European App-V User Group 2011

Aaron (38) is a Solutions Architect with sixteen years of experience in the IT industry. An App-V MVP, MCSE and CCIA/CCEA, he spent the last ten years working on server-based computing, desktop and application deployment and virtualisation. He currently resides in London where he’s involved in deployments for various clients including Fortune Global 500 companies. You can find Aaron contributing to AppVirtGuru.com and TechNet App-V forums or blogging at stealthpuppy.com, although he just might possibly be snowboarding instead. Follow Aaron on Twitter: @stealthpuppy

Falko Gräfe (39) works as a Senior Consultant and Trainer at Login Consultants Germany GmbH. He has been working in the IT industry since 2000. IT centralization, server based computing and virtualization are his main areas of activity. Falko designs and engineers desktop virtualization projects with technologies like Microsoft App-V, Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop and Provisioning Services as well as User Environment Management solutions like AppSense or Immidio Flex Profiles.

He is an Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for App-V. follow him on http://kirxblog.wordpress.com or on twitter @kirk_tn.

With a solid base as an infrastructure consultant in the Netherlands, Jurjen van Leeuwen (32) moved to Norway and started as a freelance consultant. With his company Leodesk.com, Jurjen continues to practice his enthusiasm for products in the application and desktop delivery area with a strong focus on Application Virtualization solutions from multiple vendors. Besides his work on the Application Virtualization Feature Overview and Comparison Matrix, Jurjen also is active in the community as a moderator on AppVirtGuru.com and is a Microsoft MVP on App-V.

Madelinde Walraven (25) is a Senior Support Engineer for Microsoft Netherlands. She started at Microsoft 5 years ago, started with focusing on SoftGrid. Ever since, she has been specializing herself for SoftGrid and later App-V by working on customers issues. She has been engaged in the evolution of the product as Beta Engineer for App-V 4.6, and therefore she has been working closely with the App-V Product Group. Her main focus is to work with customers in resolving their App-V issues, so that the App-V product can be used and deployed to its fullest potential.

Ment van der Plas (33) is working as an IT Architect at Login Consultants, an international independent consulting company based in the Netherlands. He is specialized in designing, implementing and migrating large and complex infrastructures, including the process of defining an application delivery strategy. Besides his role at customers he is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, teaching a variety of classes around application virtualization and system management. Apart from working in the field he writes technical content for a range of websites, like his blog www.softgridblog.com and magazines and is a regular speaker at national and international technical seminars. He has been rewarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in 2009, 2010 and 2011 on Application Virtualization (App-V). He is the creator of the App-V Client Diagnostic and Configuration Tool (ACDC), available as a freeware tool on the Login Consultants website. Follow Ment on twitter (@mentvanderplas)

Nicke Källén, also known as Znack, is at 27 years of age, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional within the field of Application Virtualization. Nicke is a consultant for Viridis IT from Sweden, which focuses primarily on deployment technologies from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. Nicke is working in the IT industry for over 7 years of which nearly 5 years dedicated to Application Virtualization. His main field of expertise lies within migration projects and resolving issues with unsupported business critical software and its deployment issues.

Softgrid – as App-V used to be known as – caught his attention due to its robust structure and extensive possibilities to allow applications to operate well on any operating system.

Ruben Spruijt, Technology Officer. Ruben Spruijt, born in 1975, studied Computer Science and started his career as a Systems Engineer at A-Tree Automatisering. He has been working as a Solutions Architect at PQR since 2002.

In his job, Ruben is primary focused on Application and Desktop Delivery, hardware and software Virtualization. Ruben has been awarded the Microsoft Most Value Professional (MVP), Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and VMware vExpert.

At various local and international conferences Ruben presents his vision and profound knowledge of ‘Application and Desktop Delivery’ and Virtualization solutions. He is initiator of PQR’s conceptual modes of ‘Application and Desktop Delivery solutions’ and ‘Data and System Availability solutions’ and originator of www.virtuall.eu, the solutions showcase of PQR. He has written several articles that have been published by professional magazines and informative websites. To contact Ruben directly send an email to rsp@pqr.nl  Follow Ruben on twitter (@rspruijt)

Rodney Medina is CTO for Immidio and responsible for the technical vision, the roadmap and product management. His specialization, besides SBC in general, specifically includes the Microsoft Infrastructure product range including App-V. He has been working in IT for 17 years, including as a Citrix and App-V instructor.

He started working as one of the first with App-V (previously SoftGrid) in Europe, being a product manager for CDG Europe at the time. Besides doing a lot of presentations, trainings, presales and PoC's, Rodney was actually the first consultant in Europe that implemented App-V environments into production.

Rodney maintains the blog www.SoftGridBlog.com, which is fully dedicated to Microsoft App-V and speaks regularly at various virtualization seminars.

In 2008 he created a very practical and hands-on App-V 4.5 "Unleashed" Masterclass, which has been given around the world already, training hundreds of enthusiasts. He also productized new tools like the App-V Dynamic Client Location Kit. In 2009 he productized the App-V USB Tool, App-V Client Diagnostic Tool and App-V ADM Add-on together with colleagues, still available as freeware via www.loginconsultants.com.

Nico Lüdemann has been working in IT since 1994 and has headed up the Systems&Services business unit at acocon GmbH in Bielefeld since 2003. His main areas of activity are corporate consulting, lecturing and public speaking on infrastructure solutions, network technology and systems management with particular focus on the area of centralization and virtualization of IT systems. He is well known in these areas as a much-demanded specialist thanks to a series of IT projects involving Microsoft Server System, Citrix Delivery Center and general network optimization products. In addition to his main work, he is also author of books (all in German) entitled "Citrix Presentation Server 4 – The Ultimate Guide”, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 Platinum Edition”, "Citrix XenApp 5", "Citrix XenApp 6 and XenDesktop", "Microsoft SoftGrid 4" and has written a number of articles in specialist magazines. He is awarded MVP and Citrix Technology Professional (CTP).

Sebastian Gernert (30) is an Escalation Engineer for Microsoft Germany. Since the acquisition of Softricity by Microsoft, he supports customers with questions and problems regarding Softgrid, now App-V and all subsequent products which may be developed in the future. Sebastian is also the Escalation Point for App-V, working closely together  with App-V developers and product teams on a weekly basis.

Sebastian has over 8 years experience in the IT industry and he is the writer of the German App-V blog (DEutscher App-V Blog) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sgern.