Ferdinand Feenstra is a Citrix Certified Architect and a senior specialist for Microsoft environments, based in The Netherlands. He has been working in IT since 1998 and is experienced in many complex environments with different customers in various functions.
His experience can be categorized under building and designing Citrix environments, implementing and migrating projects, and consultancy projects. Ever since he discovered working with Citrix in 2004, a new world of solutions—working on any device combined with great user experience—has opened up to him. Citrix makes IT more dynamic and easier to adopt for users. You can find his blog at www.CitrixGuru.net or check his tweets on Twitter at @f_feenstra.
This is the fourth book that he has reviewed. He has already reviewed XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide, Daniele Tosatto, Packt Publishing; XenDesktop 5.6 Cookbook, Gaspare A. Silvestri, Packt Publishing; and Implementing Citrix XenServer Quickstarter, Gohar Ahmed, Packt Publishing.
Ferdinand works for Icento. Icento is a Citrix Partner Solution Advisor with the Silver status. Icento is also a member of V-Alliance—the virtualization collaboration between Microsoft and Citrix. Icento is located in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and delivers solutions for desktops, unified communications, and virtualization and systems management. Icento delivers state-of-the-art ICT solutions for a broad set of international customers. You can find more information about Icento at www.icento.nl.
Kevin Howell is a highly versatile Strategic Senior Enterprise Architect with demonstrable experience in the government, public, and private market sectors. He has cleared SC with a proven track record of architecting complex infrastructures and developing new reusable service lines, from inception to delivery.
He has over 20 years of professional IT experience. He is a solution architecture with a strong understanding of application of the TOGAF, ITIL, and AGILE frameworks and methodologies.
Kevin is a good communicator with great leadership qualities along with an exceptional ability to adapt and accommodate to changing requirements. He is a positive and optimistic person, committed to maintaining high standards, and is able to cope with increasing demands and pressure.
Kevin is qualified in, and has worked on, enterprise architecture design in the following technologies:
VMware
Citrix
Microsoft
Novell
Linux
ThinPrint
Cortado
Cisco infrastructure
HP Hardware/SAN
Cloud services
He is a specialist in Cloud, VMware VCP, VCAP, Citrix CCA, CCEA, CCEE, Microsoft MCSE, Linux, Cisco CCNA, ThinPrint .print Master, Novell Master CNE, TOGAF, Agile, ITIL, and Prince II.
He is the owner of Howell Computing, an IT specialist consulting company with customers such as Fujitsu, British Telecom, DWP, and British Gas.