Tim Arenz (@timarenz) has been involved in application and desktop virtualization solutions for over 8 years and has designed and implemented many solutions based on AppSense, Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware technologies with up to ten thousand users. He is currently working as a senior consultant in the Professional Services Organization at VMware in Germany. In his role, he specializes in end user computing, mainly focusing on ThinApp and Horizon Mirage, but also works with customers and partners on Horizon View and Workspace projects.

On his personal blog at http://horizonflux.com, Tim shares news and best practices about VMware's End User Computing product portfolio.

Bruce Bookman is a Silicon Valley software and hardware veteran who has held roles from frontline technical support to Director of Software Quality Assurance. Recently, he has been a VMware subject matter expert and Level 3 technical support escalation engineer for a solid state storage company, Fusion-io. In late August 2014, he joined Oracle as a senior quality analyst for Oracle Cloud. He is the author of technical articles covering virtualization on Developer.com, and he has created and delivered technical training modules on virtualization and other topics. He has received recognition for his customer advocacy and dedication to customer success.

Jason Gaudreau has over 23 years of industry experience and is currently a senior technical account manager at VMware, a leading information technology provider of enterprise application solutions.

His focus is on virtualization solutions and aligning infrastructure technologies to meet strategic business objectives. He has concentrated on data center virtualization, desktop virtualization, and building internal private clouds in a variety of technical roles over the past 10 years.

He has been an active blogger on virtualization since 2012 at www.jasongaudreau.com and can be reached at his Twitter handle @JAGaudreau. He is honored to be designated a vExpert by VMware in 2013-2014 and EMC Elect in 2014.

Before VMware, Jason was an IT architect for AdvizeX Technologies, and was involved in IT leadership at Unum Group, where he helped to develop the organization's IT strategy.

When not talking shop, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Christine, and two kids, Dylan and Tyler.

Raimundo Rodulfo has more than 20 years of working experience in engineering and technology, including technical leadership roles in the United States and Latin America, for private and public sector organizations such as Siemens, NCR, Bellsouth, and City of Coral Gables. He currently works as the Assistant Chief Information Officer for a local government municipality in South Florida. He performs technical and service operations management, project management, engineering, systems and business process analysis, software development, strategic planning, budget analysis and preparation, Business Intelligence and applied data analytics, management, planning, and operation and maintenance for the city's IT and telecommunications systems.

He is an electrical and electronics engineer with more than 20 years of working experience in Telecommunications and IT as systems and applications manager, network and telecommunications manager, project manager, electrical and electronics engineer, business analyst, R&D, O&M, NOC engineer, and assistant chief information officer (current position). His work experience includes City of Coral Gables, Florida; Bellsouth (Cellular MTSO/Switch, NOC, R&D); Siemens; NCR; Choice One Telecom/USA Telephone; and projects and training with Agilent, Motorola, Lucent Technologies, Alcatel, Microsoft, Cisco, CheckPoint, VMware, and other organizations. He has managed enterprise network infrastructure projects for City of Coral Gables and engineered hardware/software systems and automation projects for City of Coral Gables, Bellsouth, Siemens, NCR, and other organizations. He performed operations management, strategic planning, business process analysis, and optimization for City of Coral Gables, operations standardization and compliance, and worked in the implementation of ERP systems and applications.

He has worked as a revision team lead, balloting group members and actively participating in IEEE, ISO, and IEC engineering standards working groups, developing standards and guidelines for engineering and management systems, electronic appliances, software, websites, and services information.

He is a member of CIO/CISO Governing Body and other professional organizations.

He is a licensed electrical engineer (E.I.) by the Florida Board of Professional Engineers (FBPE) and the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES).

He is an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certified professional. He is also a Certified Virtualization Expert (CVE^®) and certified Project Management Professional (PMP^®).

Puthiyavan Udayakumar has more than 7 years of IT experience with expertise in Citrix, VMware, Microsoft products, and Apache products. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing virtualization solutions using various Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft products. He is an IBM certified solution architect and Citrix certified enterprise engineer, with more than 15 certifications in infrastructure products. He is the author of the books Getting Started with Citrix^® CloudPortal™ and Getting Started with Citrix^® Provisioning Services 7.0, both by Packt Publishing. He holds a Master's degree in Science, with a specialization in System Software from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.