Speaker Biographies
Chang-Won Ahn, ETRI
Dr. Chang-Won Ahn is a senior member of engineering staff at
Digital Home Division, ETRI. He is educated on Industrial Engineering,
especially stochastic processes and queueing theory and has more than 7
years of experiences in system management technologies. Since September
2006, he has been leading the OpenDRIM Project, which is a FOSS project
and is focusing on the area of Linux Manageability based on CIM/WBEM
standards.
Kazuhide Aikoh, Hitachi
Kazuhide Aikoh is a researcher at Hitachi's Systems Development Laboratory working on management models and interfaces for server platform management. He is currently doing R&D on management functionality for Virtage, the integrated virtualization technology of Hitachi's BladeSymphony blade server. He also developed the SMASH CLP prototype for BladeSymphony and participated in the SMASH plugfest in MDC in 2006.
Sergio Andreozzi, INFN-CNAF
Sergio Andreozzi is a member of the OMII Europe project as part
of the IstitutoNazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), CNAF. Prior to
that, he participated in other Grid related projects such as EGEE
project (JRA1) and DataTAG project for which he contributed to both
information modeling and monitoring of Grid resources. He holds a PhD
in Computer Science from the University of Bologna and a MSc degree in
Computer Science Engineering from the University of Pisa. His research
interests include conceptual modeling of Grid resources,
satisfaction-based resource selection and Grid monitoring.
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.
Scott Baker, iStor Networks, Inc
Scott has architected and deployed an embedded SMI-S capability
for iStor, and has been a long time contributor to SMI-S through the
SNIA Disk Resource Management, Core, and IP Storage technical working
groups, and also the DMTF Network and Core working groups. Scott is
currently co-chair of both the DRM and IPS TWGs, serves as the IPS
representative to the Technical Steering group and is a member of the
TSG Core Team. Scott authored both the Extent Composition and Storage
Server Asymmetry profiles and co-authored the iSCSI Target Port profile
in SMI-S.
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.
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, SAP
Guru Bhat is currently an Architect at SAP. Prior to joining SAP, he worked at Sun Microsystems and then at Oracle. His career has focused exclusively on issues related to Systems/Applications/Web-Services Management. He has been associated with the DMTF since its inception and is a member of several working groups. He was one of the original contributors to Java WBEM Services and is a member of the JSR-48 expert group.
Bob Blair, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Bob has 30 years experience in the computer industry and has
held senior engineering positions dealing with system manageability at
Newisys, BMC Software and IBM. He is currently Manageability
Architect in the System Manageability group at Advanced Micro Devices,
Inc. in Austin.
Ed Boden, IBM
I've worked for IBM over 25 years, on numerous software projects, mostly relating to various server platforms. I've worked in many roles, including developer, application architect, software product planning & strategy, and development team lead. I also have experience in market research, analysis, and product estimating. My most recent development projects have included technology areas such as software license management, networking such as IP filtering, VPN (IP Security) and IPv6. I am currently is the architect for IBM's CIM infrastructure. I represent IBM in the OpenPegasus projet. I have a MS in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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.
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.
Joel Clark, Intel Corporation
Joel Clark is a Software Architect with the Intel Digital Enterprise Group’s Client Manageability Architecture team. Joel is a contributing member of the DMTF Desktop and Mobile Working Group and Server Management Working Group. Joel’s 24 year career designing and developing system software and firmware has spanned embedded management controllers, through desktop systems, 64 bit servers, and bladed telecom systems to 9400+ processor scalable super-computers. Joel’s work on computing industry standards has included 64 bit servers (UDIG) and scalable messaging (MPI/2)
Josh Cohen, Microsoft
Josh Cohen is a Senior Program Manager in Microsoft's Windows Enterprise Management Division Strategic Alliance Team. He leads the standards engagements for the division such as WS-Management and was also a co-author of the WS-Management specification. Since 1993, he has worked on various Internet Standards such as HTTP and participated in the IETF as well as OMA. In addition to this role, he has experience as a Program Manager, Developer and Administrator working on various Web infrastructure products and systems. Prior to working at Microsoft, he has experience working at small software companies as well as Netscape Communications and United Parcel Service. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University.
Jim Davis, WBEM Solutions, Inc.
Jim Davis is the CTO for WBEM Solutions, Inc. Jim has over 20 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.
