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Biography

Candidate's Statement

Open Source and Standardization Manager

Magnus Buhrgard is the program manager for Ericsson's ONAP engagement. He is also Ericsson's primary delegate to ETSI ISG ZSM. With 30 years of experience in the telecommunication industry, his work has spanned a multitude of architectures and technologies, reaching from fiberoptic research to network and service automation.

He has a long-term engagement in carrier-grade network architecture, previously serving on the boards of SA Forum and SCOPE.

Magnus is also engaged in the challenge of merging standardization, open source, and R&D ways of working.

He holds an M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Lund University, Sweden

Hereby, I nominate myself as candidate for the position Technical Community Coordinator for Network Management.

As I presently hold this position I will start by giving a summary of my activities and achievements during my term:

Introductory presentation on task description, WoW and ongoing activities
LFN Developer & Testing Forum in Stockholm, June 2019
Participated in TM Forum’s ONAP Interest Group
"Some Puzzle Pieces for E2E Automation"
Presentation at DT hosted Zero Touch Conference in September 2019
"Standardization meets open source to manage programmable networks"
Lightning talk at the Open Networking Summit (ONS) Europe on Standardization and Open Source alignment:
“Industry Harmonization for Shaping a Management Ecosystem and Promote Innovation”
Organized a session with four invited presenters at the ONAP Joint subcommittee meeting in Antwerp, September 2019
Presentation to TSC on 21^st November
Presented an update on 3GPP liaison statements at ONAP Prague Developer & Testing Forum in Prague, January 2020
Presented TM Forum APIs to the Architecture Subcommittee in March 2020
Presentation at the 2020 April Virtual Technical Event
With an invited speaker from ETSI NFV
Managed incoming liaison statements (LS) from 3GPP
- Establish an LS process between 3GPP and ONAP.
- Wrote proposals for replies from ONAP. Presented and got approval from TSC.
- Mediated regarding VES API and established a permanent reference that was accepted by 3GPP.
- Got the first open source reference into a 3GPP specification. Making history
Planned information to TSC on 3GPP Liaison Statements, July 2

Statement of intent:

My ambition for the Network Management Community Coordinator position is to bring valuable knowledge to the ONAP community from SDOs to enrich and complement the architecture and implementations. Also, to utilize the ONAP achievements and good-will to influence the most important SDOs.The main resource for this is to facilitate communication and exchange of ideas between experts in different camps. I believe in peoples willingness to work together on topics that they are passionate about to create the best solution.

2020 Technical Community Coordinator Election Candidates

Self Nominations End @ 5PM Pacific time Jun 25, 2020

All candidates must reply all to the "Call for Nominations" email message HERE to run for a Community Coordinator position.

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