I gained long-term experience working with IT infrastructures, various application requirements and the ongoing change that IT is faced with. On the one hand, I work as an architect and generalist with a comprehensive wealth of experience in regards to mid-tier customers and service provider needs. On the other side, I'm a solution specialist focussed on cloud app networking, mobility workforce evolution and committed to provide pragmatic but also effective security concepts even in the cloud era.
I do support management decision makers with their challenges such as establishing agile IT services or hybrid distributed systems and I also offer assistance mediating conflicts between technical and organizational interests.
My top priority is delivering quality-focussed solutions that are »feature-complete« and designed to run and provide their service offering over a long period of time without a need for ongoing operational or administrative assistance.
This overview illustrates my contribution to the (IT-)world. These are items that I'm evidently good in and that are important to me. Some of those obviously haven become outdated and don't play a role in my everyday life any more, but at that time earlier I've dedicated the same enthusiasm and love as I do for my current points of interest.
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Since 31 years I'm working as an IT-consultant specialized on enterprise architecture, still committed validating bits & bytes in daily reality, and awarded multiple times as CTP and I'm certified as MCE/CCE, too.
My strongest fortitudes are technology competence and quality assurance.
My job role with braincon corporation says Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Regional Director and Principal Architect.
Rhineland and Ruhr district is my home of choice for a long time now, but customer on-site engineering brings me widely around into different places.
Without industry-specific focus, I implemented large-scale deployments and completed early adopter setups for demanding customers. Together with my professional team, I provide solutions where others try out their first steps 3 years later...
I'm also an independent frequent speaker at public vendor- and community-driven events (Synergy, TEX, Citrix User Groups, and more), delivering technical breakout sessions legendary known for my level 400+ trademark.
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I am working in information technology industry and matured into the role of an enterprise architect (over the years my job title actually changed in a creative way, depending on the company I worked for). Such profession comes with very interesting unique challenges almost every day, but you have to accept working on-site in the field – and this needs some instrumented requirements such as work-life-balance for not being "burned" quickly.
My core disciplines focus around the software defined datacenter, a fully virtualized or cloud-operated environment across all technical stacks. I support customers satisfying their ongoing dynamic business needs by applying agile IT-concepts and I create competitive advantage through innovative technology usage.
Public cloud infrastructure and
Transport security & encryption
Infrastructure for web services and web applications
Business-2-business application interconnections
Hyperconverged virtualization
Virtual
Application gateways
Enterprise Mobility
Portals
Authentication solutions
Public key
Identity management (federation, Identity Provider)
Business continuity & Disaster recovery
My specialization targets an end-to-end IT process design where I deliver project services that require complex integration tasks. This includes return of investment analyses, design phase and sophisticated real-world installations. I'm also conducting in-depth troubleshooting regarding runtime issues. In addition, I take ownership on project management and staff leadership. On the executive level, I assist and give customers advice concerning future IT strategy and delivery options.
Consulting, assessment, design
Project delivery, outtasking
Project management, quality assurance, audit
3rd-level specialist
Service provider consulting
Public speaking (local and international)
Decision maker counseling
Workshops
Tailored training
Business development, portfolio steering
Qualification planning
Human resource management
It has always been very important to me to learn and reflect product reality and practical usage options back into my knowledge and validate my design standards by staying in touch with ongoing delivery engagements in the field.
My main interest is adding value on top of cloud app networking. This mission cares about aligning both the application- and network-centric demands that have become important in the age of ubiquitous mobility, in a combined solution. However, this is not about network transport such as routing or firewalling exclusively. It instead requires detailed consideration of application protocols or web services and their security posture, so that it becomes an interdisciplinary perspective. Because of that approach, this challenges both the IT generalist in regards to the overall IT architecture and involves the specialist that knows about application specific behavior in detail – in just one person...
One also could say I do understand a lot of what's going on with both servers, applications and networks.
ADC (a.k.a. NetScaler) platform / family
Enterprise mobility
Citrix Cloud / Workspace
DaaS EUC end-user computing (RDS/VDI)
Active Directory
Azure Active Directory
Certificate services
Federation services
Azure Cloud (IaaS, web services)
Azure authentication
HCI, Storage Spaces
Office 365
Endpoint Manager
Exchange Server
OpenSSL
SAML
OpenID Connect
Google authentication solutions
Information technology offers thousands of areas in specialization and probably the same number of options to certify the knowledge you gained over the years. Sometimes it might be helpful or even required to prove your skills formally. Attending more and more courses or spending time in studying technologies and products you'll accumulate those exam results. One time you also could become certified in emptying waist boxes...