Alex Danoyan, Novell
Alex started his career as software engineer for embedded systems for Programmable Logic Controllers. Alex joined Novell in 1992. At Novell, he has been the key contributor for Novell's award winning Cluster Services and Native File Access Protocols (NFAP) for NetWare products. He was the leader for User Auto Provisioning component for Novell Branch Office Appliance (NBO). Alex was one of the architects for Nterprise Linux Services (NLS 1.0) and Open Enterprise Server products suite. He was leading the design and the implementation for Linux User Management and Samba integration with eDirectory via LDAP. He is currently one of the architects for Data Center Automation project, specifically in the area of CIM-based Distributed System Management. Alex participates in work with DMTF, SNIA, Aperi. Alex graduated Summa Cum Laude from National Aviation University, Kiev, Ukraine with a MS degree in Computer Engineering.
George M Ericson, EMC
Mr. Ericson is a Distinguished Engineer 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.
Jim Fehlig, Novell
Jim is a member of the Virtualization Platform Team at Novell and is responsible for several virtualization-related tools, including an implementation of DMTF SVPC working group specifications. Prior to joining Novell Jim worked for various defense contractors on GPS technology. Jim holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine.
Sebastian Ganame, Nexius Wireless
Sebastian is a Sr. Software Engineer at Nexius Wireless. Before that, his efforts were focused on CIM-based Grid monitoring and Datacenter Manageability, working for Intel Software and Solutions Group for 1 1/2 years. He has also worked at Motorola for 3 years on Projects related to Mobile infrastructure and Telemedicine. Sebastian is pursuing a Data Networks MS at UNLP, Buenos Aires.
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.
David Hines, Intel Corporation
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Hope Hines, DMTF
Twenty years experience motivating diverse teams of professionals
into action in support of high-profile initiatives – from driving the
networked storage industry’s landmark standard to public release to
preparing teams of soldiers for technical duty in Dessert Storm.
Also planned, designed and
implemented numerous information technology (IT) projects within data
centers and network operation centers (NOC), with particular emphasis
on network management systems, deployment of networks and applications,
and data centers from the ground up.
Neeraj Joshi, IBM
Neeraj Joshi is a software engineer at IBM since 2003. He has a
MS in Computer Science degree from NCSU. He has worked on a wide
variety of projects in the areas of Autonomic Computing, problem
determination, security and policy. He is currently leading the CIM-SPL
policy engine development project.
Mark Johnson, IBM
Mark Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM working in the Tivoli Advanced Technology area. Mark has been a workgroup leader and editor of the multi-company group that developed the CMDB Federation specification, and is an interim chair of the CMDB Federation Working Group forming in the DMTF. He is a past chair of the DMTF Metrics Working Group and has held a number of positions in IBM focused on service management and application performance management, and has led standards initiatives in those areas. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Steve Peters, Hewlett Packard
Steve Peters has worked in the storage industry for 25+ years and is an employee of Hewlett Packard Company. He is 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.
Martin Kacin, KACE
Kacin is a 20 year veteran of the high tech software industry with broad experience in the IT, mobile, software development and medical computing fields. Kacin has built a reputation as a leader uniquely capable of driving business, technology, and product direction. During his career, Kacin has additionally held engineering and management positions with NeXT Computer, Puritan Bennett and Hewlett-Packard.
Kacin holds BS degrees in General Science and Computer Science along with a BBA in Business from the University of Wisconsin.
Klaus Kämpf, Novell, Inc
Klaus Kämpf is an Architect for Systems Management at
Novell, Inc. His focus is on exploring and integrating technologies and
standards for systems management into the SUSE Linux family of products
offered by Novell. He graduated from the Rheinisch-Westfälische
Technische Hochschule(RWTH) in Aachen, Germany, with a MS in computer
science. Before joining Novell he was responsible for the development
of the YaST systems management tool at SUSE Linux GmbH. Klaus has 20+
years of experience in software development and contributed to open
source project like the GNU tools and the GNU compiler collection.
Rodolfo Kohn, Intel
Rodolfo is a senior software engineer at Intel Software and Solutions Group where he is working on Server Manageability solutions based on WBEM technologies. Before the current position, he has worked for five years as lead developer at Motorola on Access Network and Core Network infrastructure software for Fault Management and High Availability Middleware. He also worked on Protocol Stack implementations for Mobile IPv6 and GPRS. He has participated as volunteer SME in the North American IPv6 Task Force. He has +14-year experience in software development. Rodolfo has a MS degree in Informatics from National University of La Plata, Argentina.
Joe Kozlowski, Dell
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Chris Kramer, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Not provided.
Heather Kreger,
IBM
Heather Kreger is the lead architect for Web Services and Management in Software Standards area. She is currently lead of DMTF WSDM Mapping Work Groups and co lead of WS Resource Catalog WIP SubGroups. Heather was co-lead of the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee and 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”.
