Advisory Council
Mark Carlson, Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems
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.
Jim Davis, CEO/CTO, WBEM Solutions
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.
Jerry Duggan, Hewlett Packard
Todd Guay, Director of Software Development, Oracle
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.
Chris Hobbs, Nortel’s Advanced Research Group
Chris works within Nortel's Advanced Research Group and has been involved with management protocols and models for (too) many years. He also pursues research into algorithms and tools related to the management/control boundary for networks and is actively involved in the creation of "sufficiently-available" software: software that is sufficiently resilient to meet the needs of the system in which it is operating.
When allowed to forget device and network management, Chris teaches people to fly and is an avid student of Schubert's Winterreise song cycle. He programs in Python, C and C++.
Steve Jerman, a Technical Leader, Cisco Systems'
Network Management Technology Group
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.
Martin Kirk, Director of the Enterprise Management Forum, The Open Group
Martin Kirk is the Director of the Enterprise Managenent Forum, a forum of The Open Group.
Previously the head of the Operating System Technology Centre at British Telecom Research Labs, Mr. Kirk has been with The Open Group since 1990. He has been active in the development of management standards for 14 years, and is the Chair of the IEEE POSIX System Administration Working Group.
He is a past member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Network and Systems Management.
Andrea Westerinen, Architect, Cisco Systems'
Network Management Technology Group
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.