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.

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.