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Jeff Wouters works for BRAIN FORCE in The Netherlands as a Senior Technology Specialist with a main focus on high availability and virtualization, specifically with Microsoft and Citrix products.
In his career he has worked at several companies, like a software vendor, a retail organization, a consultancy firm and a system integrator. At all positions he specialized in Microsoft and Citrix products related to high availability, server-based computing and virtualization.
Jeff is an active Twitter-user (@jeffwouters), blogger and speaker on IT events about topics related to his focus area.
He is a frequent speaker on events from the NGN (UserGroup from The Netherlands) about Windows Server related topics but his passion lies with Hyper-V and Windows Clustering.
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Throughout the last two decades, Mark S. Knouse has been involved with various areas of technology ranging from aerospace optical design and manufacturing to IT architecture and operations for enterprise pharmaceutical companies and financial firms. His passion and focus is virtual computing. He is also the founding member of a certification training ring focusing on Citrix and VMware technologies. Mark’s hobbies include motorcycles, music, art, fine dining, and sampling new beers with friends. |
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David Gaunt has been working at Citrix Systems since 2001 joining to work in Citrix's own internal IT Services team supporting their employees and systems across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Gaining experience and knowledge in everything from Metaframe to Presentation Server, David moved into the UK Systems Engineering team in 2007 and is now responsible for technical pre-sales with XenDesktop and XenApp Platinum products as well as working closely with partners and systems integrators. |
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Kristin Griffin started working with computers in 1996. Employed first as a Web site and graphic interface designer, in 2000, she took a job in Washington DC, and jumped headfirst into networking, IT consulting and server-based computing.
A Remote Desktop Services MVP, Kristin likes sharing her learned knowledge with others. She moderates a Microsoft forum dedicated to helping the server based computing community (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/threads/ and maintains a RDS blog at blog.kristinlgriffin.com. A contributor to Mark Minasi’s Mastering Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 books (both from Wiley), she also co-authored the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit (MS Press) and the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Resource Kit (released in December 2010), with Christa Anderson.
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Laura Whalen began her IT career in the 90's testing and documenting virtual storage solutions at DataCore Software, and wrote the complete set of user documentation for their flagship product lines. She joined Citrix in 2004 as a member of their engineering group, authored a new version of the SDK documentation with 9 SDKs including WFAPI and MFCOM, and then wrote the Presentation Server 4.0 and 4.5 Admin Guide. Laura transitioned to the Citrix Solutions & Community Department in 2007 and now drives the Global Community Programs & Development Team at Citrix, where she is responsible for the Citrix Technology Professionals (CTP), Geek Speak, and Citrix User Group Programs. Laura also manages the Citrix Community web properties including the Citrix Developer Network (CDN). She's a technology enthusiast and all-around geek.
Blog: http://blogs.citrix.com/author/lauraw
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/laura_whalen
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Since 2000, Wilco van Bragt`s primary focus has been server-based computing and virtualization (application, hardware and OS) using primarily Microsoft and Citrix technologies. Wilco has his own freelance company VanBragt.Net Consultancy, where he works at serveral customers as a architect and/or technical project leader in the Benelux. He is creator of the VanBragt.Net Server Based Computing & Virtualization Centre, a website with SBC/virtualization-related product reviews, articles, reviews of freeware products, and blogs about several virtualization topics and events. His reviews and articles have been featured on other well-known websites.
He is a certified MSCE/MCITP, CCA, CCEE and CCIA. Wilco is also accredited as a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), RES Valuable Professional and a Microsoft MVP on RDS.
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Roy Textor started his IT career in 1991 at Daimler-Benz IT department. He has been working with Citrix since 1997 and after leaving the University of Kassel he was employed at several Citrix Partners in Germany. As an IT-Architect and Senior Consultant at Citrix Platinum Partner Zimmer & Lange in the Kassel area / central Germany, he has been responsible for many key account virtualization projects during the last years.
