2018 TSC Election Candidates

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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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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.

Srinivasa Addepalli

Srini Addepalli has over 22+ years of experience in networking and security. He has been in Intel for last 3 years working as Sr. Principal Engineer & Senior Architect.  In his current role, he technically leads the software engineering & architecture activities related to network orchestration and network/infrastructure security with specific focus on  ONAP, edge and Kubernetes.    Previously he worked in many roles including CTO of a network security software company Intoto Inc (acquired by Freescale), Fellow & Chief architect at Freescale leading advanced technology group. In his previous jobs, he was instrumental in strategy & creation of UTM solutions, autonomous acceleration of L3, L4, IPsec, Openflow, & Cloud RAN functions, network security/packet-processing software solutions and infrastructure security solutions.

I have been working on ONAP and related areas since September,2017 when I started my current role as ONAP chief architect in Intel.  I have been technically/strategically leading group of ONAP engineers within Intel to contribute to ONAP releases. Some of my contributions include architecture of

• Policy based HPA feature in OOF, Multi-Cloud & A&AI.
• Secret Management Service to secure the ONAP secrets such as passwords
• CA Private key security using PKCS11 with Hardware root of trust.
• Distributed KV Store for configuration.
• Kubernetes plugin to do LCM of containerized VNFs and orchestrate both VMs & containers.
• ISTIO based Service mesh technology for ONAP.
• Many edge automation activities : ONAP offload to regional controllers,  Secure connectivity via IPSEC between ONAP and Edge locations and Aggregation of node statistics to site granularity.

I have led many big technical projects in my career and had been working in NFV/SDN world for last 6 years. ONAP success is major goal of my current role. With my experience in open source, networking , security, edge, micro services and service mesh technologies, I am confident that I will contribute/collaborate technically/strategically with rest of the community and be a constructive technical contributor/architect to the ONAP project.

Viswa is a senior architect at Verizon,India and part of Network Strategy & Planning organization. In his current role he is focussing on open source initiatives in the areas of SDN/NFV, Cloud & Orchestration and also responsible for driving ONAP Strategy in Verizon.

Viswa 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

Viswa holds an Bachelors degree in Electronics & Communication engineering and Masters in Software Engineering.

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of ONAP Project, representing Verizon ( ONAP Platinum Service Provider / Operator seat )

I’m currently part of the Network Strategy & Planning organisation of Verizon. I focus on open source initiatives in the areas of SDN/NFV, Cloud & Orchestration. I drive the ONAP strategy along with my team within Verizon.

As a TSC member, I would like to bring the service provider perspective for ONAP and help evolve ONAP as a standardised network orchestration platform that benefits everyone.

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Dear ONAP community members,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP project representing Orange (seat as Platinum Service Provider).

I have been involved in SDN/NFV activities for 5 years, leading a team focusing in open source communities (ONAP, OPNFV, Acumos). I contributed in various ONAP projects (documentation, integration, externalAPI…) and sub-committees (architecture, use-case…) and I am the current Orange TSC member. I also promoted ONAP in various events (OSN Days, ONS Summit, SDN World Congress…).

ONAP is a key project for service providers and I will focus my energy to make ONAP a success.  Acting as a TSC member, I would like to accelerate the ONAP deployment in production focusing on the key requirements and to bring more technical topics within the TSC.

Best Regards

Dear ONAP community,

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

I have been involved in telecom industry in software development for 21 years, and I am leading a team developing NFV Orchestrator in China Telecom. We are trying to apply ONAP in the development project by integrating with ONAP MSB, Holmes, DCAE, A&AI, and etc.. As a TSC member from China Telecom, I want to help driving adoption in production environments, and giving feedback to the community. More importantly, we can cooperate with the best operators and vendors in the world. We believe that the cooperation will help the industry to be clear about the direction of technology development and lower the cost of the system integration and operation in the future.

Best Regards

Moving forward, I want to help accelerate ONAP’s move to a meritocratic community and build additional bridges and stronger ties to other projects – within (i.e. to OPNFV, FD.io, PNDA, ...) and outside the LFN (incl. CNCF), including:

• Making Lab-as-a-Service available to the ONAP community
• Accelerating the integration of PNDA into DCAE
• Accelerating cross community CI

I have served on the ONAP TSC since the founding of the community last year.  I contributed to the architectural principles and have led coordination of the S3P/Platform Maturity Requirements for the Beijing and Casablanca releases.  I have also represented the community, presenting on ONAP and related topics (DevOps & Platform Maturity) at industry conferences (KubeCon, SDN/NFV World Congress, and ONS)

I would enjoy the opportunity to continue working in the ONAP community as a TSC representative, furthering the maturity of the platform via the S3P requirements, and ensuring ease of consumability by users of ONAP.  I would also encourage the community to leverage existing cloud-based technologies and platforms, allowing the ONAP community to focus on their specialty areas of networking and automation.

Xinhui Li is Senior Architect of VMware NFV R&D and leads the team working on NFV product development and integration with open ecosystem. Besides NFV product development/integration, she serves as a core reviewer of OpenStack community since 2015. She is also contributing to ETSI MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) as ISG member. She focuses on distributed system design and optimization with 14 global patents, 4 industry white papers, and 6 academy papers published in international journals/conferences of PIC top/target level. In the past three years, she has more than 18 tech submissions accepted by OpenStack Summit, OPNFV summit, ONS and Hadoop summit. She holds a M.S. in Computer Architecture from China Academy of Sciences.

With more than 4 years’ experience with OpenStack open community and over 15 months’ experience with ONAP, I have led the development efforts of ONAP in VMware. Along the past year, VMware continues to be one of the top ten contributing companies in ONAP. I have been a TSC member of ONAP since its inception. I had been the PTL for Multi VIM/Cloud (commits 80, Jira 64) and successfully delivered the releases of Amsterdam and Beijing with the global team. I would like to help technical focus of the TSC around cloud infrastructure, contribute to foster a diverse community and ensure ONAP maintains its leadership as a carrier-grade Telco orchestration platform.

I would like to self nominate as a candidate for a TSC member of the ONAP Open Source project. 

I have been in the telecommunication industry for more that 24 years and have worked though several industry transformations.  My background covers both the network functions (Circuit switched, User Data Bases, IMS, Packet core) as well as the operations support systems.  This has involved working in community based organizations such as Standard Design organizations (ITU-T, 3GPP, ETSI, ….) and now I have been active in the ONAP TSC since its inception.  I believe that I have used my current ONAP TSC position to work constructively towards moving the ONAP project and community forward with my contribution to the TSC, the architecture sub-committee and starting up and being Chair of the security sub-committee, where I believe that we have developed into one of the most vibrant security focused activities in an opensource project. 

From a formal perspective, I hold a Masters of Engineering Science, Bachelor of Engineering (1^st Hons) and Bachelor of science and  I am a Senior Expert in Ericsson.

My Bitergia Stats can be found at: https://onap.biterg.io/goto/deb5f1a109702fde2086d166b589dfac

I look forward to the opportunity to continue working with the ONAP community.

I have been involved with the ONAP TSC since its inception, always working to move it forward.  I have been the lead of the ONAP Security sub-committee where we have developed into a vibrant security community.  I have been constributively working in the architecture sub-committee to work with bring ONAP forward.

I believe that I bring a good breadth of experience in multiple communities and I look forward to the opportunity to continue to work in the ONAP community in the TSC