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.
Jerry Chin, R&D Architect, 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.
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.
Martin Kirk, Director of the Enterprise Management Forum, The Open Group
Martin Kirk is the Director of the Enterprise Management 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.
Will Pagán, Lead SW Engineer & Master Inventor, 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.