Roy is known as moderator for his TechTalk sessions in the context of several Citrix-based conferences and workshops.
He also takes part at the german Citrix Geek Speak sessions.
By focusing on virtualization environments he owns a deep knowledge of all Citrix Xen-products.
Roy is certified MCP / CCEA / CCEE and also known as CGOV.
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A graduate from Reading University, Mark Lillywhite has over 15 years experience in PC Lifecycle Management, Software Asset Management and IT Service Management. Mark has been involved with Application virtualisation & streaming since 2004, and is currently responsible for all technical aspects of Matrix42's User Workplace Management in Northern Europe. Mark lives just outside Reading, UK with his family and motorbike, and is fluent in both German and English. |
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Chris Marks has been working in IT since he was 7, after a long career in the merchant navy, he is also a compulsive liar. Despite all that, he has been a Certified Lotus Instructor and successfully jumped ship to be one of the first CCI’s in the UK 13 years ago. He has worked in technical support escalation, solutions architecture and management and has implemented & managed a SaaS business from the ground up. He has been directly involved with E2EVC (Pubforum) since the very beginning (8 long years ago) and has loved every minute of it. He currently spends most of his work time architecting strategic solutions of many flavours – all of which are focused on user productivity and business agility.
His spare time is spent competitive duck herding.
www.twitter.com/chrisjmarks
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Christa Anderson is somewhat shocked to realize that she has been working with Windows Server since 1993 and server-based computing since 1996. A Terminal Services MVP 2003-2007, she's been a regular presenter at a number of trade shows including iForum. COMDEX, CeBIT, and BriForum, and is the author of hundreds of articles in Windows IT Pro Magazine and TechTarget on Terminal Services, Citrix products, VBScript, and PowerShell. In order to stop telling people how to work around issues in Terminal Services she decided she'd rather fix them and worked for ISVs triCerat and visionapp before joining Microsoft in 2007, where she is a program manager on the Remote Desktop Virtualization team. Building software is fun.
Even though she has a day job, Christa can't stop writing. Her most recent book is the "Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Resource Kit" book (released in December 2010), with Kristin Griffin. |
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Didier Van Hoye has been earning a living in IT since 1996. Currently he's the Microsoft Infrastructure Architect at the Flemish Geographical Information Agency. In his day job he's involved with Windows Infrastructures amongst which Exchange Servers, SQL Servers & the System Center Suite. Didier uses Hyper-V, failover clustering, NLB, and Storage Area Networks in creative attempts to give his demanding user base both good & cost effective solutions to sometimes very challenging needs.
When he finds the time Didier answers questions on line in the TechNet forums, blogs at http://workinghardinit.wordpress.com & tweets via @workinghardinit.
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Cathal Cleary started his IT career in 1996 working as a C++ developer on mobile phone network infrastructure projects for Motorola. He joined SureSkills in 2001, where he was responsible for Networks and IT Security consulting, and later EMC Clariion storage. Cathal's VMware journey began in 2004 when he was nominated as the lead technical consultant for virtualization in SureSkills, tying together his storage, networking and DR experience. He continued in the role until he left SureSkills in 2008 to join VMware as Systems Engineer for Ireland. Cathal helps customers across Ireland understand VMware technology and how it can significantly transform IT departments from reactive problem-fixing environments to highly innovative, flexible and valuable parts of modern organisations. |
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Donal Farrell is a consulting architect with Cloud Nine Computing. He specializes in architecture design and implementation for llarge VMware and vCloud projects. He is currently working on large infrastructure, BCDR, and VDI projects in the financial sector in Dublin and London. Donal formerly worked as an escalation engineer with VMware, as a performance engineer in the storage team, and most recently as a staff engineer with VMware IT during the rollout of the internal vCloud implementation. In his spare time he works on open source filesystems such as ZFS and pNFS implementations. He will also start a blog - sometime.
