Speaker Biographies
Prasad Ayyalasomayajula,
AMD
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Duane Baldwin, IBM
Oliver Benke, IBM
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.
Nitin Bhat, Microsoft
Nitin Bhat is a Program Manager in the Windows Manageability Group in Microsoft in Redmond, WA. His expertise includes management technologies like Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and Windows Remote Management (WinRM). He has contributed to Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and WMI.NET extensions in Visual Studio 2008 and is presently working on future releases.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Nitin worked at Intel.
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.
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.
Rodney Brown, IBM
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Winston Bumpus, VM Ware
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.
Carl Chan, WBEM Solutions, Inc.
Carl Chan is currently the VP of Production Engineering and Support 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
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.
John Crandall, Brocade
John Crandall is Senior Staff Engineer for Brocade’s Technology Group, responsible for ensuring management standards integration into the Brocade architecture. Crandall works closely with standards organizations such as SNIA and DMTF to develop, drive, and promote standards to simplify management of heterogeneous Storage Area Networks.
While at Brocade, Crandall was one of the original architects of the Bluefin Specification and is a Principal Author of the SNIA’s Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) and core team member of it’s steering group. Crandall also chairs the SNIA’s Fibre Channel Technical Work Group, is a member of the DMTF Technical Council, is the SNIA’s liaison to the DMTF, and is the Chair of the DMTF Core Schema Work Group. Also Crandall has been recognized by the SNIA as a SMI Distinguished Engineer and by the DMTF with the Star Award.
Crandall has been with Brocade for over four years, has more than 10 years of experience in enterprise system management, and over 20 years as a high technology engineer. Prior to Brocade, Crandall was a Project Lead at Intel’s Fabric Components Division, responsible for defining requirements for Intel’s InfiniBand management products. While at Intel, Crandall developed the first prototype CIM provider for fabrics using InfiniBand prototype hardware.
Prior to Intel, he held multiple project leadership positions at Siemens, where he worked on enterprise and network management. Prior to that, he spent a decade at GE developing flight control systems, advanced radar systems, voice switching control systems, and reactor information systems. Crandall holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from San Jose State 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.
Wassim Fayed, Microsoft
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Steffen Grarup,
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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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Michael Johanssen, IBM
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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.
David Judkovics, IBM
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.
Vince Kowalski, BMC
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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.Larray Lamers, VM Ware
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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.
Andreas Maier, IBM
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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.
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.
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.
John Parchem, Microsoft
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Tim Potter, Hewlett Packard
Tim Potter is a software engineer working in the HP Open Source and Linux Organization. He works on writing and testing WBEM providers for HP's Integrity range of servers under Linux. Tim has been involved with WBEM within HP for the last two years.
Steve Quinn, Hitachi Data Systems
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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.
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.
Dave Snelling, Fujitsu
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Marek Szermutzky, IBM
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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.
Paul von Behren, Symantec
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Marv Waschke, CA
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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