Management Developers Conference

Speaker Biographies

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.

Rodney Brown, IBM

Rodney Brown is a technical lead for the System Health and Problem Determination team within IBM System x. The team works closely with the global IBM service community to define and implement a problem determination strategy based on industry standards such as the Common Information Model and more specifically the Common Diagnostic Model.  Rodney is also an active participant in the DMTF as chair of the Diagnostic Special Interest Group and member of the CDM Forum to further develop and promote use of the diagnostic standard throughout the industry.

Vince Brunssen, IBM

Vince Brunssen is an Advisory Software Engineer in the Emerging Technology and Standards group. Vince has worked on and lead efforts on numerous products and technologies at IBM that range from the OS/2 operating system, JavaOS, UDDI, Content Protection and most recently Resource Catalog. Vince currently holds the chair position in the Resource Catalog working group in the DMTF. Vince has also written and published an eclipse plugin for Resource Catalog that can be found on alphaWorks. Vince also participates in the WS-Management and WS-CIM working groups in the DMTF. Vince has a BS in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University.

Winston Bumpus, 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.

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.

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, Solaris Developers Conference and Storage 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 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.

Wassim Fayed, Microsoft

I am a Senior Lead Program Manager for the following three features: Wsman, WMI and BITS. Prior to this, I was a Feature PM on the PowerShell team for the past three years. I have been with Microsoft for 10 years now.

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 DMTF 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

Dave Hines is an architect with Intel's Chipset Group with a focus on manageability and security applications. Dave is currently a co-chair in the DMTF Physical Platform Profiles WG, and is the editor of the Opaque Management Data and Wi-Fi Port Profiles. Dave is also a co-author of the WS-Management specification

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.

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

Vincent (Vince) Kowalski is Chief Web Services Architect at BMC Software. Currently Vince is leading the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services initiatives within the Atrium product team. Vince represents BMC in several Web Services Standards bodies including Oasis, WS-I and DMTF. Vince recently co-chaired the WS-CIM technical committee in DMTF and is currently co-chair of the CMDBf Work Group in DMTF. Prior to coming to BMC Vince was the Chief Web Technology Architect at Schlumberger and worked in various technical and leadership roles at IBM and Chevron. Vince has been actively involved in IT standards since 1992. He did a two and half-year assignment at the oil industry standards consortium, POSC. Vince represented POSC and IBM on ANSI (X3H2) and ISO committees related to the SQL Database language from 1992 to 1997.

Vince holds a BA degree in Physics from Lafayette College (Easton, PA), a BA in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Houston. Vince has a number of publications in the areas of software engineering, data management, distributed computing and geographical information 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.

Mike Lamb, IBM

Mike Lamb is an advisory software engineer with IBM Tivoli storage management; developed SMI-S client software and assisted in developing the SMI-S CTP client test plan for array devices, involved in SMI-S related field issues, an active participant in SMILab plugfests for 3 years, member of the Management Application Protocol TWG

Larry Lamers, VMWare

Larry Lamers brings twenty years experience in storage and six years of work in system management to his role at VMWare in standards and industry initiatives.  His primary work is related to management of virtual computer systems and storage.  He has served in a variety of positions (director, chair, vice-chair, technical editor) within industry organizations developing standards.  He represents VMWare at several key organizations including the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA,) and The Green Grid.

Larry enjoys golfing, gardening and playing with Buster and Bandit, the Border Collies that live with him and his wife.   Charlemagne and Teddy Roosevelt are his favorite historical figures.  He is also an avid science fiction reader with over 250 books in his collection.  Browsing used book stores is a favorite pastime.

Larry holds a Master in Management (operations & finance) from the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, IL, as well as a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.

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.

Fumo Machida, NEC

I'm an assistant manager in NEC Service Platforms Research Laboratories. I've been engaged in the technical research of the enterprise system management and autonomic computing. My recent result about an adaptive monitoring system is selected as one of the best paper awards of ICAS2007.

I joined the secure platform project supported by Japanese ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Association for Super-Advanced Electronics Technologies in 2007. In this project, I focus on the design of the standardization based resource  information management component for integrated access control middleware. A part of my work is presented at the DMTF workshop SVM08.

Ryan Mack, Microsoft

Ryan Mack is a Software Design Engineer who has worked with Microsoft for 3 years. Ryan has worked on several sub-areas relating to WS-Management and Windows Remote Management including subscriptions, quotas, IIS hosting, and the team's unit test framework.

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.

Aaron Merkin, Dell

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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

John is a Software Architect at Microsoft in the Windows Server organization. While he has many years as a Software Architect in both the Windows Server and the core OS group, he started Microsoft 20 years ago as a principal hardware engineer as the lead system and ASIC designer of the MIPs based workstations used in the development of Windows NT. John is an original and contributing member to the DMTF SVPC work group and its virtualization model. Prior to Microsoft John worked at the Digital Equipment Corporation as a processor and system design engineer.

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

Steve Quinn is a Technical Product Manager for Hitachi Data Systems where he focuses on the development of standards-based APIs and their application to Hitachi software and hardware storage products. He is contributing author to both the SNIA SMI-S and XAM specifications and participates in the SNIA SMI-S Technical Steering Group that oversees the development of SMI-S. He also participates in the Disk Resource Management, File System Management, Management Applications, Management Protocol, and FCAS working groups, as well as various SMI committees.

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.

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

Dr. David Snelling received his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Architecture from Manchester University in 1993. His undergraduate and masters degrees are from the University of Denver. Since 1997, Dr. Snelling has been employed by Fujitsu as a research project manager in computer architecture, object oriented design, and distributed systems. Prior to joining Fujitsu, he worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Manchester and Leicester. Dr Snelling's primary research area is software support for Internet based distributed computing.

As one of the primary architects of Unicore, a member of the European Commission's Expert Group on Next generation Grids, and an active member of the OGF, DMTF and OASIS, including chairing several working groups, he has played a central role in the development of distributes systems technology in Europe and around the world. He served for three years as Vice Chair of Standards at the OGF.

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.

Perry Vincent, Intel

Perry G. Vincent is a Software and Systems Architect at Intel Corporation. Perry’s area of focus is system management architecture for embedded implementations. His career covers many computing disciplines, including communication protocol software, system software integration, multi-processor and distributed systems architecture, object-oriented design, data modeling, telecom server management, and customer relationship management.
As a contributing member of the DMTF Server Management Working Group, Perry was the initial editor of the SM-CLP Specification, the SM-CLP-to-CIM Common Mapping Specification, and several CIM profile specifications. He is currently co-chair of the System Management Forum (SMF), which sponsors the DASH and SMASH Conformance Programs.

Paul von Behren, Symantec

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Marv Waschke, CA

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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.

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

Alex Zhdankin, Harris Stratex Networks

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