This is a special election to fill the seat vacated by Chris Donley as per sections 4.2.3.3 and 4.2.3.4 of the ONAP Technical Community Document
All candidates must reply all to the "Call for Nominations" email message https://lists.onap.org/g/onap-tsc/message/3972 to run for a TSC seat.
Nominees are encouraged to provide your information here as a courtesy at the request of your Program Manager. Doing so will greatly assist in the actual election process later on. NOTE: simply filling in this page is insufficient to qualify you for the election. You must send the email as requested.
ramki krishnan
My bitergia stats are at https://wiki.onap.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=45296343 under “Ramki Krishnan”. Candidate Self-Nomination https://lists.onap.org/g/onap-tsc/message/4057 | |||
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Chaker Al-Hakim is a Technical Executive Director at Huawei Technologies, where he is responsible for supporting the orchestration strategy as it relates to Network Services and Network Virtual functions. In this role, Chaker works across many organizations and also supports many large customers in their quest to virtualize their infrastructure and Services. Before Joining Huawei Chaker spent over 30 years with AT&T labs where he managed many development organizations responsible for developing large scale systems in support of the Advanced Network Services and customer facing services. Chaker was also a key contributor to the SDN/NFV and the virtualization strategy within the AT&T Labs. To that end, Chaker managed the development organization that developed the ECOMP platform which, along with the Open-O Project, became known as ONAP which provides a comprehensive platform for real-time, policy-driven orchestration and automation of physical and virtual network functions. Chaker holds a BS in Math and Computer Science and MS in Computer Science | I have been an active member of the ONAP community since its inception and have contributed significantly in many areas including Architecture, Service Orchestration, Controllers Data Modeling and usecases . I also bring 30+ years in the telecom industry based on my previous experience. In addition, I had a significant role in developing the ECOMP platform, which became the foundation of the ONAP opensource initiative, and will bring important perspectives to help bring the community moving forward and to acceleration the adoption of the ONAP platform. | I have 20+ years of product strategy and architecture experience in Enterprise, Cloud & Telecom industry and in the last few years pioneered the Telco NFV movement chairing the NFV Research Group at IETF. I am currently at VMware where I lead ONAP strategy/architecture and Cloud Native technology strategy/architecture. I have a deep understanding of various technologies and I drove a differentiated SDN product initiative winning the ONS 2014 SDN Idol award for Brocade. I am a recognized innovator with 19 US patents, 8 IEEE conference papers with a best paper award. | I have been deeply involved in ONAP since its inception with key contributions in the following areas. First, Architecture, Use Cases and Functional Requirements for Cloud and Edge Computing. Next, external open source project representation for Edge Computing. Last, committer for OOF project. My goal is to make ONAP the platform of choice for Application (Edge Apps etc.) and Network Function (5G etc.) through contributions in the area of Distributed System Design leveraging my technology, architecture and research experience besides my current contributions. |
