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The Candidates (In ascending alphabetical order by last name)
Alla Goldner
Biography
Alla currently serves as the Director of Technology, Strategy and Standardization at Amdocs.
She has more than 20 years of experience as a respected leader in telecommunication standards development, technology strategy and system architecture. Before joining Amdocs, she has been with other key industry players including Alcatel, Motorola, Intel, Marvell and Allot Communications.
Alla has significant experience in leading standardization work in 3GPP, IETF, ETSI NFV, BBF, ETSI MEC, not only as a rapporteur but also as a key contributor to numerous work items in the areas of 5G, policy control and charging, NFV, SDN, IMS, service function chaining, control-user plane split and congestion management. She has served on the program committees of several recognized conferences (incl. IEEE ICC and IEEE CSCN), published at top research congresses and holds multiple patents.
Alla holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and an MSc in Technology Management from New York University.
She currently focuses on network evolution, especially on NFV and SDN in both standardization and open source domains.
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I have many years of successful experience working in a different standardization groups and organizations. I truly believe collaboration and joint work are key to success, and have a proven record of accomplishments in building industry wide consensus among different companies and different cultures.
Amdocs is committed to provide me with all needed resources to succeed in this position, if I get elected.
I am asking for your support in these elections. If I get elected, it will be a great honor and responsibility to support TSC chair and to serve the whole ONAP community from my perspective.
Chris Donely
Biography
Over the past year, I have served as OPEN-O’s TSC Chair. I know what it takes to build and lead an open source community and to release on time, having delivered two on-time releases in 11 months. Also, I can devote about 90% of my time to ONAP, and I am committed to its success.
I have over 20 years’ networking experience, including 6+ years’ experience leading open source SDN/NFV development teams using Agile and Lean methodologies. I have also been active in open source leadership for several years:
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I am interested in serving as ONAP’s TSC Vice-Chairperson. In this role, I will focus on two priorities: community and cadence. I am committed to openness and transparency, making room for other people’s contributions, and recruiting new developers and new companies. Also, I believe that it is essential that we demonstrate the ability to release on time, before the end of the year.
Lingli Deng
Biography
Lingli Deng obtained her Doctor’s degree in computer science from the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences and joined China Mobile in 2009.
She is currently leading OPNFV/ONAP project and Novonet experimental network at China Mobile Research Institute.
She is also currently serving as the ONAP TSC member representing China Mobile. She was in the formation team for OPEN-O, served as OPEN-O TSC representative and NFV-O PTL. And contributed mostly to the harmonization between openECOMP and OPEN-O.
She is also serving on the OPNFV Board of Directors and act as the treasurer of Board officer. She joined OPNFV community since its early phase, and led OPNFV DPACC project, won 1st OPNFV community award for collaboration, and has been actively pushing OPEN-O integration with OPNFV.
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