Speaker Biographies
Doug van Aman, PC Doctor
Doug Van Aman became chief marketing officer in 2005 after a consulting engagement with the company. He brings 25 years of high-tech marketing experience and oversees all marketing efforts at PC-Doctor.
Doug most recently was the owner of a successful consulting practice engaged by Sun Microsystems, eBay, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Cadence Design Systems and nVidia on a wide range of corporate, financial and marketing communications issues.
In addition to an executive marketing position at Sun Microsystems during its heydey, Doug has been managing director and general manager of regional agency offices that supported global communications for Microsoft's early web initiatives and Apple's global business. He also has provided strategic and tactical counsel to a wide range of small and large clients, including Adobe Systems, Hewlett-Packard Company, Visa International, and Levi Strauss & Company.
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.
Chris Buccella, IBM
Chris is an open source developer at IBM. He is a member of the SBLIM project currently working on SFCB, the Small-Footprint CIM Broker, a CIMOM designed for resource-constrained environments.
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.
Alex Danoyan, Novell
Alex is a Distinguished Engineer at Novell. 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 for NetWare products. He was the leader for User Auto Provisioning component for Novell Branch Office Appliance . Alex was one of the architects for Nterprise Linux Services 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 was one of the architects for Data Center Automation project, specifically in the area of CIM-based Distributed System Management. Alex is currently the architect for Novell SLES Services Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager. Alex is author and co-author of 1 issued and 5 pending patents. Alex graduated Summa Cum Laude from National Aviation University, Kiev, Ukraine with a MS degree in Computer Engineering.
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.
Jim currently chairs the DMTF CIM-XML Working Group. Previously Jim has
served as 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 developing solutions for remote provisioning and other utilities.
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.
Rob Goodling, IBM
Rob Goodling is the Manager for Virtualization Management and Data Center Transformation for IBM Tivoli. He drives cross portfolio and cross brand virtualization management strategy and solutions. During his career at IBM, he helped define the IBM Service Management strategy and solutions. Prior to joining IBM, Rob was Director for Market Strategy focused on new market development at Candle Corporation and a Manager of Business Planning for the server division of Compaq Computer Corporation. He has spoken at numerous industry events, including IBM Pulse and IMPACT. Rob has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Steffen Grarup, VMWare
Steffen Grarup is a Director R&D at VMware, Inc. and is responsible for VMware's R&D center located in Denmark. The Denmark center focuses on VMware's vSphere product line, and is responsible for a number of features including OVF and vApp support.
Prior to joining VMware, Steffen worked at Esmertec and at Sun Microsystems. At Sun, Steffen was the technical lead for the memory management system in the Java Hotspot Virtual Machine for desktop and servers, and the Java CLDC HotSpot Virtual Machine for mobile devices. Steffen holds an MS in Computer from the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
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.
Digant Kasundra, Stanford U
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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.
Ken Kotyuk, HP
Joe Kozlowski, Dell
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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 co-chair of the System Management
Forum. He has also represented Hitachi in the Open Grid Forum (OGF),
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
(OASIS) and in the InfiniBand Trade Association.
Fumo Machida, NEC
Fumio Machida is an assistant manager in NEC Service Platforms Research Laboratories. He has been engaged in the technical research of the enterprise system management and autonomic computing for 6 years in NEC. Currently, he is working in the secure platform project supported by Japanese ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Association for Super-Advanced Electronics Technologies. He is responsible for designing a resource information management system for the integrated access control manager. He is an active participant in the DMTF Policy WG.
Ryan Mack, Microsoft
Ram Melkote, CA
Ram Melkote manages the product strategy for CA CMDB along with the product federations that underlie the Unified Service Model (USM). Ram has over 20 years of cross functional experience in the IT industry across service management, IT applications, SOA , BPM, Middleware, Databases, and Systems Management. His experience has spanned Product Management, Product Development, Architecture, and Consulting. Prior to CA he has worked for IBM, Bell, and Oracle, and has founded a startup. He has a Masters in Engineering from Cornell, a Masters in Computer Science from Columbia, and an MBA from University of Chicago.
Andreas Maier, IBM
Andreas Maier is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's development lab in Boeblingen, Germany. He is responsible for strategy and architecture of systems management on Linux for System z and z/VM, and has a leading role in the area of the CIM and SMI-S standards across IBM's Systems & Technology Group. As a part of that, he is contributing to systems management standards at DMTF. Andreas started working for IBM in 1987, after finishing a masters degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
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.
Ricardo Morin, Intel
Ricardo Morin is a Principal Engineer working at Intel’s Software and Services Group (SSG). Currently, he is the technical director of one of Intel’s software development centers where he leads service oriented software infrastructure design and development projects focusing on end-to-end systems design, manageability, horizontal scalability, performance and security. In a prior position, Ricardo directed libraries and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) development, as well as performance optimization activities of middleware application server stacks, with emphasis on J2EE and JVM implementations. Before joining Intel, Ricardo led a technology consulting team specializing in Business-to-Business (B2B) data exchange technologies, collaborative computing, Web development, applications and systems architectures serving multiple Government and commercial clients. Ricardo has extensive experience architecting, developing, and deploying enterprise-class information systems. He received his Electronic Engineering (Cum Laude) degree from Simon Bolivar University, Caracas, Venezuela in 1980.
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.
Padmavathy K.M., Wipro
Padmavathy K.M is a Senior Consultant with Wipro Technologies having an overall experience of 11 years in s/w development. Her expertise includes Client-Server based applications, Component development using COM, SMI-S & storage applications. She is a post graduate from University of Madras with a Master's degree in Computer Applications.