Kevin Kuelbs, Hewlett Packard
Kevin Kuelbs, a recent graduate from Rice University with a BS in
Electrical Engineering, is Hewlett Packard's newest addition to their
CDM team. Working as a software/systems engineer with the CIM and
CDM standards, Kevin has become an active participant in the DMTF CDM
Forum
and serves as HP's Houston liaison to further usage of CDM within the
various HP Global Business Units.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 interim
chair of the System Management 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.
Akash Malhotra, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Akash Malhotra is a Senior Software Engineer in the System Manageability group at AMD. He holds M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). He is maintainer and one of the primary contributors to the OpenTestMan project.
Jim Marshall, WBEM Solutions, Inc.
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.
Ravindra Muddinagiri, Patni
Ravindra Muddinagiri is a Project Manager at Patni Computer
Systems
Ltd. With more than 15 years of experience in the industry, Ravindra
oversees the development team behind several projects being carried
out
for DMTF at Patni. Since joining Patni in 2006, he has been involved in
several initiatives in the field of Storage Management. Before
joining
Patni, he worked at Internet Trends Pvt. Ltd as Project Manager for
more than seven years handling projects in the field of networking
and
network security. Prior to that, he worked in Frontier Software
and
Software Pundits, Inc., USA as developer/technical lead.
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.
Nadeem Ahmad Nazeer, Novell
Not provided.
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.
Alec Orr, WBEM Solutions, Inc.
Alec Orr is a Senior Staff Engineer at WSI where he has worked for 5 years. Alec Orr has 15 years experience in the computer industry holding positions in engineering and management. Alec has contributed to the CMPI specification and the JSR48 specification. Alec is currently working on the C WBEM Server product and has developed many CMPI providers.
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.
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.
Rajesh Radharishnan, IBM
Not provided.
Murali Rajagopal, Broadcom
Murali Rajagopal is a Senior Staff Scientist at Broadcom Corporation in the high speed controller business unit. Murali works in the product architecture group of Gigabit Ethernet Controllers. Murali is the current editor of the Simple Identity Management Profile in the WIP Security WG and is an active participant in the Desktop & Mobile WG. He has co-authored 3 IETF RFCs including RFC 2625 which is a management standard for Fibre Channel SANs and FCIP which is transport for Fibre Channel over IP networks. He was editor of T11.3's FC-BB WG standards from Years 1998 to 2004. He has worked in the past for both platform and silicon companies. He holds a MSEE from Ohio State University and a Ph.D (Electrical Engineering) from Georgia Institute of Technology.
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.
Rene W. Schmidt, VMware
Rene W. Schmidt is a Principal Engineer at VMware, Inc., and is the technical lead for the advanced development center located in Aarhus, Denmark.
Rene is a key contributor to the VirtualCenter product line and spends most of his time fiddling with ideas on how to simplify application development and datacenter operation using virtual machine technology.
Before joining VMware in 2002, Rene worked at Sun Microsystems. Rene was the technical lead of the Java Web Start product, and also part of the development team that shipped Java(TM) Hotspot(TM) Virtual Machine 1.0. Rene holds an MS in Computer Science from University of Washington, Seattle, and from the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
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.
Sven Schuetz, IBM
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, 2002 Joined IBM as
full-time regular in 2002. Since April 2006 member of the sblim open
source project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sblim/) as a developer
on sfcb, our small fooprint cim broker. Since 2007 maintainer and
development leader of sfcb.
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.
Todd Singleton, IBM
Todd has been working for IBM for the past 6 years where he has specialized in middleware and applications development. Prior to joining the Aperi project, he worked with IBM on its Total Storage Productivity Center (TPC). He has been a part of Aperi since its inception, contributing architectural and development ideas to the project.
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.
Eric Tend, HP
Eric is an R&D engineer/architect at Hewlett-Packard with over 20 years experience covering the entire spectrum of turn-key test solution development. Currently, he is a member of the DMTF CDM Forum, leading the HP CDM Validation Lab effort to define processes for testing CDM modules, and assisting in CDM related diagnostic alignment/adoption within HP.
Chip Vincent, IBM
Chip Vincent is the CIM Infrastructure Lead for the Virtualization & Platform Management organization, responsible for standards-based (CIM & SNMP) management of many IBM server platforms. For over 10 years he has designed and developed various proprietary and open systems management solutions, including OpenPegasus. He regarded as a leading CIM expert within IBM and actively involved with their systems management strategy and architecture.
