Enterprise Platform Advisor Program

Service Delivery Manager

Wietze Albers works at SURF as a Network specialist. He has been working in IT for a long time now and has a lot of experience. He thinks beyond what is possible and challenges himself to bring the infrastructure to the next level. He looks forward to exploring the new possibilities which will be made available with future technology.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wietzealbers/

Technical Director for EUC

Kees Baggerman is a Technical Director for the Performance and Solutions Engineering R&D team at Nutanix Inc. In his role, Kees leads a team that develops methods for successfully implementing applications on the Nutanix platform. In addition, he also delivers customer projects, including defining architectural, business, and technical requirements, creating designs, and implementing the Nutanix solution.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/keesbaggerman/

Technology Evangelist

With over 20 years of experience of the VDI/Remote Apps and Desktops niche, Fredrik lives by the mantra of providing High End User Experience. His hart lies in advanced graphics.

Fredrik is currently employed at IGEL Technology, as EMEA Technology Evangelist. One of his responsibilities at IGEL Technology is designing and building demos of high-end multimedia in the world of Remote graphics. The primary focus is to provide extreme user experiences in the world of server-based computing. Recent projects have been about gaming, 3D modelling, CAD and Virtual Reality in the world of IGEL OS, Remote Sessions powered by NVIDIA.

Fredrik Brattstig has ben awarded Nvidia NCGA 2019 and 2020. Fredrik has been awarded Microsoft MVP – Enterprise Mobility 2020-2021

Fredrik very active in the IGEL Community discussing technologies and providing hints on how to solve issues. He sees a great benefit of communities, as this is a good way to spread knowledge, get input from participants using products you love working with, and finally, a good way to increase your global personal network.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredrikbrattstig/

Sr. Principal Engineer

Fabricio Bronzati holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia, is a technology enthusiast and has been working in the IT market since 2000 with a focus on data center infrastructure and is currently responsible for technical pre-sales and architecture infrastructure used for AI, HPC and Big Data.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabricio-bronzati-a7a43223

Director of Technology

Simon is the Director of Technology and co-founder of ebb3, a UK IT systems integrator and managed services provider specialising in NVIDIA GPU solutions.

With over twenty-five years of experience in the IT industry, and having previously held roles at Cisco, Simon’s expertise lies in NVIDIA GPU solutions for multiple workloads, data-network and service provider architecture and enterprise networking.

Simon has presented at Cisco Live, and more recently at NVIDIA GTC Amsterdam in 2016 where he spoke about the importance of the user experience and the applications when architecting VDI solutions. He can also be found sharing his insight and expertise on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Simon currently splits his time between managing a team of engineers, talking to customers about how NVIDIA GPU solutions can solve their problems, and exploring the application of new technologies. As an NVIDIA Omniverse partner and having recently been involved in architecting a HPC cluster and AI environment using the NVIDIA GPU cloud, Simon is focused on how these technologies can help benefits ebb3s existing and new customers.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-cottrell-95ab691/

Cloud Architect

Alexander Ervik Johnsen is a Blogger, Cloud Architect, Technology Evangelist, Author and Speaker, based in Oslo – Norway. Alexander has been working with Microsoft,Citrix and VMware products since 1997 as a system administrator, consultant, senior consultant and Product Manager.Currently, Alexander is a Senior System Engineer at Nutanix.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ervik

Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Tony, AKA the WonderNerd, is a founding Member of the NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisors (NGCA). He is a Technical Marketing Engineer for Dell and is part of the Dell PowerFlex program focusing on virtualization and workloads. Tony has been virtualized for 17 years and has been working in the EUC/VDI space for the last 12 years. Mainly focusing on the VMware Horizon platform. As part of this focus he has architected and/or deployed EUC offerings for a large array of clients from small organizations to Fortune 100 companies. It’s not unusual to find Tony at industry events where he enjoys presenting on EUC technologies for unusual delivery methods. Of late he has focused on mixed usage workloads and VDI by day and compute by night. If you are interested in finding out more about Tony be sure to visit https://wondernerd.net.

