Speaker Biographies
Kamesh Aiyer, EMC
Kamesh Ramakrishna Aiyer has been co-chairman of the File System Management Technical Working Group of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) which has been working on standardizing a management model for file systems services, servers, and storage. Dr. Aiyer currently works on file system management for the EMC Corporation in the NAS Engineering organization. He graduated with a Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science of Carnegie-Mellon University in 1981. After a stint in academia he worked for Digital Equipment Corporation and later for the Open Software Foundation where he was the architect responsible for getting the IEEE P1295.3 standard (“OSF/Motif”) completed. He has had a wide range of professional experience including working for Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, as an analyst for a strategic consulting firm, as a consultant, and in a number of startups prior to coming to EMC.
Andre Asselin, IBM
Andre Asselin is a Senior Software Engineer in the IBM Systems and Technology Group. He received a B.S. degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1993. He has worked as a lead developer and architect on TCP/IP for OS/2 and ServeRAID. He is currently responsible for the design and architecture of the System x and Intellistation system health tools, including Dynamic System Analysis, Realtime Diagnostics, and preboot diagnostics. Mr. Asselin is chairman of the DMTF diagnostics special interest group, and holds five issued or pending patents.
Mateus Baur, Hewlett Packard
Mateus Baur, software engineer/architect at Hewlett Packard, has been working last 5 years with Diagnostics and WBEM solutions. He has been an active member of the DMTF CDM working group for over 3 years and is a participating member of the DMTF CDM Forum. He is co-author of CDM Profile and leaded the development of HP CDM SDK.
Gareth Bestor, IBM
Gareth grew up in New Zealand where he completed a BS in Computer Science at Massey University, and developed a love for tramping. After moving to the USA for graduate studies and finishing a PhD in Computer Vision at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he joined IBM and worked on load-balancing software for the IBM pSeries ASCI supercomputers, helped develop IBM's grid computing product based on the Globus Toolkit, and taught Lego robotics at Vassar College. Gareth moved to the Pacific Northwest a few years ago and now works for the IBM Linux Technology Center in Beaverton, Oregon, where he does Linux open source development of open standard system management tools. He is an ardent believer that diversity is key to the successful evolution of all ecosystems, including IT, but with computers being complicated enough as it is, that the adoption of open standards for interoperability ultimately benefits all in the IT industry.
Guru Bhat, Oracle Corporation
Guru Bhat is a Management Standards Architect at Oracle Corporation. Guru has worked in the Systems Management area over the past 7 years. He has been an active participant in various standards bodies including the DMTF for over 5 years and was one of the principal engineers on the team that developed the open source Java WBEM Services CIM Object Manager. Guru currently serves as the chair of the Application Server working group and participates on a host of others.
Michael Brasher, Inova Development
Mike was the original architect and developer of the OpenPegasus CIM implementation. He helped found the OpenPegasus project and contributed the initial proof of concept to The Open Group and continued to work on the project through version 1.0. In 2005 Mike resumed his work with the OpenPegasus team. Mike is now working with Karl Schopmeyer at Inova Development, where he and Karl have developed CIMPLE and CIMEngine.
Mark Carlson, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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.
John Calcote, Novell, Inc.
John Calcote is a Senior Software Engineer and Architect at Novell. He received a BS in Computer Science from Brigham Young University in 1993, and has been involved in designing and writing both application and system-level networking software for over 20 years. He worked on the Novell eDirectory product team for eight years, during which time he was assigned to add features to OpenSLP, an open source implementation of the IETF Service Advertising Protocol specification. Through this effort, he eventually became project administrator for OpenSLP, enhancing and fixing bugs both for Novell, and for his own personal enjoyment. For the last year, he has been developing open source solutions for Novell, including OpenXDAS, an open source implementation of the OpenGroup Distributed Auditing Service specification.
Carl Chan, WBEM Solutions, Inc.
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 6 years, he has been actively involved in promoting and defining the standards for the Common Information Model and Web Based Enterprise Management.
Jerry Chin, Hewlett Packard
Jerry Chin, is an Software R&D Architect at Hewlett Packard, recognized as a thought leader and technical expert for System Diagnostics and Customer Support. Jerry has distinguished himself in his 28+ years of service at HP. He has been part of HP's internal TechCon conference, a gathering of HP's top 500 leading technologist across the globe, for collaboration and idea exchange.