My personal favorite is deploying applications based on Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions. In my eyes, whenever you're faced with professional enterprise requirements (large scale sizing, massive consolidation, complex access needs, etc.) you likely choose Citrix's technology to achieve your goals. Interestingly Citrix has complemented its portfolio with a huge offering around networking, cloud, mobility and security products.
I promoted this technology stack becoming one of my primary areas of specialization and added exam by exam over the course of time.
since 12/2012
My core competencies are consulting services in regards to general solutions architecture and in-depth implementation support for networking-, mobility- and cloud-related products.
07/2001 to 11/2012
I've always taken care of the complete Citrix product stack, ranging from application and desktop virtualization to overall architecture consulting services.
since 02/2001
Citrix doesn't provide an appealing overall certification summary. Here's the alternate puzzle to outline my achievements:
Microsoft's server platform has been my primary focus since the early 90s. It happened by chance in those days I took over responsibility regarding NT4-deployments at all affected customers' networks. The major market leader in client/server-networks had been Novell and the "alternate" operating system divisions were under-staffed. Starting with NT4 I was part of any migration, evolution and technological update cycle, which allowed me to be involved in any new kind of enhancement and backoffice line product version that was released out to the public. Today it's Azure cloud obviously.
Inevitable a formal qualification became added over the course of time.
since 10/2012
My primary competence has grown over the years: my technology world deals with cloud and server infrastructure.
04/2003 to 09/2012
At a very early stage I already focussed my specialization on solution offerings, security and web services.
since 03/1998
I'm working with Microsoft products for such a long time, I literally could decorate the walls with exam and certificate printouts. By chance, all that has transitioned into a digital world without printed paper:
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Right after a few years in professional IT employment I already was engaged into community collaboration, to share my knowledge and to discuss technology that is and has been important to me. By 2006 Brian Madden, a highly respected blogger and IT enthusiast, asked me participating as a conference speaker. This has evolved and represents a significant part of my today's community understanding and interaction. You can catch me on both national and international events and user group meetings – both as an attendee but frequently also being the speaker, discussion leader, etc.
Public speaking actually has become a passion – over the years I've spent a lot of time doing that: 178 contributions in english and german language (see flag indicator, international: #81). The session material depicts huge parts of my daily customer work and often content has been exclusively developed and improved for those gatherings. I'm an independent industry expert and known for complex sessions (level 400+).
November 14, 2024
bcRM & bcRR locations
The downsides of Modern Auth in HMC - Surving Citrix FAS and SSO expectations | Reloadedtechnical breakout session
November 1-3, 2024
Novotel, Barcelona, Spain
The downsides of Modern Auth in HMC - Surving Citrix FAS and SSO expectations | Reloadedtechnical breakout session
bcEvergreen for NetScaler - Community Editionsolution selling
September 19, 2024
De Oude Duikenburg, Echteld, Netherlands
The downsides of Modern Auth in HMC - Surving Citrix FAS and SSO expectationstechnical breakout session
May 3-5, 2024
Novotel, Madrid, Spain
The downsides of Modern Auth in HMC - Surving Citrix FAS and SSO expectationstechnical breakout session
March 5, 2024
Dieburg
how to get the max out of DaaSexecutive briefing session
October 11, 2023
De Oude Duikenburg, Echteld, Netherlands
Citrix DaaS: Access and Transport Layer – Cloud meets Enterprise (reloaded)technical breakout session
September 13-14, 2023
PERCUMA, Eppstein
IT operations in the age of daily vulnerabilitiesexecutive briefing session
September 7, 2023
bcRM & bcRR locations
Citrix DaaS: IdP, FAS, HDX-Directtechnical breakout session
June 15, 2023
bcRM & bcRR locations
Citrix DaaS: Access and Transport Layer – Cloud meets Enterprisetechnical breakout session
May 5-7, 2023
Novotel/Tiergarten, Berlin
Citrix DaaS: Access and Transport Layer – Cloud meets Enterprisetechnical breakout session
December 1, 2022
