Technical Council

The SNIA Technical Council is comprised of a total of 11 individuals, 7 of whom are elected by SNIA members and 4 of whom are appointed by the SNIA Board - 2 as voting members and 2 as non-voting members. The Technical Council is a select group of acknowledged industry experts who work to guide the SNIA's technical efforts. The Technical Council oversees and manages SNIA Technical Work Groups, reviews architectures submitted by Work Groups, and is the SNIA's technical liaison to standards organizations.

	Don Deel, Chairman Senior Technologist, Office of the CTO EMC Don Deel is a Senior Technologist at EMC Corporation, and has been actively involved with the Storage Networking Industry Association in several different volunteer roles since the year 2000. He participated in the development of the original Bluefin specification which later became SMI-S when it was contributed to the SNIA, and he continues to play an active role in the ongoing development of SMI-S today. His standards development experience stretches back into the mid-1980s, and includes work on the early Fibre Channel and HIPPI standards. At EMC he contributes to technology and product strategy as a senior technologist, and he works to ensure an active connection with SNIA activities and other industry standards related efforts. Within the SNIA, Don has been active in a number of different positions since the early days of the association, and has been recognized for his contributions several times. He is currently serving in multiple roles, including Technical Council member, Storage Management Initiative Governing Board Chair, and Storage Management Initiative Technical Development Committee Chair.
	Leah Schoeb, Vice-Chairperson Senior Partner Evaluator Group Leah Schoeb is a Senior Partner with the Evaluator Group bringing expertise ranging from cloud infrastructure and virtualization to storage performance. She draws from over 20 years of experience in the computer industry helping systems companies with performance optimization, marketing positioning, benchmark evidence creation, and guiding industry standards development for server, virtualized, and storage solutions. Prior to joining Evaluator Group Leah has served in several leadership roles both on the engineering and marketing sides for performance for companies, such as, VMware, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Intel, and Amdahl. Recently she has developed and executed long-term plans for the generation of new cloud computing performance evidence and used novel means to disseminate it to the industry. Leah has also participated and provided thought leadership for industry groups such as, Transaction Performance Council (TPC), Storage Performance Council (SPC), and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). She currently serves the SNIA as the Vice Chairperson of the Technical Council and the Chair of the Green Storage Initiative.
	Duane Baldwin, Member Senior Technical Staff Member IBM Duane Baldwin is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM where he is currently a lead architect in the Systems & Technology Group’s Cloud Storage Solutions team. In this role, Duane helps drive the development of storage solutions for cloud and associated management technologies. Duane also has a long history in SNIA, storage management, and standards development - and continues to maintain a balance between internal and industry involvement. Standards development experience includes SNIA: SMI-S, HBA API, Multipath Management API; T11: definition of FC-GS-x and FC-MI management capabilities; IETF: SNMP MIBs for SAN Management. Duane has 12 US patents filed related to storage and/or storage management.
	Craig Carlson, Member Technologist, Office of the CTO QLogic Craig Carlson is a Technologist with the CTO Office at QLogic Corporation. Craig has over 15 years of experience in Storage Networking technologies. He is currently Chair of ANSI INCITS Task Group T11.3, the committee that defines Fibre Channel protocols. He is also Technical editor for the T11 Standards FC-LS-2, and FC-GS-7, as well as the Chair of T11 Standard FC-SW-7. He is also involved with the IEEE 802.1 Data Center Bridging Task Group and is the editor of the IEEE Draft Standard 802.1Qaz (Enhanced Transmission Selection). Craig’s background includes many years of development of storage networking products including being on of the team of architects for the first public loop Fibre Channel switch. He also has many years of standards experience within ANSI/INCITS T11, IEEE, and IETF. Also, Craig was one of the key contributors to the SANMark Fibre Channel interoperability compliance program. Craig has also won numerous industry awards including the INCITS Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management for his role as T11.3 Chair, and most recently an FCIA achievement award for his contributions to the growth of Fibre Channel SAN Storage technology.
	Mark Carlson, Member Principal Cloud Strategist Oracle Mark A. Carlson, Principal Cloud Strategist at Oracle, has more than 30 years of experience with Networking and Storage development and more than fifteen year's experience with Java technology. He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. He is the chair of the SNIA Cloud Storage, NDMP and XAM SDK technical working groups, chairs the DMTF Policy working group, serves on the SNIA Technical Council, and represents Oracle on the DMTF Technical Committee and serves as DMTF VP of Alliances.
