SMI Leadership

Congratulations to the SMI Governing Board! SNIA presented SMI with the
Most Outstanding Achievement of a
Forum or Initiative in 2012 Award.

View SMI award details with photos!

Don Deel, Chair
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. Don is a SNIA Technical Council member.

Steve Quinn, Vice Chair
Technical Product Manager
Hitachi Data Systems

Steve Quinn is a Technical Product Manager at Hitachi Data Systems and is both a contributor to and leader in SMI-S development. He currently chairs the SMI Technical Steering Group (TSG), a position he has held for three years, and he frequently participates in SMI-Lab plugfests at the SNIA Technology Center. Steve also chairs the Conformance Committee, which is involved with the development of CTP. He has contributed to SMI-S development, particularly, the Masking and Mapping, Volume Composition, and Pools from Volumes profiles.

Based in San Diego, California, Steve is involved with the development of the Hitachi SMI-S provider as well as internal products. Steve is a graduate of Harvey Mudd College, where he earned a BS degree in Applied Mathematics. He currently holds one patent in the area of storage management

Alan Yoder, Secretary
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.

Alan holds Bachelors, MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Goshen College and the University of Notre Dame. He is a SNIA Technical Council member.

Doug Voigt, Treasurer
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. Doug is a SNIA Technical Council member.

Chris Lionetti, Member
Reference Architect
NetApp

Chris Lionetti is a Reference Architect at NetApp and has been active with SNIA since 2000. He has worked with SNIA as a storage developer as well as a storage consumer, and has architected a number of large production infrastructures. His experience ranges from 1992 to present at companies such as Symbios Logic building SCSI chips, HP, Dell, Microsoft, and NetApp. He currently holds 11 patents on topics covering datacenter and storage security and protocols and has presented tutorials at a number of SNW’s. Chris has worked extensively with the Education Committee as the EdCom chair.

Troy Biegger, Non-Voting Member
Vice President of Marketing and Sales
WS

Troy Biegger, VP of Marketing and Sales at WS (formerly WBEM Solutions), has more than 25 years of marketing and sales experience. Troy has a proven track record in marketing, sales, and industry event management. He is the DMTF VP of Marketing, SNIA Storage Management Initiative (SMI) Marketing Committee Chairman, DMTF Conformance Committee Chair, and actively participates in numerous additional standards-based work groups and committees. He has been involved with the standards for over ten years.

When Troy is not “on the road” or “in a meeting,” he enjoys spending time with his family and friends as well as golfing, fishing and traveling. Troy lives in Pinehurst, North Carolina.