bcRM & bcRR locations
Defending against the unknown – the 'reverse proxy' myth.technical breakout session
September 28, 2022
De Oude Duikenburg, Echteld, Netherlands
Defending against the unknown – the 'reverse proxy' myth.technical breakout session
September 15, 2022
Cologne
Defending against the unknown – the 'reverse proxy' myth.technical breakout session
June 10-12, 2022
MOA/Tiergarten, Berlin
Defending against the unknown – the 'reverse proxy' myth.technical breakout session
April 30, 2020
COVID-19 Virtual Meeting
HDX for CVAD Service: Optimized technical breakout session
November 14, 2019
Heidelberg
Demystifying Citrix Workspace: Infrastructure and authentication for enterprise needstechnical breakout session
September 26, 2019
Cologne
Demystifying Citrix Workspace: Infrastructure and authentication for enterprise needstechnical breakout session
September 26, 2019
Data privacy and technology united technical online webinar
June 7-9, 2019
Novotel am Tiergarten, Berlin
Going Cloud? It's where Citrix ADC has a role!technical breakout session
June 5, 2019
Pretty much good friends?! WhatsApp, business contacts and GDPR finally in harmony with Citrix Endpoint Managementtechnical online webinar
May 21-23, 2019
Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta/GA, US
Match.Geek #4meet the expert
Match.Geek #3meet the expert
Match.Geek #2meet the expert
Match.Geek #1meet the expert
Going Cloud? It's where Citrix ADC has a role! [SYN220]technical breakout session
April 17, 2019
Ask me anything 'Security'technical online webinar
March 15, 2019
De Oude Duikenburg, Echteld, Netherlands
Pretty much good friends?! WhatsApp, business contacts and GDPR finally in harmony with Citrix Endpoint Managementtechnical breakout session
January 17, 2019
Hamburg
Better authentication made easy: Microsoft Azure MFA and Google reCaptcha powering Citrix NetScalertechnical breakout session
November 19-20, 2018
World Conference Center, Bonn
Alternate UPNs for Office 365: an identity naming strategy that fits into your Citrix Environment, and its side-effects...technical breakout session
Pretty much good friends?! WhatsApp, business contacts and GDPR finally in harmony with Citrix Endpoint Managementtechnical breakout session
November 8, 2018
Darmstadt
Alternate UPNs: Solving the Namespace technical breakout session
November 2-4, 2018
Novotel, Athens, Greece
Pretty much good friends?! WhatsApp, business contacts and GDPR finally in harmony with Citrix Endpoint Managementtechnical breakout session
September 13, 2018
Cologne
Better authentication made easy: Microsoft Azure MFA and Google reCaptcha powering Citrix NetScalertechnical breakout session
August 23, 2018
Darmstadt
Better authentication made easy: Microsoft Azure MFA and Google reCaptcha powering Citrix NetScalertechnical breakout session
August 2, 2018
Alternate UPNs: Solving the Namespace technical online webinar
August 2, 2018
Application technical workshop
June 9-10, 2018
Volkshotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Alternate UPNs: Solving the Namespace technical breakout session
CTPs' comments on latest Citrix newspodium discussion
May 8-10, 2018
Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim/CA, US
Match.Geek #4meet the expert
Match.Geek #3meet the expert
Match.Geek #2meet the expert
Match.Geek #1meet the expert
Better authentication made easy: Microsoft Azure MFA and Google reCaptcha powering Citrix NetScaler [SYN219]technical breakout session
January 26, 2018
Munich
Citrix NetScaler solution strategiessolution selling
December 14, 2017
Better authentication made easy: Microsoft Azure MFA and Google reCaptcha powering onPremises NetScalerstechnical online webinar
November 17, 2017
Better authentication made easy: Microsoft Azure MFA and Google reCaptcha powering onPremises NetScalerstechnical online webinar
October 11, 2017
Hagen
Multiple sites, DR, cloud, mobility, availability – the Citrix NetScaler familytechnical breakout session
One to rule them all: NetScaler deployed as a universal perimeter devicetechnical breakout session
September 28, 2017
Services providers using NetScaler as an identity providertechnical workshop
September 26, 2017
NetScaler & Federated Authentication in the enterprisetechnical workshop
August 17, 2017
Better authentication made easy: Microsoft Azure MFA and Google reCaptcha powering onPremises NetScalers (teaser)technical online webinar
July 13, 2017
NetScaler, Office 365 and Azure: a surprise storytechnical online webinar
June-October 2017
Using NetScaler as an identity provider #5solution selling
Using NetScaler as an identity provider #4solution selling
Using NetScaler as an identity provider #3solution selling
