December 5 - 8, 2005
Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara, California
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Andy Abendschein has been involved in the development of interesting software systems for about 17 years. He has developed software for projects that range from automotive dynamometer and emissions measurement systems, to telecom network element management to storage management. Currently, Andy can be found at Vidiom Systems, working on software to enable interactive television.
A keen interest in object-oriented technologies led him to explore CIM and WBEM technologies. The result of that interest is the development of CimNavigator, a tool which can be used to explore, monitor, and manipulate CIM object spaces.
Andy's 'non-geek' interests include motorcycling and spending time outdoors in Colorado's mountains.
Akhil is an architect in the CNS/N1 Technology Office at Sun
Microsystems. Akhil is the primary author of the Wiseman project
- a Java SE implementation of WS-Management hosted at
https://wiseman.dev.java.net.
Scott has recently architected and deployed a native SMI-S capability for iStor, and has been a key contributor in defining iSCSI for SMI-S through the Disk Resource Management working group, the IP Storage working group, and the DMTF Network and Core working groups. Scott serves as the IP Storage working group representative to the Technical Steering group and is a member of the TSG Core Team. Scott has also been active in the SMILab effort to both demonstrate iSCSI interoperability at SNW and to ensure the maturity of the SMI iSCSI Target subprofile.
Scott has fifteen years of experience in the storage industry. Prior to iStor, he worked for Aristos Logic, CMD Technology, and Storage Concepts.
Scott holds both a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at Riverside.
Guru currently works as a Management Standards Architect at Oracle
Corp. in Nashua, NH. Prior to this, he was a senior software engineer
at Sun Microsystems Inc. where he was part of the team that developed
the Java WBEM Services CIMOM. He participates in various DMTF working
groups and has been an active member of the DMTF community for over 6
years.
Winston
Bumpus serves as the Director of Systems Management Architecture and
Standards
at Dell, Inc.
In
this role, he is responsible for driving Dell’s standards based systems
management architecture across Dell’s entire product line.
In addition, he is responsible for Dell’s
overall standards strategy across the 80+ organizations to which Dell
belongs.
Winston
has had over 30 years of experience in the computer industry. He is currently the President of the
DMTF. He is also the Co-Chair of the
OASIS Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Technical Committee. He participated in the DMTF’s Common
Information
Model (CIM) development and was chair of its Application Management
Working
Group.
Prior
to joining Dell, Winston was Director of Open Technologies and
Standards for
Novell, Inc. He was also a founder of
Annatek Systems with was focused on distributed systems management.
Winston is co-author of the recently released books “Common Information Model” and “The Foundations of Application Management”.
Mark A. Carlson, Senior Architect at Sun Microsystems' Network Storage division has more than 25 years of experience with Networking and Storage development and more than eight year's experience with Java technology.
He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. He is a co-chair of the SNIA Policy working group, chairs the DMTF Policy working group, serves as vice chair on the SNIA Technical Council, and represents Sun Microsystems on the DMTF Technical Committee and Board.
Mark was one of the original developers at Redcape Policy Software,
Inc., a small Boulder, Colorado startup that was acquired by Sun
Microsystems in June 1998.
Fred is currently the chief runtime architect for AmberPoint. Prior to AmberPoint, Fred was the architect and technical lead for EAI products at Forte, a role which he continued at Sun Microsystems. Fred has also held several technical leadership positions at Oracle where he designed distributed object services for interactive TV, online services and content management. Prior to Oracle, Fred worked for 12 years at Ingres in several senior positions including Principal Scientist/Chief Architect. Fred graduated from Northwestern University and received his M.S. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
Carl Chan is currently the Director of Education for WBEM Solutions, Inc. He has over 30 years of software development experience working for major computer companies such as Data General, Prime Computer and Sun Microsystems. During that time, Carl has gained extensive knowledge in operating systems, local area networks, system management and storage technologies.
Since 1988, Carl has participated in numerous standards activities such as X/Open, the Distributed Management Task Force, the Java Community Process, The Open Group, and the Storage Network Industry Association. For the past 5 years, he has been actively involved in promoting and defining the standards for the Common Information Model and Web Based Enterprise Management.
Josh does Technical Evangelism in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft. He leads the standards engagements for WS-Management and is also a co-author of the WS-Management specification. Prior to this role, he has been a Program Manager, Developer and Administrator working on various Web infrastructure products, Standards and systems. Josh holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University.
