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Catherine Lefèvre is an AVP in AT&T’s Network Cloud and SDN Platform Integration organization (AT&T Labs). She serves as ONAP TSC Chair since September 25th, 2018. Located in Belgium, Catherine is responsible for the software delivery and scaling of the Rules-Based Process Automation Platform, the Service Provisioning Platform (Voice, D2 Network/Service Elements, etc.) and ECOMP (Application Controller, Policy Framework and Control Loop Automation) - the platform that powers AT&T’s software-centric network. She is also focusing on transforming BSS/OSS systems to Microservice Architecture and achieving data powered close loop automation. She is a member of the AT&T “Virtual Network Function” Governance Board and is co-leading the open sourcing of the ECOMP Platform (ONAP). Catherine received a master’s degree in computer science as well as a qualified teaching degree in computer science in 1996 from the University Of Namur (FUNDP). She began her career in 1996, working with Alcatel as a software development engineer. She joined AT&T in 2013. During her time with AT&T, she has focused on developing its software-defined network. This includes working on software development best practices as well as early prototypes and proof of concepts of AT&T’s Domain 2.0 technology. She has also supported AT&T’s move from concept to scaled production development of the technology as well as integrating the DevOps Culture for increased collaboration between the development and operations teams. Catherine is part of AT&T’s EMEA Women’s Network, mentoring young women about careers in STEM She is an avid horse rider and photography enthusiast. Full Biography: Bio_Catherine_Lefevre.pdf | Dear ONAP Community, I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP community representing AT&T. I have been heavily involved in and responsible for the software delivery and scaling of several ECOMP Components within AT&T, which have been deployed in production for the last 4.5 years. I co-led the open sourcing activities of the ECOMP Platform prior the ONAP Launch (initially OpenECOMP). I have contributed to the ONAP releases since day 1, and continue providing support to several project teams including the Integration team, subcommittees. I have worked collaboratively with the ONAP Release Managers to help drive the releases, including, but not limited to:
I participated in several international road shows/events since 2017 to evangelize ONAP and to share the AT&T SDN Journey. I have also served as a member of Open Networking Summit Program Committees (North America and Europe) since 2018. As your current ONAP TSC Chair and as one of the leaders of ONAP from AT&T , I believe I have a lot of experience with the ONAP code in actual production deployments, as well as broad knowledge of the ONAP solution that positions me well for the role of TSC member and helping to drive the ONAP success story. Biterg.io link: https://onap.biterg.io/goto/30527e79d9aa170ded084544e892b719 Best regards Catherine | |
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Multi-tasking Technical Architect / Developer building architecture, design and implementation for large-scale software solution deployed in Kubernetes within a private cloud. Adept in defining cloud native based solutions, while juggling other architect and leadership duties. Can define architecture vision, roadmap toward its implementation, along with pipeline strategy fostering agile delivery. Result oriented and efficient problem solver challenging technologies and processes toward business transformation. Strive to build an overall, yet very technical, knowledge of networking and programming. | Dear ONAP Community, I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP project representing Bell Canada.With more than 5 years experience in Telecom industry in software design & development and 3 years experience with ONAP, I have been part of software delivery and operations of ONAP in a production environment in Bell Canada. In the past 5 years I have also been involved as contributor, committer, TSC member in different projects within the LFN and I believe I can bring Open Source best practices and guidances. As a TSC member, I want to help driving the adoption ONAP in production environments by making it more open, community-driven, agile, aligned to operator’s needs, and I’d like to help bringing a more technical focus as part of the TSC. Alexis | |
