Advisory Council
Winston Bumpus, Director of Standards Architecture, VMWare
Winston Bumpus, Director of Standards Architecture at VMWare, has had over 30 years of experience in the computer industry. He is currently the President of the DMTF. He has chaired activities in other standards organizations including, OASIS, and The Open Group. Prior to VMWare he was Director of Systems Management Architecture at Dell and he was also Director of Open Technologies at Novell, Inc. He is co-author of the books "Common Information Model" and "The Foundations of Application Management." He has participated in the DMTF for over 14 years and worked on its early development of the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standards and founded and chaired its Application Management Working Group.
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 CEO and CTO of WBEM Solutions, has over 20 years
experience in systems and network management. Jim has been the lead
architect for many WBEM releated products, such as the WBEM Solutions J
WBEM Server and the WBEM Agent Validation Environment (code named WAVE)
to name a few.
Jim Davis is a member of the the DMTF Technical Committee, and
chairs various
DMTF Working Groups. 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. He has been one of the key architects of CIM and WBEM. Jim
served on the DMTF Board for 5 yerars, served as the Chair of the DMTF
WBEM Infrastructure and Protocol WG for 8 years and has chaired many
other WG in various standards organizations. Jim also has been an
expert speaker of numerous CIM and WBEM conferences, including the
Management Developers Conference, 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.
Fred Maciel, Hitachi
Fred Maciel is Senior Researcher & Project Manager at Hitachi
America Ltd., Research & Development Division. He is currently
doing R&D on Hitachi's JP1/HiCommand management software suite and
Hitachi's BladeSymphony blade server, both market leaders 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 co-chair of the System Management Forum. He
also represented Hitachi in the Open Grid Forum (OGF), Organization for
the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and in the
InfiniBand Trade Association.
Norm Paxton, Senior Engineer, Novell
Norm Paxton is a Senior Engineer at Novell, Inc, where he has worked on CIM-related projects for several years, including brokers, providers, provider interfaces, and implementations of SMASH and WSMan.
Perry Vincent, Software and Systems Architect, Intel
Perry G. Vincent is a Software and Systems Architect in the area of
manageability
architecture for Intel Corporation’s Client Components Group.
Perry’s areas of focus have included modular server, server, and
client system management as well as embedded firmware
implementations. Most recently he has contributed to server power
management and modular server management architectures. Perry was a
charter member and contributing member of the DMTF Server Management
Working Group (December 2003-June 2006), was the initial editor of
the SM-CLP Specification, SM-CLP-to-CIM Common Mapping Specification,
and several CIM profile specifications, and participated in the
chartering of the DMTF Telecom Working Group. He is currently
co-chair of the DMTF System Management Forum (SMF).
In addition to systems and server management, Perry's career covers many computing disciplines including communication protocol software, system software integration, multi-processor and distributed systems architecture, object-oriented design, data modeling, customer relationship management applications and server management architecture for Intel carrier-grade servers for telecom central office and other communications applications