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Andrew Warfield, Department of Computer Science, UBC (Citrix Systems)

Andrew Warfield is a Technical Director at Citrix Systems, and is responsible for the storage architecture for Citrix’s XenServer products. He also oversees emerging virtualization technologies relating to high-availability, disaster recovery, and enterprise security. He leads a small advanced development group based in Vancouver, Canada. Andrew is concurrently an Adjunct Professor in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. At UBC he co-supervises a group of fantastic graduate students and works on novel approaches to building stable and secure computer systems.

In addition to penning short autobiographies, Andrew enjoys running, cooking, vintage British automobiles, and spending time with his one-year-old son Ryan. Most recently, he and Ryan have been attempting to experimentally determine the answer to the age old question: “How many prunes are too many prunes?”