I am an initial member of the ONAP project within Deutsche Telekom.

With more than 20 year experience as OSS Software/System Developer and Architect at Nokia/NSN,
I joined Deutsche Telekom 6 years ago as Senior Architect working in the "OSS Architecture & Innovation"
group of the "Technology Architecture & Innovation" department.

Located in Bonn, I am leading DT's ONAP Labs, in which we are hosting multiple ONAP instances used within
PoC projects as well as for automated installation and testing. 

This year we founded a development project, which focusses to create a DT Network Automation platform using ONAP as basis. Within this project I act as lead system architect.

Dear ONAP community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP community representing Deutsche Telekom AG.
I am member of the TSC since 2018 and would like to continue in that position in the coming election period.

Since 5 years in DT I am working with the ONAP platform in the phase of evaluation and several PoC projects in DT.
At that time we concentrated on operational aspects of ONAP as well as its functional aspects to orchestrate network services.
After proving its capabilities we decided to use ONAP as foundation for a DT’s own orchestration platform, in which I’m acting as
the lead system architect.

My DT colleagues, our partners and me are contributed to the ONAP releases in several projects, like Documentation,
Integration and CDS and are planning to extend our engagement in the near future.

Main focus for the coming releases will be the production readiness of the ONAP platform and the extension of its functionality.
Therefor I look forward to the opportunity to continue working in the TSC.

Best regards,

Andreas

Recognized as a Member of Power 100 list (Capacity Media, 2020); Member of 20 SDN Market Leaders list (Capacity Media, 2019); Best Women in Network Orchestration (Capacity Media, 2019); Finalist in Female Tech Pioneer Category (Light Reading, 2018), and with multiple patents to her name, Alla Goldner is the Chair of Linux Foundation's ONAP Requirements Subcommittee, as well as a member of its ONAP Technical Steering Committee (TSC). She also leads all ONAP activities and internal decision-making at Amdocs where her responsibilities include defining and implementing Amdocs’ ONAP strategy, working directly with ONAP members from service providers, vendors and partners, and leading Amdocs’ internal Technical Steering Committee. Her current focus is NFV and SDN network evolution, and in particular, the standardization and open-source domains.
With 26 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, ETSI and MEC – examples of standards she has created include TDF (Traffic Detection Function) into 3GPP Packet Core Architecture, Network Congestion handling into 3GPP architecture, and also traffic-steering architecture.

A key member of the group-defined service-functional chaining in IETF, she is also a leading contributor of multiple work items in the areas of 5G, Policy Control and Charging, NFV, SDN, control-user plane split and congestion management. She has also served on the program committees of several conferences including IEEE ICC and IEEE CSCN.

Alla holds an MSc in Technology Management from NYU and a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.

Dear ONAP community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP community representing Amdocs.

I have been heavily involved in ONAP since its launch in 2016 and have contributed to ONAP since day 1, being a TSC member and Requirements subcommittee chair.

I also act as ONAP representative to SPC (Strategic Planning Committee).

I lead Amdocs effort in ONAP since day 1 and passionate in continuing doing that!

I participated in several international conferences events since 2017 to evangelize ONAP and explain about ONAP, including ONS (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, both North America and Europe events), ONLS (2017, 2018), SDN NFV World Congresses (2017 and 2018), Zero-Touch Congress (2019), NFV Europe Congress (2018), DT conference on Open Source and Standards (2019); I also gave many interviews and provided several newspaper articles promoting ONAP activities and ongoing community efforts.

 Additionally, I have served as a member of Open Networking Summit Program Committees (North America and Europe) since 2017.

I strongly believe and promote collaboration between Service Providers and vendors in ONAP, and going to continue doing so, if elected by you.

Chaker Al-Hakim is a Technical Executive Director at Futurewei Technologies, where he is responsible for supporting the orchestration strategy as it relates to Network Services and Network Virtual functions. In this role, Chaker works across many organizations and also supports many large customers in their quest to virtualize their infrastructure and Services.

Before Joining Futurewei Chaker spent over 30 years with AT&T labs where he managed many development organizations responsible for developing large scale systems in support of the Advanced Network Services and customer facing services. Chaker was also a key contributor to the SDN/NFV and the virtualization strategy within the AT&T Labs. To that end, Chaker managed the development organization that developed the ECOMP platform which, along with the Open-O Project, became known as ONAP which provides a comprehensive platform for real-time, policy-driven orchestration and automation of physical and virtual network functions.