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Viswa is a senior architect, part of Network Strategy & Planning organization. In his current role he is responsible for driving ONAP Strategy in Verizon, along with establishing service / slice orchestration reference architecture. He has rich experience in building routing, security and network management products for Telecom Service Providers. He is passionate about programming & debugging. He love open source and firmly believes in the power of an open ecosystem. He has contributed to multiple open source communities over the years and you can see his Github profile at https://github.com/kspviswa He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics & Communication engineering and Masters in Software Engineering. | Dear ONAP Community, Good Day! I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of ONAP Project, representing Verizon ( ONAP Platinum Service Provider / Operator seat ). Being part of Orchestration Planning Org within Verizon, I drive the ONAP strategy & help establish service / slice orchestration strategy & functional architecture. I have been with ONAP from its first release & actively contributed architectural thoughts including our observations / gaps on what we saw within our environment to make ONAP better. As a TSC member, I would like to bring the service provider perspective for ONAP and help evolve ONAP as a standardized network orchestration platform that benefits everyone. Bitergia link : https://onap.biterg.io/goto/da223a8776e282348e158bc367decd1c | |
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Eric Debeau has a solid 20 years experience in the telecommunications area with a particular focus on IT techniques adoption in networks and OSS domains. Through his broad experience as network architect and platform development (IMS/VoIP, network API), he is recognized as a member of the Orange expert Community in charge of future network evolutions. He is currently leading a team working on the core network evolution leveraging IT techniques mainly covering NFV, Orchestration and network data analytics. His team is very open-source focused and launched innovative platform for emerging countries (Emerginov) and is now strongly involved in OPNFV, ONAP, OpenStack and ACUMOS. Eric is very involved in various open-source communities and he is responsible for coordinating the Orange contributions to ONAP project. He has contributed to various open-source communities, published various technical papers and holds several patents. In addition to his professional activities, he is also an open data evangelist and a very active OpenStreetMap contributor and organizes many events around open data promotion. | Dear ONAP community, I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP project representing Orange. I have been involved in SDN/NFV activities for more than 5 years, leading a team focusing in open source communities (ONAP, OPNFV, Acumos). Currently TSC member representing Orange, I am also the Orange coordinator for all ONAP activities (cf Orange stats on bitergia: https://onap.biterg.io/goto/2154018f4e022a09c433a6a04ca8b27d). I am convinced that collaboration within open source project is the best approach to drive the industry to deliver de facto standard solutions. ONAP is a major project for service providers in their network automation journey and I will focus my energy to make ONAP a success. Acting as a TSC member, I would focus on key topics (usability, CI/CD, security) to ease ONAP usage in production. My bitergia stats: https://onap.biterg.io/goto/5e8f7d40088f42db52a56b36312b9412
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Zonghe is the project manager of China Telecom Beijing Research Institute. He has worked in the telecommunications industry for more than 10 years. In the past 5 years, he has focused on the design of self-developed SDN controllers and arrangers. Currently, I am a core member of the China Telecom Research Institute's architecture and service team, responsible for designing a new generation of network operations system platform. | Dear ONAP community, I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member for ONAP community representing China Telecom. Since joining China Telecom, I have been working tirelessly on Benchmark project testing and CCVPN sfc sub-project development. At the same time, I led our team and tried to deploy it through ONAP in combination with the typical business scenarios of China Telecom. I have more than 15 years of experience in software system development and design. I have focused on the design of self-developed SDN controllers and Service Orchestration for the last 5 years. I will continue to promote ONAP as the actual standard in our industry. I believe that the key to the success of ONAP is practical, stable and reliable. Looking forward to the future, I hope that the ONAP system will be more open, easy to use and agile. We hope to adopt ONAP in the production environment through the actual business needs of our operators, and hope to promote the evolution of ONAP towards a more intelligent autonomous system. I would like to bring in my energy, enthusiasm and experience to help the TSC deliver a production ready ONAP adopted by operators, focusing on building a strong community and supporting our developers through improvements to our development processes and collaboration, if elected by you. I wish with all your support we could make ONAP a commercial success. Bitergia Stats: https://onap.biterg.io/goto/e403a177a625bc2ac58caabaaaac72e4 Best Regards | |
