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 | Byung-Woo Jun is a principal engineer at Ericsson Software Technology. With his 25+ years of experience in telecommunications as a software engineer and architect, he has researched, developed and influenced industry standards and technologies. He studied computer science and network for his master and additional post-graduate studies. Prior to engaging the ONAP project, he worked as a principal computing architect for Bellcore, Telcordia and Ericsson, and resolved large-scale architectural challenges for the companies and many external telecommunication businesses. His career has provided him with a wealth of experience in envisioning, designing and developing cutting-edge products. Byung has been working with ONAP since its inception. He is the vice chairman of TSC, the Chairman of ARCCOM, a member of SECCOM, and OOM, SO, and achieved the following missions:
| As an ONAP TSC member, I (Byung) would continue to service the community, by promoting and setting strategies for the ONAP (modularity, autonomy, AI/GenAI/ML, security, pick-and-choose, performance, standardization and extensibility), AI/ML, cross-platform and community collaborations (ORAN, Nephio, vendors and operators). I am a strong candidate for this position based on my expertise and achievements. | |||
Pawel Pawlak is a Senior Product Manager at TuxCare for Endless Lifecycle Support products for Linux distributions, programming languages and frameworks. Actively contributes to ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform) from the early beginning of this LFN project. For the last 5 years Pawel has led the ONAP Security Subcommittee focusing on building awareness among open source community on security and incorporating best practices. For the last 2 years Pawel has also been leading ONAP TSC. Pawel previously worked at F5 and Incognito as Product Manager for software solutions. Prior to that Pawel gained experience In the telco industry for 18 years at Orange/TPSA where he was responsible for testing and deploying aggregation and core networks for triple play services, dealing with building skill centers for BRAS/BNG, providing internal professional services in IP and transport domains and most recently creating strategy for operator’s IT and network operations convergence. Pawel received his Master of Science in Telecommunications from the Warsaw University of Technology. He also holds Executive Master of Business Administration at Kozminski University. | As an ONAP TSC member, I would like to continue my contributions to ONAP community. | ||||
 | Dan Timoney is an Expert Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, where he has worked since 1985. During his time at AT&T, Dan has held lead positions in many telecommunications projects supporting voice and data services.
Dan has been a leading contributor to ONAP since its inception, having served as Project Technical Lead of the CCSDK and SDNC projects since their initial release. Dan has consistently been one of the lead code contributors to ONAP. He has earned the code contribution award for 9 out of the 11 ONAP releases. He has been a member of the ONAP TSC since 2023. | If re-elected as a member of the TSC, Dan will work to continue to align ONAP and O-RAN and to improve the stability and maintainability of the ONAP platform. | |||
 | N. K. Shankaranarayanan (Shankar) is an Affiliate Research Scientist with Rutgers University WINLAB, with research interests covering wireless networks and technologies, wireless standards and open-source solutions. He is a lead for an NTIA-funded R&D project on Open RAN energy efficiency. Prior to this, he worked at AT&T (Bell) Labs and STL Access Solutions. His work has spanned diverse areas including network energy efficiency, network automation solutions, wireless field trials, service and network quality management, radio propagation, full-duplex wireless, fixed wireless systems, and optical fiber/cable systems. He led the development and production deployment of the first cloud-based 5G SON solution in AT&T. He serves on the ONAP TSC and LFN TAC Committees, and has served on the WiMAX Forum Board of Directors. Shankar has 95+ patents in his name and 50+ research publications. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University, an M.S. from Virginia Tech, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, all in Electrical Engineering. | I have served on the ONAP TSC for 3 years and represent ONAP on the LFN Technical Advisory Committee. I have worked to promote synergy and alignment of ONAP with O-RAN and O-RAN SC and Nephio, and my work was recognized with an ONAP Citizenship award for the London release. I can bring the viewpoint of an academic researcher with broad industry experience in wireless networks. After a 29-year research career at AT&T Labs, I worked in an O-RAN startup environment, and now I am with Rutgers University WINLAB which is at the forefront of wireless network research with a world-class experimental wireless network testbed and industry/university collaborations. My current focus is on network energy efficiency and optimization, including topics such as cloud-native deployments and network automation. Rutgers WINLAB will be taking over the US East Coast O-RAN SC Lab. I can offer a unique viewpoint by combining my broad wireless background, operational ONAP deployment insights, global standards experience, and university research perspective. My objective in ONAP and open source has been to foster an open ecosystem for mobile networks and make open source relevant to the industry. If I have the honor of continuing to serve on the TSC, I will continue my work to maximize synergy and alignment between ONAP and O-RAN/OSC and Nephio. | |||
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