Alex Yushchenko
I’m a Microsoft Most Valued Professional in Terminal Services for three years now. Also, as recognition by Citrix Inc. i 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 me to be listed as MVP and CTP, among the best people in the Industry. I believe though, there are a lot more of those, who deserve the recognition, but don’t have it yet. Curious? Visit PubForum, you will meet them yourself! Some of them are listed on this website in the PF Presenters section.
I have organized and led all the PubForum events since the very first one in Amsterdam in August 2003. While it takes a lot of effort, I 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!
My current strong points are Microsoft Server Products including Windows Server 2008, 2003, MOM, Active Directory, Server Virtualization via VmWare and Microsoft Virtual Server &Hyper-V, Server Management, Infrastructure planning and optimisation, implementation of Microsoft Best Practicies, Terminal Services and of course Citrix. I started to work with Citrix Products in 1998, before I was very much into the Novell, Windows NT and Security world.
Dr. Bernhard Tritsch
Known as Benny by his peers – Bernhard is an IT system architect and market analyst, focused on Microsoft based computing solutions and technologies. He has 20 years of experience in IT research, system tools development, large-scale application delivery projects and virtualization technologies. In his current position as CTO for Immidio he is responsible for a team developing tools and products that help organizations adapt virtualization technologies in Microsoft Windows environments according to their business requirements.
Over the years, Benny has published many technical articles and several best-selling books, such as Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services (Microsoft Press). He is a frequent speaker at leading international events. Every year since 2004 he was awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Terminal Server.
Find more information about his community activities on http://www.drtritsch.com
Peter Bats
Peter has been at Citrix for the last 11 years, As the team leader for Server Virtualization practice in Citrix EMEA, Peter is the focal point for all technology aspects around server virtualization in Citrix Europe. His is nick-named by his friends and colleagues as the “Professor”, based on his in-depth knowledge of OSes, storage, systems, networking, and hypervisors. This is based on his years long experience in companies like DEC and Compaq before joining Citrix in areas as development of Windows NT 3.1 on Alpha processors, development of Windows NT Clustering, engineering and development of Prioris and ProLiant servers. You might have encountered him during international IT events where you can find him regularly as a speaker. Peter, Dutch of origin, enjoys the beauties of life at his home in Turin, Italy.
René Vester
I work as a System Engineer at Axcess A/S a Citrix platinum and VMware Enterprise partner based in Denmark. I am a Server Based Computing enthusiast and I work with Server Based Computing projects doing design, analysis and implementations. My main area of interest lies in the thoughts of centralization and consolidation, through Server Based Computing and Virtualization.
Pubforum – www.pubforum.net
I have been asked to participate in the challenge of setting up Pubforum and I have happily accepted, I am looking forward to the challenges and to hopefully be a part of making Pubforum an even better event, if possible. Pubforum is a Server Based Computing and Virtualization Expert-To-Expert Conference. Pubforum for me means a public forum where everyone is equal, consultants, architects, industry analysts and vendors. Pubforum of course is what you make of it, getting to know people requires you to let people meet you and get to know you. I have been to several Pubforums and I am very happy to be able to give something back and hopefully be able to help the rest of the PF-team deliver more great future pubforums.
René is currently working on the birth of the Danish Citrix User Group – dkcug.dk.
Rich Crusco
Rich is a Technical Evangelist for Application Delivery and Virtualization technologies. His career started 20 years ago in the Electronics industry working on Avionics. He has earned degrees in Computer Science, Avionics, and Electronics. After finishing up college he went on to work in the Computer industry as a Consultant, where he has since worked for both Microsoft and Citrix.
Rich Crusco’s Tech Blog
richcrusco.blogspot.com
Citrix Blog
community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/richcr
Microsoft MVP
mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/rich
Citrix MVP
www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=38494
Rick Dehlinger
Rick is the Chief Technologist for visionapp GMBH, and brings over sixteen years of IT engineering, consulting, management, and enterprise experience to the community. In 1994, Rick began his career in the Citrix/Virtualization industry with a pioneering Citrix integrator in the Northwest. He ‘cut his Windows Server teeth’ on Citrix “South Beach” (which became WinFrame) and never looked back. He began teaching classes on Citrix in 1997, and was one of the inaugural Citrix Certified Instructors when the program was first formalized. 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 presented technical sessions at all but 2 of the main Citrix events over the years. After a short stint as an employee at Microsoft, Rick co-founded iQurious, a software and services company, dedicated to bringing to market highly-standardized, change enabled, extremely reproducible information technology systems. He also actively participates in the Microsoft MVP Program for Windows Terminal Server and Citrix’s Technology Professional (CTP) programs.
Shawn Bass
Shawn 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 prior BriForum and PubForum conferences and was recognized by Citrix as one of their Citrix Technology Professionals in July 2006.