Using NetScaler as an identity provider #2solution selling
Using NetScaler as an identity provider #1solution selling
May 29-30, 2017
World Conference Center, Bonn
NetScaler, Office 365 and Azure: a surprise storytechnical breakout session
Connectivity Demystified: NetScaler Unified Gateway without configuration wizardstechnical breakout session
May 23-25, 2017
Orange County Convention Center, Orlando/FL, US
Match.Geek #4meet the expert
Match.Geek #3meet the expert
Match.Geek #2meet the expert
Match.Geek #1meet the expert
Connectivity Demystified: NetScaler Unified Gateway without configuration wizards [SYN324]technical breakout session
Identity Federation 1x1 with NetScaler: SAML for SaaS, B2B and enterprise [SYN327]technical breakout session
November 10, 2016
Connectivity Demystified: Receiver, StoreFront, Gatewaytechnical workshop
November 9, 2016
Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) – Now we virtualize the WAN!technical online webinar
July 7, 2016
Secure application access through consolidated NetScaler federationtechnical workshop
June 23, 2016
Cologne
Connectivity Demystified: Receiver, StoreFront, Gateway – in depthtechnical breakout session
June 20-21, 2016
Estrel, Berlin
Identity Federation: SAML for SaaS, B2B and enterprisetechnical breakout session
Connectivity Demystified: Receiver, StoreFront, Gateway – in depthtechnical breakout session
May 24-26, 2016
The Venetian, Las Vegas/NV, US
Make your web apps faster and much more secure [SYN244]technical breakout session
Connectivity Demystified: Receiver, StoreFront, Gateway – deep dive [SYN303]technical breakout session
May 19-20, 2016
etc. venues St. Paul's, London, UK
XenMobile Enterprise Demystified: Notes from the field, 2016 editiontechnical breakout session
Connectivity Demystified: Receiver, StoreFront, Gateway – deep divetechnical breakout session
October 12, 2015
The universal weapon to secure and to speed up your web appstechnical online webinar
October 6, 2015
Estrel, Berlin
Make your web apps faster and much more securetechnical breakout session
September 3, 2015
Arcadeon, Hagen
Simplified branch office networkingsolution selling
May 19-20, 2015
etc. venues St. Paul's, London, UK
XenMobile 10 deep dive with notes from the fieldtechnical breakout session
May 12-14, 2015
Orange County Convention Center, Orlando/FL, US
XenMobile Deep Dive Demo [SYN511]technical breakout session
Getting the most out of your NetScaler Gateway [SYN503]technical breakout session
January 13-14, 2015
The Venetian, Las Vegas/NV, US
Increase NetScaler deal size & revenue [SUM102]solution selling
October 21-22, 2014
Dolce, Munich
GeekSpeak: Mobility – lessons learnedpodium discussion
ShareFile in the enterprise infrastructure (ShareFile meets NetScaler)technical breakout session
XenMobile architecture and updates – notes from the fieldtechnical breakout session
XenMobile Deep Dive Demotechnical breakout session
July 21-23, 2014
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston/MA, US
The Citrix Mobility Stack uncovered, July 2014 editiontechnical breakout session
June 25, 2014
Maritim at the airport, Duesseldorf
Citrix Cloud Networking – Service & Application Delivery Infrastructuresolution selling
May 20-21, 2014
etc. venues St. Paul's, London, UK
The Citrix Mobility Stack uncovered, May 2014 editiontechnical breakout session
May 14, 2014
Duesseldorf
Enterprise IT by 2020 – important trends you should take care of now!executive briefing session
May 6-8, 2014
Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim/CA, US
ShareFile StorageZones and NetScaler – how secure are you? [SYN512]technical breakout session
The Citrix Mobility Stack uncovered, May 2014 edition [SYN508]technical breakout session
March 17, 2014
Dorint Congress & Hotel, Mannheim
Enterprise IT by 2020 – important trends you should take care of now!executive briefing session
March 17, 2014
angelo park west, Munich
Enterprise IT by 2020 – important trends you should take care of now!executive briefing session
March 3, 2014
Chamber of industry and commerce, Hannover
Enterprise IT by 2020 – important trends you should take care of now!executive briefing session
October 21-22, 2013
Dolce, Munich
ShareFile for the Experts: Secured and safe!technical breakout session
Citrix Mobility Stack: behind the scenestechnical breakout session
September 19, 2013
Frankfurt/Main
Enterprise IT by 2020 – important trends you should take care of now!executive briefing session
June 19, 2013
Arcadeon, Hagen
next generation Citrix mobility solutionssolution selling
May 22-24, 2013
Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim/CA, US
Mobility Beyond Secure Corporate Email [SYN330]technical breakout session
