Citrix Technology Professional Awardees
AwardeesThe current list of Citrix Technology Professionals is listed below. |
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Alaa Jallad
- As founder and CEO of Extentrix Systems, Alaa is using his long time expertise in the software industry to manage, architect and develop virtualization solutions that enhance existing IT infrastructure. Exceptional products, consulting services, and customer satisfaction as well as leading industry technologists are at the core of Extentrix Systems. Extentrix is Citrix Ready Partner having all products certified in the Citrix Ready program. Extentrix's web site is http://www.extentrix.com. Before founding Extentrix, Alaa worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Citrix Systems for more than 7 years. Alaa was an architect and lead developer on its flagship product, Citrix MetaFrame for Windows.
Alex Danilychev
- Alex Danilychev is an experienced system architect specializing in distributed applications including 500+ server farms. Over 10 year track record working with Fortune 500 Companies. Responsible for design and implementation of eDocs financial document delivery system ($2-$3B in monthly throughput). Key contributor to iShadow Application Suite and Virtual Display Manager. Awarded Microsoft MVP, Terminal Services 2006, 2007, 2008, Citrix CTP 2006, 2007, 2008.
Alex Yushchenko
- Alex Yushchenko was a Microsoft Most Valued Professional in Terminal Services in 2006/2007.Also, as recognition by Citrix Inc. he received the Citrix Technology Professional designation. There is only a bit more then 20 people holding any of it in the World. It is an big pleasure and responsibility for him to be listed as MVP and CTP, among the best people in the Industry. He believes though, there are a lot more of those, who deserve the recognition, but dont have it yet. Curious? Visit PubForum , you will meet them yourself! Some of them are listed on this website in the PF Presenters section. He has organized and led all the PubForum events since the very first one in Amsterdam in August 2003. While it take a lot of effort, he still have an exiting day job at a Global Leader for Automotive Systems with over 66000 different End user systems, over 300 Domain Controllers, hundreds and hundreds of servers, over 250 Remote Sites and just a great Team to work with!
Alexander Ervik Johnsen
- Alexander is a senior consultant, author and speaker, based in Oslo - Norway. Alexander has been working with Microsoft and Citrix products since 1997 as a System Administrator, Consultant, and Senior Consultant. In March 2007 he started working for the Citrix VAD Reseller, Commaxx, as a Senior Solution Architect. Alexander is primarily doing pre-sales and traveling around Norway evangelizing Citrix, Thin clients and third party solutions. In previous jobs he worked with both small and large scale Citrix and Application Delivery implementations, both in Norway and Europe. Alexander is a speaker at Norwegian events like ThinPower (now Virtualpower), Citrix User Group Norway and Commaxx Roadshows. Alexander is the author of The GiDWiM Guide, an in depth analysis of Application Packaging and Distribution. Download it from http://www.ervik.as or http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=270.
Bernhard Tritsch
- Bernhard Tritsch is Chief IT Architect at Login Consultants, a leading IT infrastructure consulting firm in the field of access, virtualization and deployment. In addition to this role, he is a Microsoft MVP, a Citrix CTP, and author of 'Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services' from Microsoft Press. Bernhard has a Ph.D in Computer Engineering from the Technical University in Darmstadt, Germany. You can get more details about Bernhard on his terminal server community website: http://www.wtstek.com.
Brandon Shell
- Brandon has been in the IT industry since 1994. He spent the early years as a PC tech and general fix-it guy for numerous companies. He started a consulting company in 1999 building, designing and supporting networks and Windows infrastructure. He offered Microsoft training as well. In 2000 he joined Microsoft as contractor for the Directory Services team (the first of several times). He joined Microsoft in 2002 as a full time rapid response field engineer doing mostly Directory Service support for companies in the northeast. In 2004 he left Microsoft and took a position that allowed him to branch off and learn new technologies (such as XenApp and XenDesktop) and focus on his real passion, PowerShell. In 2007 he joined the PowerShell MVP ranks and spent the last several years building his PowerShell knowledge and helping others build theirs.
Brian Madden
- Brian Madden is an independent industry analyst covering the application delivery industry. He's written and published four books about Citrix, Terminal Server, and VMware. His website, http://www.brianmadden.com/, is a core component of the community, receiving over a million unique visitors per year. Brian is also the host of BriForum, an independent, three-day technical conference about the application delivery industry. In the summer of 2004, Brian launched "Brian Madden Live!," a podcast covering the industry. He's interviewed countless community leaders on the air over the past few years.
