Darius Pradzevicius

Darius pradzevicius

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Cloud Engineer at Macaw Lithuania

  • Education

    • Vilniaus mykolo biržiškos gymnasium

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    • Vilnius college

      2005 - 2008
      Professional bachelors degree in electronics engineering telecommunications
  • Experience

    • "lithuanian national drama” theater

      Sept 2006 - Jul 2009
      Support technician

      During my years in college, I started my IT career in the “Lithuanian National Drama” theater asa Local Support Technician. Responsibilities included support for any hardware or softwarerelated issues.

    • Csc

      Aug 2008 - Mar 2012
      Remote technician

      Remote Technician (2nd line) for the leading airline in Scandinavia.My responsibilities included customer support for various operating system and businessapplication related issues.

    • Csc

      Nov 2013 - Aug 2016

      Citrix Operations Engineer. Responsible for running and maintaining a VDI, RDS, and Published Application environment (30000+ users).Activities included image deployment, application publishing, machine/pool creation,monitoring, and OnCall duties.Worked with the below products:• Citrix XenApp 6.5• Citrix XenDesktop 5.6• Citrix Provisioning Services 7• SCOM 2007 VMware vSphere 5.5• AppSense Environment Manager 8.4• Windows Server 2008 R2• Windows 7• Netscaler Show less

      • Senior Professional System Engineer

        Jun 2015 - Aug 2016
      • Professional System Engineer

        Nov 2014 - Jun 2015
      • System Engineer

        Mar 2012 - Nov 2014
      • Professional System Engineer

        Nov 2013 - Sept 2014
    • Dxc technology

      Aug 2016 - Jun 2022

      Acting as a Technical Advisor I am mainly involved in project-related work.Citrix Infrastructure build and migrationInstalling and configuring full Citrix stack on Windows Server 2019 OS which includes XenDesktop, StoreFront, Provisioning Services, License Server, and Desktop Director. Performed in-depth testing of all components and enabled the environment for production migration. Successfully migrated 10k VDI virtual machines from legacy Citrix environment. Tasks also included technical planning, designing of various components within the VDI solution, documentation preparation and handover to operations teams for further support.Onboarding ProjectsCustomer onboarding to a global VDI solution (90.000+ users). Responsible for the whole onboarding cycle from the proof of concept (POC) to Production deployment. Activities included not only the technical tasks like Windows 10 golden image creation, pool creation, Citrix policy/GPO setup, but also understanding the requirement from the customer, translating it to technical requirements and implementing it. Leading the onboarding project from start to finish.Migration Projects• Migration from Windows 7 to Windows 10• Migration from Windows 10 1809 build to 1909/20H2/21H2 builds• Migration from Ivanti (AppSense) to Microsoft FsLogix solutionI am also acting as Subject Matter Expert of User Virtualization, where I am advising in projectsand operational improvement activities.My expertise is in Ivanti (AppSense) and FsLogix user virtualization products. Show less User Virtualization Engineer in the large 90.000+ users Citrix VDI environment.Primarily worked with Ivanti (AppSense) and Group Policies (GPOs) to fulfill new requirementsfor users, machines, applications, operating systems, and the rest of the VDI infrastructure.Worked closely with the Application Delivery and Packaging teams where I had to assist insetting up user personalization. Optimize user logon experience. Manage user and applicationWhitelisting rules based on the security requirements.Also, acting as Application Owner of Ivanti products, where I had to keep the environment healthyand up to date. Show less

      • Advisor System Engineer

        Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
      • Senior Professional System Engineer

        Aug 2016 - Jan 2019
    • Macaw lithuania

      Jul 2022 - now
      Cloud engineer
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Mcts: windows server 2008 network infrastructure, configuring

      Microsoft
    • Mcitp: enterprise desktop support technician on windows 7

      Microsoft
    • Cca: citrix xendesktop 5

      Citrix
    • Ccaa: citrix xenapp 6.5 advanced administration

      Citrix
    • Mcp: managing and maintaining a microsoft windows server 2003 environment

      Microsoft
    • Cca: citrix xenapp 6.5

      Citrix
    • Mcts: windows server 2008 applications infrastructure, configuring

      Microsoft
    • Mcts: windows server 2008 active directory, configuration

      Microsoft
    • Mcitp: enterprise administrator on windows server 2008

      Microsoft
    • Mcts: windows 7, configuration

      Microsoft