Jochen Nickel is a cloud, identity, and access management solution architect with a focus on and deep technical knowledge about identity and access management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland and spends the majority of each workday planning, designing, and implementing identity and access management solutions, including the Microsoft Identity Manager, Azure Active Directory Premium, and the Microsoft Azure Rights Management Services.
Jochen has been part of many projects, proof of concepts, reviews, reference architectures, and workshops in this field of technology. Furthermore, he is a Microsoft VTSP Security, Identity, and Access Management from Microsoft Switzerland, and he uses his experience for the directly-managed business accounts in Switzerland. He has also been an established speaker at many technology conferences.
Committed to continuous learning, Jochen holds Microsoft certifications such as MCSD Azure Solutions Architect, MCITP, MCSE/A Office 365/Private Cloud, MCTS, and many other security titles, such as the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He enjoys spending as much time as possible with his family to get the energy to handle such interesting technologies.
As an active writer and reviewer, Jochen has authored the book Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control and the upcoming book Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure, both by Packt Publishing.
He also reviewed the books Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment by Erez Ben-Ari and Bala Natarajan and the book Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook by Jordan Krause, both by Packt Publishing.
Tomica Kaniski has been active in the IT field for years. He started out as a web designer and web developer, did some Windows development during college days, and then finally found out his true passion—systems administration on the Microsoft platform. Systems administration, virtualization, deployment, management, consulting, support, and so on; you name it, he has been doing it since 2008 and teaching about it since 2011, when he got his Microsoft Certified Trainer title.
In 2009, Tomica passed his first MCP exam and became a Microsoft Certified Professional. Certification is something that he continued doing throughout the years, and he now has certificates, titles, and knowledge about almost the entire Microsoft product portfolio. In 2010, Tomica was awarded his first Microsoft MVP title (Management Infrastructure), then got switched to Virtualization (Hyper-V), and lately Cloud and Datacenter Management. He is strongly engaged with communities and is one of the community leads in Croatia.
Nowadays, you can find Tomica presenting at various local and regional conferences, user group meetings, and other events. You can say that he is fully engaged with Microsoft products and technologies (with a strong focus on Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center, and Azure) and is mostly interested in products that are yet to be released.
In his spare time, he plays bass guitar and also likes to read and travel. He currently works in the telecommunications industry, for VIPnet d.o.o. in Croatia (a Telekom Austria Group/América Móvil company).
Other books on which Tomica has worked include Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 Cookbook, Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso, Packt Publishing; Introducing Windows Server 2012, Mitch Tulloch, Microsoft Press; and Windows Server 2012 MOAC courseware from Wiley.
Peter Geelen is the owner of and a managing consultant at Quest For Security. Over the years, he has gathered strong experience in enterprise security and identity and access management, including information protection, cybersecurity, corporate security policies, security hardening, and cloud security.
Committed to continuous learning, Peter holds renowned security certificates such as CCSK, CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, and CISA. He is also an MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer), MCSA, MCTS, MCSE:Security, and MCSA:Security. Also, he is ITIL and PRINCE2 foundation certified.
Since 2005, Peter's technical focus is Microsoft identity and access solutions: MIIS, ILM, FIM 2010, MIM 2016, and related platforms such as PKI, UAG, ADFS, single sign-on, and security solutions. You can find a more detailed overview of Peter's career on his LinkedIn profile at http://be.linkedin.com/in/pgeelen.
Peter strives to spend time helping the Microsoft community both online as offline through the following:
Taking care of governance and the administration of TechNet Wiki (http://aka.ms/wiki)
TechNet Wiki Blog (http://aka.ms/wikiblog)
Publishing articles and white papers at TN Wiki ant TN Gallery (http://aka.ms/pgpage)
Being the community lead of the Belgian Microsoft Security User group, which he founded (http://www.winsec.be)
You can find his personal blog at http://blog.identityunderground.be.
Peter has also reviewed all published FIM books and videos:
FIM Best Practices Volume 1: Introduction, Architecture And Installation Of Forefront Identity Manager 2010, David Lundell (http://aka.ms/fim2010r2bestpracticesbook)
Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Handbook, Kent Nordström, Packt Publishing (http://aka.ms/fim2010r2handbook)
Enterprise Identity Management with Microsoft Forefront Identity Management [Video], Kent Nordström, Packt Publishing (http://aka.ms/fimvideolearning)
Brandon James is a support escalation engineer who works with troubleshooting, debugging, and implementing identity management solutions using Forefront Identity Manager and Microsoft Identity Manager. Working with many enterprise customers, he has worked on various on-premise and cloud solutions. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and a master's degree in computer science.
Jeff Stokes is an old-hand IT pro based in the Southeast United States. He has worked as a reviewer on books such as MCSA 2012 R2 Study Guide, William Panek, Wiley, and Optimizing and Troubleshooting Hyper-V Networking, Mitch Tulloch, Microsoft Press. He also coauthored Mastering the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, with Manuel Singer, published by Packt Publishing. He is currently a content developer for Microsoft, covering Azure big data solutions.
Arik Noyman grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel, and completed with honors his bachelor's degree in computer science at The Academic College of Tel Aviv. Later, he went on to obtain an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
In parallel, Arik imparted his knowledge as a lecturer in Tel Aviv University and in The Academic College of Tel Aviv, while also working in SAP as a senior team leader in charge of the SAP solutions of e-commerce for SME. He was honored thrice for his tremendous achievements at SAP.
Later on, Arik moved to Microsoft, where he currently works as a senior lead. In Microsoft, he leads the R&D of the new Microsoft Identity Manager 2016. Currently, he leads the cyber security effort to protect Azure resources.