2018 TSC Election Candidates

Evil Galactic Overlord Industries, LLC

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Dear ONAP community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP project [ONAP Platinum Service Provider seat]

With more than 14 year experience in Telecom industry in software design & development and 18 months experience with ONAP, I have led the software delivery and operations of ONAP in a production environment in Bell Canada, I have been a TSC member of ONAP since its inception and have been the PTL for OOM. 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.

My Bitergia stats: https://onap.biterg.io/goto/ac8303d60f1955ce3c6c845bd2e0d107

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LF ticket (#58515) is opened to reflect my contributions.

Catherine Lefèvre is an AVP in AT&T’s Network Cloud & Infrastructure organization (AT&T Labs).

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_2018.pdf

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 3.5 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.

I have worked collaboratively with the ONAP Release Manager to help drive the releases, including, but not limited to:

• Preparation/review of all milestones,
• Removal of roll block(s) raised by several PTLs,
• Reviewing of security/license issues,
• Assisting with identification and management of risks,
• JIRA management,
• Driving Lesson learned discussions, and
• Identification of  process improvements

I participated in several international road shows in 2017 to evangelize ONAP and to share the AT&T SDN Journey.

This year I have also served as a member of Open Networking Summit Program Committees (North America and Europe).

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 drive the ONAP success story.

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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.

Chris Donley serves as Senior Director, Open Source Ecosystems at Huawei.  He is providing open source leadership in several Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network function Virtualization (NfV) initiatives, including ONAP and OPNFV.  He previously served as Director, Virtualization and Network Evolution at CableLabs.

Chris has been involved in many standards and open source organizations. He currently serves as Architecture Chair and Huawei’s TSC member for ONAP and Compliance & Verification Chair for LF Networking. He previously served on the OPNFV Board of Directors and Open Daylight Advisory Council.  He also chaired the OPEN-O TSC and the OPNFV Strategic Planning Committee and co-chaired the MEF Certification Committee.

In ONAP, I have been active chairing the Architecture Subcommittee and leading the VNFSDK project.  I also chair the LFN Compliance & Verification Committee, and previously chaired the OPEN-O TSC.  I have also worked on network standards and specifications since 2006, including through IETF, MEF, ETSI, and CableLabs.  Having participated in ONAP (and similar communities) through multiple roles, I bring knowledge and experience to help the TSC deliver our releases on time by focusing on building our community and supporting our developers through improvements to our tools and development processes.  

Ranny Haiby is a Principal System Architect in the Nokia CloudBand product group. In addition to his role in Nokia, Ranny serves as a member of the Technical steering committee of the Linux Foundation ONAP project. Ranny is dealing with transitioning network functions to the cloud and is constantly seeking creative ways to make this experience smoother. He has been involved in NFV for several years, leveraging his twenty year experience from previous roles in his carrier in various telecom equipment vendors and startup companies. Ranny is always striving to think out of the box in order to make the impossible happen.

Ranny is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff (DMTS) in Nokia and hold a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of technology.

With over 22 years of overall experience in architecting software systems, out of which 7 years spent on NFV orchestration, I will continue driving ONAP towards being the de-facto standard in our industry. As a member of the original TSC, I have been involved in several multi-party initiatives for simplification and unification of the ONAP architecture. I have worked diligently and persistently to bring Nokia to become one of the top ten contributing companies to the project.  I believe the key to ONAP’s success will be its usability and simplicity and intend to work closely with the operator and vendor community to continue driving these principals. Moving forward I will strive for more alignment in the community through continued work under multi-party initiatives.