John Crandall is Senior Staff Engineer for Brocade’s Technology Group, responsible for ensuring management standards integration into the Brocade architecture. Crandall works closely with standards organizations such as SNIA and DMTF to develop, drive, and promote standards to simplify management of heterogeneous Storage Area Networks.
While at Brocade, Crandall was one of the original architects of the Bluefin Specification and is a Principal Author of the SNIA’s Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) and core team member of it’s steering group. Crandall also chairs the SNIA’s Fibre Channel Technical Work Group, is a member of the DMTF Technical Council, is the SNIA’s liaison to the DMTF, and is the Chair of the DMTF Core Schema Work Group. Also Crandall has been recognized by the SNIA as a SMI Distinguished Engineer and by the DMTF with the Star Award.
Crandall has been with Brocade for over four years, has more than 10 years of experience in enterprise system management, and over 20 years as a high technology engineer. Prior to Brocade, Crandall was a Project Lead at Intel’s Fabric Components Division, responsible for defining requirements for Intel’s InfiniBand management products. While at Intel, Crandall developed the first prototype CIM provider for fabrics using InfiniBand prototype hardware.
Prior to Intel, he held multiple project leadership positions at Siemens, where he worked on enterprise and network management. Prior to that, he spent a decade at GE developing flight control systems, advanced radar systems, voice switching control systems, and reactor information systems. Crandall holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from San Jose State University.
Jim Davis has over 15 years experience in systems and network management. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), a member of the DMTF Technical Committee, chair of the DMTF Interop Working Group, chair of the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) Management Protocol Technical Working Group. Jim also acts as the Specification lead for the Java Specification Request (JSR) 48, the WBEM Services Specification, and is involved in many other management standards and open source initiatives. Just recently, he was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Storage World Conference.
Jim Davis has been one of the key architects of CIM and WBEM. Jim also has been an expert speaker of numerous CIM and WBEM conferences, including the DMTF Developers Conference, JavaOne, The Open Group, CA World, and Solaris Developers Conference to name a few.
Prior to co-founding WBEM Solutions, Jim spent nine years with Sun Microsystems, Inc. as a Senior Architect responsible for various system and network management technologies and products, including Java WBEM Services and Solaris WBEM Services. Prior to joining Sun in 1993, Jim worked in the Research & Development group at The Damirus Corporation.
Dave Dalapati works at BlueSAN Technologies, a company focused on
providing management software development toolkit and consulting
services for software development based on CIM/SMI-S and other
management standards.
He has over 20 years experience in architecting and developing software
systems for managing storage, servers, enterprise networks and
telecommunications network atcompanies like Motorola, Bell
Communications Research, Verizon and BellSouth.
For past five years, he has been involved with storage management.
Prior to BlueSAN,Dave was responsible for defining and implementing the
software infrastructure for a highly integrated processor to do SAN
based storage virtualization at Ivivity.
Dave holds a MS in Applied Statistics and a MS in Computer Science from
Indian Institute of technology, Chennai.
Denise Eckstein is a Project Manager in HP's Management Solutions Lab. She has over 20 years of experience working in the computer industry. Denise represents Hewlett-Packard on the the DMTF Technical Committee and the OpenPegasus Steering Committee. She holds a BA in Mathematics, and an M.S.and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Iowa.
Mr. Ericson is a Senior Technologist for the Advanced Technology Group of EMC Corporation's Storage Platforms Operations. Mr. Ericson has worked in an architect role for storage and operating systems throughout most of his 30+ years in the industry. He is active within DMTF, representing EMC within the Technical Council, and actively participating in the Architecture, Core, and WBEM Infrastructure and Protocols Working Groups. Mr. Ericson is also active within the Storage Networking Industry Assocation, has contributed significantly to the SMI-S specification, and is a strong advocate for the use of the Common Information Model.
Ron is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM working in the Systems and Technology Group Systems Architecture group. Ron has been a contributor to the evolving virtual system model being developed in the System Virtualization, Clustering and Partitioning workgroup of the DMTF. He has held a number of leadership positions in IBM in the areas of system management, virtualization modeling, and system design. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University and a MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Todd Guay is a Director of Software Development in the System Management Products division at Oracle. Todd has nearly 20 years of experience in the computer industry. The majority of his career has been focused on problems in the system management domain. Todd has been involved in the design and implementation of products for performance management, network configuration, storage manufacturing, database management, and enterprise management. Over the last 8 years, Todd has held management and technical positions related to Oracle's Enterprise Manager product.