 Chaker holds a BS in Math and Computer Science and MS in Computer Science

Dear ONAP Community ,

This message serves as my  self-nomination for a seat on the ONAP TSC.  I am an Executive Director at Futurewei responsible for Virtualization  and Opensource Strategy

I have been with the ONAP Community since day one and have participated and contributed to the ONAP community in different capacities ever since. I have held a TSC seat for over a year, 2017-2018, representing my former employer. I have been elected the Chairman of the ONAP Architecture subcommittee for 2 years now.  I also represent my company on the LFEdge TAC and on yhe ToIP-EFWG (Trust Over IP – Ecosystem Foundry Working Group)

I have attended almost all of the ONAP and ONS events since 2016. I have also presented and/or been an active participant with the planning committees for these events.

If I were elected I plan to leverage my knowledge of and involvement in many other communities to advance the collaboration between ONAP and other opensource and SSO initiatives/communities.

Best Regards,

Chaker Al-Hakim

Catherine Lefèvre is an AVP in AT&T’s Network Cloud and SDN Platform Integration organization. She serves as ONAP TSC Chair since September 25th, 2018.

Located in Belgium, she is responsible for the software delivery of the Rules-Based Process Automation Platform, the Service Provisioning Platform (Voice, Network/Service Elements, etc.), TDM Network, System Impact Analyzer (RAN OpEx Savings) and AT&T SDN Platform (Application Controller, Policy Framework, Control Loop Automation Platform, Service Design & Creation, Master Service Orchestrator, Portal, Multi-Site State Coordinator Service, Virtual Infrastructure Deployment). She is also focusing on transforming BSS/OSS systems to Microservice Architecture and achieving data powered control loop automation. She leads AT&T Network Common Platform & Services Target State Architecture and drives ONAP/O-RAN (vRAN) SMO strategic alignment.

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 joined AT&T in 2013. During her time with AT&T, she focused on software development best practices and early prototypes and proof of concepts of AT&T’s SDN technology, accelerating AT&T’s ability to move from concept to scaled production development, integrating the DevOps Culture for increased collaboration between the development and operations teams. In 2017, she co-led with AT&T Labs the open sourcing of the ECOMP Platform. She received several awards for her technical depth that provided a unique and significant contribution to AT&T (AT&T Science and Technology Medal; Technology Development President Award in 2016 and 2017). 

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.

Dear ONAP Community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP community representing AT&T.

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 6+ 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, subcommittees.

I have worked collaboratively with the ONAP Release Managers 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 created and lead 2 ONAP Task Forces, ONAP Cloud Native/CNF & ONAP for Enterprise Business, focusing on enabling ONAP for Innovation in support of future industry use cases.

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

I have also served as a member of Open Networking Summit Program Committees (North America and Europe) since 2018.

As your current ONAP TSC Chair and 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 continuing to drive our ONAP success story.

Best regards,

Catherine

17+ years of IT experience involving both product and service based organizations. Lead Architect from Huawei Technologies India  pvt.,Ltd.  handling multiple key roles in ONAP,

Project Technical Leader (PTL) role of ONAP Service Orchestrator project from its incubation,  TSC member helped ONAP in taking some of the critical decisions for the past year, Liaison for ONAP XGVela, co-leading the ONAP cloud native journey through CNF orchestration efforts.

Hands-on technical Architect with multi-tasking capabilities with a strong track record on defining architecture and solutions for technical research and commercial projects involving open source software,  handling global teams and bringing in value to the stake holders on what they needed the most.
He has been speaker on various open source forums on the NFV, ONAP and Orchestrator, also been a guest lecturer to multiple including IIT Madras.

Seshu is a full stack developer awarded with multiple accolades both in commercial and open source projects he was responsible. the best contributor for OPEN-O, SDN-O, GSO, UI platform project and recipient of the Gold award the highest individual award of Huawei for technical contributions.

Some of the key rewards and recognition in ONAP:
Elected as the Best Committer for twice across ONAP releases,
Lead the SO project as the best project for ONAP Casablanca release.

A ardent freestyle dancer, Seshu has performed on multiple stage shows and is ever ready to any beats.

Dear ONAP Community,

I would like to nominate myself as a member for the ONAP TSC representing Huawei.

I have been with ONAP since its incubation and been a strong evangelist of ONAP since then. Have bee successful in inviting new members to ONAP community from time to time explaining the overall architecture, functionality and features of ONAP and providing solutions making them understand the importance of ONAP for their specific business needs.

I also serve as the member of the Technical Steering Committee for the XGVela and EMCO projects and part of the LFN MAC.

One of the key works that I currently look into  is to build mutual collaboration across the SDOs and open source projects to create a win-win situation across the industry leveraging the best of all involved.