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Simon Frost has been working with virtualisation for many years, he just didn’t realise that’s what it was called. From running Unix machines in a VM on an Amdahl mainframe, through working on PC emulation products and thence to the virtual app world for Citrix. Simon has worked on many aspects of the Citrix Metaframe etc product line, most recently on (desktop) Receiver and Merchandising Server.
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Ronnie Isherwood is a freelance IT Consultant and Trainer, working mainly in the Channel Island’s SMB, Government and finance industry.. In the last 10 years much of his work has involved building and supporting Windows and virtualisation technology solutions. Ronnie blog’s on Virtualfat.com about Microsoft’s virtualisation and System Center technologie and involves himself with the local IT community.
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Ramzy Mansour is an established Citrix and Terminal Server expert since the early Winview and hydra days. He started his professional career as consultant in Europe and later in South and North America. He implemented and co-designed the first Citrix ASP solution in Europe and is specialized in enterprise projects. Ramzy eventually made into Citrix by the end of 2005 after leaving his navy career and was leading the printing and performance technical support team in EMEA for 3 years before joining the Management HQ Leadership Team in Technical Support EMEA . Ramzy is currently responsible for overseeing the activities of the customer and partner support team including the support of XenApp, XenDesktop and 24x7 first and second line support.
In 2010 Ramzy Mansour was elected to Memory Dump Analysis Service's board of Directors overseeing the World Wide Operations of Memory Dump Analysis Services.
http://www.dumpanalysis.com/
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Douglas Brown has over fifteen years’ experience working in the application and desktop delivery space. Mr. Brown worked at Citrix Systems, Inc. as a Senior Systems Engineer from 2001 to 2004 at which time he was voted Systems Engineer of the Year 2002 by his peers and management at Citrix. After leaving Citrix, Douglas founded DABCC, Inc. with the mission to provide the resources people ‘need’ when they ‘need’ them.
Douglas was awarded the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by Microsoft Corporation in 2005 through 2011 for his contributions to the industry. He was also a charter award winner of the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and VMware vEXPERT award for his continued community support. Mr. Brown is also the founder of DABCC.com (1999), the oldest and most frequented independently owned web site for virtualization, cloud computing, and server-based computing news and support resources. www.dabcc.com
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Daniel Wedel is a Senior Consultant and Trainer running his own company in Norway. He is currently a Citrix Certified Instructor on the virtualization suite as well as a trainer on Appsense and RES. After 12 years in the IT-industry Daniel has done several presentations at the Norwegian User Group events as well as VirtualPower the biggest virtualization event in Norway.
He was also awarded Citrix Instructor of the year - Nordic Region 2010.
http://wedelit.no/
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Dmitry Vostokov is an internationally recognized expert and author in memory dump analysis and debugging. http://www.dumpanalysis.org/ |
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Andrew Wood is an independent consultant and analyst working as Gilwood CS. He specialises in designing and implementing IT delivery platforms, with a strong emphasis in server based computing and desktop deployment. Andrew has significant experience with Terminal Services and Citrix gained from working for over twelve years with the technologies across a wide range of client sectors. Andrew is also the SBC and User Virtualisation analyst for The Virtualization Practice (www.virtualizationpractice.com). Andrew is a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered IT Professional and has a certificate to say he is proficient in cycling. You can stalk him via twitter on @gilwood_cs
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Christian Troll - Senior Enterprise Consultant and Solution Architect for MoveIT GmbH in Munich. One of the first Consultants for NetSupport (1998 now Frontrange) developing
Enterprise Solutions with Enteo Netinstall. He is working since 1999 with server based computing, terminal services and virtualization.
Christian is also member of the Microsoft Infrastructure Inner Circle. Since 14 years he designs and develop fully automated server and client installation, configuration and management solutions.
Special interests are automating everything that is possible on any system to avoid any manual installation or configuration.
