Erik Bakker is a freelance consultant/architect based in the Netherlands with a strong focus on Microsoft and Citrix® virtualization technologies (SBC and VDI). He is specialized in designing and troubleshooting large Citrix® and Microsoft environments using the latest available technologies.
He's been adept at Citrix® since the early WinFrame product and has since been certified in the complete Citrix suite up to the latest released products as an CCE-V for XenDesktop® 7.6. Besides working with the product, he's also a subject matter expert for Citrix regarding the Citrix® Virtualization Exams in which he helps to design the final exams.
Next to everything related to Citrix®, he's also an expert in Microsoft technologies. He has a broad knowledge of almost every Microsoft product released and is also certified in all major Microsoft products as an MCSE/MCITP.
Erik can be contacted on Twitter using the @bakker_erik handle or by sending him a message using LinkedIn at https://nl.linkedin.com/in/bakker123.
Rene Lindeboom lives in Almere, Netherlands, together with his wife and two little dogs.
He is (and has been for the last 15 years) a specialist in the fields of server-based computing, Virtual Desktop Infrastructures, and related application delivery technologies. He is also skilled in VMWare View, Horizon, and end user computing technologies such as Citrix® XenMobile®, RES Workspace Manager, and others.
Rene works for Platani Nederland as a senior IT specialist and is experienced in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting or reviewing larger customer environments based upon a sound and pragmatic approach. He likes transferring knowledge to those eager to get acquainted with new technologies and is fascinated by the speed in which technology evolves in this fast-moving world.
Platani Nederland offers specialized knowledge and expertise in all current technologies, delivered to the customer by experienced senior consultants in a quality-driven fashion using lessons learned and common sense. Find out more at http://www.platani.nl.
Follow Rene on Twitter at @renelindeboom or see his LinkedIn profile at http://nl.linkedin.com/in/renelindeboom.
Jan Hendrik Meier has more than 10 years of experience in IT. He started as a trainee for an IT-specialist company. During this time, he had his first contact with products from Microsoft and Citrix®. Now, he is an expert in infrastructure and virtualization solutions. In the Citrix® area, he started to work with an early XenDesktop® (or better XenApp) version—MetaFrame XP. He deepened his knowledge in the following products: Presentation Server, XenApp®, and XenDesktop® and started to expand this with knowledge about various other Citrix® products such as Provisioning Server, NetScaler®, and XenMobile®.
He is currently working as an IT architect for a medium-sized company based in Germany.
Furthermore, he writes books and professional articles on different IT technologies. If he finds interesting problems during his job, he writes description and solutions for them on his blog, which can be found at http://www.jhmeier.de.
Florian Zoller works as a lead IT architect at msg services, a consulting company based in Germany. He has several years of experience in designing and implementing Citrix® infrastructures for midsize and large customers. Besides his expert knowledge of XenApp®/XenDesktop®, XenMobile®, and Netscaler®, he focuses on software distribution and automation technologies such as Heat software desktop and server management, PowerShell, and so on.