Todd is currently the chair of the Technical Committee and also serves as chair of the Database Working Group. Within the industry, Todd has been published in several technical journals, including the Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, and the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, for his work in knowledge acquisition, reuse, and diagnostics.
Before joining Oracle, Todd was a Consulting Engineer for database tuning at Digital Equipment Corporation. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Jon Hass is a Software Architect with the Dell Systems Management Architecture and Standards team in the Office of the CTO. Currently, he is chair of the DMTF WBEM Interoperability and Protocols (WIP) Profiles Working Group, vice-chair of the DMTF CIM Core Model Working Group, contributer to the DMTF Server Management Working Group and the Dell representative on the DMTF Technical Committee. He is also the chair of the Intelligent Platform Mapping Interface (IPMI) CIM Mapping Committee of the IPMI Forum.
Matthew Hamre is currently a Software Developer and Technical Trainer for WBEM Solutions, Inc. He has over 10 years of software testing and development experience working for major computer companies such as Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems. During that time, Matthew has gained extensive knowledge in operating systems, system and network management and storage technologies.
Since 1998, Matthew has participated in numerous standards activities such as the Distributed Management Task Force, the Java Community Process and the Storage Network Industry Association. For the past 5 years, he has been actively involved in promoting and defining the standards for the Common Information Model, Web Based Enterprise Management and the Storage Management Initiative.
Steve Hand is an architect with the Chief Technology Officer's Office at Symantec Software providing leadership in the development of standards based manageability into Symantec products. Steve has 17 years experience in software development, in both consulting and shrink-wrap product development, for distributed information systems, driver development, web based applications, and storage management applications. He is an active participant in the DMTF Technical Committees, WBEM Infrastructure and Protocol, Architecture, System and Devices, and Policy working groups and a member of the DMTF Technical Committee. Steve participates in SNIA in several technical working groups, is an author of SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), member of the SNIA Technical Committee, and is technical director of SNIA's SMI Lab.
Jeff Hilland is Senior Architect in the CTO's office for Hewlett Packard's Industry Standard Server business unit. Jeff's over 20 year career in the computing industry includes systems and server management, distributed systems architecture, system software integration, automated deployment & configuration tool development, device driver and services architecture & development and high speed intercommunications protocol development & standardization including InfiniBand, RDMA and VI. Jeff is a co-chair of the DMTF Server Management Working group, as well as the RDMA Consortium.
Steffen brings over 20 years of software industry experience to Avocent. Steffen's technical expertise covers software design/architecture, software engineering, high performance algorithms, federated systems interoperability, protocol and language design, quality assurance and product line development. In the systems management software (SMS) space, Steffen contributes to the evolving design of the Distributed Management Task Force's (DMTF) Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Common Information Model (CIM). Prior to joining OSA, Steffen was the Director of Product Development at Advent Software, Inc, specializing in financial applications of real-time, main-memory, object-oriented databases. Before that, Steffen gained an intimate understanding of mission critical computing at Oracle. For over 5 years at Oracle, Steffen simultaneously held both senior technical positions and product development management positions. Steffen holds three B.A. degrees from the University of Oregon's Honors College.
Steve Jerman is a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems within the Network Management Technical Group CTO office where he is a member of the core CIM modeling group, specializing in tools and infrastructure for modeling support and adoption across Cisco.
Prior to joining Cisco in March 2005, Steve worked for Hewlett Packard for 16 years where he was a Distinguished Technologist and lead architect for storage management software within the Network Storage Solutions division of HP.
He has been involved with the development of CIM/WBEM as a storage management interface since 1998. He was one of the primary authors of the Storage Management Initiative Specification, and led many of the early plug fests and demonstrations of the technology at industry events such as Storage Networking World. In 2003 SNIA honored Steve with the award of SMI Distinguished Engineer.
He has been an active participant in both the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). Steve is vice-chair of the Technical Committee at the DMTF and past chair of the DMTF’s System and Devices Working Group. He has is also a past chair of SNIA's Disk Resource Management Technical Working Group.