Jerry is a featured speaker, both inside and outside of the company. He has presented numerous times at HP World and HP Technology Forum. As lead architect, Jerry led HP's Business Critical System Diagnostics R&D team in the creation of it's HP next generation Hardware Validation solution (patents granted by the US Patent Office).
Jerry earned his engineering degree from University of California Berkeley.
Jerry co-leads the HP's CDM Business Team and Technical Working Group, which leads and coordinate CDM work across all HP Business Units. Working with the major OEMs, the DMTF Board and Interop committee, Jerry provided the leadership that lead to the creation of the DMTF CDM Forum. Jerry has been successful in leading the CDM Forum, creating the CDM Forum Charter, Key Initiatives and roadmap. The DMTF CDM Initiative Launch has been the result of Jerry's exemplary leadership, dedication and energy.
Josh Cohen, Microsoft Corporation
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.
Barbara Craig, Hewlett Packard
Barbara Craig, a Hardware Validation Solutions Architect at Hewlett Packard, has over 15 years experience in Diagnostics R&D for HP servers. She has been an active member of the DMTF CDM Working group for over 6 years and is currently a participating member of the DMTF CDM Forum.
Jim Davis, WBEM Solutions, Inc.
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.
George M Ericson, EMC
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.
Asad Faizi, Microsoft Corporation
Asad Faizi has 16 years of software architecture, design and development experience, building highly scalable, high performance, large enterprise class system. He is currently working as a Senior Program Manager in the Server Management Infrastructure Group of Microsoft Corporation. Prior to joining Microsoft, he has worked with Intel Corporation, Netscape Communications and Sony Electronics in technical leadership positions. Besides DMTF, Asad has participated in other standards organization such as IETF, W3C, PCMCIA, ATIS/T1M1, and ATSC/DASE. He is the co-author of WebDav (Distributed Authoring and Versioning) protocol specification. Asad’s areas of interest include Web Services and SOA, OO Analysis and Design, MDA, Design Patterns, and Frameworks.
James Fehlig, Novell, Inc.
Jim Fehlig is a Software Engineer for Novell, Inc. where he is co-maintainer of the Xen-CIM open source project. He graduated from the University of California at Irvine with Summa Cum Laude honors. Prior to joining Novell Jim worked for defense contractor Interstate Electronics in Anaheim, CA on high-precision GPS technology for test, training, and ordnance systems. Jim also served six years in the U.S. Navy.
Daniel Fuchs, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Daniel Fuchs works at Sun Microsystems in the Java SE / JMX Team. He is more particularly involved in model mediation and bridging issues such as JMX/SNMP, JMX Federation, JMX/WebServices. He is a member of the JSR 255 expert group (JMX 2.0) and is also involved in investigative work for JSR 262 (WebServices Connector for JMX).
JB Gill, Novell, Inc.
JB Gill has spent the last 13 years working at Novell Inc, the majority of which has been as a software engineer on the Netware platform, working on the Netware JVM, and in porting open-source projects to Netware. Most recently, he has been a contributor to parts of the CIM-based OMC open source project. JB holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University.
Ron Goering, IBM
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.
Matthew Hamre , WBEM Solutions, Inc.
Matthew Hamre is currently the Director of Professional Services 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 6 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, Symantec Corporation
CIM-WBEM developer from way back. DMTF Technical Committee and SNIA Technical Council member
Jon Hass, Dell
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, contributor 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.
Jeff Hilland , Hewlett Packard
Jeff Hilland is a Senior Systems Architect in the Enterprise Storage & Servers Business Unit of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Jeff is currently the chair of the Technical Committee and also serves as co-chair of both the Server Management Work Group and the Desktop & Mobile Work Group. Jeff has spent the last 10 years driving industry standards and has served in chairing roles in both the RDMA Consortium and the InfiniBand Trade Association. Jeff's 25-plus 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 performance analysis. It has also included significant contributions to high speed intercommunications protocol development & standardization including RDMA, InfiniBand and the Virtual Interface Architecture.
Jennifer Hickey, Harris Corporation
Jennifer Hickey is a Lead Developer and Principal Architect at the NetBoss business unit of Harris Corporation. She has been instrumental in the architecture, design, and implementation of a distributed Network Management System in compliance with CIM and WBEM standards. Jennifer's primary focus has been the development of a flexible presentation model that provides an aggregated and user-oriented view of underlying CIM models. She has a Masters Degree in Software Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology.
