The Experts Conference

Patrick Rouse is an Enterprise Solutions Architect and a member of Quest Software’s Desktop Virtualization Product Strategy Group. He has 15 years ofd experience in IT and is a seven time recipient of Microsoft’s MVP Award for Remote Desktop Services.  Rouse is a subject matter expert for Microsoft Virtualization technologies including Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager and is certified in MDOP and System Center Configuration Manager.  He also has deep expertise in T-SQL, Exchange, AD Group Policies and Windows System Hardening, Scalability, Application Compatibility and Performance Optimization. Previous to joining Quest’s Desktop Virtualization Group in 1998, Rouse led his own Citrix consultancy and was a Citrix Technology Professional Awardee. He started his technology career in the early 90s while working as a Ground Radio Repairer in the United States Marine Corps. You can follow him on Twitter @MsftVirt and read his blog at http://sessionzero.wordpress.com.

Dmitry Sotnikov is director of Cloud Solutions at Quest Software. Sotnikov has more than 10 years of experience working in the Windows management area, and is a Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Dmitry.Sotnikov, author of multiple whitepapers, a regular blogger, and a presenter at numerous trade shows, including Microsoft Management Summit, WinHEC, VMworld, Re-MIX, IT Forum, Platforma, and TechEd. He currently is leading Quest into the era of cloud computing – heading the company’s IT Management as a Service offerings (Quest OnDemand) and coordinating expansion of Quest products to management of cloud systems such as Microsoft BPOS, Google Apps and SQL Azure. He joined Quest with the Aelita Software acquisition, and has held various managerial positions in technical communications, customer support and product management.

Mattias Sundling is a Virtualization Evangelist at Quest Software. He joined Quest with the acquisition of Vizioncore, and has more than 10 years of experience in IT. Prior to joining Vizioncore in 2008, he worked as a consultant assisting organizations with server virtualization and monitoring. Sundling is known for his deep technical expertise in server virtualization which he regularly shares in different formats such as blogposts, whitepapers and by speaking at trade shows.

Niklas Akerlund is a Senior Virtualization Consultant at Real Time Services. Akerlund has been working with Microsoft infrastructure solutions since 1998. He has extensive experience in virtualization projects with consolidation planning and migrations from physical to virtual. Akerlund has done both project management and technical design in Hyper-V upgrades and new installations. He started working with Hyper-V at a former Employee in the TAP program for Windows Server 2008 and has a big interest in performance monitoring and optimization of virtual machines and hosts. He has been on Technet TV in Sweden and continuously as a Trainer at Addskills course center.

Shawn Bass is an independent consultant with a focus on application delivery in the areas of Server Based Computing, Streaming and Virtualization, etc. He has worked with Citrix technologies since the WinView product days.  Most of his clients are Fortune 500 companies primarily in the Financial Services and Insurance markets. In July 2008, Microsoft awarded Bass with an MVP award for Terminal Server, and he has been re-awarded from 2009-2011.

Tim Cole is Co-Founder of KuppingerCole, the leading European analyst group on digital identity, GRC and Cloud Computing. He was born in 1950 and he is an experienced publicist, book author and TV moderator in the field of eBusiness and IT security. As editor of the business magazine “Net Investor” he has a proven track record for journalistic objectivity, as well as the ability to critically evaluate the impact of technology on business processes and markets. His book “Management Challenge Security” (published in German by Carl Hanser) has become a standard textbook for non-technical managers involved in IT security decision-making.

Guido Grillenmeier is a Chief Engineer within the Enterprise Services Group at Hewlett Packard. Based in Germany, he deals primarily with global Windows infrastructure deployments for large enterprise customers.  He has helped various HP customers to secure their Active Directory, make the move to 64-Bit Windows, and to utilize Hyper-V at scale even before Windows Server 2008 R2 was released. Grillenmeier has often spoken at the Directory Experts Conference (DEC), now The Experts Conference (TEC), and is also a speaker at various other Microsoft-technology related conferences, such as Microsoft Tech-ED, IT Forum or Windows Connections. He has led the development and delivery for HP’s Windows Server 2008 Academies to HP’s own Services division and has been a Microsoft MVP for Directory Services for the past six years. Besides writing articles for technical magazines, Grillenmeier is also the co-author of Microsoft Windows Security Fundamentals (Digital Press).

Nicke Källén, also known as Znack, is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional within the field of Application Virtualization. He is a consultant for Viridis IT from Sweden focusing primarily on deployment technologies from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware.  Källén has worked in IT for about 7 years within IT, with about 5 of those are dedicated to Application Virtualization. He often works within migration projects and resolving issues with unsupported business critical software and its deployment issues.