	Gilles Chekroun, Non-Voting Member Distinguished Engineer Cisco Systems, Belgium Gilles is a Distinguished Engineer with Cisco Systems, Belgium and as a member of the SNIA Europe Board of Directors and its Technical Chairman, has been appointed to the SNIA Technical Council. Gilles joined Cisco 17 years ago. His background is linked to IBM Mainframe networking technologies and he started at Cisco as a Network Design Engineer. Later on, Gilles joined the EMEA Consulting group in the IBM team and led many projects in the financial sector. For the last nine years, Gilles' focus was Storage, SAN extension technologies for designing and implementing Disaster Recovery Centers. He is now dedicated to Data Center Technologies like Unified Fabric, FCoE and Unified Computing System. He is a member of the Cisco European Data Center and Virtualization Team. Gilles is a SNIA Fibre Channel certified Practitioner and also VMware Certified Professional. He holds a BsC degree in Computer Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
	Fred Knight, Member Standards Technologist NetApp Fred Knight is a Principal Engineer in the Office of the CTO at NetApp. Fred has over 30 years of experience in the computer and storage industry. He currently represents NetApp in several National and International Storage Standards bodies and industry associations, including T10 (SCSI), T11 (Fibre Channel), T13 (ATA), IETF (iSCSI), SNIA, and FCIA. He is the chair of the SNIA Hypervisor Storage Interfaces working group, the primary author of the SNIA HSI White Paper, the author of the new IETF iSCSI update RFC, and the editor for the T10 SES-3 standard. Fred has received the INCITS Technical Excellence Award for his contributions to both T10 and T11. He is also the developer of the first native FCoE target device in the industry. At NetApp, he contributes to technology and product strategy and serves as a consulting engineer to product groups across the company. Prior to joining NetApp, Fred was a Consulting Engineer with Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, and HP where he worked on clustered operating system and I/O subsystem design.
	Yukinori Sakashita Senior Researcher Hitachi,Ltd Yukinori Sakashita is Senior Researcher at Hitachi,Ltd.,Yokohama Research Laboratory. Sakashita is a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan(IPSJ) and the chair of Technology Committee of the Storage Networking Industry Association Japan Forum(SNIA-J). Sakashita is currently engaged in research on IT operations management systems. In particular, he has studied the management of server and storage technology for heterogeneous environment. He participated in the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), is engaged in the development of the SMI-S since 2003.
	David Thiel, Non-Voting Member Consultant Dave Thiel Consultant, LLC David Thiel currently does consulting work in the Storage Industry. Previously, Dave was Technical Director and Staff Fellow in HP's StorageWorks Division. David was been employed by HP, Compaq, and Digital Equipment Corporation from 1980 to 2008. Since 1991, David has worked in the area of computer storage leading distributed storage system, storage virtualization, storage area network architecture, RAID, storage management software, standards, patent, and technical staff development activities. Previously, he was with the OpenVMS Operating System development organization where he was the lead architect and designer of OpenVMS Cluster systems. David has long been active in the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), where he has been a member of the Technical Council since 1999, including serving as chair for 4 years and vice-chair for 4 years. Dave has served as an ex-officio member of the Board of Directors and has participated in many additional SNIA activities. David earned 3 degrees in Electrical Engineering at MIT and holds 24 U.S. patents.
	Doug Voigt, Member Distinguished Technologist Hewlett Packard Doug Voigt is a Distinguished Technologist in the chief technologist’s office of HP’s StorageWorks division. With 34 years experience in HP’s storage business he is heavily involved with storage strategy, architecture and intellectual property. Throughout his career he has provided technical leadership, organizational guidance and planning for numerous protocol, implementation, architecture and advanced development projects in disk and disk array product lines. Doug has 7 years of experience in disk controller protocol development, 17 years of experience in disk storage management automation, disk array development and distributed array architecture, and 9 years of experience in storage technology and IP evaluation. His contributions include work on Service Oriented Storage, Quality of Service, IPv6, Storage Utility, Storage Consolidation, Federated Arrays, HP AutoRAID, Attribute Managed Storage, Disk Controller Fault Tolerance, Solid State Storage and various protocol standardization and implementation efforts. Doug holds MS and BS degrees computer science and electrical engineering respectively from Cornell University. He currently has 25 US patents, primarily in the field of virtual arrays with 11 patents pending.
	Steve Wilson, Member Director of Technology and Standards Brocade Steve Wilson is Director of Technology and Standards at Brocade. Steve’s responsibilities include the development of technologies and architectures for storage networking and storage management. Steve is a principal contributor to the ANSI T11 Fibre Channel standards and SNIA technical activities. Prior to Brocade, Steve held technical leadership positions with Amdahl, ISS/Sperry Univac, Memorex, and Trilogy Systems. The emphasis of his technical work at these companies was the development and implementation of computer, storage, and systems management technologies. Steve has been involved with the SNIA since 1998. He established and chaired the SNIA Fibre Channel Work Group in its various forms from June 1998 until April 2002 and now serves on the Technical Council. Steve serves as chairman of the INCITS T11 committee whose charter is to develop the Fibre Channel Interfaces. Steve continues to contribute to many ANSI Fibre Channel standards including FCoE, Switch Fabric, and Inter-Fabric Routing. In addition, Steve serves on the FCIA Board of Directors. Steve is the recipient of the INCITS Technical Excellence Award for his work on the Fibre Channel switching standards and received his degree in Computer Science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1978.
	Alan Yoder, Member Senior Manager, Storage Standards Huawei Technologies Alan Yoder, Ph.D. is Senior Manager, Storage Standards of Huawei Technologies, joining in 2012. Alan had been at NetApp since earning his Ph.D. in distributed systems in 1997, working on protocols, management frameworks, management applications, management partnerships, the Manage ONTAP™ SDK, and other projects. He also has experience in construction and industrial accounting, CAD design and programming, GUI design and development and project management. He holds Bachelors, MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Goshen College and the University of Notre Dame.