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Episode 45
Rick D. is the Citrix OG

Rick Dehlinger is regarded by many as one of the founding fathers of the Citrix community. Some consider his “Installation and Tuning Tips for Citrix MetaFrame” work a major contributor to the evolution of the Desktop Virtualization landscape, and credit his work for shaping the careers of many in the industry. His professional career has taken a wandering path, starting as a consultant in the WinView/WinFrame days. He joined Citrix in 1998, working in the field as a solution architect through 2005. He then went on to start and sell a couple consulting practices, forge new ground in ‘the cloud', and even spent some time in the enterprise storage world. Rick re-joined Citrix in 2016, and is currently a Solutions Architect on the Cloud Innovation Partnerships team, focused on bringing Citrix + Google solutions to market.
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Rick Dehlinger is regarded by many as one of the founding fathers of the Citrix community. Some consider his “Installation and Tuning Tips for Citrix MetaFrame” work a major contributor to the evolution of the Desktop Virtualization landscape.
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