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Alla is Director of Technology, Strategy and Standardization in Amdocs.

She leads ONAP activities and internal decision-making. Her responsibilities include defining and implementing Amdocs’ ONAP strategy, working directly with ONAP members from Service Providers, vendors and partners, and managing Amdocs’ internal ONAP TSC. Her current focus is NFV and SDN network evolution, and in particular, the standardization and open-source domains. With over 20 years of experience in developing technology strategy and system architecture at global companies including Alcatel, Motorola, and Intel, Alla also has extensive experience in leading standardization efforts in 3GPP, IETF, ETSI NFV, BBF and have multiple patents in the communication and networking areas.

Alla holds an MSc in Technology Management from NYU and a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.

I am ONAP’s TSC member and Usecase subcommittee chair, since its inception. I speak about ONAP at numerous industry events (SDN/NFV Congress, ONS NA and ONS Europe, DTW etc.). I believe in the need of a strong relationship between SP requirements and work done in ONAP and initiate several related activities with a different SP and with EUAG. I believe I can represent ONAP and contribute to the work done by Strategic Planning Committee, by leveraging my experience and, by doing this, taking it to the next step towards actual ONAP deployments.

I am Head of Open Source Network and Service Automation at Nokia, which includes responsibility to drive Nokia’s overall engagement in ONAP. In this role it is necessary to work across multiple industry organisations, both open source and standardisation, to engage with both customers and other industry players, as well as internally across all Nokia businesses.

I have over 25 years of experience in network systems, ranging from multivendor interoperability verification, systems architecture research, new business incubation, to mobile network and operations systems standardisation, most recently heading Nokia engagement in Network Functions Virtualisation – or Telco cloud – standardisation. In my current role I ensured Nokia’s early commitment and engagement as platinum founding member in OPNFV, ensured Nokia commitment with OpenStack, as well as Nokia being platinum founding member in ONAP.

Prior to joining Nokia I was a lecturer at my alma mater Helsinki University Computer Science department, where I focused on distributed systems and systems communications.

I have been an active member of the ONAP community since its inception, mostly involved in architecture, use cases, and documentation, and a TSC member from the beginning of 2019. I am excited to help ONAP become successful in the industry and to accelerate its adoption. To achieve this target the longer term strategy is a key. This includes but is not limited to fostering fruitful industry collaboration between ONAP and other relevant open source communities and standards organisations. Also, and important aspect of the SPC is to lay out clear and executable strategy for LFN, across all of its projects, to maximise the value LFN can create for the industry.