The "wow" factor that NetScaler brings to desktop virtualization [SYN508]technical breakout session
NetScaler accelerating mobility apps: a live report from the field [SYN209]technical breakout session
May 20-21, 2013
Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim/CA, US
NetScaler: A Comprehensive Replacement for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway [SUM236]solution selling
May 16-17, 2013
etc. venues St. Paul's, London, UK
Demystifying the Citrix Mobility Stack, May 2013 editiontechnical breakout session
October 17-18, 2012
CCIB International Convention Center, Barcelona, Spain
The "wow" factor that NetScaler brings to desktop virtualization [SYN508]technical breakout session
Deep Dive on CloudGateway [SYN203]technical breakout session
October 15-16, 2012
CCIB International Convention Center, Barcelona, Spain
Enhancing your customers remote XenDesktop experience [SUM203]solution selling
September 25, 2012
Florian tower, Dortmund
Using emerging technologies to create an efficient enterprise IT environmentexecutive briefing session
July 24-26, 2012
Hyatt Regency McCormick, Chicago/IL, US
Cloud Gateway Notes from the fieldtechnical breakout session
June 20-21, 2012
Dolce, Munich
Consumerization everywhere: how to integrate and manage mobile devices?podium discussion
Cloud Gateway Express & Enterprise: first real world project experiencestechnical breakout session
Modern IT architecture: how to design future data centers?podium discussion
Cloud aggregation: XaaS in between private and public cloudspodium discussion
Conceptual and actual security: how to match cloud services with traditional security designs?podium discussion
October 13, 2011
Gasteig Library, Munich
Total cost of ownership and IT simplificationpodium discussion
September 8, 2011
Harenberg Center, Dortmund
Total cost of ownership and IT simplificationpodium discussion
August 20, 2011
it.emsland, Lingen
Citrix XenClient 2.0 myths and factstechnical breakout session
July 19-21, 2011
Hyatt Regency McCormick, Chicago/IL, US
Citrix Provisioning Services Survival Track (Freestyle)technical breakout session
Citrix XenClient Hypervisor: Myths and facts about real world readinesstechnical breakout session
June 6-7, 2011
Sheraton Arabella, Munich
Citrix NetScaler in Microsoft and Citrix environments (generation 2011)technical breakout session
Challenges to IT because of consumerization – how to deal with personal devices in a business world? (Repeat)podium discussion
Challenges to IT because of consumerization – how to deal with personal devices in a business world?podium discussion
May 25-27, 2011
Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco/CA, US
Debating security in the cloudpodium discussion
NetScaler in a Windows and Citrix datacenter world [SYN502]technical breakout session
May 10-11, 2011
Chelsea Football Club, London, UK
Citrix XenClient: myths and factstechnical breakout session
April 4, 2011
Swissôtel, Neuss
Application Networking? But we already own switching equipment!executive briefing session
October 28, 2010
Smart ways to use Citrix NetScaler in a Windows and XenDesktop worldtechnical online webinar
October 6-7, 2010
Estrel, Berlin
Client Hypervisors – Citrix XenClient use-casespodium discussion
Microsoft Enterprise Apps with Citrix NetScaler [SYN209]technical breakout session
Smart ways to use Citrix NetScaler in a Windows and XenDesktop world [SYN502]technical breakout session
October 4-5, 2010
Estrel, Berlin
Business models targeting environments that run System-Center, Citrix NetScaler and Hyper-V [SUM113]solution selling
September 29, 2010
Arcadeon, Hagen
Loadbalancing and site resilience powered by Citrix NetScalertechnical breakout session
July 20, 2010
Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
Total cost of ownership and IT simplificationpodium discussion
June 15-17, 2010
Hilton, Chicago/IL, US
Citrix XenClient Hypervisor: Deep Dive Release Candidate Reviewtechnical breakout session
Citrix Provisioning Services Survival Track (Reloaded)technical breakout session
June 4-6, 2010
Intercity Hotel, Frankfurt/Main
Citrix Provisioning Services Survival Track (Reloaded)technical breakout session
May 17, 2010
Ludwig-Erhard-Haus, Berlin
Total cost of ownership and IT simplificationpodium discussion
May 12-14, 2010
Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco/CA, US
Shall I go for provisioning services or just upgrade my enterprise dployment solution?technical breakout session
Using NetScaler in XenApp/XenDesktop Deployments – does it really matter?technical breakout session
May 5, 2010
Arcadeon, Hagen
Citrix XenDesktop: Virtualizing workplaces all way down from desktop to laptoptechnical breakout session