Steffen Hulegaard, Avocent
Valerie Kane, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Valerie Kane is a product manager for AMD Platform Management solutions. Prior to joining AMD, she spent 14 years at Oracle Corporation developing Oracle Grid Control--Oracle's system management framework and tools suite. She has experience designing management tools for servers, clients, infrastructure software and applications.
Robert Kieninger, IBM
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, IBM
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".
Kurt Krems, Tek-Tools, Inc.
Kurt Krems is a Senior Software Engineer at Tek-Tools, Inc. and has over 14 years of software development. Kurt has experience developing numerous Java applications involving SMI-S client discovery, indications and provisioning. He has also worked with many of the vendor’s SMI-S providers, customer provider implementations and discovering issues that assist provider vendors with resolutions. Currently Kurt is the SNIA SMI Client Test Architect for the switch and HBA client CTP.
Fred Maciel, Hitachi America
Fred Maciel is Senior Researcher & Project Manager at Hitachi America Ltd., Research & Development Division. He is currently doing R&D on JP1/HiCommand, Hitachi's management software suite, which is the market leader in Japan. He also did pioneering work on networking, storage networking, and high-performance computing. His output in Hitachi is reflected in several papers and patent submissions. He earned his doctorate at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan.
Fred Maciel is an active contributor to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), especially as vice-chair of the SMASH Forum. He is also Hitachi's main contributor to the Open Grid Forum (OGF), especially to OGF's Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) working group. He has also represented Hitachi in the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and in the InfiniBand Trade Association.
Andreas Maier, IBM
Andreas Maier is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's development lab in Boeblingen, Germany. He is responsible for strategy and architecture of systems management on Linux for System z and z/VM, and has a leading role in the area of the CIM and SMI-S standards across IBM's Systems & Technology Group. As a part of that, he is contributing to systems management standards at DMTF. Andreas started working for IBM in 1987, after finishing a masters degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
David Melgar, IBM
Aaron Merkin, IBM
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.
Viktor Mihajlovski, IBM
Viktor is working for the IBM Linux Technology Center in the area of WBEM-based Systems Management. He was involved in various CIM-related Open Source projects since 2001 and acts as maintainer of the SBLIM Open Source project. His current major interests are CIM based monitoring and embedded CIM servers. Viktor holds an MS in Computer Science earned at the Universitaet Karlsruhe in Germany.
Anas Nashif, Intel
Anas Nashif is a staff senior Engineer at the Opensource Technology Center of Intel. Anas is the primary author and maintainer of Openwsman and currently working on Manageability and Enablement of Linux and open source in general. Anas has been involved with system management on Linux of over 10 year. Prior to Intel he worked for SuSE/Novell.
Brad Nicholes, Novell, Inc.
Brad Nicholes has been a software engineer at Novell for 10 years and one of the authors of the OMC-CLP implementation of the SM-CLP specification. He is also a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been a committer on the HTTPD and APR projects since 2000 primarily working in the areas of authentication and authorization. Brad attended school at the University of Utah and Brigham Young University and holds a degree in Computer Science.
Dan Nuffer, Quest Software, Inc.
Dan Nuffer is one of the main contributors to the OpenWBEM project. He works at Quest Software, Inc. as a development lead and is a proponent of DMTF standards based management technology inside Quest.
Will Pagán, IBM
Will Pagán has worked for IBM since 1999 in the fields of Systems Management and Functional Test. Will is currently the lead software engineer for systems management functional test tool development in IBM's System x Organization. Will is also a Master Inventor within IBM, serving to advise both IBM's Systems & Technologies Group as well as IBM's Software Group on patentable intellectual property. In addition, Will is the sole or co-inventor on patents or patent applications in a wide range of technological fields and mentors others in successful inventing.
As chairperson of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) Forum, Will works with industry leaders and standards organizations to help ensure that interoperable systems management standards are produced.
Will graduated with a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, NC in 2003 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Pace University, NYC in 1999.
Khachatur Papanyan, Dell
Khachatur is a Software Engineer in Advanced Development Team at Dell. For the last couple of years, Khachatur has been concentrating in developing CIM based systems management industry standards. He is the editor of many of SMASH profiles and an active contributor to SMWG and WIP working groups. Khachatur received B.S in Electrical Engineering in 2002 from the University of Texas at Austin and M.S. in Circuit Design in 2005 from the University of Texas at Austin.