In her current role, she works in the CTO organization to design and develop Efficient Power Conservation Solution for a Green Data Center using std interfaces. Earlier she had worked on Data migration, storage virtualization & tape virtualization products for various leading storage vendors. Her interest includes SMI-S, storage virtualization and is a member of SNIA SMI-S core & Green storage TWG.
Khachatur Papanyan, Dell
Khachatur Papanyan is a member of Advanced Engineering and Standard Instrumentation Development Teams at Dell. For the last couple of years, Khachatur has been concentrating on developing CIM based management industry standards. He currently chairs the Security working group at DMTF. Khachatur is also the editor of many of CIM profiles. He has received B.S in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Circuit Design from the University of Texas at Austin. Khachatur is also currently studying for J.D. from University of Houston Law Center.
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.
Steve Peters, PMC Sierra
Hemma Prafullchandra, HyTrust
Hemma Prafullchandra is Chief Security Architect of HyTrust, with responsibility over the design and development of all virtualization infrastructure security and compliance management solutions. She brings over 20 years of industry experience to this role, including expertise in Solaris security, IPSec, Firewalls, Certificate Authorities/PKI, Java2 Security Model, Secure Messaging, Web Services Security, Managed Security Services, Strong Authentication and Identity Management.
Prior to HyTrust, Prafullchandra was Vice President of the Advanced Products and Research Group in the Information Services division of VeriSign. The group designed and prototyped next generation product concepts. It also researched emerging technologies and developed specifications for various industry forums. Prafullchandra has held key management and technical positions at FuGen Solutions, Sun Microsystems, Critical Path, and The Wollongong Group.
Prafullchandra has co-authored numerous industry standards and holds several patents in the field of security. She has actively participated in industry forums such as Liberty Alliance, Web Services Security Standards and OpenID 2.0. Prafullchandra holds a BSc with Honours in Computer Science and Electronic Engineering from University College London, England.
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.
Rajesh Radhakrishnan, IBM
Rajesh specializes in ITIL-ITSM Consulting, Business Continuance, High Availability, Architecture Management and High-End Systems, and Storage Technologies, as well as Technical Project Management. Rajesh has presented/published papers on such topics as Enterprise & IT Architecture, Storage Architecture, Systems Architecture, ITIL-ITSM Processes, and Technical Change Management (TCM) at such conferences as the APC (Architecture Practitioners’ Conference) by the Open Group, ISIS by the Indian School of Business (ISB), Frontiers in Service by University of Maryland, and Sun SuperG (Super User Group). He has published more than dozen IT management related papers in the IBM Systems Journal, The Open Group Web Site and other conference proceedings.
Rajesh has an M.B.A. from Old Dominion University and an M.S. in Management of IT from the University of Virginia. Rajesh is also Open Group Certified TOGAF Practitioner (2008), IBM Certified IT Architect (2008), ITIL Foundations & Masters Trained & Certified (2003 and 2005), Sun Certified Storage Architect (Vendor Agnostic – FC SAN focused certification, 2002), PMI Project Management Fundamentals (2001) and Sun Certified Solaris Systems Administrator (1997).
Wayne Riley, IBM
Wayne joined IBM in 1992 working in the Networking Hardware division. He held a number of lead development and design positions in APPC, APPN and TCP/IP development. Wayne joined Tivoli in 2000 where he as had leadership positions in many key Tivoli products. He is currently a Senior Technical Staff Member holding the position of portfolio architect in the Service Availability and Performance Management group as well as the Tivoli Green Data Center Architect. He is responsible for defining and driving the Green Data Center scenarios and work across Tivoli and Software Group Products.
James Rigger, SNIA
James has had a long career working in or associated with the computer industry. His career has encompassed consumption of computing products, reselling products, manufacturing of products and testing products to standards conformance. He started out as an end-user at Market Support International, then a TMP Group Company, managing the Systems Group. He designed and managed inventory management systems, order entry systems and inbound call tracking systems while at MSI. He then went on to work for the Ultimate Corporation in their sales support group. Ultimate was a manufacturer of the PICK operating system and a reseller of various UNIX operating systems platforms. James’ role at the Ultimate Corp. was to assist approximately 150 application vendors with conversion and sales issues associated with their applications. He went from the Ultimate Corp to work for the Hewlett-Packard Company focusing on issues associated with the UNIX operating system and relational databases. His career at HP also afforded him the opportunity to work on the introduction of high-end array products and storage management products.
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.
Hemal Shah, Broadcom
In DMTF, Hemal chairs Platform Management Sub-committee and co-chairs Physical Platform Profiles (PPP) and Platform Management Components Intercommunications (PMCI) working groups. Hemal has led several standardization efforts in DMTF, IETF, and RDMA Consortium. As a lead author, editor, and/or major technical contributor, Hemal has co-authored more than 25 DMTF specifications, three IETF RFCs, and three RDMA consortium specifications. Hemal is the lead technical representative/contributor from Broadcom Corporation in several DMTF working groups including PPP, DMWG, PMCI, Security, and WS-Management. Hemal holds 8 patents and has co-authored more than 10 technical conference/journal papers. Hemal holds a Ph. D. (computer engineering) and M.S. (computer sciences) from
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.
Sean Swehla, IBM
Sean is an open source developer at IBM. He is a member of the SBLIM project currently working on SFCB, the Small-Footprint CIM Broker, a CIMOM designed for resource-constrained environments.
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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