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Sascha Zimmer has joined the IT consulting arena in 2000. He was employed at german citrix platinum partners as system engineer, consultant and senior consultant. He served medium- and large sized businesses, as well as key virtualization technology projects. In 2010 he founded the braincon GmbH which is an independent virtualization technology consulting company at the german market.
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Andreas Huther has ten year experience in terminal services, presentation server und xenapp enterprise solutions. He started in 2000 at one of the first german platinum partner focusing on application and desktop virtualization. He served medium- and large sized businesses, as well as key virtualization technology projects. In 2011 he joined the braincon GmbH which is a german independent virtualization technology consulting company as executive director.
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Aidan Finn is the Infrastructure Team Lead with System Dynamics, a consulting services company located in Dublin that provides IT infrastructure and business intelligence expertise. He has been working in IT since 1996 and has specialised in working with Microsoft infrastructure solutions including Server, desktop, System Center and virtualisation. Aidan is an MCSE and a Microsoft MVP in Virtualization. Aidan co-wrote Mastering Windows Server 2008 R2 (Sybex), is the lead author of Mastering Hyper-V Deployment (Sybex), and is contributing to Mastering Windows 7 Deployment (Sybex). You can find his blog at http://www.aidanfinn.com |
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Stephane Thirion is an experienced IT Architect and CTO / Owner of Activlan a French consulting company specialize in virtualization consulting and engineering. Mostly focus on Citrix products (Citrix MVP, CCEE and CCIA) he likes to be involve in complex environment, bring and share his knowledge to deliver the best solution. Stephane is a very active community member through his blog http://www.archy.net and Subject Matter Expert for Citrix exam building, he also presented several time at French Citrix Expert events and several French community events. |
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Thomas Krampe has worked in the IT industry for more than 15 years, with the biggest technology consulting companies in the world. Since April 2008, he has worked at visionapp AG, taking on the role as Head of GRID computing for a large German bank with daily operation of more than 2.200 HP C-Class Blades within a GRID System. He created the well-known German "wiki.xenmaster.de" Web site to share his deep Xen - knowledge (xenserver, xenclient, xendesktop) with the worldwide community. In addition to his daily job, Thomas has been awarded as a Citrix Technology Professional since 2009. He often presents at several technical events in EMEA and is a permanent speaker as part of the Citrix EMEA Geek-Speak series. |
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Helmut Hauser is a Senior Enterprise Consultant at visionapp AG, a platinum Citrix and Microsoft partner awarded for Most Innovative Projects, V-Alliance Awards, etc. Working since about 13 years in the terminal server business he can remember the old Winframe days. To mention here: Helmut Hauser has been awarded for one of the top of several Microsoft Beta Tests. Besides that Helmut is a member of the still growing brilliant Pubforum community. Further skills and interests are deep dives into several Unix OS-Es, debugging, System-Monitoring, Network and Security. Troubleshooting and how-does-it-work keeps him driving beyond.
You may find more information here: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Helmut/Hauser
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Helge Klein has been an IT architect for more than 10 years, working for some of the largest German corporations. He is employed by sepago GmbH, a Citrix platinum and Microsoft gold partner. Helge was the architect of sepagoPROFILE, a user profile management solution bought by Citrix in 2008 whose successor is now available as Citrix Profile Management. One of the few Citrix Technology Professional's (CTP) in the world.
Helge's professional interests are focused on Microsoft server technologies, various Citrix products and programming in several languages. He publishes his knowledge in English in his blogs at http://blogs.sepago.de/helge and http://blog.helgeklein.com. Helge can also be found on Twitter as @HelgeKlein.