Steve holds an Honors Degree in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering from Liverpool University in the UK. He is also a member of
the UK's Institute of Electrical Engineers and is a Chartered Engineer.
Robert Kieninger is the technical team lead for CIM/WBEM on IBM's z/OS operating system. He has several years of hands-on experience with the development of CIM models, CIM instrumentation and the OpenPegasus CIM Server.
Heather Kreger is the lead architect for Web Services and Management in the Emerging Technologies area. She is currently co-lead of the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee, member of several related DMTF Work Groups, as well as IBM’s representative to the W3C Web Services Architecture Working Group. Heather was co-lead of JSR109 that specifies web services deployment in J2EE environments and a contributor to the Java Management Extensions (JMX) specification, Heather is also the author of: numerous articles on Web services and management in the IBM Systems Journal, Communications of ACM, Web Services Journal; public technical work including the “Web Services Conceptual Architecture”, “WS-Manageability”; and her own book “Java and JMX, Building Manageable Systems”.
An Lam is the architect and team lead of SMI-S API team at 3PARdata Inc. He initiated the technical implementation of SMI-S program and successfully demonstrated 3PAR’s interoperability at SNW 2004. He’s responsible for building SMI-S providers and participating in SMI-Lab program. Mr. Lam also represents 3PAR at SNIA technical work groups. Prior to 3PAR, he was a manager and the architect of network management software at Gadzoox Networks responsible for managing and leading the development of software products for all Gadzoox's SAN switches.
Before Gadzoox Networks, Mr. Lam was an advisory software engineer at IBM Storage System Division where he worked on many storage management products for IBM mainframes, UNIX and Windows. At IBM, he co-authored US Patent 6,272,677 title “Method and System for Automatic Detection and Distribution of Code Version Updates”. Mr. Lam has more than 17 years of file systems, SNMP, WBEM/CIM, storage resource management development experiences on many operating systems. He has been selected to present technical tutorial sessions at SNIA Developer Conference 2005 (San Jose, CA), Storage Management Summit 2004 (Miami, FL), Fibre Channel Technology Conference 2001 (San Jose, CA), and DMTF Developer Conference 2001 (San Jose, CA), Storage Networking World Fall 2000 (Orlando,FL).
Mr. Lam has taught at University of California at Santa Cruz for more than 6 years. His courses have included SAN Basics, Advanced Java Programming, Internet Programming Technologies, Java Network Programming, UNIX System Programming, C Programming and Common Object Request Broker Architecture(CORBA). During his spare time, he reviews Java books for Prentice-Hall and Morgan Kaufman publishers. Mr. Lam earned his B.S. degree in computer science from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona (1988) and M.S. degree in computer engineering from Santa Clara University (1992).
David Lutterkort is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. where he has been working on Red Hat's management technology Red Hat Network. Over the years, he has architected and implemented a variety of J2EE applications, including content management and risk management systems. Before joining Red Hat, David earned a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University.
David is a recognized industry expert in the area of high availability systems and standards-based platform management, having served on numerous industry committees including the Intel-sponsored High Availability Forum, the PICMG 2.16 Compact Packet-Switched Backplane working group, and the Hardware Platform Interface subgroup of the Service Availability Forum. David has published numerous articles in trade magazines, and spoken at many industry conferences as a subject matter expert, generally on the subjects of high availability computing and standards-based platform management. David was Director of Engineering for both Texas Micro and RadiSys focusing on high availability product development. This included overseeing the successful pursuit of five patents for basic fault-tolerant technology, technical, marketing, and sales support. In 1989, David joined Tandem Computers where he served in various roles including manager of communications software and systems management software for the Tandem Integrity family of fault-tolerant UNIX systems.
Aaron is an Advisory Engineer in eServer and Blade Systems Management Development. His job focus is on developing industry standard interfaces for systems management. He received an B.S in Mathematics from Florida Atlantic University in 1997 and an M.S in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in 2000. Aaron has been developing Systems Management software since joining IBM in 1998.
Senior member at Motorola's ECC (Part of Motorola Networks.) Key technical contributor to AIS and Architecture WGs in the Service Availability Forum.
Stephen Mills has a BA degree in Philosophy and MS degree in Computer Science. Stephen has twenty years of engineering experience in distributed embedded systems in the telecommunications industry. His principle roles have been as software architect, designer and developer in various problem spaces including system management, language definition, standards based management and control plane protocols, and for the last several years, high availability middleware.