Norm Paxton, Novell, Inc.
Norm Paxton is a Senior Engineer at Novell, Inc, where he has been instrumental in the launch of a new open-source community, OMC (Open Management with CIM), focused on open-source projects based on CIM. 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.
Steven Peters, Hewlett Packard
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 co-chairman of the SNIA management application workgroup. He is also author of the Array, Storage Virtualizer, Virtual Tape Library, and disk drive profiles in the SMI-S standard. He is currently author of SMI-S enhancements for multi tenant CIMOMs.
Jeff Piazza, Hewlett Packard
Jeff Piazza chairs the DMTF Architecture Working Group, and is a senior software architect for Hewlett-Packard Company, having previously served in that role for AppIQ, Inc., before its acquisition by HP.
Simeon Pinder, Hewlett Packard
Simeon is a contributor/co-owner to the Wiseman project. He has worked on various management and middleware implementations/projects for HP over the last four years including code contributions to the Apache Muse project. Simeon works to make WS Management implementations easier to build and use for application management projects.
Tim Potter, Hewlett Packard
Tim is a software engineer working in HP's Open Source and Linux Organization. He works on writing and testing WBEM providers for HP's Integrity range of servers running Linux. Tim has been involved with WBEM within HP for the last three years.
Ramkrishna Prakash, Dell, Inc.
Prakash is a Software Technology Strategist at Dell Inc. and for the past three years has played a key role in formulating and driving Dell’s System Management Standardization strategy and efforts. Prior to Dell, Prakash was the Director for Storage and Web Infrastructure products at RLX Technologies, the blade server pioneers, where he was responsible for the development of management products that provide integrated management of third-party storage, security and web infrastructure products within Control Tower Management Suite. Prakash joined RLX from Compaq Computer Corporation where in he held a variety of technical roles in the Server Architecture and Technology Group.
Prakash has been involved in a number of Industry standards organizations including I2O, InfiniBand, IPERF and DMTF wherein he has played a variety of roles from founding member to Work Group Chair as well as a contributing member. Most recently Prakash was responsible for driving the formation of the DMTF Pre-OS NC-SI Sub Work Group that spearheaded DMTF’s foray into hardware platform interface/protocol standards. Prakash also has served at an advisory capacity to a number of start-ups and venture firms.
William Reichardt, Hewlett Packard
William Reichardt is a Software Architect for Hewlett Packard's Technology Solution Group. He is a contributor to the Wiseman project's WS Management implementation at java.net as well as co- founder and committer to the Apache Software Foundation's Wsdm implementation project; Muse.
James Rigger, SNIA
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.
Jeff Rose, Dell, Inc.
Jeff Rose leads the Diagnostic Architecture Team at Dell that is responsible for evaluating new diagnostic technologies for PC products including notebooks, desktops and servers. Jeff joined Dell in 1999 as the lead diagnostic development engineer for business notebooks, and has held various positions in project development, program management, and team leadership within the diagnostic development group. Prior to joining Dell, Jeff worked in diagnostic development at SCI, a major contract manufacturer. Jeff has over 10 years experience driving diagnostic development efforts within the PC industry and over 25 years HW/SW development experience with microprocessor based products.
Karl Schopmeyer, Inova Development Inc.
Mr. Schopmeyer is the President of Inova Development, a company dedicated to CIM products, and one of the original authors of OpenPegasus. He is also the chair of two workgroups in the DMTF (Applications and State/Behavior) and the Management forum in the OpenGroup.
Hemal Shah, Broadcom
Hemal Shah is a Principal Scientist at Broadcom Corporation in the high speed controller business unit. At Broadcom, Hemal leads the development of product architecture of Gigabit Ethernet controllers for desktop/mobile platforms and the advanced research related to security/manageability technologies. Prior to joining Broadcom Corporation in 2005, Hemal worked at Intel Corporation for more than 8 years in several positions including lead system architect, researcher, and software engineer. During his 8 plus years at Intel Corporation, Hemal led the development of system/silicon/software architecture for several server/embedded products including Ethernet controllers and communication processors. Hemal also led the software/hardware development and research projects related to high-speed networking, networking protocols, cluster & distributed computing, protocol offloading, storage networking, system software, and web protocols/applications. Hemal has led several standardization efforts in DMTF, IETF, and RDMA Consortium. As a lead author, editor, and major technical contributor, Hemal has co-authored four Internet drafts/RFCs, three RDMA consortium specifications, and DMTF specifications. Hemal is presently co-chairing the PMCI sub-group in Pre-OS WG. Hemal is the lead technical representative/contributor from Broadcom Corporation in several DMTF work groups including DMWG, PMCI, and WS-Management. Hemal has co-authored more than 10 technical conference/journal papers and co-invented several patents. Hemal holds a Ph. D. (computer engineering) and M.S. (computer sciences) from Purdue University, an M.S.E.E. (electrical and computer engineering) from University of Arizona, and a B.S. (electronics and communication engineering) from India.
