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Praveen Rawat

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Last update: 30.03.2020

Cloud / VDI / SBC Consulant - Citrix / VMware / Microsoft

Company: Praveen
Graduation: not provided
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Limited professional) | English (Native or Bilingual) | Hindi (Native or Bilingual)

Attachments

Praveen CV.doc

Skills

  • 19 years of core IT experience focused on Data Center practices, infrastructure implementation, designing, administration & support, Project Management, Operation lead, Project transition and transformation for various customers.
  • Around 15 years of experience in Virtualization platform which includes designing new environment, Data center migration, implementation, Provisioning VDI’s & Applications, consultancy, Project delivery from onsite and offshore, Knowledge transfer, Installation, configuration, troubleshooting, maintenance & support of heterogeneous IT environment
  • Around 10 years of experience designing, testing, implementation cloud solution on high WAN latency environment, designing new environment, Provisioning Infrastructure as a Service, Desktop as a Service, Application as a Service using following technologies(Bold*=Expert; In all the below technologies having knowledge of latest versions):
Skills:   AWS: EC2, EIP, ELB, Auto Scaling, EBS, S3, Glacier, Snowball, Cloudfront, VPC, DynamoDB, Redshift, IAM, KMS, Cloudwatch, and CloudTrail.
Application Hosting Products: Citrix XenApp 7.5/6.5/6.0/5.0, Presentation Server 4.5/4.0, Store Front 3.0
Virtual Desktop/Client/Mobile: Citrix XenDesktop 7.6, 7.8, 7.11, Provisioning Services 7.6
Hypervisor: Citrix XenServer 6.2.0, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
LAN/WAN/Internet/Cloud Optimization: Citrix NetScaler 10.1, Citrix Branch Repeater  
Server Operating Systems:  Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2/2012/2008 R2, Red Hat Linux 7
Client Operating Systems:  Microsoft Windows 7, 8x, 10x
Microsoft Windows Server Tools: Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, file and print 
Active Directory User Migration tool – ADMT 3.2
Splunk Power User and Admin

Project history

05/15 - Personal Phoenix GMBH(www.personal-Phoenix.com),
Client Name: Amadeus Data Processing Gmbh, Germany: IT Consultant -Microsoft Windows Server & Citrix Technologies
Role: IT Consultant for cloud solution implementation, XenApp 6.5 Migration, XenDesktop Server 7.8 migration, XenDesktop Server 7.11 Migration, Transition, Support, Knowledge Transfer, Active Directory, Group Policy Management, Data Center practices
Project 1 – ACUS (Airport Common Use Services)
About ACUS - Amadeus Cloud-based Application Virtualization solution for Airports as a Saas Model.
ACUS solution based on XenDesktop / XenApp 7.6, Provisioning Services 7.6, Storefront, NetScaler, Windows 2012r2 OS and Splunk  
Project Tenure – May 2015 – March 2016
  • Implemented XenDesktop 7.6 environment which includes designing Active directory and implementation, troubleshooting outstanding issues occurred during the data center implementation and also documenting these practices for future data center implementation projects.
  • Implemented Active Directory Group Policy to central management of the infrastructure and various user experiences.
  • Implemented Master Image Release Management which includes deployment of the master image, release management process and procedures, documentation
  • Executing UAT with the end users and fixing configuration as per UAT feedback
  • Inter-forest migration of users along with the existing password between two different domain
  • Responsible to transition the project to support and troubleshoot all the minor and major issues
  • Vendor co-ordination on the project data center implementation task
  • Knowledge transfer program lead to transition Level 3 support to Bangalore, India
Project 2 – Citrix Support
About Server Base Computing – Citrix team provides Cloud-based Application provisioning and Virtual Desktop solutions to all Amadeus Internal and External Vendors as a Saas Model.
This cloud solution based on XenApp 6.5, XenDesktop 5.6, XenDesktop 7.11, NetScaler Physical appliance and EdgeSight.
Project Tenure – April 2016 – December 2016
               
XenApp 6.5 Migration
  • Citrix application migration from Presentation Server 4.5 to 6.5.
  • User acceptance test and fixing XenApp 6.5 migration outstanding issues with various team e.g. Firewall and various Application teams
`               XenDesktop 7.11 Migration
  • Phase 1 - Prepared design documentation for XenDesktop 7.8 and 7.11 upgradation.
  • Phase 2 - Request for firewall changes and Database setup for test and production environment.
  • Phase 3 – Implemented XenDekstop 7.8 / 7.11 on test environment.
  • Phase 4 – Migrated VDI to test environment for pilot testing.
  • Phase 5 – Implemented Xen Desktop 7.8 and later upgraded to 7.11 on the production environment.
  • Phase 6 - Virtual Desktop migration to new production environment XenDesktop 7.11 (On going)
EdgeSight Migration
  • Citrix EdgeSight server 5.6 implementation and migration agents to the new server for reporting purposes
  • Support daily run and maintenance support to all internal and external users for Citrix related issues
Project 3 Citrix Migration
Project Tenure - June 2017 to September 2017
  • XenApp Datastore migration from SQL server 2008 to SQL server 2012.
  • XenDesktop datastore migration from SQL server 2008 to SQL server 2012.
  • Edgesight database migration from SQL server 2008 to SQL server 2012.
  • XenApp and XenDesktop support.
  • Co-ordination with multiple teams to complete the migration.
Project 4 Windows Jump Server support and design
Project Tenure – June 2017 to February 2018
  • Design and implementation of Windows 2012 Jump server secure environment.
  • Installation and maintenance of application on Windows server
  • Providing support to Windows Jump Server environment.
  • Participating in various architecture and security meetings.
  • Co-ordination with various application team.
  • Provided documentation for Windows server hardening.

Local Availability

Only available in these countries: Germany
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