Norm Paxton is a Senior Engineer at Novell, Inc, where he is currently working on an implementation of the SMASH initiative. He has also contributed to a CIM-based web-app to monitor health of network components. Prior to Novell, Norm spent several years at NetVision, Inc, as a key contributor to its Integrated Security Policy Management product line.
Steve Peters has worked in the storage industry for 25+ years and is an employee of Hewlett Packard Company. He was a founding member of the "Partner development process" that produced the "Bluefin" specification (the basis for SMI-S). He is currently chairman of the SNIA DRM workgroup (Disk Resource Management) and chairman of the SNIA Scalability workgroup. He is also author of the Array, Storage Virtualizer, and disk drive profiles in the SMI-S standard.
Tim Potter is a software engineer working in the HP Open Source and Linux Organization. He works on writing and testing WBEM providers for HP's Integrity range of servers under Linux. Tim has been involved with WBEM within HP for the last two years.
James has had a long career working in or associated with the computer industry. His career has encompassed consumption of computing products, reselling products, manufacturing of products and testing products to standards conformance. He started out as an end-user at Market Support International, then a TMP Group Company, managing the Systems Group. He designed and managed inventory management systems, order entry systems and inbound call tracking systems while at MSI. He then went on to work for the Ultimate Corporation in their sales support group. Ultimate was a manufacturer of the PICK operating system and a reseller of various UNIX operating systems platforms. James’ role at the Ultimate Corp. was to assist approximately 150 application vendors with conversion and sales issues associated with their applications. He went from the Ultimate Corp to work for the Hewlett-Packard Company focusing on issues associated with the UNIX operating system and relational databases. His career at HP also afforded him the opportunity to work on the introduction of high-end array products and storage management products.
Motorola's ECC (Part of Motorola Networks). Co-Chair Application Interface Specification WG within SAF. Current AMF editor and very active contributor to both AIS and SYSMAN WGs within SAF. Co-authored SNMP MIBs for SAF AMF & AIS services. Other areas of activity include architecting and designing Highly-Available Clustering, Middleware and infrastructure software for carrier grade TELCO platforms. Extensive implementation and design experience in wireline, datacom & telecom areas including MPLS, IP Routing, Voice over IP and SS7.
Julie Schott (jschott@cisco.com) is a Technical Leader for the Information Modeling group at Cisco Systems. She has worked in the industry for over 21 years in the areas of network and storage management and software development. Julie is a member of the DMTF Technical Committee, a former chair of the CIM System and Devices Working Group and has participated in the SNIA, GGF, and Open Group. Before joining Cisco, Julie was employed by LSI Logic, Symbios Logic, Maxtor, Intellistor, Information Storage, and Hewlett-Packard. She has a B.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State University.
Christina Shaw is a Software Architect in the Chief Technical Office of Hewlett-Packard's Industry Standard Servers division. Her chief responsibilities include management architecture for ISS' next generation modular systems and integrated HP company management vision, strategy, planning and implementation. Christina has made significant contributions to industry standards in distributed systems management over the last 15 years. Some of her accomplishments include key contributions to the X/Open Event Management System architecture, the DMTF Event Specification V1.0, and most recently, the DMTF Server Management Specification. As a member of the DMTF Server Management Working Group, Christina is the editor of the Server Management Instance Addressing specification.
Founding chair of the Service Availability Forum Systems Management WG, and author of the SA Forum distributed management specification. Chair of Distributed Management Task Force’s Redundancy/Clustering/Partitioning WG, where we are developing cluster management models for high availability and utility computing environments. Authored various SNMP and CIM specifications for industry and product requirements specifications within Motorola’s Embedded Computing Components Division. Actively in security, cluster and Linux efforts within Motorola and industry.
Ravi has been an active OGSA core team member since inception.
He has over 12 years of experience in distributed computing, cluster,
HPC and Grid (path finding, architecture and development).
Currently an Enterprise architect at Intel and lead architect of
Intel’s internal Grid solutions. A key Intel representative for Grid
standards activities and external engagements. Ravi is also Intel’s
representative on the board of the Globus consortium
Aparna Vasanth is a Senior Software Engineer for Brocade's API Development Group. While at Brocade, Vasanth has worked in the API Group and specifically has been involved in all phases of CIM/WBEM instrumentation development including developing software to meet the SNIA SMI Specification across Brocade's line of fibre channel switches. Vasanth has worked at Brocade for four years and over ten years in software development.
