Jean Francois Aprea Email & Phone Number

Sophia-Antipolis

Sophia-Antipolis

After a long and valuable IT experience for more than 20 years as a Consultant and Expert on Microsoft technologies, I accepted new challenges to join the RDI Group as Consultant and Microsoft Community Technical Manager.Based in south of France in Nimes, Marseille and Sophia-Antipolis with a staff of nearly 200 peoples with more than 125 project managers, architects, engineers and consultants, the RDI Group is a major player in the region. Actually developing the south-east business from Sophia-Antipolis to Monaco, the RDI Group own Microsoft Gold, Citrix Gold and VMware Enterprise agreements and positions itself as a regional leader with over 50 regional customers and more than 3,000 users already hosted in the Cloud.As a Consultant, Architect and Microsoft Community Technical Lead at RDI Group, I participate - with all my valuable colleagues, to architect, plan and deploy Microsoft solutions to meet customer’s needs at the best cost.Always passionate by Microsoft Hyper-V technologies, System Center product line, Active Directory, as well as collaboration solutions, the Microsoft team in RDI Group is committed even today with Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and hybrid Cloud architectures.To maintain knowledge and expertise, I maintain a network of skilled professionals around the world via colleagues and partners to share strategic information and technical experience. Finally, for my contributions to the Microsoft community, I was awarded as Microsoft MVP Cloud and Datacenter Management in 2016 and MVP on Hyper-V (Virtual Machine Architecture) from 2009 to 2015. In last November, I was at the MVP Summit in Microsoft campus to learn, exchange and work on Hyper-V 2016 and new SDDC (Software Defined DataCenter) technologies with the Microsoft Hyper-V team, Storage and Networking team and my other Hyper-V MVP fellows. Windows Server 2016 is a great release and work is in progress for a new book on Hyper-V and System Center VMM in 2017.