Syed Sharieef
Technical Consultant
Riyadh,01
Summary
Smart working, result oriented, skilled and qualified professional 14 + Years OF EXPERIENCE seeking for the challenging post of Senior Consultant where I will get an opportunity to utilize my skills in Virtualization/Citrix/VDI Workspace/Azure cloud/ Alibaba Cloud/GCP Cloud/ Citrix Cloud/Azure Virtual Desktop and be a part of evolving process of growth along with the organization.
Dedicated Technical Consultant adept at cultivating long-term partnerships with lucrative clients. Knowledgeable in server hardware and components configurations. Successful career history comprising more than 7 years.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
2010
2010
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Technical Consultant
Saudi Networks Service
03.2023 - Current
- Remotely join the customer calls to troubleshoot the issues
- Visit the Customer sites for the Managed services support
- Explain to the customer about cloud services and Migration plan, depends on the requirement we will plan for best migration approach
- Take the ownership of escalation activities
- Implementation of environment setup on customer site as per their requirement
- Train the Customer Engineers about Cloud Services
- Handling Customer issues after deployment, implementation and migrations
- Working as a Subject Matter Expert on Azure Virtual Desktop, Remote Desktop Services & FSLogix design, deployment and Configuration in Azure
- Provide triages and training on Azure Cloud Fundamentals, WVD, FSLogix and Remote Desktop Services with or without UPD to the internal engineers
- Working in VDI implementation & Configuration of Citrix components XenDesktop 7.15 & Provisioning service 7.15 LTSR components
- Upgraded the Citrix environment to 1912 Cu1 to 2203 Cu1, 2203 Cu1 to 2402 CU1 LTSR
- Worked with customers and project managers, identified deliverables, and delivered milestones and checkpoints, organized and maintained the project tasks
- Creating storage account with Blob, Table, and Queue
- Configuring point to site and site to site and route based VPN network configuration in azure
- Configuring Backup in Azure for taking backup of VMs
- Optimized Windows servers for best performance using automated scripts
- Working in end-to-end implementation for Persistent VDI & non-Persistent VDI delivery
- Co-coordinating with customer and gathering image related customizations settings
- Analyzing the user demand applications and designing which tools to deploy the packages based on customer requirements
Technical Specialist
Hexaware Technologies
08.2021 - 02.2023
- Company Overview: Pune, India
- Understanding the requirement to plan using the Azure Migrate simplifies the actual Azure cloud migration steps by integrating various tools for virtual machine migration, database transfers, and application modernization
- Azure Virtual Desktop setup, configuration, and troubleshooting
- Working as a Subject Matter Expert on Azure Virtual Desktop, Remote Desktop Services & FSLogix design, deployment and Configuration in Azure
- Provide triages and training on Azure Cloud Fundamentals, WVD, FSLogix and Remote Desktop Services with or without UPD to the internal engineers
- AVD MSIX attach
- AVD Kusto logs analysis based on the issues scenarios
- AVD collect logs analysis
- Azure VM machine performance, Slowness, memory issues
- Knowledge with OS Internals concepts Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019 and Windows 10 machines
- Memory Management- Root Cause Analysis, Log Analysis, Poolmon, perfmon and segregation of dumps with different scenarios
- Supported as a Citrix consultant for the Citrix cloud deployments and Azure AVD deployments for the projects of Virgin Active, Bristol water and Credit- Suisse
- Good knowledge on Azure AVD publishing applications, Pooled VDI’s, Personal VDI’s, patching activities and upgrades, FSLogix on Multisession AVD machines
- Managing Resource manager load balancing and license management
- Pune, India
Lead Consultant
Wipro Technologies
10.2018 - 08.2021
- Company Overview: Hyderabad, India
- One year Worked in Singapore Credit Suisse Bank to implement the Citrix Infra and Security (TPAM, Crowdstrick…etc)
- Serving as Technical Team Lead for a 5 member Citrix Team
- Working in VDI implementation & Configuration of Citrix components XenDesktop 7.15 & Provisioning service 7.15 LTSR components
- Worked with customers and project managers, identified deliverables, and delivered milestones and checkpoints, organized and maintained the project tasks
- Optimized Windows servers for best performance using automated scripts
- Strong knowledge on server hardening & physical server builds as per the best practices
- Strong knowledge on network configurations VLAN, Virtual Switch & RAID configurations
- Working on PowerShell scripting based on business requirements
- Creating the VM, Storage group, NSG and HA
- Creating VM using the V-Disk's
- Implementing the Azure monitoring and give the proper access to get the emails alerts
- Implementing the Azure data factoring
- Implementing the Azure WVD (AVD)
- Creating the host pools and Session hosts in AVD
- Creating storage account with Blob, Table, and Queue
- Configuring point to site and site to site and route based VPN network configuration in azure
