Independent Consultant Active Directory

Contact

Galveston, Texas

469-***-**** (Mobile)

*********@****.***

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charlesrsaundersjr (LinkedIn)

Top Skills

Technical Leadership

Virtualization

Hybrid Cloud

Languages

English

Certifications

Faithful Military Service

Honorable Discharge from the

United States Military

Charles Saunders

Sr. Hybrid Cloud Consultant

Galveston

Summary

Years of experience in the design, implementation, administration, operation, and troubleshooting of Cloud, Microsoft, and Citrix solutions like WVD, DaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, utilizing Azure, AWS, GCP, with current versions of Microsoft Server, and all forms of workload migration including Hybrid Cloud, CVAD, Server and Desktop Virtualization, Migration, VDI, Citrix Hypervisor, Cloud- Automated-Migration of XenApp 6.5 to Citrix Workspace Cloud, 7 LTSR, WorkSpace, Storefront, WI, Citrix ADC, NetScaler, Analytics, NMAS, HDX Insight, Director, RDS, AppLayering/Unidesk, Cluster, Active Directory, Windows 10, 8, 7, XP, VMWare, NetIQ, IIS, SQL, Oracle, and Novell. Expert on HP, Dell, and IBM blade and traditional hardware. ITIL v 3

Specialties: Citrix,Cloud, MCS, XenApp, XenServer, XenDesktop, VDI, AppSense/Ivanti, VMware, Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012, 2008, PVS, MSCS Cluster, VMWare Horizon 7, Terminal Server, Zero client, and Thinclient.

Experience

Coretek Services

Sr. Consultant - Hybrid Cloud

March 2021 - Present (4 months)

SpiritShip I.T.

Sole Proprietor

February 2020 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Galveston County, Texas, United States

Yoh, A Day & Zimmermann Company

Sr. Cloud Engineer

October 2019 - March 2020 (6 months)

Galveston, Texas

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Cloud Migration, Solution Design, Build, and Delivery for several medium sized clients. Contract ended due to pandemic.

Apex Systems

Virtual Desktop Architect

June 2019 - August 2019 (3 months)

Houston, Texas Area

Preparing for and executing a large enterprise migration to Citrix Cloud and AWS. Assisting in the Design, Implementation, Administration, and Troubleshooting of Hybrid Cloud, consisting of Microsoft, and Citrix solutions

utilizing current versions of Microsoft Server,

and all forms of workload migration including Hybrid Cloud, Server and Desktop Virtualization, CVAS 1906, Storefront, WI, NetScaler, NMAS, HDX Insight, Director, RDS,

AppLayering/Unidesk, Cluster, Active Directory, Windows 10, 8, 7, XP, VMWare, NetIQ, IIS, SQL, Oracle, and Novell. Expert on HP, Dell, and IBM blade and traditional hardware. ITIL v 3 Specialties: Citrix,Cloud, MCS, XenApp, XenServer, XenDesktop, VDI, AppSense, VMware, Windows Server 2008, 2003, MSCS Cluster, VMWare Horizon 7, Terminal Server, zero client, and thinclient. Walmart Technology

Staff Systems Engineer at Walmart Technology

April 2013 - March 2019 (6 years)

Remote

Years of experience in the design, implementation, administration, and troubleshooting of Hybrid Cloud, Microsoft and Citrix solutions utilizing current versions of Microsoft Server, all forms of Hybrid Cloud, Server and Desktop Virtualization, Migration, VDI, XenServer, XenDesktop 7.18, Cloud-Automated- Migration of XenApp 6.5 to 7.15 LTSR and later, Storefront, WI, NetScaler, NMAS, HDX Insight, Director, RDS, AppLayering/Unidesk, Cluster, Active Directory, Windows 10, 8, 7, XP, VMWare, NetIQ, IIS, SQL, Oracle, and Novell. Expert on HP, Dell, and IBM blade and traditional hardware. ITIL v 3 Specialties: Citrix,Cloud, MCS, XenApp, XenServer, XenDesktop, VDI, AppSense, VMware, Windows Server 2008, 2003, MSCS Cluster, VMWare Horizon 7, Terminal Server, zero client, thinclient. Page 2 of 4

Note: this update reflects a mandatory job Title Change only, it is essentially the same role/position as the concurrent experience listed as Technical Expert preceding this entry Walmart

Sr Systems Engineer

August 2011 - April 2013 (1 year 9 months)

North America

All facets of virtualization and BYOD specialized in Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp and NetScaler and Microsoft products. Emphasis on ITIL 3 compliant process establishment in enterprise production. Promoted to Technical Expert. Independent Consultant

Consultant

August 2010 - August 2011 (1 year 1 month)

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Several consultant assignments including a brief (90 days) direct employment by Accudata Systems of Houston, Texas, and several short independent contracts through several agencies, CDI, IBM, and KellyIT. Clients included Fujitsu, and the D.O.D.. - security clearance required. IBM

Sr. Systems Administrator - Contract

March 2010 - October 2010 (8 months)

Virtual

Citrix Design Integration and Support. Xenapp 6.0, XenServer, XenDesktop, Cloud, and VDI.

Prevail Resources

Contractor: Sr. Systems Administrator

September 2009 - March 2010 (7 months)

All manner of Citrix and WINTEL Engineering and System Administration work, specializing in Citrix Cloud and Consolidation Migrations with VDI Terremark Worldwide Inc.

Sr. Escalation Engineer

April 2008 - December 2008 (9 months)

Senior Citrix/AD/Wintel Engineer. Responsibilities included all facets of Citrix and Wintel Design, Data Center Migration, Transition, Deployment, and Support.

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Perot Systems

Team Lead, WINTEL Enterprise Technology Consulting April 2007 - March 2008 (1 year)

Leading a team of eleven in all manner of Wintel Activity: data center migrations, support, consolidation, and upgrades. Specializing in Citrix. Atos Origin

Independent Contractor

2005 - 2005 (less than a year)

Upgrade, Clean-up and Consolidate worldwide Citrix sites. TEKsystems

Sr Systems Admin

2001 - 2005 (4 years)

Citrix and Microsoft Systems Admin and Engineering for a several customers including Microsoft (Las Colinas Campus), Temple-Inland, Austin, TX, Christus Health Houston and Dallas, JP Morgan Chase, and Dr Pepper. Electronic Data Systems

Integration Engineer

2000 - 2001 (1 year)

Citrix and Microsoft System Integration.

SBC

Communications Specialist

1997 - 2000 (3 years)

Education

University of Colorado Boulder

Computer Science Engineering · (1993 - 1995)

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