My colleagues and me from Huawei have been deeply involved in ONAP at various levels and contributing to various functional features constantly providing demos at various international platforms like the ONS NA, ONS EU, MWC and other key forums to promote its platform capabilities.

If I were re-elected, would bring in my energy, enthusiasm and experience to help the deliver a production ready ONAP adopted by operators, focusing on building a strong community and supporting our developers through improvements to our development processes and tools. 

I wish with all your support we could make ONAP a production grade platform.

Thanks and Regards,

Seshu Kumar M

Dr. Dong Wang currently works as a research engineer at China Telecom Research Institute (Beijing). The research & development group focuses on the next generation network reconstruction of China Telecom, which is named the target of CTNet2025 whitepaper. Based on SDN/NFV technology, lots of outputs have been achieved by the team in the architecture, orchestration and full-stack solutions of 5GC, SD-WAN and so on.

Before joining in China Telecom, he concentrated on his academic research at universities in the UK, where he received an M.Sc. by Research degree in telecommunications and a Ph.D. degree in computing (networks and communications). His research interests are around modeling and optimization of complex communication networks. Multiple emerging areas of communication networks have been touched, like 5G and beyond networks, large scale heterogeneous WSNs and IoT. Several academic papers had been published in academic conferences and journals including a top impact factor journal IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He also has rich experience in software development in the industry both in the UK and China. Based on the above experience in academics and industry, he has the potential to make more contributions to the next generation network reconstruction of China Telecom, as well as the development of ONAP.

Dear ONAP community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP community representing China Telecom.
I am member of the TSC since March, 2020 and would like to continue in that position in the coming election period.

Currently, I focus on the research and development of Intent-based Networking (IBN) in ONAP, which is commented as a major step towards autonomous networks, for operator and enterprise use cases by ONAP Marketing Priorities 2021.

Our China Telecom’s team has finished the development of IBN functions in multiple releases cooperating with the partners of E2E Slicing and CCVPN usecases from China Mobile, Wipro and Huawei.

I also have been invited to give multiple presentations related to the research and development of IBN based on ONAP in the international conferences representing ONAP or China Telecom, including IEEE IBN workshop, Fierce Wireless Network Automation Week and IEEE ICCC.

I will continue working on the research and development of IBN with the partners of ONAP to drive ONAP as an advanced automation platform for the next generation smart network.

Therefore, I look forward to the opportunity to continue serving in the TSC.

Best regards,

Dong Wang

I received a Master Degree in Computer Sciences from EPFL and now have more than 20 years of experience in software development. Along these years I had the opportunity to develop and design architectures for multiple systems for various sectors and industries (finance, transportation, retail, international organization, ...).

I joined Bell Canada in 2019 as developer and architect in Network Automation and Orchestration team.

Hello ONAP community members,

I’m proposing my candidacy for becoming a TSC member to pursue both personal and Bell Canada involvements with ONAP.

For more than 2 years, I have been actively and continuously involved in ONAP, by first being a Policy Framework contributor and then a CPS committer. During that same period, I participated and presented to several LF DDF Conferences. With my colleagues, we also presented a Demo Booth at 2020 LF ONES Conference, for which we received a TSC Award.

Now, I would like to join the TSC, motivated by the desire to facilitate ONAP adoption for
production use cases, by operators and integrators telecom actors. I’m interested in collaborating with other TSC members towards this objective.

Regards,

Bruno Sakoto

Dear ONAP Community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP community representing Wind River.

I have been participating ONAP since its inception and engaged in various community activities. I have been contributed to the success of ONAP Releases with the contributions to Multi-VIM/Cloud project development, Pair-wise testing, Integration Testing, Wind River/Intel Integration Lab supporting, CMCC and China Telecom Open Lab supporting. I have been developing demos with ONAP and showcasing them during various events including ONS, MWC. with these experience, I identified generic functional requirement referred as Centralized representation and consist ID of cloud regions which has been one of ONAP functional requirements in Casablanca and Dublin Releases. I also shared my experiences and best practices of using ONAP through ONAP wiki, email list, and hotline meetings.

If I have the honor to serve as ONAP TSC Member again, I will contribute to the collaboration and alignment between ONAP and O-RAN from O2 interfaces perspective.

Thanks for your support.

Best regards,

Bin Yang

Ranny Haiby is a director in Samsung Research America, leading the open source group. He leads a group of engineers who are actively participating in various open source communities . A key part of his role is providing leadership and guidance to many engineers across Samsung who are actively contributing to open source projects such as The Linux Foundation Networking and its sub-projects, CNCF, ROS, and Matter (CHIP). Ranny is in charge of new collaboration opportunities in open source communities. His role involves identifying such opportunities as well as leading the execution of the collaboration. 