Barry Shilmover, Microsoft Corporation
Barry Shilmover is a Program Manager in the Strategic Alliances Team in Windows Enterprise Management Division at Microsoft. He specializes in the management space focusing on Operations Manager, System Center Essentials, Service Desk, WMI and WS-Management. Barry regularly presents on these topics at international conferences, including TechEds in US and Europe, and is the author of several books on a variety of subjects including Windows Administration and Exchange.
Tom Slaight, Intel
Tom is a principal server management architect in the Intel Digital Enterprise Group Architecture and Planning organization. He has developed server management architecture at Intel for the past 12 years, with over 20 years of experience in product architecture and as a lead electronic design engineer in the industry. He has participated in numerous system management initiatives, including the DMTF Devices, DMWG, and Pre-OS Working Groups, DMTF Alerting Standard Forum, Server System Infrastructure (SSI), and Wired-for-Management, and is presently co-chair of the DMTF PMCI workgroup and contributor to the NC-SI workgroup and specifications. Tom is an originator of the Intelligent Platform Management architecture and lead author and technical contributor to the IPMI specifications. Tom was also a reviewer and technical contributor to the original DMTF Systems Standards MIF, Server Hardware Design Guides, SMBus 2.0 specifications, and a co-author of the SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosures (SAF-TE) specification, the Hardware Management chapter of the InfiniBand™ specifications, and the management chapter PCI Express™ ExpressModule™ Electromechanical specification.
Ellen Stokes, IBM
Ellen Stokes is the lead technical strategist for Grid Computing in IBM’s Systems & Technology Group. In this role, she is responsible for the technical strategy and to ensure appropriate grid technical architecture integration with IBM’s products. She has an extensive background in distributed and grid computing, information/data models, LDAP directory services, TCP/IP, OSI, and systems/network management.
She is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.
She is IBM’s representative on the Distributed Management Task Force's (DMTF) Technical Committee. She is also active in Open Grid Forum’s (OGF) Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) workgroup, specifically working on information modeling of grid resources. She is also an area director for OGF’s Management area.
Ellen Stokes joined IBM in Austin, Texas in 1977 and holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan
David Sudlik, IBM
Dave Sudlik is a technical team lead coordinating CIM/WBEM development on IBM's eServer platforms. Prior to his current position he spent most of his career in varioius aspects of the development of IBM's z/OS Operating System.
Dave Tobias, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Dave Tobias has 22 years of industry experience split roughly between IBM and AMD. His x86 software and firmware definition and development experience ranges from embedded devices to servers. Dave led AMD's original PowerNow! software development team for Windows 2K. He currently manages AMD's Systems Manageability Initiatives team where he has been largely responsible for the creation of AMD's Open Platform Management Architecture specification and associated infrastructure ecosystem. Dave holds 16 US patents.
Mark Vetter, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Mark Vetter is a Senior Architect in the Network Storage division of Sun Microsystems, Inc. where his current focus is the management of SAN-based block storage products. Mark joined Sun through its acquisition of Pirus Networks, a network storage virtualization start-up. Prior to Pirus Networks he developed products for MRV Communications, Xyplex Networks, and Data General Corporation. Mark has 26 years of development experience with SAN management, 3rd-generation cellular networks, LAN switches, routers, edge access devices, and operating systems. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from SUNY Albany.
Joe Wagner, Novell, Inc.
Joe Wagner serves as the General Manager of the Systems and Resource Management business unit at Novell. He is responsible for the development of comprehensive information technology management solutions across the technology stack including Novell's ZENworks suite of solutions. Mr. Wagner is a member of Novell's Worldwide Management Committee.
Previously Joe was Novell's Vice President of Global Field Operations responsible for the global field strategy, structure, incentives and productivity, customer operations, and the global partner organization. Joe joined Novell in August 2003 as Vice President of North America Operations where he led roll-out of the North America and subsequently global field model now in place.