November 25, 2009
Arcadeon, Hagen
Windows 7technical breakout session
July 21-23, 2009
Hilton, Chicago/IL, US
Citrix Provisioning Services – surviving demanding customerstechnical breakout session
High availability guarantees enterprise uptime – do you really need a Citrix NetScaler?technical breakout session
April 1, 2009
Arcadeon, Hagen
Web Application Firewalling using Citrix NetScaler Platinumtechnical breakout session
February 17, 2009
Arcadeon, Hagen
Citrix Provisioning services: Workload streaming in XenApp-environmentstechnical breakout session
Automated deployment toolkit: workload setup and configurationtechnical breakout session
December 2, 2008
Halbergmoos
Citrix Provisioning services: Truths, myths and demanding customer expectationstechnical breakout session
November 27, 2008
Dietzenbach
Optimized webservices delivery with Citrix NetScalersolution selling
WAN acceleration with Citrix WANScaler and BranchRepeatersolution selling
November 26, 2008
Arcadeon, Hagen
Optimized webservices delivery with Citrix NetScalersolution selling
WAN acceleration with Citrix WANScaler and BranchRepeatersolution selling
October 17, 2008
Architecting datacenter servicestechnical workshop
September 18, 2008
Hannover
go virtual V4: storage, servers, desktops, applications – Citrix Delivery Center and consolidated storagesolution selling
September 10, 2008
Arcadeon, Hagen
go virtual V4: storage, servers, desktops, applications – Citrix Delivery Center and consolidated storagesolution selling
August 30, 2008
it.emsland, Lingen
Mobile applications and security: Terminalservices and Network Access Protection (NAP)technical breakout session
August 4, 2008
Datacenter virtualizationtechnical workshop
July 9, 2008
Datacenter virtualizationtechnical workshop
July 2, 2008
Network Access Protection (NAP)technical workshop
June 16-18, 2008
Navy Pier Lakeview Terrace, Chicago/IL, US
Windows Server 2008: Load-balancing, architecture and security for terminalservicestechnical breakout session
Windows Server 2008: Terminalservices and Network Access Protection (NAP)technical breakout session
Why virtualizing a Citrix XenApp server?podium discussion
April 30, 2008
Arcadeon, Hagen
Network Access Protection (NAP) driven by Windows Server 2008 in enterprise networkstechnical breakout session
Strong authentication options in ISA Server 2006technical breakout session
Powerfull enterprise messaging with Exchange Server 2007 service pack 1technical breakout session
February 19-21, 2008
Frankfurt Trade Fair, Frankfurt/Main
Mobile applications and security: strong authentication in the new era of central computing with terminalservicestechnical breakout session
October 8-10, 2007
Nemo Science Center, Amsterdam, NL
Smartcard architecture for Windows Server 2008 terminalservicestechnical breakout session
OneTimePassword architecture for Windows Server 2008 terminalservicestechnical breakout session
Windows Server 2008: SSL and certificate usage scenariostechnical breakout session
Windows Server 2008: PKI and Certificate Services in a nutshelltechnical breakout session
April 23-25, 2007
Gleacher Center (Chicago University), Chicago/IL, US
Citrix Access Suite High-Availability: SQL Concepts, Replication and Mirroringtechnical breakout session
Citrix Program Neighborhood Agent in a world of Presentation Server, application streaming and VDItechnical breakout session
Running Citrix Access Suite in secured environmentstechnical breakout session
October 4-6, 2006
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt
Citrix Access Suite High-Availability: SQL Concepts and replicationtechnical breakout session
Citrix Program Neighborhood Agent in a world of Presentation Server and application streamingtechnical breakout session
April 10-12, 2006
National Press Club, Washington DC, US
Designing Citrix farms for high availability and multiple element failures: Web Interface Redundancytechnical breakout session
Citrix Program Neighborhood Agent architecture and mobile user impacttechnical breakout session
Designing Citrix farms for high availability and multiple element failures: Backup Datacentertechnical breakout session
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Technical certification follows a formal process and in the end, it can be enforced by brute-force methodologies – that's one of the realities in IT industry, regardless of your own opinion how to deal with ongoing certification requirements. It behaves different when dealing with people-centric awards that target special services and achievements outside of business boundaries – they honor engagement. The situation can be best-described kind of an IT "volunteer work".