Charles Aunger
- For over 13+ years Charles has specialized in Server Based Computing technologies encompassing both Microsoft and Citrix technologies. Now as an IT Management Consultant ñ Delivering technical solutions and IT Strategy, using Microsoft Solutions, Citrix, Terminal Services, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure most recently he worked as Project Lead Specialist for the delivery of a number of applications to 300,000 users, utilizing an Application Service Provider (ASP) model of Hosting and Services of Applications remote of the end user.
Douglas A. Brown
- The history of Doug's company begins in January of 1999 when Doug Brown brought the first DABCC.com site on line. The original goal was to provide a site for his friends where they could go to find answers to their technical questions. Over the next five years DABCC.com grew into the reference site for the entire Citrix community. However, Doug was not content with just adding content. He recognized that many of the smaller companies had problems in managing the deployment of a Citrix based network and started writing what was to become "Methodology In A Box". Originally intended to be just a guide, MIAB turned into a 450 page manual. Today, it has gone through two major updates, numerous revisions and is one the most successful "How To" manuals in the Citrix Community with over 200,000 downloads. In fact MIAB was voted the best Citrix related document by in 2002 by Windows NT Magazine.
Gustavo Gurmandi
- Gustavo Gurmandi has been working for eight years in what he loves (IT), First in BS, Microsoft CTEC and Citrix CALC, as a technical consultant in many Microsoft/Citrix project. He has five years as a MCT. He took part in several citrix conferences in Argentina. He has also undertaken many public speaking engagements and solution demonstrations of the SBC technology at Citrix iForum and supported the design of COMMNET at Microsoft Events. Nowadays he is working as a Microsoft Technologies Specialist Consultant in Beyond IT and he participates actively in the ITPro Community of Argentina in TechNet Events, Webcast, and through his site http://www.grupoitpro.com.ar
Helge Klein
- 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 is the architect of sepagoPROFILE, a user profile management solution bought by Citrix in 2008 whose successor is now available as Citrix Profile management.
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 blog at http://blogs.sepago.de/helge. 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 , a powerful tool for managing Windows permissions from the command line or from scripts and programs. SetACL is open source and has been downloaded nearly 300,000 times since 2003.
Jason Conger
- Jason Conger started his Server Based Computing career working for a Citrix Platinum partner where he performed design and implementation projects for world-wide corporations, provided training for system administrators and people seeking certification, and presented numerous technical seminars through the Citrix channel. Jason later joined Citrix Systems, Inc. as a System Architect. While at Citrix, he designed and implemented Citrix Systems internal usage of Citrix products before the products were available to the public. He also presented these design strategies at Citrix customer-facing events such as iForum and Solution Summit. Today, Jason focuses on giving back to the community that has given him so much at his website http://www.jasonconger.com.
Javier Sanchez Alcazar
- Javier is a Barcelona based, Citrix Certified Integration Architect (CCIA), Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator (CCEA), and CCA XenServer Platinum. Over the past 15 years, Javier has applied his passion for technology and virtualization-based SBC to become a Citrix Architect and creator of the CTXDOM.COM™ Community . Javier (xavisan in the ctxdom.com community) contributes knowledge and experience to help the community solve technical questions; publish articles, installation guides, webcasts, and news. He also helped organize and spoke at the first Geek Speak Local in Madrid. Since 2005, he has been busy with the CMPS4 project which resulted in several Spanish language books on various Citrix solutions.
Jeroen VanDeKamp
- As Chief Technology Officer, Jeroen van de Kamp is responsible for defining and executing the technical strategy for Login Consultants, a widely recognized international virtualization consultancy firm based in USA and Europe. He has developed several core solutions which allow Login Consultants to easily differentiate themselves in the virtualization consulting market. Examples of these are Infrastructure 2.0 and Solution4; this is the unconventional strategies and maintenance principles for virtualization services in high density data centers. Jeroen is also responsible for several well-known publications like Login Virtual Session Indexer, Flex Profile Kit, TCT templates and others. Because of his contribution to the technical community Van de Kamp is recognized as a thought-leader in the application delivery industry and has become a residential speaker for virtualization seminars like BriForum, Citrix events and many others. He is one of the 25 members worldwide who participate in the "Citrix Technology Professional" program. Jeroen is still engaged with strategic key accounts for Login Consultants, defining and realizing an strategy for the application, desktop and server virtualization infrastructure.
