Helge Klein

"I am probably a rare specimen in that I am both consultant and developer. When you are a consultant, programming expertise often comes in handy. Writing small scripts to automate tedious tasks is a no-brainer. The ability to quickly develop the perfect tools for complex migration scenarios is a real benefit for the customer. In more than 10 years of working for several large enterprises I had the ability to hone both my consulting and development skills. When you are a developer, consulting experience is a great asset. I was the architect of the user profile management solution sepagoPROFILE, which has become Citrix User Profile Manager. Why was sepagoPROFILE so successful? Because our consulting background helped us design the product in such a way that it fits neatly into heterogeneous environments, is easy to set up and maintain. In my spare time I pursue several projects related to IT. In the early 2000s, when I needed a command line program to manage printer permissions and could not find one, I decided to write my own tool for the task, SetACL. I did not stop at printer permissions, but wrote a universal tool for automated permission management. Its success speaks for itself – SetACL has been downloaded more than 290,000 times. It’s free and open source! When I got the chance to work with O’Reilly Germany, I did not have to think twice. I have proofread several books for technical correctness (among them the famous Active Directory book) and written my own little compendium, a guide to the command line tools in Windows. In September 2009 I received the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) award. Many thanks to all those who have made that possible. You can find and contact me on Twitter as HelgeKlein. If you do not know where to start reading on this site, consider using the article index."

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