http://linkedin.com/in/wondernerd/

Lead Systems/Sale Engineer

Ronald Grass is a Lead Systems/Sales Engineer at Citrix Systems since 2008. Based in Germany he supports customers, SIs, Citrix & Technology Partners in promoting and deploying joint solutions (i.e. NVIDA vGPU with Citrix HDX-3D Pro).As a NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor and Subject Matter Expert for Citrix High Definition User Experience (HDX) technologies he has deep knowledge in the NVIDIA GPU architecture and Citrix protocol technology like encoding methods, transport protocols and optimization of these. Since the support of passthrough and hardware based GPU virtualization technologies (vGPU / GVT-g / MxGPU) in Xenserver/Citrix Hypervisor he focused on virtualization and central delivery of graphics-intensive workloads. With his experience he is able to constantly give feedback to Citrix and NVIDIA product management to improve the quality and performance of NVIDIA vGPU products and Citrix HDX-3D Pro.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronaldgrass

Founding Cloud Architect

Eduardo has been involved with Linux and open source projects since 2003, and works with Linux virtualization technologies (including Xen and KVM) since 2007, having been the maintainer of multiple subsystems of the QEMU project since 2015. Currently, he is Founding Cloud Architect at Softdrive.

https://linkedin.com/in/ehabkost/

Principal Architect

Marc Huppert is a Principal Architect with 20 years of experience. He is responsible for technical designs, implementation standards and architecture guidelines. He is the technical leadership of VMware Solutions at Computacenter. Marc is also a VMware Certified Instructor since several years, teaching internally and externally. He is often invited to be a guest Speaker at customer events. In Addition to the VCDX (5+6), Marc holds the following other certifications: VCP2/3/4/5/6/6.5/6.7(2019)/7.0(2020)/DCV-DTM-NV-CMA, VCIX-NV, VCIX6.5-DCV, VCI Level 2, Specialist vSAN(2017+2019), Master Specialist HCI, VMConAWS-SDDC, SD-WAN, VxRail, vExpert(2012-2021), vExpert NSX(2016-2020), vExpert vSAN (2016-2019), vExpert EUC and vExpert Application Modernization

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-huppert-b1879114/

CTO

Ben Jones is CTO of The GRID Factory, an Immersive Technology Integrator specialising in NVIDIA technologies such as CloudXR, vGPU, Omniverse and EGX Server. Ben works in areas such as Virtual and Augmented Reality, Spatial Computing, Resource Intensive 3D Applications and Multi-GPU environments. He is a long-term contributor on the NVIDIA Forums and member of the NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor Program. Ben's career spans roles in Consultancy, Engineering and System Architecture where he spent most of those years working heavily with server-based hardware and virtualisation before shifting focus to technologies from NVIDIA.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-jones-640a4411

CEO

Val King (@whitehatvt) is CEO and a founder of Whitehat Virtual Technologies, focused on delivering virtual desktops with an exceptional end-user experience, measured from the perspective of the end-user.
One of the original 19 NVIDIA GRID partners, Val leads a team of VDI specialists, with expertise in all of the technologies that underpin VDI, that vGPU & VDI rely on to deliver a great end-user experience.
Val & Whitehat continue to drive innovation with the development of Whitehat Titanium Virtual GPU/VDI self-contained Citrix/VMware appliances, and new advances in deployment, automation, self-healing and optimization of vGPU/VDI environments through lessons learned operating and managing thousands of Citrix and VMware VDI end-users, globally, 24/7.
As part of Whitehat, Val works with OEMs to refine their vGPU/VDI sizing, assessment and deployment strategies, to improve adoption, deployment success, and drive vGPU expansion.
Val has written several articles published by technical publications and contributes to blog.whitehatvirtual.com.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/valking/

Senior Principal Quality Engineer

Rody Kossen is a Senior Principal Quality Engineer for HDX at Citrix.
Previously he was an IT Consultant. With a primary focus around Workspace and delivered by technologies from Citrix, NVIDIA and Ivanti ( formally RES Software ). Rody was one of the first picking up the technology from NVIDIA to virtualize the 3D Graphics with GRID.
With his previous jobs he gained knowledge about optimizing the User Experience over long-haul WAN connections. Rody is part of a community Team RGE (Remote Graphics Experts) and speaks on events like NVIDIA GTC or various Citrix events.
He was also a Co-Developer of RDAnalyzer .Rody has been awarded as a NVIDIA NGCA, and was a Citrix CTP and Nutanix NTC in the past before he joined Citrix.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rody-kossen-186b4b40/