Prior to joining Samsung in early 2019, Ranny was a Principal System Architect in the Nokia CloudBand product group. he served as a member of the Technical steering committee of the Linux Foundation ONAP project on 2017-2018.

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 holds a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of technology.

Dear ONAP Community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP Community representing Samsung.

I have been a member of the ONAP TSC starting as early as 2017. I contributed to the project and even more than that, I helped many of my colleagues over the years join the community and make valuable contributions that made ONAP a strong open source software project.

In addition to ONAP, I serve as the vice-chair of the LFN TAC, where I constantly seek synergies between ONAP and other LFN projects. I have led several initiatives such as white-papers and the recently formed security forum.

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 multi-party initiatives, both inside the ONAP Community and with external communities and SDOs.

Eric Debeau has a solid 20 years experience in the telecommunications area with a particular focus on IT techniques adoption in networks and OSS domains. Through his broad experience as network architect and platform development (IMS/VoIP, network API), he is recognized as a member of the Orange expert Community in charge of future network evolutions.

He is currently leading a team working on the core network evolution leveraging IT techniques mainly covering NFV, Orchestration and network data analytics. His team is very open-source focused and launched innovative platform for emerging countries (Emerginov) and is now strongly involved in ONAP and Acumos.

Eric is very involved in various open-source communities and he is responsible for coordinating the Orange contributions to ONAP project. He has contributed to various open-source communities, published various technical papers and holds several patents.

In addition to his professional activities, he is also an open data evangelist and a very active OpenStreetMap contributor and contributes to many events around open data promotion. 

Dear ONAP community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP project representing Orange.

I have been involved in SDN/NFV activities for more than 7 years, leading a team focusing in open source communities (ONAP, OPNFV, Acumos).
I jumped into ONAP from day1 and always promoted ONAP in various events (SDN World Congress 2017, OSN Days Paris 2018, ONS 2018&2019, ONES2020, ONS Europe 2018&2019),  interviews (Telecoms TV) and LinkedIn.

Currently TSC member representing Orange, I am also the Orange coordinator for all ONAP activities.

Orange had PTL responsibility on various projects (External API and Integration project), and is now leading the OOM project. Orange is also contributing to many projects and various tasks forces (CNCF) or sub-committees (security). Orange has introduced the gating process by managing various platforms and providing resources to perform daily tests.

I contributed to various ONAP projects (documentation, integration, externalAPI…) and I am strongly involved to improve documentation, end to end automation, platform footprint and also CI/CD. I also conducted many PoC with many vendors and service providers establishing strong relationship with the eco-system.

I am convinced that collaboration within open source project is the best approach to drive the industry to deliver de facto standard solutions.
ONAP has established an amazing community and I very proud to be part of it.

ONAP is a major project for service providers in their network automation journey and I will focus my energy to make ONAP a success.

Acting as a TSC member, I would focus on key topics (usability, CI/CD, security) to ease ONAP usage in production.

Best Regards

Timo is the Head of Open Source Network and Service Automation at Nokia, where he is responsible for driving Nokia’s overall engagement in ONAP. In this role Timo works across multiple industry organisations, both open source and standardisation, engages with both customers and other industry players, as well as internally across all Nokia businesses.

Timo has over 25 years of experience in network systems, ranging from multivendor interoperability verification, systems architecture research, new business incubation, to network and operations systems standardisation. In his current role Timo was instrumental in ensuring Nokia’s early commitment and platinum founding member engagement in ONAP.

Prior to joining Nokia Timo was a lecturer at his alma mater Helsinki University Computer Science department, where he focused on distributed systems and systems communications.

Dear ONAP community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP Community representing Nokia.

I have been an active member of the ONAP community since its inception mostly involved in architecture, use cases, and documentation, currently vice chair of Requirements Subcommittee and a committer in Documentation project as well as.

I am excited of the opportunity to help ONAP become successful in the industry and to accelerate its adoption. I’m looking forward to making it easier to deploy ONAP and for new people to get involved in the ONAP community.

Further, I intend to help fostering fruitful industry collaboration between ONAP and other relevant open source communities and standards organisations.

N. K. Shankaranarayanan (Shankar) is a Senior Principal Architect with Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL) where he is responsible for architecture and strategy for ONAP/O-RAN product solutions. Prior to that he worked for 29+ years with AT&T Labs Research creating and delivering research innovations in wireless systems & networks, and providing leadership in wireless standards. His work has spanned diverse areas including: 5G/4G/3G/VoLTE, cloud-based radio network automation, ONAP-based RAN automation solutions, Near-RT RIC development, service and network quality management, radio propagation, full-duplex wireless, fixed wireless systems, and fiber/cable systems.

