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 requ