2022 TSC Election Candidates

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N. K. Shankaranarayanan (Shankar) is a Senior Principal Architect with Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL) leading architecture, strategy, and standards for innovative wireless network solutions. Prior to joining STL in mid-2021, he worked for 29+ years with AT&T Labs creating and delivering research innovations in wireless systems & networks, and providing leadership in wireless standards. His work has spanned diverse areas including cloud-based 5G/4G RAN automation production solutions, Near-RT RIC field trials, service and network quality management, radio propagation, full-duplex wireless, fixed wireless systems, and optical fiber/cable systems. 

Shankar has worked to establish the foundations of open solutions in real networks as well as in standards organizations. During 2018-2021, he led the development and production deployment of the first ONAP-based 5G SON solution in AT&T. He was a key contributor in the first Near-RT RIC field trials at AT&T. Since 2021, Shankar has been serving on the ONAP Technical Steering Committee. Since 2018, he has been leading the ONAP 5G SON Use Case development of ONAP-based SON solutions and PoC demonstrations. He is the rapporteur for the O-RAN WG1 work item on Decoupled SMO Architecture. During 2006-2008, he served as member of the Board of Directors, and Chair of the Service Provider Working Group, of the WiMAX Forum. Shankar has 95+ 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.

I have been the ONAP SON Use Case lead since the Casablanca release, and am also actively engaged with ONAP/O-RAN/OSC Harmonization. I joined the TSC in October 2021 to help with the application of ONAP for 5G. The work in ONAP for SON and Slicing Use Cases is relevant to the O-RAN SMO. In the last year I successfully championed a new work item in O-RAN WG1 and am the rapporteur for the Decoupled SMO Architecture Technical Report.

Since mid-2021, I have been a Senior Principal Architect at Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL) leading work on architecture, strategy, and standards for ONAP/O-RAN based wireless network 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 and 3GPP. The solution includes flows O-RAN O1 and A1 based actions, FM/PM/CM notifications from the RAN, a RAN-Sim simulator 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. 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. If I have the honor of continuing to serve on the TSC, I will be able to offer a unique viewpoint by combining my broad wireless 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. 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.

I am an open-source and standardization manager at Ericsson.

With over 30 years of experience in the telecommunication industry, my work has spanned a multitude of architectures and technologies, reaching from fiberoptic research to network and service automation. I have a long-term engagement in carrier-grade network architecture and am active in a number of standards organizations. 

Since 2019, I have been the ONAP technical community coordinator for generic network management. In that role I have chaired sessions at various LFN summits, conferences, workshops, bilateral meetings and reported to the TSC on SDO activities. I have also handled liaison statements to/from SDOs on behalf of ONAP.

Lately I was chosen to represent ONAP in LFN SPC.

I am committed to the challenge of merging standardization, open source, and R&D ways of working. I strongly believe that open-source collaboration benefits the telecom industry, increasing efficiency, quality, transparency and software craftmanship.

Ericsson has consistently been one of the main contributors to ONAP and is committed to support a vibrant community effort. My colleagues serve as PTLs for four essential projects (CPS, DMaaP, SDC, PF) and vice chair of the Architecture subcommittee.

Opensource enthusiast,  Tech Savvy,  ONAP evangelist would be small description about myself.

A hands-on Solution Architect and an experienced Techno Manager with demonstrated history of delivering solutions while leading Global Project Teams.
Skilled at providing and building E2E solutions, architecture, design and implementations for both commercial and open source projects, using various tools and technologies.
One of the key contributors of the LF community, constantly striving to build an overall solution with the user centric designs.
Speaker at various global forums like the ONES, Kubecon, Open-infra, ETSi, LFN, on various topics including Orchestration, 5G, Slicing, NFV/SDN, PaaS, K8s, ETSi, Edge, Cloud native and many more.
Been a guest lecturer to various reputed Universities (IIT-Madras, BEC-Bagalkot).
Strong information technology professional with a distinction throughout the academics.

It would be my pleasure to serve the community in my new role as the Principle Architect of WindRiver.

If elected, I would like to work on enabling the following activities with all your support:

1. Extend my help in making ONAP closure to being production ready.
2. Collaboration across the SDO and open source projects alike (3GPP, ORAN, LFN and CNCF to name a few)
3. Work on various PoC that would prove the integrations across the industry and showcase the ONAP capabilities
4. Collect and work on the timely feedback.

I am a Principal Engineer at AT&T and have worked in the telecommunications industry for 20+ years as 3rd party vendor then carrier. My experience in Software development includes API Monetization, Big Data Analytics, Smart Metering, Broadband Access Network Software, Location Based Service, Fault detection on Electrical Network. The past 5 years, I focused on SDN/NFV and Cloud Computing.  I have also worked on bringing software into the network, building a scaled, reliable Network Automation platform, ensuring carrier grade requirements can be met.