During 2018-2021, he led the development and production deployment of the first ONAP-based 5G SON solution in AT&T. Since 2018, he has served as the 5G SON Use Case Lead in the ONAP open-source forum,
leading the development of ONAP-based SON solutions and PoC demonstrations. During 2006-2008, he served on the WiMAX Forum (WMF) Board of Directors, and also as Chair of the WMF Service Provider Working Group and Chair of the WMF X.509 Task Force. He was part of the core team that deployed the first two-way broadband fixed wireless
Internet field trial in 1997. 

Shankar has 85+ patents in his name and 50+ research publications. He has a Ph.D from Columbia University (New York), an M.S. from Virginia Tech, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay), all in Electrical Engineering. He is senior member of the IEEE. He has served as a volunteer teacher for high-school students for 10+ years, and received the President's Volunteer Service Award.

Dear ONAP Community,

I would like to nominate myself for a seat on the ONAP TSC. I have been the ONAP SON Use Case lead since the Casablanca release, and I am also actively engaged with ONAP/O-RAN/OSC Harmonization. I am a Senior Principal Architect at Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL) responsible for architecture and strategy for ONAP/O-RAN based open solutions. Before that, I was with AT&T Labs Research for more than 29 years working to deliver research innovations in wireless systems and networks.

Under my leadership, the ONAP SON Use Case team gained multi-company support and has developed a solid foundation for ONAP-based SON with several successful PoC demonstrations. We had a strong and early focus on being aligned with O-RAN interfaces and O-RAN/3GPP data models. The solution includes flows for FM/PM/CM notifications from the RAN, a RAN-Sim component, and a methodology for incorporating AI/ML in the applications. We did our use case integration testing as an early adopter of the Rutgers University ONAP Wireless Lab and fostered the growth of a joint industry/university testbed with a focus on wireless networks. Recently, I have worked in the ONAP/O-RAN Harmonization effort to provide feedback from the ONAP Use Case implementation insights in order to pursue synergies and improve O-RAN Specifications.

At AT&T, I was the lead for developing and deploying the first ONAP-based 5G SON solution in production and have gained first-hand experience in making ONAP ready for production deployment for SON and Radio Access Network (RAN) automation applications. I have also gained insights about developing ONAP so that it is  aligned with O-RAN. From 2005 to 2008, I was actively engaged with the WiMAX Forum (WMF), where I was successful in building consensus among operators and vendors for innovative global wireless standards. I served on the WMF Board of Directors, and also as Chair of the WMF Service Provider Working Group, and Chair of the WMF X.509 Task Force.

My objective in ONAP since the Casablanca release has been to foster an open ecosystem for ONAP-based solutions for mobile networks. As I have shared with the TSC, this objective has been strongly renewed and broadened by my new role at STL, since STL is committed to solutions based on open interfaces and open platforms.

If I have the honor of serving on the TSC, I will be able to offer a unique viewpoint by combining my broad wireless research background, operational ONAP deployment insights, global standards experience, and the perspective of an ecosystem technology provider committed to open platforms. I will work to maximize alignment between ONAP and O-RAN/3GPP and leverage synergies between ONAP and O-RAN OSC by championing joint implementations. I will also work to improve the maturity of ONAP-based solutions to deploy, manage, and optimize production wireless networks.

I look forward to the opportunity to work in the TSC to serve the ONAP community and foster an open ecosystem.

Thank you,

N. K. Shankaranarayanan

Yuanhong Deng is a senior system developer at China Mobile Research Institute.

She obtained a master's degree in computer software technology from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2003 and has more than 18 years experience in software design and development and 3 years experience in open source community project development and management.

Yuanhong Deng has been working with ONAP since early 2019 as Modeling project committer and currently serving as PTL for VFC project, focusing mainly on NFV domain management and orchestration.

Dear ONAP Community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP community representing China Mobile.

I have been an active member of the ONAP community since 2019 and engaged in various community activities such as infrastructure coordinator, ONAP COP tests, use cases. I have been contributed to the success of ONAP Releases with the contributions to Modeling & VFC project development, Pair-wise testing, Integration Testing and CMCC Open Lab supporting, currently as VFC project PTL and a committer of Modeling project.

If I have the honor to serve as ONAP TSC Member, I will contribute to the collaboration and alignment between ONAP and other relevant open source communities and standards organisations.

I look forward to the opportunity to work in the TSC to serve the ONAP community. Thanks for your support.

Best regards,

Yuanhong