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I have been working for Telcos since 2007, and currently working for Turk Telekom as Senior Architect. The focus of my studies is the realization of IT and NW transformation that will meet the new generation business needs of Turk Telekom applications. | Dear ONAP community members, I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP project, representing Turk Telekom (Platinum Service Provider Seat). I have been representing Turk Telekom as a TSC member since February. I am responsible for increasing the awareness of ONAP within the Turk Telekom, determining the usacase scenarios, consolidating the requirements, defining the road-map and planning and implementing them. ONAP is a big part of future plans in Turk Telekom. Analysis and integration preparations are being made to deploy and use ONAP in live systems. For this purpose our subsidiarys like NETSIA and ARGELA are actively contributing on code development of ONAP. My ONAP stats : Provisional Best Regards, | |
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Lingli Deng is a lead researcher and technical manager at China Mobile Research Institute. She obtained her Doctor’s degree in Computer Application Technology from the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences and joined China Mobile in 2009. She is a core member of the Novonet project which drives SDN/NFV strategy for China Mobile, and has been working on evaluation and introduction of data plane acceleration technology, running the Novonet Testing Lab and planning the SDN/NFV trial network for the company. | Dear ONAP Community, I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP community representing China Mobile. I have been working for the next generation network transformation program in China Mobile, and now leading a team dedicated in enabling ONAP for internal use-cases, specifications and implementations. My team has been involved to the community since its incubation, devoted to NFV, SD-WAN, 5G slicing and intelligent operation use-cases enablement, and will continue working with our partners in moving the community forward. Looking forward to your support. Lingli | |
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Davide Cherubini is Lead Software, Open Source and Labs in the Strategy, Planning and Operations team of the Cloud & Automation Centre of Excellence in Vodafone Group. His current responsibilities are Open Source Programs Coordination, Go-to Market Strategies and the End-to-End Cloud Architecture. In his previous role, he was responsible for the SDN/NFV Enterprise product portfolio transformation (VPN+) and was part of the team that developed the Vodafone Group Transformation strategy and architecture for SDN and NFV (Vodafone Ocean). Prior to Vodafone, Davide served as Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs where he was part of the leading research team in Small Cells and, later on, of the Cloud, SDN and NFV research group. He co-authored scientific papers and published more than 15 patents. Prior to Bell Labs, Davide has held different positions within the Tiscali Group in Italy. Davide holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering with a dissertation on optimization of multi-service (MPLS-based) networks. His main interests are around cloud architectures, network virtualization and optimization. | Dear ONAP community, I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP project representing Vodafone. My work in Vodafone has always been focused (and still is focusing) in delivering new innovative approaches to Network Virtualization and, later on, on Cloud paradigms applied to Telcos. Since May 2017, I am responsible for the Vodafone Open-Source strategy and activities. I have joined (and recommended Vodafone to join) the ONAP community in June 2017 and since then I have been involved in several projects and Use Cases such as CCVPN (for Casablanca and Dublin release). My team managed the delivery of Vodafone contributions to ONAP (API, functional code and platform enhancements) and, between Casablanca and Dublin release, increased the committed lines by 5152% (+633% unique commitments). Currently, I am representing Vodafone in several Linux Foundation Networking boards (i.e., ONAP TSC, TAC, SPC and, occasionally, the LFN Governing Board) and in cross-functional collaborations with other Open Source projects (e.g., LFN, TIP, O-RAN and OSM). I have promoted ONAP internally across the Vodafone ecosystem (~75 operators) and in various external events (SDN World Congress 2017, OSN Days London 2018, ONS NA 2018 & 2019, ONS Europe 2018 & 2019). I am a strong advocate of open collaboration and of Open Source to drive the telco Industry into the future. ONAP is one of the best (probably the best) Open Source Communities and I am honored to be part of it. My bitergia stats: https://onap.biterg.io/goto/df6e9a6d1a25854797d785c11c32747a All the best, Davide | |
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