George Flint
Windows Citrix Sr Administrator
Location: Plano TX
Professional Summary
40+ Years of IT experience with Windows, Citrix and VMware
Various roles including:
oSenior Consultant Managing Citrix for Major Healthcare Vendor
oSenior Consultant Implementing statewide Citrix environment /NetScaler
oSenior Consultant Migrating Storage from Dell system to new Media
Results-driven and accomplished SR Windows/Citrix System Administrator with progressive experience in SR Windows and Citrix Systems support. Adept at working with senior management to prioritize activities and achieve defined project objectives as level 4 support. Effectively deploys and manages large, complex Windows environment with numerous servers across multiple datacenters. Committed to helping the organizations achieve maximum benefit from their IT investmentthrough meticulous testing, data management, research, and development.
Implementation of new technologies. Reputation for executing enterprise technology strategies that reduce cost, improve efficiency, support organizational goals, and exceed operational expectations.
Application Experience
Windows Server 2019,2016,2012
VMware 6, 5
NetScaler 13.1
Citrix 2023, 1912, 7.15,
Work Experience
NTTData
Oct 2018 - Nov 2023
Worked contract for State of Delaware to deploy a new Citrix Enterprise solution for the State.
My main effort was deploying a Citrix NetScaler (ADC) 13.1VPX configured to work with OKTA and LDAP Connected to a heavily firewalled network with a new citrix farm.
Worked on The Tenet Health Citrix Team, supporting Citrix Xenapp 5.0 ->Xenapp/Desktop 1912
Supporting 12 Farms and 12000 concurrent users
All system are based on virtual VMware systems and load balanced Redundant Farms
All Citrix farms are based individual servers and PVS deployed master images
TekSystems Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
Working on a data center migration project, Migrating SAN systems
With 100’s of TBs to a new HP –Nimble iscsi systems, building failover file clusters
Converting physical servers to VMware virtual machines
DXC April 2017 – Dec 2017
Same job function as Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services; Plano TX (HPE split into DXC Corporation) December 2009 – April 2017
Systems Administrator
Successfully transitioned from Alcatel-Lucent internal IT to continued support of Alcatel-Lucent (Nokia) as a client. Delivered first class support of Worldwide Windows systems, including Windows 2003 through Windows 2012 servers.
Played key role in providing Active Directory and top-level support of Multiple Citrix XenApp/XendesktopFarms, 100s of servers and 1,000s of users.
Built and implemented Citrix farms for customers to connect to Apps through a Citrix NetScaler.
Charged with loading and testing applications using Citrix farms for customers and Active Directory to control Access.
Executed, deployed, and supported thousands of physical and virtual Window systems and utilized VMware to convert hardware machines to virtual machines.
Perform application implementations, upgrades, system testing, problem resolution, and performance monitoring; perform routine tasks to support the delivery of services.
Alcatel-Lucent, Plano TX July 2000 – November 2009
System Administrator
Delivered Windows support for numerous applications and servers during regularhours and“on-call” rotation for after-hour support. Managed and oversaw Windows server’s Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008,
Supported IIS, VMware ESXfarms, andsupported multiple large Citrix farms, Windows Fax servers, and VAX-VMS.
Created Citrix farms for customers to connect to applications through a firewall Citrix gateway and successfully administered multiple Windows servers and Clusters.
Engineered and maintained VMware ESX farms for NOC support to connect to HP customers.
Served as a key troubleshooter responsible for maintaining the SLAs for contracts confirmed and collaborated with IT teams to identify problems with customer networks, storage, databases, and systems.
Education
Institution:
University of Texas at Dallas; Dallas, TX
Result/Degree:
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
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