Martine Wedlake, IBM
Martine has been working on storage management infrastructures
since joining IBM through an acquisition of Informix Software in
2001. He is currently the architect and product lead for the
CIM/SMI-S development group in Tivoli,
responsible for IBM storage SMI-S CIM Agents.
Jeff Wheeler, Cisco
Jeff Wheeler has filled a wide variety of roles in
his eclectic 30-year technical career rooted in network technology and
the IT 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. Personnel, project and
contract management roles have also been successfully filled oriented
to
out-tasking, out-sourcing and in-house contract work.
Active on the technical conference speaking
circuit,
Jeff has recently developed and taught tutorials on (among other
subject
matter) Service Level Management, Service Level Agreements, Object
Oriented
Design and Modeling, Routing and Routed Protocols with a specific focus
on Network Design and fulfillment, Technical
Services delivery, Business Process Management Standards, OSPF, BGP,
MPLS, QoS,
DEN and Policy-based Management.
Currently Jeff is a 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. He is also active in
Cisco’s IPv6 and Standards Strategy development. Wireless and
IPTV are also focus areas.
Prior to Cisco Jeff held a position at Intuit as
Network
Architect. His roles and
responsibilities at Intuit included technical oversight of all major
technical
areas including Telecom, Global VoIP design, implementation and
support; all
routing and routed protocols and strategies; collaboration
architectures;
security architectures and implementations; Outsourcing and contracting
as well
as vendor management.
Prior to Intuit Jeff served as principal
consultant/CTO for
Data Technical Services, Inc. performing a wide range of consulting
projects
including satellite imagery, AI-based image recognition software and
architecture, various RF communications projects including UWB, VoIP,
Network
design and analysis, security analysis, as well as Standards Bodies
involvement.
Prior to DTS, Jeff Wheeler, led Ahaza Systems,
Inc.
research and developments efforts as Chief Scientist in the creation of
leading
edge IPv6 hardware and software network based services and
equipment.
He also provided technical oversight for the
hardware and software design efforts on a daily level. He worked
closely with other industry strategic
leaders to develop Intellectual Property and technologies. He was
also active on the speaking circuit
and maintained an active role in technology development through various
roles
in the Standards Bodies such as the IETF, IEEE, and the Internet2.
Prior to his role at Ahaza Systems, Inc. Jeff
served as
CTO for PFN,
a Research and Development company based out of the Boston area.
Jeff opened up a second R&D Lab in the Seattle area for PFN and was
responsible for
developing a number of patent technologies aligned to and extending the
area of
dynamic VPN technologies. He also
directed the company’s Research and Development and Interoperability
facility
in Boston
advancing the company’s patented business communications network
infrastructure
technology and policy-based networking initiatives as well as
developing
Knowledge Capital and Technologies on behalf of PfN.
Prior
to joining PFN, he was the Network Architect for Microsoft’s Internet
Technology Group (ITG). He directed and
led a Strategy Group charged with developing new technologies and
internal
strategies for Microsoft, including the deployment of a wireless
infrastructure
throughout the Company’s Redmond, WA headquarters. He also worked
with peers who developed the
NT/2000 platform and GQoS services and contributed to their strategies
at
product level.
His
role also included maintaining active involvement in several industry
standards
bodies. He was a leading advocate for
the Directory Enabled Networks (DEN) initiative, launched by Cisco and
Microsoft, and has authored and participated in the development of many
key and
new technologies within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and
Internet2 group.
Wheeler
has developed and taught a workshop at Networld+Interop titled “Policy,
QoS,
and DEN.” He has spoken at international
symposiums and conferences on topics such as MPLS, SNMP for
Configuration, OSPF
and Routing Technologies, IPV6, Security, Policy and QoS topics,
Service Level
Management and other various technical topics.
Prior
to Microsoft Wheeler served as a senior member and principal engineer
in the Architecture
Labs for Nortel Networks developing policy strategy and architectures,
participating
in the development of a native java management product interface, VoIP
technologies and has served as well in many roles at Bay Networks
Architecture
Labs and Professional Services including roles as senior and principal
consultant and senior and principal engineer.
Wheeler
has also filled roles in past positions such as Engineering Manager,
Network
Analyst, Consultant, and Engineer for various corporations including
Alyeska
Pipeline and British Petroleum Exploration and for various groups
within the
Medical sector and the DoD and private industry.
He has authored many industry white papers,
contributed
to numerous RFCs and DRAFTs.
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.
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.
Alex Zhdankin, Harris
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