Helge is the Co-Author of the popular O'Reilly Pocket Reference title “Windows Vista and Server 2008 Commands”. This (German) book describes the command line tools included in Windows. Helge is the author of SetACL (http://setacl.sourceforge.net), a powerful tool for managing Windows permissions from the command line or from scripts and programs. SetACL is open source and has been downloaded more than 380,000 times. |
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Ingmar Verheij is Senior Consultant at PepperByte, working mainly for enterprise and government companies. He started his IT career in 1996, and has at least 15 years of experience. Presently Ingmar focuses mostly on integrating and monitoring SBC environments. He holds a special interest in performance testing and integrating Windows infrastructures, and he is one of the bloggers at PepperCrew where he and his colleagues share their thoughts, tips and tricks.” |
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Remko Weijnen is a Senior Consultant at PepperByte with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. His areas of interest include Microsoft Server technologies, Server Based Computing and programming in various languages. Remko likes to share his knowledge and is a regular blogger on both his own blog and the PepperCrew blog |
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Michael Rüefli is technology enthusiast and senior consultant working for a systems integrator and SBC specialist in Switzerland. With more than 13 years’ experience in integrating SBC environments in large customer projects.
His Focus areas are:
* OS platform integration (Windows, Linux)
* Active Directory design and troubleshooting
* Server based computing using Citrix delivery products
* Microsoft Exchange
* Microsoft SQL Server
* all kinds of server virtualization (VMware, XEN, Microsoft, Parallels)
* ITIL process engineering and implementation
* PowerShell, VB and Perl scripting and development
* .NET system software development
Link: www.miru.ch
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Nicke Källén - deployment technician who spent a lot of time investigating App-V and the works of it. Awarded Microsoft MVP for App-V area in 2010 and continuing contribution of how to utilize App-V to the fullest. Often involved in migration projects and resolving issues within those. |
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Jim Moyle is a technical consultant with over a decade in the application and desktop delivery sector, he has worked for many blue chip companies around the UK and hopes to continue doing so for at least as long in the future.
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Dr. Alex Danilychev, Microsoft MVP (Remote Desktop Services), Citrix Technology Professional
Alex is an experienced system architect and software developer. He is author of eDOCs (financial document delivery system with $2-$3B in monthly throughput), iShadow Application Suite (user session management system for multi-farm deployments) and Virtual Display Manager (multi-monitor emulation for insurance and banking industries). He is specialising in support of large Citrix, Microsoft and VMware environments. He has been awarded Microsoft MVP and Citrix CTP status in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
http://www.ishadow.com
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Thomas Poppelgaard, 16 years of working experience with IT. Working since 1995 professional with IT, had possitions like CEO, Administrator, Consultant, Senior Consultant and IT Architect.
Thomas Poppelgaard works as Citrix Concept Manager at Citrix VAD Reseller Arrow ECS in Denmark. Thomas Poppelgaard work with pre-sales, architectural designing, planning and implementation solutions within Citrix for the danish resellers, i also help with Proof of Concepts to help gaining the benefits of new technologies in Denmark. Thomas Poppelgaard travel around Denmark evangelisting Citrix, Virtualization, 3 party Citrix solutions. He is also a speaker at webinars, seminars roadshows about Citrix and 3rd party Citrix solutions. Thomas Poppelgaard is also the founder of POPPELGAARD.COM, where he shares news and his knowledge about Citrix and 3 party Citrix solutions.
http://www.poppelgaard.com/
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Max Ranzau started working in the Server-Based/Virtualization industry as a Systems Engineer in the early 90's, training as a Citrix Certified Instructor since '97. He trained around 1200 individuals in the Nordics and the United States. After a stint as a Citrix Trainer and Sr. Systems Engineer in California, he went back to build a value-added distribution company over the following 7 years. During this time he introduced the RES Software and Softricity (now MS App-V) product suites into the Nordics. Having actively worked with, and trained customers and partners in RES products since 2001, Max today holds the position as Manager of Partner Enablement at RES Software, having relocated back to the United States.
In early 2009 Max launched the RESguru.com site, which today is still one of the most frequented technical resource sites in the RES community. Max and his wife are currently based in Philadelphia PA. Off duty, Max can usually be found in a garage somewhere, whistling away with V8 engine grease up to both elbows.
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