My different obligations and roles outside the regular agenda:
Collaborating with Citrix as a vendor and participating in the surrounding community has become the most intense "secondary employment" I've been committed to ever in my life before.
since 10/2009
Because I'm still deeply involved in customer project business, I own a comprehensive amount of practical experiences that I'm happy to share with others. Due to my long-years integration into the community, I frequently get invited for speaking at events and webinars about my technical solutions.
The CTP program as a whole is strictly limited to a maximum of 50 awardees.
since 10/2011
I'm known to be a stickler for details in my core competencies on products and architecture.
Typically the SME attribute is tagged to Citrix employees only, and given to external candidates rarely.
since 09/2007
I'm delighted working with product management and product development in depth for advancing products and solutions in direct relationship to my customer business. Actually, I allocate a lot of time into detailed elaboration and verifying new functionalities.
Essentially it has been because of Microsoft that I've explored into the opportunities of collaborating outside of a given business standard. They were committed in an early stage offering public available community resources such as discussion forms.
2002 to 2007
My first community chapter is characterized by sophisticatedly moderating the Microsoft newsgroups, combined with a yearly product management meetup.
My personal situation and business needs in that timeframe later didn't allow me reasonably satisfying my role so that I exited the program.
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I'm not a self-employed freelance engineer, instead I've always joined and worked with several companies over the last years and spent a longer timeframe with each of those (with an increase of management responsibilities that I took over) and still like the concept of creating results as team success.
"Job-Hopping" is an attitude I dislike a lot – but over the long course of time, I obviously had to deal with significant changes to my role in general, as well as facing new challenges. From time to time, this actually required me rethinking my employment and heading towards another career opportunity.
The result reads like this:
The challenges around delivering "solutions architecture based on complex IT business demands" have significantly evolved, time really has changed fundamentally. So I joined braincon corporation (based out of Roßdorf), a specialist-focussed IT consultancy firm that has given technology competence the center stage.
I add value to the business targeting Citrix end user computing, Microsoft architecture and managed services with my given experience around cloud app networking, mobility and security. My team increases the regional reach by operating a local branch office located in Wuppertal.
I continuously professionalize my work-life balance approach, also based on part-time
since 2018
I'm an experienced business development strategist – within a services-oriented company committed on providing premium consulting practice, my technical director's role requests me designing the solution and product portfolio, reasonably selecting valuable technology and methodologies and to drive agreements, education and company-wide quality assurance.
since 2018, additional
The braincon's branch expansion to Wupperal (district "Rhein-Ruhr") happened because of my onboarding – this area represents my home base and successful IT life. For the regional team, the newly founded subsidiary is my delegated leadership with all its belongings.
since 2018, additional
My core competency concentrates on systems engineering around complex IT infrastructures and highly demanding requirements. This actually is the common thread in my IT career – and I still emphasize validating my architecture skills and technology knowledge in real world project delivery frequently. I also take care of overall solution development.
Seeking a better work-life-balance my family, and me, I moved to
At first, I continued with my existing desktop and application delivery competence and experience. Then I invented and professionalized a new complementary business model around infrastructure delivery for application-centric mobility, networking and security solutions as part of an industrialized software defined datacenter.
07/2011 to end of 2017, additional
I established my own business unit application networking, which targeted those interdisciplinary topics that have become fundamentally important to the agile IT world: mobility, B2B, web services, micro services, hybrid cloud networking and security solutions around authentication needs. I was responsible for defining the right current and future technology stack, project planning, project execution and quality assurance. I commanded my team members and took care of their specialization and educational demands.
