateway, CAG, NATting vendor IP
and defining alternate routes and load balance.
 Provide deployment standards, application installation procedures and documentation
 Coordinate with Operations team for Data Center support.
Company: Purdue Pharma Client: Purdue Pharmaceuticals, Stamford, CT Mar’08 – Aug'09
Title: Infrastructure Lead and Citrix Support Engineer
Description:
To perform Installation, Configuration, support and maintenance of Citrix XenApp servers,
Citrix Access gateway, Citrix EdgeSight for end points, ICA client deployment, Application
installation and access control.
Responsibilities:
 Implementation of Citrix XenApp server 4.5 and upgrade existing 4.0 environments.
 To support and maintain Metaframe XP farms, Database servers and legacy application
support.
 Integrate Web Interface servers with Citrix Access Gateway (CAG) and Netscalar
Implementation and support,
 Application deployment, publishing application and access rights control
 Deploying Citrix EdgeSight for end user experience monitoring.
Company: IBM Client: American Express, Phoenix, AZ (Onsite – Offshore) Aug ’07 – Feb’08
Title: Citrix Administrator
Description:
To provide 24 x 7 support and administration for Windows and citrix servers running critical
information of American express cards. The Change management and problem management
team allocate the task and critical tickets to team in India and Argentina.
Responsibilities:
 Provided standard Infrastructure and approved methods for Citrix solutions.
 Evaluate IBM Tivoli provisioning Manager for AMEX Network.
 Software Application Packaging using XenApp 4.5 Profiler.
Company: Mphasis an EDS company Client: General Motors, Dallas, TX Sep ’06 – Jul ‘07
Title: Lead Infrastructure Analyst.
Description:
Implement Server OS and Desktop Patches using System Center Configuration Manager 2007.
To define standards for Citrix Presentation server implementation, Compare SMS 2003 and IBM
Tivoli provisioning Manager for Infrastructure management.
Responsibilities:
 The testing of Web based customizations on SCCM 2007 for packaging and deployment of

5. applications. Implementing Windows Server Update Services WSUS and integrating it
with SCCM 2007. Task also involved in creating standard infrastructure for software
distribution using collections, packages and advertisements.
Company: Wipro Technologies Client: Citrix systems, Japan Aug ’00 – Aug ’06
Title: Module Lead
Description:
To provide Citrix Presentation Server (XenApp) 4.5 – Support for CPSU on Solaris 10.
Responsibilities:
 Understanding Solaris support for Intel Chipset.
 Implementation and comparison of Solaris 10 SPARC with Solaris x86.
 Perform hardware and software recovery.
 Perform operational turnover on all system implementations.
 Work with clients to evaluate, streamline, and improve current systems, processes,
and workflow.