- Configuring Backup in Azure for taking backup of VMs
- Creating the Application groups and assign appropriate Access to user in AVD
- Implementing the Azure Key vault to encrypting the Drive
- As needed basis Configure, install Veeam backup infrastructure, Virtual and physical endpoint backups
- Should primarily have hands on experience with Veeam Backup Tool
- Capacity Management and reporting utilizing VERITAS NetBackup Ops-center and Veeam one reporter
- Perform backup and restores of virtual machines and simple recovery SQL Database with VEEAM
- Hyderabad, India
Senior Engineer
Cognizant Technologies India Pvt Ltd
12.2015 - 09.2018
- Company Overview: Pune, India
- Installing and publishing of applications
- Strong Knowledge and experience in Xenmobile
- Installing, upgrading, patching, maintaining, troubleshooting components including Citrix Xenmobile, Blackberry Dynamics and/or MDM technologies
- Experience engaging vendors such as apple, VMware, Microsoft to support needed
- Renewing Xenmobile Certificates
- Troubleshooting application issue for Xenmobile users and New Application are on-boarding in MDM technologies
- Using slunk to trace all logs for NetScaler and Upgrading Storefronts
- Renewing NetScaler SSL Certificate’s and Upgrading firmware on NetScaler
- Publishing application through App controller and assign roles
- Working on major patching QMW activities
- Configuring Citrix policies and Coordinating with application team for application issues
- Experience on PowerShell scripts for health checks reports and basic requirements
- Pune, India
Delivery Consultant
Tech Mahindra Ltd
04.2014 - 11.2015
- Company Overview: Hyderabad, India
- Implemented Citrix XenApp 7.6 & 7.15, Provisioning Services 7.6
- Designed & implemented mid-sized VDI solution using Citrix XenDesktop 7.15 & Provisioning Services 7.15
- Worked in a global team providing multiple clients support for Citrix which includes Incident management and request fulfillment requirements
- Supporting 15 farms with Legacy Citrix XenApp6.5 and 6.0 versions, 300+ Citrix application servers and 1500+ Published applications
- Act as final escalation point for Citrix infrastructure and involve / coordinate with vendor for solutions if required
- Deployment of on-demand virtual desktops and applications
- Creation of multiple delivery groups for corresponding departments within organizations
- Implementation of Storefront for remote and local clients to obtain their applications / desktops
- Consolidate and migrate +4 Citrix XenApp farms into a single global farm
- End-to-end support including implementation of solutions to resolve new and recurring incidents
- Hyderabad, India
Virtualization Engineer
Akamai Technologies India PVT Ltd
08.2010 - 03.2014
- Company Overview: Bangalore, India
- Supporting 3500+ physical servers & 2700+ virtual servers across Europe with multi domain environment (Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece)
- Monitoring Citrix application servers using Citrix resource manager, managing server load and CPU utilization, checking sessions, shadowing users, troubleshooting single sign on issues, Troubleshooting access to published applications
- Trouble shooting Citrix based problems with Root cause analysis
- Publishing Applications on XenApp Servers, Application Load Balancing, Application Streaming
- Recreating XenApp server local host cache and Restarting Independent Management Architecture
- Checking and responding to the Citrix XenApp server alerts in the access management console
- Publishing and Testing Application Access through Citrix
- Bangalore, India
Education
Master of Computer Application (MCA) -
Nagarjuna University
BSC - Biotechnology
Andhra University
Skills
Windows Server 2008 r2,2012, 2016,2019,2025
undefinedCertification
Citrix Certification in Managing XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6
Experience Highlight
14 + years of Strong experience in Design, Implementing, Configuring and troubleshooting Citrix 6.0/6.5/7.x LTSR with multiple sites and farms, Provisioning Server 7.6/7.15 LTSR, Storefront 3.X, Netscaler12, Microsoft Windows Technologies using Windows Server 2008 R2 /2012/2016 and Citrix cloud, Azure cloud, Azure AVD, AWS , GCP, Veeam Back up and migration on-prem to cloud strategy.
Onsite Experience
- Singapore, Worked in Singapore one year to implement the security stds to virtualization project, cloud and citrix DAAS service in Credit Suisse Bank, 11/01/18, 12/31/19
- Saudi Arabia, Working as Technical Consultant to Implement the Google Cloud for Citrix project and provide end to end support to the On-prem Citrix and cloud products, 03/01/23, Present
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that all the information given by me above is correct.
Personal Information
Passport Number: Z5859636
Timeline
Technical Consultant
Saudi Networks Service
03.2023 - Current
Technical Specialist
Hexaware Technologies
08.2021 - 02.2023
Lead Consultant
Wipro Technologies
10.2018 - 08.2021
Senior Engineer
Cognizant Technologies India Pvt Ltd
12.2015 - 09.2018
Delivery Consultant
Tech Mahindra Ltd
04.2014 - 11.2015
Virtualization Engineer
Akamai Technologies India PVT Ltd
08.2010 - 03.2014
BSC - Biotechnology
Andhra University
Master of Computer Application (MCA) -
Nagarjuna University
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