Dist. Technologist

Ian is passionate in assisting creative organizations virtualize their complex graphics workloads in the cloud. As Distinguished Technologist at HP, he engages the community via presentations, panels, workshops and demos at events like NAB, GTC, AU and SIGGRAPH or in partnership with public cloud vendors, MESA or the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA). Previously, he spent over 15 years advancing secure desktop streaming architectures, innovating remote UX evaluation tools and experimenting with the majority of popular remote display technologies. Ian is a longstanding IEEE member with 30 years expertise in real-time processing pipelines, credited with a variety of publications, patents and trade articles. Former roles include CTO at Spectrum Signal Processing and several design, systems and applications engineering positions in the industry. Off-hours, you’ll find him on his bike or alongside his wife enjoying the trails of his hometown Vancouver, Canada

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-main-285296/

Staff Cloud Solutions Architect

Sean is a Staff Cloud Solutions Architect with VMware, where he focuses on helping VMware’s cloud solutions partners deliver end-user computing solutions to their customers. He has 10 years of experience in IT and blogs at thevirtualhorizon.com. Sean is also well known in the virtualization community via his community work in the VMware vExpert program, and he is VMware Certified Design Expert #247

https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanpmassey/

Senior Sales Engineer

Jan Hendrik Meier is an Expert for Infrastructure- and Virtualisation-Solutions with a focus on SBC/VDI environments. He has a background of more than 15 years experiences with Microsoft- and Citrix-Products. Thus he has an excellent stock of knowledge in this area and combines this with a deep understanding of the technical connections. In the last years he published several books and articles about Citrix Virtual Apps / Desktops and NVIDIA (v)GPU. Since several years he is awarded with the Citrix Technology Award and NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor. Follow him on Twitter (@jhmeier) or watch his blog (http://www.jhmeier.com).

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhmeier/

Technical Marketing Manager, Desktop Virtualization and Graphics Solutions, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Jeff Nichols is a Cisco Unified Computing System VDI architect, focusing on Virtual Desktop and Application solutions with extensive experience with VMware ESX/Hyper-V, Virtual Desktops, Virtual Apps and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services. Jeff also leads the team responsible for developing reference architectures and guidance around Graphics solutions and sizing.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffnichols916/

Sr. Solution Architect / North Central Regional Lead and co-practice lead for EUC

Scott Osborne AKA “Oz” has been with Choice Solutions (NPN partner) since March of 2011 and has been working in IT specializing in Microsoft and Citrix solutions for nearly 20 years. Oz currently serves as the North Central Regional Lead and Senior Solutions Architect for Choice Solutions. Oz is a Citrix Specialist for Networking/Data Center, Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) and serves as co-lead for both the Omaha Metro Citrix User Group Community (CUGC) and Nebraska Nutanix User Group (NUG) user groups. He specializes in the End User Compute (EUC) space with Citrix and Microsoft solutions involving virtual application, server, and desktop technologies and has diverse experience with most industry-leading technologies that are required for these types of mid to large enterprise EUC environments such as monitoring, FSLogix, Multi-Factor Authentication (Duo, Azure MFA, etc.), Virtual GPU (vGPU) and many other leading partner solutions.

Oz is a co-lead for the Citrix practice at Choice Solutions as well as the Choice Solutions champion for NVIDIA GPU-based solutions for the data center; in general, vGPU design and implementation is a personal passion as it pertains to virtual apps and desktop environments. He is involved in all phases of customer projects; from health checks and assessments to design and planning to the ‘in-the-trenches’ build phases. He also has in-depth experience in the Health Care vertical working with and designing Epic Hyperspace environments on Citrix. Finally, in general, he focuses more heavily on multi-site environments that could potentially include a hybrid of on-prem private cloud resources along with Azure and/or Citrix Cloud resources and components. His latest work in the EUC Cloud landscape includes Windows Virtual Desktop/multi-session Windows 10 (WVD) delivered from Citrix Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottosborne1/

CEO, Consultant

Thomas is specialized in how CAD/CAE/CAM/entertainment/media applications can be virtualized with Citrix/VMware/Microsoft (SBC/VDI/WVD technologies) with NVIDIA

Thomas Poppelgaard enjoys Design/Advice/implement Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality solutions how these solutions can be combined with remote graphics.

