VIRTUAL GPU COMMUNITY ADVISOR PROGRAM

Lead Systems/Sale Engineer

Ronald Grass is a Lead Systems/Sales Engineer at Citrix Systems since 2008. Based in Germany he supports customers, SIs, Citrix & Technology Partners in promoting and deploying joint solutions (i.e. NVIDA vGPU with Citrix HDX-3D Pro).As a NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor and Subject Matter Expert for Citrix High Definition User Experience (HDX) technologies he has deep knowledge in the NVIDIA GPU architecture and Citrix protocol technology like encoding methods, transport protocols and optimization of these. Since the support of passthrough and hardware based GPU virtualization technologies (vGPU / GVT-g / MxGPU) in Xenserver/Citrix Hypervisor he focused on virtualization and central delivery of graphics-intensive workloads. With his experience he is able to constantly give feedback to Citrix and NVIDIA product management to improve the quality and performance of NVIDIA vGPU products and Citrix HDX-3D Pro.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronaldgrass

Sr. Principal Engineer

Fabricio Bronzati holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia, is a technology enthusiast and has been working in the IT market since 2000 with a focus on data center infrastructure and is currently responsible for technical pre-sales and architecture infrastructure used for AI, HPC and Big Data.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ervik

Cloud Architect

Alexander Ervik Johnsen is a Blogger, Cloud Architect, Technology Evangelist, Author and Speaker, based in Oslo – Norway. Alexander has been working with Microsoft,Citrix and VMware products since 1997 as a system administrator, consultant, senior consultant and Product Manager.Currently, Alexander is a Senior System Engineer at Nutanix.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ervik

Principal Architect

Marc Huppert is a Principal Architect with 20 years of experience. He is responsible for technical designs, implementation standards and architecture guidelines. He is the technical leadership of VMware Solutions at Computacenter. Marc is also a VMware Certified Instructor since several years, teaching internally and externally. He is often invited to be a guest Speaker at customer events. In Addition to the VCDX (5+6), Marc holds the following other certifications: VCP2/3/4/5/6/6.5/6.7(2019)/7.0(2020)/DCV-DTM-NV-CMA, VCIX-NV, VCIX6.5-DCV, VCI Level 2, Specialist vSAN(2017+2019), Master Specialist HCI, VMConAWS-SDDC, SD-WAN, VxRail, vExpert(2012-2021), vExpert NSX(2016-2020), vExpert vSAN (2016-2019), vExpert EUC and vExpert Application Modernization

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-huppert-b1879114/

Senior Principal Quality Engineer

Rody Kossen is a Senior Principal Quality Engineer for HDX at Citrix.
Previously he was an IT Consultant. With a primary focus around Workspace and delivered by technologies from Citrix, NVIDIA and Ivanti ( formally RES Software ). Rody was one of the first picking up the technology from NVIDIA to virtualize the 3D Graphics with GRID.
With his previous jobs he gained knowledge about optimizing the User Experience over long-haul WAN connections. Rody is part of a community Team RGE (Remote Graphics Experts) and speaks on events like NVIDIA GTC or various Citrix events.
He was also a Co-Developer of RDAnalyzer .Rody has been awarded as a NVIDIA NGCA, and was a Citrix CTP and Nutanix NTC in the past before he joined Citrix.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rody-kossen-186b4b40/

Staff Cloud Solutions Architect

Sean is a Staff Cloud Solutions Architect with VMware, where he focuses on helping VMware’s cloud solutions partners deliver end-user computing solutions to their customers. He has 10 years of experience in IT and blogs at thevirtualhorizon.com. Sean is also well known in the virtualization community via his community work in the VMware vExpert program, and he is VMware Certified Design Expert #247

https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanpmassey/

Senior Sales Engineer

Jan Hendrik Meier is an Expert for Infrastructure- and Virtualisation-Solutions with a focus on SBC/VDI environments. He has a background of more than 15 years experiences with Microsoft- and Citrix-Products. Thus he has an excellent stock of knowledge in this area and combines this with a deep understanding of the technical connections. In the last years he published several books and articles about Citrix Virtual Apps / Desktops and NVIDIA (v)GPU. Since several years he is awarded with the Citrix Technology Award and NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor. Follow him on Twitter (@jhmeier) or watch his blog (http://www.jhmeier.com).

