Freelancers

I’m acting as a level three support for virtual infrastructure. I am administering, configuring, monitoring and troubleshooting four Citrix farms composed of XenApp 5.0, XenApp 6.5 and XenDesktop 7.6.

There are over 700 applications published for various device types, along with terminal services and a VDI farm, all used by over 14000 *** from eleven countries.

As a member of the Citrix virtual team, I was involved in publishing new apps, support Service Manager in upgrading existing apps, migrating apps in the newer farms and on newer operating systems, along with configuring, monitoring and troubleshooting the published apps.

I was also involved as main technical support for designing, implementing, running and troubleshooting VDI farms. We successfully finished four VDI pilots for the business divisions and filling stations, one of which was for a 3D VDI farm used by geologists. We are running the fifth pilot now with 100 *** and we are preparing a new VDI farm which will accommodate 10000 *** in the next four years.

Used technologies: XenApp 5.0, XenApp 6.5, XenDesktop 7.6, Storefront 3.0, WebInterface 5.4, Director 7.6, VMware eSXi 5.5, NetScaler, XenServer 6.5, Hyper-V, USX 2.0, NUTANIX, Unidesk, Windows Server 2008 r2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

IT Outsourcing services

01 May 2009 – 15 July 2014

System Administrator \\ Application Administrator

I have acted as Application Administrator for some clients and as System Administrator for the internal infrastructure.

In the System Administrator functionI have administered a total of about 20 servers, including a DAG Exchange 2010 Server, a Microsoft Lync Server, a Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 Server, an Active Directory 2008 and a Microsoft WSUS Server.

I also had in my administering some VmWare ESXi servers with a total of approximately 40 virtual machines.

I was also responsible for creating virtual servers and installing any Microsoft server platforms and applications, which the company used in various projects.

In the Application Administrator function, I have continued administrating of the HP application suite (HP Service Manager, HP TeMIP, HP Decision Center and HP Connect-IT) present in the company Rompetrol.
I was responsible for implementing the new requirements of Rompetrol for the above mentioned applications.
I was also responsible for ensuring that the applications are functioning in agreed parameters, and also for monitoring and tuning the applications, so that they align themselves with the business needs of Rompetrol.
Reporting of the above mentioned applications and all the maintenance tasks like (scheduling and performing) were also part of my responsibilities.

Production and marketing of petroleum products and petroleum

01 May 2008 - 01 May 2009

Application Administrator

I was part of the team that was supervising the implementation of HP Service Manager. Here I was able to take part directly in decisions regarding the customization and implementation of Service Manager modules and features.

I also took part in the development of the integration between HP Service Manager, HP Temip and HP NNMi

Also, I was in charge of installing, configuring HP Temip, HP OpenView Operations and HP Performance Insight.

I needed to ensure that all applications in my care are functioning inside the designated parameters, and I was in charge of monitoring and tuning the performance of the application suite.

Any administrative tasks and auditing directives for the named applications, were in my care.

Production and marketing of petroleum products and petroleum

11/02/2008 - 01/05/2008

Dispatcher

Was a member in a 6 people team that was in charge of :

- Monitoring the express oil stations,

- Ensuring the necessary support for the clients of those oil stations

- Monitoring the security and retail applications that were analyzing events from those oil stations.

- Opening and monitoring the resolution of the incidents regarding oil stations and using HP Service Manager

- Coordination of maintenance and local support teams.

IT Outsourcing Services

01 May 2006 - 11 February 2008

IT Field Support

I was part of a 4 men team that was offering second level support for Petrom marketing division. We had in our care about 500 *** (local and remote)

We were solving any problems regarding Microsoft products like Windows XP and Office applications. Also solving problems regarding vpn connections, SAP applications and infrastructure availability.

We were troubleshooting laptops, computers, cellphones and printers from any user designated to our team. Also the entire network in that building was our responsibility

We were working with Remedy for keeping track of any tickets or problems, and also Tivoli was the requested environment for deploying images, keeping track of installed or approved applications for named *** .