Specialized in remote streaming solutions for AR/VR/MR/XR.
Specialized in Cloud design for Azure, AWS, GCP

Thomas Poppelgaard is specialized in EUC, Security, Assessments, Health check, Audit, Automation, User Persona, App Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Graphics Virtualization,Visual Computing

Globally, Thomas is a speaker at conferences, webinars, seminars, and roadshows about remote visualization Citrix, VMware, Microsoft and NVIDIA in the World. Thomas is a speaker at NVIDIA GTC, TIFCA, Autodesk AU, VMworld, Citrix Synergy, Citrix Summit, HPE Discover, CopenX, E2EVC, Citrix User Group, VMUG

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaspoppelgaard

Architect User Experience

As a Virtualization-enthusiast, Rasmus has more than 20 years of experience with operating, implementing and optimizing Citrix virtualization environments. He has been working enthusiastically with GPU’s and the graphics virtualization technologies and how to leverage these with the single goal of providing the best user experience possible. These interests have led to presenting sessions at international events like Nvidia’s GTC Europe but also at community driven events like E2EVC and the Citrix User Groups, besides national, Danish, Conecto TechTalks as an employee and User Experience Architect at Conecto. His primary motivation is the optimization: How to design and configure an optimal solution for the end users. He is certified in all relevant Citrix products as well as a member of the independent group TeamRGE (Team Remote Graphics Experts) group. A group of experts dedicated to graphics remoting technologies. He was also among the founding members of the NGCA – Nvidia GRID Community Advisors

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasmus-raun-nielsen-6592726/

Sr. Technologist

Ruben Spruijt is Sr. Technologist at Nutanix, former CTO at Frame and a well-regarded author, speaker, market analyst, technologist. An all-around End User Computing geek. He contributes to Nutanix product development and analyzes EUC technology trends that impacted current and future of work. Ruben is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor and was in the Citrix CTP program from 2008-2017 and VMware vExpert from 2008-2018. He is based in the Netherlands where he lives with his wife and three kids. If you have feedback or questions for Ruben, send him an email at ruben.spruijt@nutanix.com or follow him on Twitter @rspruijt

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rspruijt

Solution Architect

Solution architect and product manager for VDI solutions As a solution architect I daily collaborate with commercial area of my company to design and deploy complex VDI solutions based on VMWARE stack ( ESXI / HORIZON VIEW / VSAN ) and NVIDIA vGPU technology. I daily work with top customers like: Scavolini, Riello, Luxottica, Autovie Venete, Inglass, University of Trieste and Padua, Trieste Airport.. etc to deploy, manage and plan future infrastructure upgrades. I'm focused on Vmware technology (VCP-DTM 2020, VCP-DCP 2019 and VSAN Specialist 2019) to design and deploy the best of hyperconverged infrastructures. I’m certified in NVIDIA solution with VGPU Technical Curriculum since 2016.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamstrizzolo/

IT Director

Jeremy has 18 years of experience in IT and the AEC world in various roles from technical support, computer hardware integrator, architectural designer, side programmer, to his current role as IT Director, overseeing both direction and execution of Browning Day’s entire IT environment. In the past 9 years much of his time and effort has been spent focusing on EUC around Citrix and NVIDIA GRID. He has presented on their multiple successful deployments at multiple NVIDIA GTC conferences and Autodesk University which has provided many great opportunities to share the lessons we learned and help others in the community with their VDI initiatives and why it might be helpful to other firms dealing with many of the same issues.

Jeremy has strived to push technology in the AEC field to deliver smart, flexible solutions to allow his firm to move forward faster than ever before. He manages a VDI deployment using Citrix (Citrix Hypervisor and Apps and Desktops) and NVIDIA GRID to allow his users to be productive anywhere, while also being able to adapt to new and changing software needs. He’s always on the lookout for the next game changing technology that can help his company innovate faster than the competition.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremystroebel/

Principal Consultant

Dr. Benny Tritsch is a self-employed end-user computing expert located in Germany, specializing in modern workplace designs, graphics remoting and end-user experience analysis. In his role as a technical evangelist and principal consultant he works with customers and partners across Central Europe and the US. Benny is a community enthusiast and enjoys sharing his EUC knowledge and experience with likeminded industry peers.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drtritsch/