Jeroen van de Kamp is the CTO for Login Consultants where he’s responsible for defining and executing the technical strategy and innovation. From the start, he has played a critical role in the technical growth and accreditation Login Consultants has accumulated over the years. He has developed several core solutions which allow Login Consultants to easily differentiate in the infrastructure consulting market like Solution4, the “Virtual Session Indexer” (Login VSI) and more. He is also responsible for several well-known publications like the Flex Profile Kit, TCT templates and the famous “Project Virtual Reality Check”. He has become a residential speaker for virtualization seminar like Citrix Synergy, Microsoft Tech-ed, VMwolrd and Briforum around the world. Jeroen is member of the “Citrix Technology Professional” program.

Danny Kim is one of the founders and CTO of FullArmor Corp. Kim is a Microsoft MVP and recognized industry expert on Windows Group Policy, Active Directory, PowerShell, and Windows Azure. Kim has helped more than 30 Fortune 100 companies, including Bank of America, Boeing, and Wal-Mart, design and deploy their Group Policy, DataCenter, and Cloud based infrastructures. He has also architected and developed several leading Windows policy management and virtualization products which have been licensed by Microsoft, NetIQ, Citrix, HP, Sony, Toshiba and others. Danny’s current passion is working with disruptive technologies around virtualization and cloud based computing. Kim holds a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Brian Madden is known throughout the world as an opinionated, super technical, fiercely-independent desktop virtualization expert. He’s written several books and almost 2,000 articles about desktop and application virtualization. His blog receives millions of visitors per year and is a leading source for conversation, debate, and discourse about the application and desktop virtualization industry. Brian is also the creator of BriForum, the premier independent application delivery technical conference.

Michael Michael is a Principal Program Manager on the Virtualization & Data Center Management team at Microsoft, working on the development and future direction of System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Michael is primarily focused on partner interactions and ensuring that a healthy ecosystem exists for virtualization products. He joined Microsoft Corporation in August 2002 as a software design engineer and has since worked on management products in the Windows Server division. Such products include previous releases of Virtual Machine Manager, Virtual Server 2005 R2, Windows Storage Server, and Data Protection Manager. During this time, he held various senior roles including senior software design engineer, senior development lead and software architect, and was focused on the research, design, and development of new features and functionality. For the past four years, Michael has been telecommuting from Houston, Texas.

Kirk Munro is a Microsoft MVP and product manager who has worked in the IT industry for more than 14 years. He has spent the majority of that time creating and developing software solutions in the Windows Management space. At Quest, Munro works on PowerShell solutions, most notably PowerGUI Pro and PowerGUI, where he is responsible for driving the direction of the two products, as well as the PowerPacks and add-on modules that extend them. When he’s not working on PowerGUI, Munro spends time working with PowerShell in the community, presenting at conferences, launch events and user group events whenever he gets the opportunity. He also helps users learn PowerShell through his blog, as well as through the PowerGUI forums. It is through this community work that Munro received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award recognizing his passion and expertise in Windows PowerShell.

Joachim Nässlander has almost 15 years experience working with Microsoft infrastructure as a consultant. In his position as a Senior Solution Architect at Dell, he’s responsible for designing solutions within both infrastructure and end user computing for both private companies and the public sector in Sweden. He mostly works with Cluster, Hyper-V, SCCM and SCVMM, and has a strange interest in Server Core. He has co-authored a whitepaper on remote administration of Server Core and is currently writing a book about Server Core. He regularly speaks on various topics for both Microsoft and others. He is a member of Microsoft Extended Expert Team (MEET) and a Microsoft MVP in Cluster / High Availability.

Pat Patterson is a principal developer evangelist for Salesforce.com. Patterson has been working on Internet security and identity management since 1997, joining Sun Microsystems in 2000 as an engineering manager in the Trustbase secure Web services team. After serving a four-year sentence in product management, he returned to engineering early in 2005, focusing first on federation and identity-enabled Web services, then on the OpenSSO project and its community. He moved to Huawei Technologies in 2009 to work on cloud storage infrastructure before joining the developer evangelism team at Salesforce.com in late 2010. Describing himself as an ‘articulate techie’, Patterson hacks all manner of code from Ruby web apps down to Linux kernel drivers, writing it all up on the Force.com blog, his own blog Superpatterns, and, of course, Twitter.