Before joining Novell, Joe was Vice President of Transportation Solutions for Manhattan Associates and was the Sr. Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at Logistics.com prior to their acquisition by Manhattan. Additionally, Joe has held numerous sales, marketing and operational executive positions over a 20-year high technology career at Unitech Systems, Quantra Corporation and IBM.
Mr. Wagner holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.B.A. from Boston University.
Mike Walker, IBM
Mike Walker is currently a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Storage Software Architecture and Standards department of the Systems and Technology Group at IBM Corporation. His job responsibilities span both hardware and software, but his background is primarily in software. He is currently engaged in work on management software for storage devices, with particular emphasis on deployment of SMI-S. Mr. Walker is an SMI Distinguished Engineer and currently is the chair of the SMI Technical Steering Group. Mr. Walker’s career at IBM has spanned 36 years. Previous assignments have included assignments in corporate headquarters, relational database development, VM operating system development and positions in various strategy organizations. Mr. Walker has spent the last 13 years in the storage systems development and strategy. Mr. Walker holds a BS and MS degrees in Mathematics from the University of Illinois.
Mark Weitzel, IBM
Mark Weitzel is an architect in IBM Tivoli's Autonomic Computing (AC) group focusing on open standards and open source for systems management. In addition to being a committer on the Monitoring sub-project of the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform, he is the IBM lead architect for the Apache Muse project, a reference implementation of the Oasis Web Services Distributed Management specification. Mr. Weitzel has published numerous articles and is co-author of Enterprise Java Programming with WebSphere, Second Edition.
Bart Whiteley, Novell, Inc.
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, Ph.D., CA, Inc.
Kirk Wilson is a Research Staff Member in CA Labs and a principal in the Intellectual Property and Standards group 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 and co-editor of the DMTF’s WS-CIM specifications.
He has over 20 years’ experience in information processing. Before his current position, he was involved in inferencing and (business) rules technologies, both as a software customer with a Fortune 500 international industrial gas and chemicals manufacturer and as a thought leader from the software perspective. As a software customer, Kirk received an Innovative Application in Artificial Intelligence award from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence for his work in the area of chemical regulatory compliance.
Kirk holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts and has taught modern philosophy and logic at the college and graduate levels.
He can be reached at kirk.wilson@ca.com.
Robert Wipfel, Novell, Inc.
Robert started his career at a parallel processing startup, and then at INMOS, worked on a distributed operating system for the Transputer. Next, Robert helped Unisys enter the commercial parallel processing market. He worked on single system image Unix and parallel database server technology. At Novell since 1998, Robert is architect for Novell's award winning Cluster Services, Business Continuance Clustering and iSCSI (target) products. He is currently working on Linux technologies for next generation data centers. Robert is co-author of Novell's Guide to Storage Area Networks and has presented the benefits of commodity server clustering and storage networking at various industry conferences. He has received Novell's Inventor Hall of Fame, President's and Engineering Employee of the Year awards. Robert earned a bachelor's degree (with honors) in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K, and won the G.E.C. Avionics second year student award. He holds patents on parallel processing (machine vision) and server clustering.
Ying Zeng, Nortel
Ying Zeng works in Nortel's Advanced Research Group and has been involved with management standards and models for the last 5 years. As a senior software engineer, she acts as advisor to different product groups on the implementation of WBEM/CIM management and recently she has been exploring the relationship between these management standards and Web Services. She holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Ottawa and is currently leading a research project on network and system management at Carleton University.
Alex Zhdankin, Harris Corporation
Alex Zhdankin 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 an official representative of DMTF in ITU-T Next Generation Network Management Focus Group (NGNMGMTFG). Alex is also the principal and voting representative of Harris Corporation in several standard development organizations such as DMTF, ATIS (TMOC Committee) and TMF. As a DMTF representative, He is actively participating in the joint Model Harmonization activities between DMTF CIM and TMF SID and in several model harmonization projects internal to TMF. Earlier as the Principal Architect, Alex was leading the work on the Enterprise Application Integration Software, he worked 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. Alex has also lead several projects dealing with Enterprise Resource Management for Harris Corporation, General Electric and several smaller companies. He has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from State Technical University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia where he's also prepared and taught the course on the principles of Network and Enterprise Management.