Joe Shonk
- Joe Shonk is a veteran consultant in virtualization and server based computing. By day he works on advanced system deployments and at night can be found roaming the forums and on his blog at http://www.theshonkproject.com. Joe has presented at numerous venues and conferences such as BriForum and Citrix's GeekSpeak. In 2008, Joe was awarded Microsoft MVP and he also won the BriForum 2008 GeekOut game show.
Michael Keen
- Michael Keen is the Senior Solutions Architect in the Enterprise Architecture group at Alliance Technologies in Des Moines, Iowa. He is an innovative, results-oriented architect and executive with over eleven years of experience using Citrix technology to reach business objectives and eliminate barriers to business growth. Before his career in IT, Michael was a professional alpine climber. He spent over seven years in and around the highest peaks of the world and was the deputy expedition leader for an expedition to the South Face of Annapurna in 1999. He has learned what it takes to prepare oneself for large challenges and has taken those experiences and translated them into his successful career in IT. Today, Michael spends most his time speaking in front of C-level executives and other business groups around the U.S. on the how to converge IT and business using Citrix and other virtualization technologies as the building blocks. He brings his experience in strategy and execution from alpine climbing to the world of strategic IT automation and execution using dynamic IT concepts and the Citrix Delivery Center products.
Nico Luedemann
- Nico Luedemann has been working in IT since 1994 and has headed up the Systems & Services business unit at acocon GmbH in Bielefeld/Germany since 2003. His main areas of activity are corporate consulting, lecturing and public speaking on infrastructure solutions, network technology and systems management with particular focus on the area of centralization and virtualization of IT systems. He is well known in these areas as a much-demanded specialist thanks to a series of IT projects involving Microsoft Server System, Citrix Delivery Center and general network optimization products. In addition to his main work, he is also the author of a number of books (all in German) entitled "Citrix Presentation Server 4 - The Ultimate Guide", "Microsoft SoftGrid 4" , "Citrix Presentation Server 4.5", "Citrix XenApp 5" and has written a number of articles in specialist magazines.
Pierre Marmignon
- As an Architect specializing in Application and Desktop delivery since 2003, Pierre now manages the Citrix Department at Overlap Groupe, a leading infrastructure company in France.
Pierre leverages his CCIA, CCEA and CCI certifications to focus on automation scripts and tools that ease Delivery Center integration and management.
In 2008, Pierre created the well known CitrixTools.net in order to share his knowledge, useful tools and technical content with the worldwide Community.
Rene Vester
- René Vester is an experienced System Engineer and Architect based in Denmark. René is currently a Concept Manager with Axcess A/S, a Danish Platinum Partner. René provides advice and guidance that helps customers bring value to their businesses.
René has been an active part of the server based computing and virtualization community through blogging and presentations at several community events, primarily in Europe. René has been an active part of the Pubforum team for the last several events, and recently helped launch the Danish Citrix User Group .
He is a dedicated believer in centralization and virtualization and someone who considers multiple products when determining the best solution for the problem at hand.
Rick Dehlinger
- After years spent building one of the first successful delivery practices in the Northwest USA, Rick joined Citrix in 1999 as a Systems Engineer, and quickly became one of the most trusted technologists in the Citrix community. He is known in the industry through uncommon outreach efforts such as the widely distributed 'Installation and Tuning Tips for Citrix MetaFrame' document, the CitrixNW support forum, Project Columbia, Project Willamette, TweakCitrix.com, and the Cal-AID Reference Design. He has also been a consistent supporter of/presenter at a variety of industry events (including BriForum, PubForum, Summit, iForum, and Synergy) and is an active participant in the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) program. Since his first iForum presentation on the topic in 2000, Rick has been a vocal advocate of change enabling IT. After a short stint as an employee at Microsoft in 2006, Rick co-founded iQurious, a software and services company, dedicated to bringing to market highly-standardized, change enabled, extremely reproducible delivery systems. iQurious was purchased by visionapp in 2008, and he has since taken on the role Chief Technology Officer, driving the vision and direction of visionapp's delivery focused products and services.
Ron Oglesby
- Ron is Director of Technical Architecture for RapidApp in Chicago. As the senior RapidApp Technical Architect he is responsible for the oversight and development of all RapidApp-coordinated designs, plans, and deployments.