Active member in ONAP since the beginning of the journey in 2017, I was the PTL of the CLAMP project since its inception and a committer of the Policy project.

I was also an active member of the ONAP Control Loop Sub-committee before its termination.

I like to develop Android mobile applications related to Sport Tracking

I also help coach young peoples (Tennis, Mathematics)

It would be my pleasure to continue to contribute to the ONAP community as a TSC member.

I have been a contributor in the ONAP community since its inception and therefore I have a very good knowledge of the history and ecosystem of ONAP.

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

I will focus on Enterprise task force and more specifically on the SABRES POC which aims to bring innovative solution for Network Slicing Security.

I'm Head of Open Source Network and Service Automation at Nokia, where I'm responsible for driving Nokia’s overall engagement in ONAP. In this role I work across multiple industry organisations, both open source and standardisation, engage with both customers and other industry players, as well as internally across all Nokia businesses.

I have 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.

I've been with ONAP from the very beginning. At ONAP I'm currently Nokia TSC representative, Requirements Subcommittee vice chair, and a DOC project committer. In addition to ONAP, I serve at EMCO and Nephio TSCs.

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 or its components as necessary, 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.

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 Huawei, Wipro, STL and China Mobile.

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'am a Product Manager at F5 for VNFM and NFV solutions. Actively contribute to ONAP from its early beginning. For the last 3 years I am proud to lead the ONAP Security Subcommittee focusing on building awareness among open source community on security and incorporating best practices.

I have 20+ experience in the telco industry. For 18 years worked 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. 

I received Master of Science in Telecommunications from the Warsaw University of Technology. I also hold Executive Master of Business Administration at Kozminski University.

I would like to focus on extending ONAP adoption by:

1. Removing entry barriers (easiness to deploy/operate, onboarding new members – know-how transfer)
2. Partnering with universities and other organizations to gain more active contributors
3. Collecting list of existing users – operators, getting their feedback to improve our product
4. Sharing use cases, best practices among community
5. Leveraging security aspects

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I live in the city Frankfurt am Main. I heard rumours that the city of Frankfurt was named after one famous ONAP release

I am employed for a bit more than 9 years at “V T&I” - Deutsche Telekom AG as a Senior Software Engineer / Software Architect and now Technical PO. If you are interested in my “kind of” CV (or if you like to be my LinkedIn friend), please check out LinkedIn here https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-bachmann-23606644/ 

If there can be only one Person from a company be chosen, I will leave my nomination for Andreas Geissler. 

Dear ONAP community, 

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

I made my first contact with ONAP when I took over the role as technical Product owner of DT’s System Team for TNAP. TNAP is the Telekom version of ONAP (therefore the T). 

Unfortunately, I haven’t 20 measurable contributions to the community, yet. 

I only have some Wiki pages like, commented some tickets and had two (recorded) talks:

• One during one of the OOM meetings:  https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/OOM+Meeting+Notes+-+2021-11-24 
• And a second one in Porto at the LFN Event 2022-06-15 - ONAP: DT and the use of OOM Helm Charts, Argo CD & Istio (Service Mesh) 

Nevertheless, I am very familiar with the with the OOM team and their current adventures with Istio, because DT’s System Team is responsible for the deployment and life cycle management of ONAP inside DT. 

Despite the self-nomination for the TSC, my plans for ONAP are to be more present in the OOM team. We as System Team from DT plan to contribute back our DT work: 

• everything we did with kubespray (to deploy ONAP) 
• Service Mesh/Istio  
• Life Cycle Management with ArgoCD of ONAP application. 

On top of it, I like to convince the people behind ONAP that we need to split the monolithic version number of the ONAP release process into one distinct version number for each component (but we can keep a public facing version number). 

Therefore I look forward to the opportunity to be more present on the ONAP community and being part of the TSC.  

If there can be only one Person from a company be chosen, I will leave my nomination for Andreas Geissler. But the sentence "There are no restrictions to the number of people from a company or group of companies that may run for an available seat" made me to try it  

Dear ONAP Community,

This is my self-nomination for a seat on the ONAP TSC. I have been involved with ONAP since day one, and even before that, I was the Senior Director responsible for the development  of the ECOMP platform at AT&T before ECOMP was opensourced and became officially known as ONAP.

I am an Independent Consultant focusing on the Opensource Technology, 5G Technology, Cloud Virtualization and future looking technologies.

I am currently the Chairman of the ONAP Architecture Subcommittee, ARCCOM, and have supported this position for the past 3+ years. I have also been an active member of the 5G-super blueprint, LFEdge TAC, ONAP Enterprise Work Group, just to mention a few.

