It is with great pride and joy that I announce a new facet of the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) program: The Citrix Technology Professional Fellow Award.
New Award
The CTP Fellow award is a lifetime achievement award for current CTP members. It is awarded to a select number CTPs who have dedicated themselves to the success of both Citrix and the CTP community. This new program honors existing CTP members for their contributions to the CTP program
Program Goals
- Honor select CTP members for their contributions to the CTP program and Citrix
- Core idea — CTPs share mutual respect, a reverence for their CTP membership, and a willingness to rise above to protect the program and its integrity
- Work on joint endeavors to improve Citrix, the CTP program, and Citrix products
Benefits
In addition to the standard CTP member benefits;
- CTP Fellows will be offered a variety of opportunities to work on joint initiatives to improve the CTP program, Citrix, Citrix Products, and the Citrix community.
- Meet with our Chief Product Officer to review the ‘state of the ecosystem’ – hot topics, key concerns as raised by Citrix, CTP members, and Community members.
Eligibility — CTP Fellow
- Must be a current member of the CTP program
- Selection is based on CTP program seniority, years of Citrix product and technology experience, level of contributions to the community, product and business knowledge, professionalism, and value provided to CTP program
- This award is not annual and is a recognition of a lifetime of giving back to the community through exemplary service in the CTP Program
Announcing the Inaugural CTP Fellows
With this announcement, Citrix honored to recognize five of our current CTP members as the first recipients of this new award in the CTP program.
Drumroll please,
And the five are…
Alex Cooper
Country: Ireland
Technology Apps, Cloud, Networking, Mobile
LinkedIn | Twitter
Year joined CTP Program: 2006 – Founding Member
Experience: 16-20 years Citrix experience; founded/manages Expert to Expert, Virtualization Conference – E2EVC. He has hosted over 23 successful events in 14 European and US cities, over 1500 visitors from 20+ countries, 350+ top presentations in the past 11 years. “E2E Virtualization Conference” is a non-commercial event focused on educational and networking exchange.
Bernhard Tritsch
Country: Germany
Technology Apps
LinkedIn | Twitter | Website
Year joined CTP Program: 2006 – Founding Member
Experience: 20+ years Citrix experience; 26-30 years tech experience. His site, Drtritsch.com, is focused on RDS and XenApp/XenDesktop. He does extensive research on HDX graphics and has shared his findings with the community. Always willing to share his perspective with members. Co-author of 3D Graphics for Virtual Desktops Smackdown with Ruben Spruijt and Shawn Bass, ISBN 978-1-291-86651-3 www.teamrge.com
Carl Webster
Country: US
Industry Financial, Healthcare, Public Sector, Retail, Manufacturing Education
Technology Apps, Networking
LinkedIn | Twitter | Experts Exchange
Year joined CTP Program: 2009
Experience: 20+ years Citrix experience; 40+ years tech experience. His site, http://carlwebster.com, is hugely popular and free; he regularly submits corrections to documentation and Citrix exams. In July 2017, he had 381,637 downloads of the 34 scripts he makes available on his site.
Steve Greenberg
Country: US
Industry Education, Financial, Healthcare, Public Sector, Retail, Manufacturing
Technology Apps, Cloud, Networking, Mobile
LinkedIn | Twitter | Website
Year joined CTP Program: 2008
Experience: 20+ years Citrix experience. President, Thin Client Computing, a Citrix gold solution provider. His customer project “COXConnect” won the 2007 Citrix Innovation Award at Citrix iForum in Las Vegas.
Tim Mangan
Country: US
Technology Apps, Cloud, Networking
LinkedIn | Twitter
Year Joined CTP Program: 2010
Experience: 11-15 years Citrix experience; 36-40 years tech experience. Tons of documentation, training, and experience shared. His site, http://www.tmurgent.com/, on-line provides resources for practitioners in the Application Virtualization, Server Based Computing, and Virtualization at large marketplaces. Awarded Best App-V Blog for 2015.
Warm congratulations (and a hug!) to all five, from all of us at Citrix!
Perrine
@pcrampton
Cat-Herder-in-Chief