Ron has been published in several industry magazines and is the co-author several books including CCA Study Guide for MetaFrame XP, Terminal Services for Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide. In addition Ron has been recognized by Microsoft as one of 13 worldwide Terminal Server MVPs.
Ruben Spruijt
- Ruben Spruijt works as a Solutions Architect at PQR, a major IT company that designs, implements, and migrates advanced IT infrastructure and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Citrix Platinum Solution Advisor, VMware Premier and Consultancy Partner in the Netherlands. In his job, Ruben is primarily focused on application and desktop delivery, and hardware and software virtualization. He is a Citrix Certified Integration Architect (CCIA), Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator (CCEA), and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE+S). He is awarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), VMware vExpert, and RES Software Value Professional (RSVP). He is married to Jacoline, and they have three kids who are 9, 6, and 3 years old.
Shawn Bass
- Shawn Bass is an independent consultant that specializes in Server Based Computing technology. He has been involved in Citrix related technologies since the WinView product and has worked through each new version of Citrix's products over the years. Most of Shawn's consulting engagements are in the Fortune 500 space and many of them are in Financial Services and Insurance. He is an active poster in a variety of Citrix-related support forums. Shawn has presented sessions at several BriForum and PubForum conferences and was recognized by Citrix as one of their Citrix Technology Professionals in July 2006.
Steve Greenberg
- Steve Greenberg is the founder of Thin Client Computing in Scottsdale, Arizona, a leading consulting group for advanced Server Based Computing, Virtualization and Streaming solutions. Active in Server Based Computing and Virtualization since 1992, Mr. Greenberg is a pioneer in advanced deployments of Presentation Server, Terminal Services and various Virtualization technologies. He is both a Microsoft MVP and a Citrix CTP.
Thomas Koetzing
- Thomas has been working with Citrix products since 1998 as a system administrator, consultant, and freelancer. Since March 2006 he has been an independent freelancer for Server Based Computing and virtualization. In previous jobs he was responsible for the worldwide Exchange system, central Backup, and data center virtualization. Even though Thomas works in the IT industry, he has a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering. In 2003, Thomas started posting in the official Citrix support forums with the alias ìCITRIX4GEî and very quickly became one of the top posters. Later on launched the website http://www.citrix4ge.de/ as a response to forum requests and moved to ThomasKoetzing.de in the February 2006. His website is famous for Citrix / Terminal Server FAQ and Web Interface customizations. Citrix invited Thomas to speak at the ìCitrix Support & Engineering Institute of Technologyî (CSEIT) in October 2004. He also presented at BriForum 2005/2006, PubForum 2005, SBC Solution Forum 2005 and at the Citrix User Group Norway 2006. Thomas has also written several articles posted on BrianMadden.com as well on his own new domain ThomasKoetzing.de. In July 2006 Microsoft awarded Thomas as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Terminal Server and in the same month Thomas was also awarded as Citrix Technology Professional (CTP).
Thorsten Rood
- Thorsten has been working in IT since 1992 and is a veteran in systems engineering and enterprise virtualization using the Microsoft platform and Citrix product line. He has implemented large-scale installations across all industries for worldwide companies, focussed on delivering managed environments that meet SLA scales. He is now the Principal Architect at net.workers AG, a consultancy experts and security advisors group. Within his role he creates both visionary architectural designs as well as bullet-proven standard deployments across the whole infrastructure, networking and services stack. He's a voluntary speaker on roadshows and vendor-driven events, including Microsoft launches, BriForum, and others, known for level 400+ sessions.
Wilco Van Bragt
- Wilco van Bragt is the founder and author of the VanBragt.Net Server Based Computing Centre. On this website Wilco publishes SBC related product reviews, SBC related articles, reviews of freeware products, and blogs about several SBC topics and events. Various reviews and articles written by Wilco are also published on other well-known SBC websites.
Since 2000, Wilco van Bragt`s primary focus has been server based computing using primarily Microsoft and Citrix technologies. After working for a couple of consulting firms as a senior technical consultant and technical project leader Wilco started his own freelance company VanBragt.Net Consultancy in April 2008.
Wilco is a certified MCSE (NT, 2000, and 2003), CCA, CCEA (Citrix Metaframe XP, Citrix Presentation Server 4), and CCIA (both Metaframe XP and CPS 4). Wilco is also a Microsoft MVP on Terminal Server, a RES Valuable Professional and a Provision Networks VIP.