Up until 2016 I had spent over 30+ years with AT&T labs where I managed many
development organizations responsible for developing large scale systems in support of the Advanced
Network Services and customer facing services. I was also a key contributor to the SDN/NFV and
the virtualization strategy within the AT&T Labs. To that end, I  managed the development
organization that developed the ECOMP platform which, along with the Open-O Project, became known
as ONAP which, as you all know, provides a comprehensive platform for real-time, policy-driven orchestration and automation of physical and virtual network functions.

Post 2016, I've held  the positions of Technical Director of Virtualization and Opensource Strategy at Huawei and Futurewei

If I were elected I will continue to support this community as I have in the past 5 years and will collaborate with the rest of the team to further enhance the mainstreaming and the adoption of the ONAP platform.

Regards,

Chaker

I am a Senior Solution Architect engaged with Bell Canada for building a Network Service Orchestration & Automation platform primarily based on ONAP architecture principles, utilizing components directly from ONAP mixed with some home grown components.

I am an open source enthusiast primarily contributing to ONAP community. I have participated in many open source conferences and delivered talks & demos in them as well. My primary interest is towards building policy based control loop automation of telecommunication networks and related devices. So that the future networks can self heal, self optimize and self manage themselves. Has jointly published a paper in CNSM 2019 on the same topic.

Active member of ONAP since beginning, primarily contributing to Policy & Control Loop domain. Also, serving as a committer of Policy Framework project.

I bring with me a rich telecommunication domain experience working In OSS, BSS & IoT areas. Having the experience of designing & building end to end software systems, which can be highly performant, scalable, resilient & future ready. Mentoring people towards the right goal is one of my greatest passion & I have been lucky enough to receive high accolades in return as well.

I love travelling and exploring new places a lot. And a super foodie person.

I have been engaged with ONAP since beginning, and have been working primarily in the Policy & Control Loop domain. Currently serving as a committer in Policy Framework project as well. Furthermore, I am a strong believer of open-source collaboration and working together across geographies. In fact I am one of those fortunate community member, having the experience of building components from scratch in ONAP Policy Framework and then taking them all the way to production solving realtime use cases. That really motivates me to engage further and always work with “never give up” attitude.

I am also a frequent attendee of LFN ONES & DTF events, presented demos, talks, sessions in many of them. Also, won several community awards - Project Innovation Award, Demo Award, Code Contributor Award.

I am a Senior Solution Architect engaged with Bell Canada for building a Network Service Orchestration & Automation platform primarily based on ONAP architecture principles, utilizing components directly from ONAP mixed with some home grown components.

As you might know already, Bell Canada has been using ONAP components in production since quite some time. And we still believe that ONAP has the potential to realize various 5G use cases, control loop automation, network slicing, and many more.

Given a chance, I would like to really work upon the operationalization part of ONAP, thereby making it easier to deploy, upgrade & scale. Along with injecting possibilities for frequent releases to achieve higher adoption. Obviously, I would like to keep highlighting the insights coming from realtime production experience & work with all of you to feed them back into ONAP.

I has been contributing in LFN for more than 6 years and acts as the PTL of VNFSDK and CLI projects in ONAP now. Also I used to be PTL of Dovetail Project as well as a member of OVP and CVC which collaborates with ONAP.

My work focused on OVP including developing its backend tool and frontend portal, selecting and integrating test cases, supporting and debugging tests of commercial products et al.

For the last 2 years, I have been engaged in another community EdgeGallery and established its entire Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines. I developed the Ansible-based automatically deployment scripts to install k8s and EdgeGallery Platform with helm on k8s.

This year, I am working in Usecase-UI project in ONAP and designing and developing the Intent based server.

I have rich experience of CI/CD and Container-based servers. Also I am familiar with other projects under LFN. So I can help with the ONAP installation and its CI/CD pipelines. Also I can help with the collaboration with other communities under LFN for ONAP.

I am a Software architect of Huawei Cloudify Network OSDT.

I have more than 7 years open source experience working on OPEN-O, ONAP, EdgeGallery Community, mostly focus on Transport Network, 5G, Edge Computing etc.

    I would like to nominate myself  as a TSC member of the ONAP community representing Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

I have 14 years network area experience and now is an Open Source Architect in Huawei.

I worked in OPEN-O project and  joined ONAP from Amsterdam Release Since the merge of OPEN-O and OPEN-ECOMP and have long term working in ONAP. I positioned as owner for 5G E2E Network Slicing Use Case and CCVPN Use Case during Casablanca ~ Honolulu Release, responsible for the use case solution design and coding work.

   I think autonomous network feature is very important for ONAP. I start to work on IBN use case and propose a new requirement R11 General Intent Model and General Intent Interface Requirements together with CMCC in Kohn release. I will work continue to work on the autonomous network in ONAP and collaborate ONAP and other standard organizations.

   I ‘m looking forward to have the opportunity to work in TSC to serve the ONAP community.