09/2007 to end of 2017
My business unit systems engineering delivered a well-combined mix of various vendor technologies with a strong focus on Microsoft Windows Server System and Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure. That included product analytics and individual pilot-engagements up to strategic large-scale solutions to deliver applications in an efficient manner, covering industries like manufacturing, finance, insurance and government. I also was responsible for hosting architecture consulting at technical and management level, business development and presales.
Because of the acquisition into an outsourcing-minded blue-chip company, the ongoing business changed in a negative way so that the Düsseldorf-centered projects services specialists crew independently founded a spin-off named KMPA. The original goal to provide consulting services was re-emphasized and continued with regional customers ranging from medium business to large account enterprises.
I advanced my qualification in regards to project management and business development, and added this competency into my primary work area around Microsoft and Citrix products.
04/2003 to 08/2007, additional
Within division project services, I helped enterprise customer across various sectors like banking, insurance and engineering.
I promoted the idea of deploying and accessing business critical applications and services using the Wintel platform and within heterogeneous environments. My primary specialization was focussed on global usage of Terminalservices/Citrix and web integration. In addition, I assisted in pilot projects and conduct several proofs of concept regarding new
04/2003 to 08/2007
I was founding associate member and I had the mission delivering the internally used IT-portfolio embedded into a mobility and security concept that supported my fieldwork colleagues and IT experts and that also was consumed by our management. These requirements covered design, operations and the ongoing evolution. Later the needs were enhanced by an expansion requirement to onboard new locations and the overall IT-architecture evolved into a multitenancy model.
Founded in Hamburg, the Systematics corporation has been a nationwide acting IT consulting firm and allowed me jumping forward into large account business, focussed on delivering complex project services and solution offerings. Customer audience has been the majority of Germany's top 500 industry and financial services companies.
When I worked for them in division project and system services in the Düsseldorf subsidiary, I focussed on Microsoft infrastructure and Citrix desktop/application delivery.
(Systematics was acquired and merged into EDS by 2002.)
2002 to 03/2003
Being part of the business unit project services, I worked with customers from industries like banking, insurance and engineering. The job included pre-sales, design, consulting and supporting heterogeneous backend architectures.
Beyond my typical project engagement I completed pilot installations and technology proofs of concept in a range between 500 to 2,500 users.
2001
I focussed on enterprise project services, being responsible for designing and implementing client/server-systems and various solutions based on Microsoft and Citrix products. This was enhanced by research and writing studies on IT architecture and early adopter deployments.
The MEGRA has been a small IT service organization located in Solingen, Germany. They were supporting large taxation and auditing advisory firms (DATEV software products) and their customers belonging to industrial sectors that heavily used production-planning systems.
Network engineering has been an important area of specialization. Over the course of time, I pushed them into a Microsoft-oriented business model.
07/1997 to end of 2000
I advanced my career based on flexible employment models, resulting in a three-days-a-week engagement because of the positive experience in the past.
My duties were networking, server technologies, customer service, second-level support and I also managed the internal company network. I delivered technology solutions such as unified messaging, document management and CRM/ERP/commodities management. By the end of 1997 I took over strategic responsibility on deployments with Microsoft server products. MEGRA was certified as a DATEV systemspartner plus, so my daily work included conceptual and technological aspects of DATEV products for professional services agencies.
1995 to 06/1997
A few months before I started my professional education, a customer asked for an individual and very specialized solution. I took over responsibility for creating and programming the solution, based on weekend efforts. Approximately
Obviously, adoptions were required to integrate the solution into their existing multi-user environment and so I also started managing their server infrastructure.
1993 to end of 1994
While I still was in school, I completed some programming tasks as a temporary worker. I had the opportunity to realize two small projects: a commodities management system was missing some features, and we delivered add-on tools. These became integrated in production environment for several customers.
I realized database access based on Novell-Btrieve and so I also started managing server infrastructure technologies, too.
The Westdeutsche Landesbank based in Düsseldorf has been a combination of a centralized financial institute, a systems bank leading the Sparkasse organization and a worldwide acting industry financial partner. This is where I started my job life.
Because of the worldwide financial crisis starting in 2007, the bank was divided into different units by 2012 finally.
08/1995 to 06/1997
I completed my commercial accounting apprenticeship, but I realized in an early stage that I couldn't link and combine my IT interests with industry-specific user knowledge and application needs in this company.
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