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhmeier/

Technical Marketing Manager, Desktop Virtualization and Graphics Solutions, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Jeff Nichols is a Cisco Unified Computing System VDI architect, focusing on Virtual Desktop and Application solutions with extensive experience with VMware ESX/Hyper-V, Virtual Desktops, Virtual Apps and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services. Jeff also leads the team responsible for developing reference architectures and guidance around Graphics solutions and sizing.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffnichols916/

Sr. Solution Architect / North Central Regional Lead and co-practice lead for EUC

Scott Osborne AKA “Oz” has been with Choice Solutions (NPN partner) since March of 2011 and has been working in IT specializing in Microsoft and Citrix solutions for nearly 20 years. Oz currently serves as the North Central Regional Lead and Senior Solutions Architect for Choice Solutions. Oz is a Citrix Specialist for Networking/Data Center, Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) and serves as co-lead for both the Omaha Metro Citrix User Group Community (CUGC) and Nebraska Nutanix User Group (NUG) user groups. He specializes in the End User Compute (EUC) space with Citrix and Microsoft solutions involving virtual application, server, and desktop technologies and has diverse experience with most industry-leading technologies that are required for these types of mid to large enterprise EUC environments such as monitoring, FSLogix, Multi-Factor Authentication (Duo, Azure MFA, etc.), Virtual GPU (vGPU) and many other leading partner solutions.

Oz is a co-lead for the Citrix practice at Choice Solutions as well as the Choice Solutions champion for NVIDIA GPU-based solutions for the data center; in general, vGPU design and implementation is a personal passion as it pertains to virtual apps and desktop environments. He is involved in all phases of customer projects; from health checks and assessments to design and planning to the ‘in-the-trenches’ build phases. He also has in-depth experience in the Health Care vertical working with and designing Epic Hyperspace environments on Citrix. Finally, in general, he focuses more heavily on multi-site environments that could potentially include a hybrid of on-prem private cloud resources along with Azure and/or Citrix Cloud resources and components. His latest work in the EUC Cloud landscape includes Windows Virtual Desktop/multi-session Windows 10 (WVD) delivered from Citrix Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottosborne1/

Principal Sales Engineer

EUC computing expert transitioning to Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and data analytics with extensive experience in the oversight, planning, design and delivery of diverse technical applications and systems. Combined hands on sales and systems engineering experience with demonstrated competencies in oversee the complete sales cycle, including account management, solutions development, design, deployment and user training. Dedicated and actively involved in enhancing the user experience through the development and delivery of effective training materials for sales engineers, clients, partners and user groups. Recognized for advanced leadership skills with strengths in training, mentoring and ongoing development.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/roy-tokeshi/

Workspace Architect

Magnar is a Workspace Architect, blogger, speaker, and community tool developer with 18+ years experience in End User Computing. Based in Bergen, Norway, he has worked with Citrix, Microsoft, and VMWare products since 1999 and with NVIDIA products since 2012. Magnar has a passion for technology, computer visualization, and virtual reality, as well as experience in 3D modeling, graphic manipulation, and video effects. He has assessed, designed, implemented, and supported many virtual graphics solutions based on NVIDIA technology for small to large companies in the oil and gas industry in Norway. Magnar shares his knowledge, tools and experience on his blog, www.virtualexperience.no, www.gpusizer.com, www.teamrge.com, and speaks at numerous industry conferences including Citrix Synergy, Briforum(GeekOut365), Citrix User Group and TeamRGE events.

Architect User Experience

As a Virtualization-enthusiast, Rasmus has more than 20 years of experience with operating, implementing and optimizing Citrix virtualization environments. He has been working enthusiastically with GPU’s and the graphics virtualization technologies and how to leverage these with the single goal of providing the best user experience possible. These interests have led to presenting sessions at international events like Nvidia’s GTC Europe but also at community driven events like E2EVC and the Citrix User Groups, besides national, Danish, Conecto TechTalks as an employee and User Experience Architect at Conecto. His primary motivation is the optimization: How to design and configure an optimal solution for the end users. He is certified in all relevant Citrix products as well as a member of the independent group TeamRGE (Team Remote Graphics Experts) group. A group of experts dedicated to graphics remoting technologies. He was also among the founding members of the NGCA – Nvidia GRID Community Advisors

