Member of the Month

Members of the Month   Bill Kennon Citrix Houston, TX, USA Roy Tokeshi Citrix Phoenix, AZ, USA    How long have you been with Citrix, and what is your job? Bill Kennon : I am an SE working with Enterprise customers in the South Central. I have been with Citrix for 12 years, working throughout the area as a Sales Engineer. Much of what I do is customer awareness for new products and enhancements, as well as helping answer those difficult questions that our customers ...

Members of the Month   Chris Jeucken CTA Alphen aan den Rijn , NL Chris Twiest CTA Dieren , NL    What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? Chris Jeucken : I am an EUC consultant for ConoScenza in the Netherlands. I spend most of my time designing and deploying EUC environments for our customers. Most of the time we use Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops combined with a Citrix Gateway . Chris Twiest : I  work as Technology Officer at RawWorks ...

Member of the Month  JON BUCUD San Diego, CA, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? Our firm leans heavily on Citrix NetScal..err...Citrix ADC to provide reliable, secure, context-aware access to applications–whether that's RGRD's  in-house eDiscovery platform, secure file share system or Virtual Desktops via Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. We've been able to adapt and integrate modern authenticated SaaS applications, ...

Member of the Month  THERESA MILLER Helenville, WI, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? Citrix Cloud and Citrix Virtual Apps (XenApp) . Tell us about a recent tech problem that Citrix technology helped you solve. I recently helped an enterprise POC Citrix Cloud for an application that they plan to have external users access. The process from start to finish was interesting, as it helped drive an understanding ...

Member of the Month  BRANDON MITCHELL Maineville, OH, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? I work for a large, traditional grocer in the United States and use Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (not to be confused with citrus in our produce department). We deliver a productivity desktop to our retail locations and various other line of business applications to our business units. I’ve worked at my current employer for ...

Member of the Month  HEATHER MEYER Denver, CO, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? I work primarily with on-prem Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops. I’m a consultant, and my clients are mostly medium-sized healthcare organizations. They have complex needs for their size and Citrix offers the range of options that they need to deliver EHR applications and all the related peripherals effectively. What are the biggest ...

Members of the Month In honor of our upcoming 500th meeting in Nashville on June 20th , we shine the Member of the Month spotlight on two CUGC HQ members who work so hard behind the scenes to make all of our local meetings and XL events happen: Katie Eubanks & Jennifer Gibbons CUGC HQ Charleston, SC, USA    Explain what you do for CUGC and what our members may not realize is involved with local meeting planning. Jen : With over 70 groups, planning 2-4 meetings a year, ...

Member of the Month  MARCUS WIELOCH Melbourne, Australia      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? For me, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and NetScaler ADC are the most important Citrix technologies, as they are utilized by my users. NetScalers are utilized to access our secured environment which manages our gas pipeline network and power stations. Virtual apps are utilized by users in the secured environment to help control ...

Member of the Month  Scott Osborne Omaha, NE, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? I currently work as a Regional Lead and Sr. Solutions Architect for Choice Solutions focused on Citrix technologies from a EUC  standpoint. So, for me, I daily get to work across the whole stack on a myriad of various projects. However, if I were to pick one specific area, it would be the Citrix ADC. Pretty much any project I work ...

Member of the Month  Nathan Smith Austin, TX, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? We are currently embracing the virtual application and desktop technologies that Citrix provides due to the level of security from data center to endpoint that is unparalleled anywhere else in the industry. We love the fact that we can deploy a DLP program, encryption in transit and at rest all with a basic design from Citrix. ...

Member of the Month  Shane Kleinert, CTP Coral Springs, FL, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? Working as a Senior Solutions Architect for Choice Solutions, the Citrix technology stack is our bread and butter. We work with various customers and industries of all sizes. To me, that is the most exciting part of our work–taking the opportunity to understand the problems our customers are facing and building technology ...

Member of the Month  Jane Cassell, CTA London, UK      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? Currently, I am focused on Citrix Cloud and IaaS, on various public cloud platforms, establishing the best underlying configuration onto which to deploy the Citrix components to make the best use of cloud tech. I am one of the Senior Workspace Consultants in the Hybrid Workspace team at my company, HPE. I originally joined a fairly small ...

Member of the Month  Garren Quibelan San Jose, CA, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? One of the most important Citrix technologies to my work here at PayPal would be Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS). PayPal has thousands of Virtual Desktops across multiple geographical locations. PVS gives us the ability to centrally manage the virtual images assigned to all of our endpoints. Without PVS, we would not be able ...

Member of the Month  Greg Tiber Madison, WI, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? Application virtualization and Sharefile. We've centralized applications and isolated unique applications within our environment using Citrix Xenapp. We purchased Sharefile a few years ago to consolidate all our file sharing into one industry-leading tool. What's the biggest tech challenge you're currently dealing with, and how does Citrix help? I'm ...

Member of the Month  Nick Burton Indianapolis, IN, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? The XenApp/XenDesktop suite, paired with NetScaler ADC+Gateway, allows our users to have a great and consistent experience from any device, any location, and at any given time. These products have become a core component to delivering applications and desktops to our entire workforce. What's the biggest tech challenge you deal with, and how ...

Member of the Month  Ryan Revord Omaha, NE, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? XenDesktop and Netscaler–I belong to a team responsible for delivering apps and desktops worldwide to over 25k concurrent users daily. This combination of products allows us to do that. What's the biggest tech challenge you deal with, and what Citrix solutions are you using? Security and analytics in general. We need a lot of data, ranging from what ...

Member of the Month  Patrick Coble Fairview, TN, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? Citrix Workspace Apps and Desktops (XenApp and XenDesktop) along with Citrix ADC (NetScaler) are what I work with on a daily basis. Workspace Apps and Desktops is the center of most customers' worlds when it comes to securely delivering application and desktops, which is why it is most important to my work. What's the biggest tech challenge you ...

Member of the Month  Kevin Howell Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? We work with the full Citrix ecosystem. I am currently spending a lot of time developing our Digital Secure Workspace DaaS offering with Citrix Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Key work areas are XenApp/XenDesktop, NetScaler, along with Windows 10/Office 365! What's the biggest tech challenge you deal with, and what Citrix solutions ...

Member of the Month  Steve Elgan Omaha, NE, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? We use XenApp, StoreFront, Netscaler VPX, PVS, and MCS on Nutanix to deliver our Electronic Medical Record workloads to about 1200 users in three states. We love how well Citrix integrates with and runs on Nutanix! What's the biggest tech challenge in your work environment, and what Citrix solutions are you using (or hope to)? The largest challenge ...

Member of the Month  Cathy Leik Portland, MI, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? I work with most frequently with XenDesktop/XenApp, MCS, Profile Management, Receiver, and NetScaler. What are the biggest tech challenges in your work environment, and what Citrix solutions are you looking at? One of the biggest challenges I’ve been dealing with is Windows 10–the changes between versions, and how to deal with it in a non-persistent ...