Derek Deweese

About Derek Deweese

Virtualization – Citrix DaaS, CVAD 1912, 7.15, 7.6 Citrix MCS, Citrix Provisioning…

Experience

1. Sr Citrix Engineer

   Bridgestone Americas

   Oct 2017 — Present

   Managed a 4 farm environment consisting of approximately concurrent sessions including Citrix DaaS, 1912 CU4 LTSR, and XenApp 6.5 Migrated 7.6 CVAD farm to 1912 LTSR and then to Citrix Cloud DaaS environment which included 19 machine catalogs/base images. Added SAML 2.0 authentication, as well as migrated, configured and maintained Citrix WEM environment from on-prem into the cloud. Environment consisted of 150 app servers and 1800 VDI, both persistent and non persistent. Managed Citrix polices utilizing group policy, Citrix policy manager, WEM and powershell scripting. Responsible for over 400 published applications across 4 farms. Managed HA ADC(Netscaler) MPX 8920 pair for 6 VIP entry points, as well as Citrix based load balancing Configured and maintained ControlUp Monitoring for the entire Citrix Environment Updated and maintained Stratodesk and IGEL thin client environments including creating and publishing policies, managing the appliances, and testing and configuring endpoint devices. Proficient in both Citrix MCS and PVS provisioning platforms for deploying and maintaining images. Participated in Disaster Recovery planning and testing efforts. Participated in 24/7 On Call rotation.

Education

• Belmont University

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Marketing

  1999 — 2003

Skills

• Active Directory
• Microsoft Exchange
• Windows Server
• Microsoft Office
• Team Building
• Team Leadership
• Leadership
• Hospitals
• Vmware Esx
• Windows
• Outlook
• System Administration
• Troubleshooting
• Citrix
• Servers
• Disaster Recovery
• Technical Support
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Microsoft Excel
• Vmware
• System Deployment
• Customer Service
• Virtualization
• Software Documentation
• Windows 7
• Xp
• Ehr
• Healthcare
• Help Desk Support
• Data Center