Solution Architect

Wataru Unno is a Solution Architect at Networld Corporation (Japanese IT solution distribution company). He holds 10+years of experience within the information technology and service system. He is awarded VMware vExpert 2018 and speaks about designing EUC at Citrix and Nutanix events also.
Currently as a Solutions Architect, he is responsible for platforms such as EUC with vGPU, HCI, Backup (Data Management) and Private Cloud Automation.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/unnowataru/

Technologist EUC & AI

Johan van Amersfoort is Technologist EUC & AI working for ITQ Consultancy, where he is responsible for the technical strategy within the End-User Computing and Artificial Intelligence areas. In 2018, he released the VDI Design Guide, which describes the complete process of designing a VDI, based on modern standards. He is heavily involved in multiple EUC communities (vExpert, VMware EUC Champion and NVIDIA NGCA) and one of the 20 VMware Certified Design Experts (VCDXs) globally in the Desktop and Mobility track. He specializes in VDI, (Graphical) Acceleration with GPUs, and modern AI platforms for Deep Learning and delivery of apps. Furthermore, you can find him talking about all of these topics at events like VMUGs, UserCons, and VMworld and VMware EUC TechCon (where he is one of the founders and part of the leadership team).

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hojan/

IT infrastructure / virtualization specialist

Gemma van der Voorst works at VMware as a Technical Account Manager.She is working on infrastructure in a different way, a way to create possibilities. The fun challenge to work on creative out-of-the-box solutions to solve difficult problems. Think, create and build together.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gemma-van-der-voorst-280176bb

Technical Evangelist

Ryan is currently a Technical Evangelist at RawWorks focused on the code in the EUC. Ryan is primarily focusing on the user experience in centralized desktop environments. With his development skills, Ryan is capable to quickly adapt to customers by having an agile mindset. Ryan is a bit lazy, yes lazy but in a good way. Ryan is all about automation as he is not made for repeating tasks. Community is very important for Ryan as he is an active blogger and has published multiple tools. Next, to his personal blogs and tools, Ryan is also a member of the Remote Display Analyzer team and TeamRGE.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanbijkerk/

President (Digitally Accurate Inc.) and Tech Blogger @ www.StephenWagner.com

First and foremost, VDI with 3D Acceleration (NVIDIA vGPU/AMD MxGPU) has been a personal hobby and passion of mine for many years…

I create content on my personal technology blog, as well as on my YouTube channel. This content is focused mainly on fundamental virtualization (VMware vSphere), as well as VDI for EUC (VMware Horizon) and 3D acceleration for VDI environments, as well as some fun homelab posts!

My technology blog (at www.StephenWagner.coml) gets around 200,000 unique visitors per month, and my YouTube Channel currently has over 1,000 subscribers.

I also regularly review hardware that vendors and companies send me to try out in my homelab. This includes NAS (Network Attached Storage) units, HBA, NVME products, and more.

Since the start of my blog, I have helped readers, viewers, and even clients with their knowledge and their homelabs, helping enable them with VMware technologies and related vendors (such as Nvidia). It's been beneficial and rewarding for me as it's opened numerous business opportunities, and allowed me to advance my own knowledge with the technologies.

In 2020 I became a VMware vExpert, this has further pushed me to develop content and help the community. This has opened even more opportunities for me, and allowed me to further the development of my blog, YouTube channel, and homelab endeavors.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenw7/

Owner

Dane Young (@youngtech) is currently recognized as a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), VMware vExpert and End User Computing Champion, and NVIDIA Virtual GPU Community Advisor (NGCA). Dane is a self-employed virtualization and cloud architect, specializing in the design and deployment of application, desktop, server virtualization, end user computing and cloud technologies from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. Launching independent as an entrepreneur, Dane inspired and created YOUNG TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (“YOUNGTECH”) to empower clients to convert their technology roadblocks into a roadmap to success. Dane does this by working with clients and partners to develop and execute projects at every scale. Dane has maintained and contributes to several industry recognized technical blogs including: itvce.com, daneyoung.com, citrix.com, vmware.com and youngtech.com.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/youngtech