Brian Puhl is an Architect on the Microsoft IT Identity and Access Management team. He started with Microsoft in 2001, as an Active Directory engineer, and has recently been delivering solutions around MSIT’s adoption of cloud services.

Carsten Rachfahl started his IT career in 1988, working as a developer on porting X-Windows to an OS called OS/9. In 1991, he founded his own company in Germany and is self-employed since these ancient days. Starting 2001 with Citrix/Terminalserver, his focus is on the virtualization space till nowadays. When Microsoft finally created a “real” Hypervisor and brought that to the market, he was all in. His Blog www.hyper-v-server.de is highly recognized and appreciated within the virtualization community. The Blog features tutorials, articles, screencasts, video interviews and podcasts focusing on the Microsoft Private Cloud. Being MCT, he teaches various Microsoft virtualization-, and his own “Hyper-V Powerkurs” course. As co-founder of the German Hyper-V Community he regularly organizes events. Recently his efforts were rewarded with the MVP Virtual Machine.

Jarrod Roark is the Advanced Infrastructure Practice Director and a Principal Consultant at Bennett Adelson. Roark has consulting, implementation, and project management experiences for Identity, Security and Active Directory Management products in environments ranging in size from 5,000 to over 100,000 users across a diverse number of organizations and industries. He has a deep understanding of directory services architecture and has written white papers and best practice documents on various topics in the identity management and migration space. He has designed and architected migration and management approaches for cloud based collaboration solutions and is responsible for successfully managing one of the largest BPOS-S deployments to date. Prior to joining Bennett Adelson, Roark was the Solutions Architect Manager at Quest Software. In previous roles, he managed and supported design teams for domain and exchange migrations, as well as identity management and Active Directory provisioning solutions.

Bernhard Tritsch is Technical Director at AppSense, an independent software vendor providing products for user virtualization. His professional role is a blend of technology evangelist, IT system architect, market analyst, author and Windows system developer. He 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, and he has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Windows Server – Terminal Server in each year since 2004. In 2006, he was a charter award winner of the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP). He holds an equivalent to a PhD in Computer Science from the Technical University in Darmstadt (Germany) and an equivalent to an MSc in Physics from the University in Freiburg (Germany).

Hans Vredevoort has been a Cluster MVP since 2009 and has a strong focus on Private Clouds built on top of Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center. He helped to kick-start the Hyper-V community and blogs/presents for http://www.hyper-v.nu as well as on numerous other occasions. Hans has been a technical editor for Aidan Finn’s book Mastering Hyper-V Deployment. He has worked as an infrastructure consultant for more than two decades. After a long career with Nobel in the Netherlands, he recently joined the System Center focused company Inovativ in Amsterdam, featuring the highest number of MVP’s in a European IT company. Vredevoort has assisted countless companies with architecting and building highly available infrastructures built on top of Windows Virtualization, blade servers and shared storage. You can follow Hans on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/hvredevoort.

For the past five years, Jaap Wesselius has been an independent consultant focusing on Microsoft’s Unified Communications solutions. His work consists of Exchange designs and reviews, 2nd opinions, troubleshooting and project management assignments. Besides consulting he is also active as a trainer (MCT), a presenter and author of the book Exchange 2010 SP1 – a practical approach, which is available as a free download (and a paid paperback at Amazon.com). For his work for the community Wesselius was awarded with a Microsoft MVP award for Exchange Server back in 2007, an award he still holds today. He is a frequent blogger and founder of both communities http://www.uclabs.nl and http://www.hyper-v.nu. You can reach him at jaap@wesselius.info.

Justin Zarb is a Senior Premier Field Engineer within Microsoft EMEA and a technical lead in the PFE Virtualization arena and in particular work with Application Virtualization (App-V). Justin is widely recognized expert in the field of Application Virtualization and has helped create technical documentation, training and service offerings used inside and outside of Microsoft. Justin spends his time 1:1 with customers and helps them with real world implementations, best practices and depth troubleshooting when deploying Microsoft Application Virtualization. Justin writes an active blog on application virtualization http://blogs.technet.com/virtualworld or http://appvguy.com and also contributes to the App-V Product Team Blog http://blogs.technet.com/appv . Justin is a true infrastructure person that loves talking real world deployments with real world people. Justin has worked for Microsoft since 2006 and has been in the Enterprise space for over 10 years with a background in third party virtualization solutions and infrastructure deployments. His certifications include MCTS, MCIT, MCSE (Security and Messaging), MSCA, MCP. Apart from the Technical Stuff, Justin is passionate about playing and watching Rugby , but gains an injury regardless whether on or off the pitch.