Andrea Westerinen (andreaw@cisco.com) is an Architect in Cisco Systems' Network Management Technology Group, focused on object-oriented models for systems and network management. She has worked in the computer industry for more than 20 years, the last ten years in the areas of enterprise, system, network, storage and policy-based management.
Andrea is an active participant in the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and other standards organizations, such as OASIS, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), The Open Group and the Global Grid Forum. Andrea held the role of DMTF VP of Technology from October 2001 to January 2004, and was the Technical Director of the SNIA in 1999-2000.
Before joining Cisco, Andrea was employed by Microsoft, Intel, IBM and NCR. She has a BS in Physics and Mathematics from Marquette University, and an MS in Computer Science from Nova University.
Jeff Wheeler has filled a wide variety of eclectic roles in his 27-year technical career rooted in the network technology world. Detailed expertise is on wireless, IPV6, OO modeling and middleware, networking routing protocols and services designs, control plane protocols, and solutions from an architectural posture including technical content, product and services creation and deployment. Jeff is active on the technical conference speaking circuit.
Currently Jeff is filling a position as Technical Lead-Architect in a CTO Office in NMTG at Cisco Systems. Jeff is an active participant in several standards bodies covering a wide range of technologies.
Jeff’s previous job titles and roles include, among others, Principal Engineer, Principal Consultant, Chief Scientist, CTO, and Network Architect. Previous employers include Motorola, Microsoft, PfN, Bay Networks, Nortel, and Intuit.
J. Bart Whiteley is a Senior Engineer at Novell driving CIM based systems management technologies. Prior to Novell Bart developed distributed systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Bart also worked for 5 years at Caldera, Inc. where he coauthored the award-winning OpenWBEM CIMOM and WBEM framework. Bart continues to contribute to the OpenWBEM project at Novell. He has a BS in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and a MS in Computer Science from Utah State University.
Kirk Wilson is an architect in the Office of CTO of Computer Associates International, Inc.; where he concentrates on Web-based standards for IT/enterprise management. Kirk works with industry standards organizations (OASIS, DMTF, etc.) and serves on a number of technical committees that are dedicated to advancing management standards. Kirk is currently the editor of WSDM MOWS specification. Kirk holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts and has taught modern philosophy and logic at the college and graduate levels.
Alan Yoder, Ph.D. is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Network Appliance, Inc., in Sunnyvale, California. Alan has been at Netapp since earning his Ph.D. in in distributed systems in 1997, working on protocols, management frameworks, management applications, management partnerships, the Manage ONTAP™ SDK, and other projects. He also has experience in construction and industrial accounting, CAD design and programming, GUI design and development and project management. He holds Bachelors, MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Goshen College and the University of Notre Dame.
Alan is a member of the Technical Council and co-chairs the Disk Resource Management TWG at SNIA, chairs the Enterprise Grid Alliance Data Provisioning Working Group and participates actively in several other Working Groups in the SNIA, EGA and DMTF.
Ernest Yu is a Staff SQA Engineer for Brocade's API SQA Group. While at Brocade, Yu has worked in the API Group and specifically has been involved in all testing phases of CIM/WBEM instrumentation. This included SNIA CTP tests to verify conformance to the SNIA SMI Specification across Brocade's line of fibre channel switches. Yu has worked at Brocade for over five years and over eleven years in SQA.
Currently Alex is a Chief Architect at NetBoss Business Unit of Harris Corporation leading the team responsible for architecture definition of the next-generation enterprise management system.
He is the principal and voting representative of Harris Corporation in several standard development organizations such as DMTF, ATIS (TMOC Committee),TMF and an active participant of the ITU-T Next Generation Network Management Focus Group (NGNMGMTFG).
Earlier as the Principal Architect, Alex was leading the work on the Enterprise Application Integration Software, working with the design and development teams responsible for implementation of distributed and dynamic system architecture, model transformation engine and interface development with different Ordering, Provisioning and Billing systems. He was also leading several projects dealing with Enterprise Resource Management for Harris Corporation, General Electric and several smaller companies.
Alex has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from State Technical University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia where I’ve also prepared and taught the course on the principles of Network and Enterprise Management.