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasmus-raun-nielsen-6592726/

Sr. Technologist

Ruben Spruijt is Sr. Technologist at Nutanix, former CTO at Frame and a well-regarded author, speaker, market analyst, technologist. An all-around End User Computing geek. He contributes to Nutanix product development and analyzes EUC technology trends that impacted current and future of work. Ruben is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor and was in the Citrix CTP program from 2008-2017 and VMware vExpert from 2008-2018. He is based in the Netherlands where he lives with his wife and three kids. If you have feedback or questions for Ruben, send him an email at ruben.spruijt@nutanix.com or follow him on Twitter @rspruijt
 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rspruijt

Solution Architect

Solution architect and product manager for VDI solutions As a solution architect I daily collaborate with commercial area of my company to design and deploy complex VDI solutions based on VMWARE stack ( ESXI / HORIZON VIEW / VSAN ) and NVIDIA vGPU technology. I daily work with top customers like: Scavolini, Riello, Luxottica, Autovie Venete, Inglass, University of Trieste and Padua, Trieste Airport.. etc to deploy, manage and plan future infrastructure upgrades. I'm focused on Vmware technology (VCP-DTM 2020, VCP-DCP 2019 and VSAN Specialist 2019) to design and deploy the best of hyperconverged infrastructures. I’m certified in NVIDIA solution with VGPU Technical Curriculum since 2016.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamstrizzolo/

IT Director

Jeremy has 18 years of experience in IT and the AEC world in various roles from technical support, computer hardware integrator, architectural designer, side programmer, to his current role as IT Director, overseeing both direction and execution of Browning Day’s entire IT environment. In the past 9 years much of his time and effort has been spent focusing on EUC around Citrix and NVIDIA GRID. He has presented on their multiple successful deployments at multiple NVIDIA GTC conferences and Autodesk University which has provided many great opportunities to share the lessons we learned and help others in the community with their VDI initiatives and why it might be helpful to other firms dealing with many of the same issues.

Jeremy has strived to push technology in the AEC field to deliver smart, flexible solutions to allow his firm to move forward faster than ever before. He manages a VDI deployment using Citrix (Citrix Hypervisor and Apps and Desktops) and NVIDIA GRID to allow his users to be productive anywhere, while also being able to adapt to new and changing software needs. He’s always on the lookout for the next game changing technology that can help his company innovate faster than the competition.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremystroebel/

Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Tony, AKA the WonderNerd, is a founding Member of the NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisors (NGCA). He is a Technical Marketing Engineer for Dell and is part of the Dell PowerFlex program focusing on virtualization and workloads. Tony has been virtualized for 17 years and has been working in the EUC/VDI space for the last 12 years. Mainly focusing on the VMware Horizon platform. As part of this focus he has architected and/or deployed EUC offerings for a large array of clients from small organizations to Fortune 100 companies. It’s not unusual to find Tony at industry events where he enjoys presenting on EUC technologies for unusual delivery methods. Of late he has focused on mixed usage workloads and VDI by day and compute by night. If you are interested in finding out more about Tony be sure to visit https://wondernerd.net.

http://linkedin.com/in/wondernerd/

CEO, Consultant

Thomas is specialized in how CAD/CAE/CAM/entertainment/media applications can be virtualized with Citrix/VMware/Microsoft (SBC/VDI/WVD technologies) with NVIDIA

Thomas Poppelgaard enjoys Design/Advice/implement Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality solutions how these solutions can be combined with remote graphics.

Specialized in remote streaming solutions for AR/VR/MR/XR.
Specialized in Cloud design for Azure, AWS, GCP

Thomas Poppelgaard is specialized in EUC, Security, Assessments, Health check, Audit, Automation, User Persona, App Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Graphics Virtualization,Visual Computing

Globally, Thomas is a speaker at conferences, webinars, seminars, and roadshows about remote visualization Citrix, VMware, Microsoft and NVIDIA in the World. Thomas is a speaker at NVIDIA GTC, TIFCA, Autodesk AU, VMworld, Citrix Synergy, Citrix Summit, HPE Discover, CopenX, E2EVC, Citrix User Group, VMUG

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaspoppelgaard