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2013-2014 SNIA Board and Technical Council Election - Candidate Profiles and Ballot
Attention SNIA Voting Member Company Representatives -
Below, please find the candidate information and a Ballot for the 2013-2014 SNIA Board of Directors and Technical Council (TC) Elections. It is important that we have your vote and endorsement of these Candidates as they will be playing a key role in the leadership of this organization and the storage networking industry.
For the Board of Directors, 13 Voting Directors — 5 of the elected Directors (Tony DiCenzo - Oracle, Skip Jones - QLogic, Peter Manning - HP, SW Worth - Microsoft, and Al Zmyslowski - Fujitsu) will remain on the Board to complete the second year of their terms. This leaves 5 seats (with 6 nominated Candidates) open for election to 2–year terms by SNIA Voting Member Company Representatives, along with up to 3 seats open for appointment by the new Board (after it takes office in October).
For the Technical Council, 9 Voting Members — 5 of the existing Technical Council (TC) members (Craig Carlson - QLogic, Don Deel - EMC, Fred Knight - NetApp, Doug Voigt - HP, and Alan Yoder, Huawei) will remain on the TC to complete the second year of their terms. This leaves 2 seats (with 4 nominated Candidates) open for election to a 2–year term by SNIA Voting Member Company Representatives and 2 seats open for appointment by the new Board as recommended by the TC (after it takes office in October).
Find information on each of the Board of Director and Technical Council candidates below.
To vote (confidentially), complete and e-mail this - Wayne M. Adams - EMC
Dave Gimpl - IBM
Jim Pappas - Intel
Mark Carlson - Oracle
Carlos Pratt - IBM
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David Dale
Voting Member Company: NetApp
Title: Director Industry Standards
Length of Employment with Current Company: 13 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 30+
Education: BSc Applied Physics, University College London
Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)
Active SNIA member since 2000
Member SNIA Board (since 2006); Vice Chair & Executive Committee 2012-2013
Chair Global Steering Committee
Interim Chair Marketing Steering Committee
Former Chair Ethernet Storage Forum (2003-2011)
Former member Data Management Forum Governing Board
Former Member Solid State Storage Initiative Governing Board
Former Chair Strategic Alliances Committee
Former member SNW Governing Board & agenda committee
Employment History
NetApp (current) - responsible for identifying the standards activities that are important to NetApp and its customers, driving NetApp’s standards participation, and representing NetApp in industry associations and at industry events.
Avid Technology (5 years) - Director of Strategic Marketing
Data General - Senior technical consultant involved in the conception and launch of new product initiatives, ranging from Unix multiprocessors, to open systems storage, to high volume servers, to Internet and storage appliances.
Industry Achievement Awards
Recognized presenter, panelist, article author and blogger on storage industry topics.
SNIA tutorial presenter since 2003
Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat
I strongly believe that SNIA has a vital role to play in the Storage Networking market, and I believe I have a good track record of working co-operatively in this kind of environment, getting results, and eloquently representing the industry.
Since 2007, I have tried to bring my extensive experience, commitment, and energy to the definition and execution of the Board’s agenda. I believe I have established a reputation as an active, pragmatic, and trustworthy member of the leadership team. I would like to build on this investment, continuing to dedicate a significant portion to my time to the SNIA, helping shape the organization’s agenda, providing leadership, representing the organization around the world, and working hard to make the organization successful.
Over the past five years, I have significantly broadened and deepened NetApp’s involvement in SNIA TWGs, Forums, and Initiatives.
Representation on the SNIA Board is an important sign that NetApp is committed to the organization.
Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity
I currently have contact with most of the industry associations relevant to the storage industry, in my role as NetApp’s Director of Industry Standards, with responsibility for the company’s investment profile, budget, and participation goals. In addition I am an active participant in the DMTF, the OpenStack Foundation, OASIS, and the Linux Foundation.
Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)
Continued involvement in the Global Steering Committee, Marketing Steering Committee, and the tutorials program.
Biography
David Dale the Director of Industry & Standards at NetApp where he drives product marketing initiatives related to NetApp’s iSCSI SAN solutions. With over 20 years of experience in the computer industry, he is a regular contributor to industry journals, a frequent participant in IT seminars, and a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events around the globe.
David was educated in England, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in applied physics from the University of London.
Philippe Nicolas
Voting Member Company: Scality
Title: Director of Product Strategy
Length of Employment with Current Company: 1 year and 6 months
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 20+ years
Education: Computer Science Master Degree (French Engr. Diploma)
Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)
- Launch SNIA France Regional Committee in 2001 and stay chairman until Feb. 2010
- 2 times Board of Director in Europe 2001-2002 and 2007-2009.
- Initiate, develop and present 4 Tutorials (Data Sharing, File Storage, Cloud Storage and Massively Scalable File Storage)
- Participate to the launch of the CSI with famous event in Sainte Claire in Jan. 2009
- Currently still develop one tutorial (last one above)
- Scality in various SNIA groups (CSI...)
Employment History
1992: Compaq
1993-1997: Silicon Graphics
1997-2007: Veritas Software then Symantec (Veritas was acquired in July 2005 by Symantec)
2007-2009: Brocade
2009-2011: Condor Consulting Group and incubated KerStor project
2011-present: Scality (contractor then employee)
2013: Member of Technical Advisory Board at Guardtime
Industry Achievement Awards
Outstanding Service Recognition Award from SNIA Europe (2005)
Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat
I’m a true believer in SNIA since SNIA Europe was launched in 2001 especially in standard specification and education activities. I dedicated a lot of time during the last decade and like to continue to collaborate and contribute to the global effort for interoperability and technologies adoption. This is the time for a new step for me after SNIA France and Europe positions and I wish to actively participate in the heart of the association. I see this as a natural evolution in term of SNIA but also in term of career path. I think I have the right position within Scality to say that my professional role converges with SNIA role.
This candidacy is fully supported by my management (my direct manager, Giorgio Regni, Scality CTO and Jerome Lecat, CEO) who understands the key role of SNIA in the industry and CDMI especially as we adopted it and promoted it all the time.
My desire is to continue the good work started more than 10 years ago at a different level and the momentum initiated by the current board of directors. My ambition is to contribute in various areas:
- International with the need to promote the role, activities, content and standards developed and specified by the SNIA.
- CDMI and the role of the standard in the industry with a need to penetrate various communities such as end-users, integrators and emerging and established vendors.
- Education to continue the good job made by members to create new independent content and the need to deliver that contribution in many different medium.
- Standard effort and promotion especially CDMI and others. The interaction and partnership with other associations are key for standard adoption.
- European Union with actions around standards, practices and regulations such data protection.
- and finally promote the SNIA as a whole with member recruitment and invite technology companies to join the association.
Scality is fully committed to support my candidacy for the SNIA Board of Directors with dedicated time to participate to the SNIA activities and duty. I also consider this is as a natural step following strong commitment towards SNIA globally since 2001.
Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity
ODCA (Open Data Center Alliance), represents Scality and participate to Data Services WG activity.
Open Compute Project: Scality joined in 2012, we follow activities in Open Vault and Cold Storage.
Scality joined OpenStack Foundation in 2012 but this is an Engr SW contribution. I follow Swift/Cinder developments.
Active Archive Alliance, Scality joined in 2013.
Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)
Cloud and CDMI promotion is definitively a key aspect for us and me
International representation of various SNIA activities
European connection to EU gov. instances especially for Cloud
Education
Recruitment of new members
Biography
Philippe Nicolas is a recognized storage industry expert with more than 20 years of experience. He currently drives the Product Strategy at Scality (www.scality.com) and recently joined the Technical Advisor Board of Guardtime (www.guardtime.com). Before, he launched The IT Press Tour and initiated a P2P dispersed storage software project named KerStor. Previously, he was at Brocade for 2 years as technology evangelist and strategist and spent nearly 10 years at Veritas Software and Symantec in different technology and product roles. Prior 1997, he served various technical positions at SGI and Compaq. He holds an engineering degree in computer sciences from ESI.
He introduced StorSimple and Solix in Europe a few years ago. Previously, he also collaborated with Exalead, now a Dassault Systems’ company, and established 2 oems agreements with Exanet and Atempo.
In parallel, Philippe started the SNIA Europe France regional committee in 2001, and he served as Chairman for France until February 2010. He was also 2 times board director of the SNIA Europe in 2001-2002 and between 2007 and 2009. He created also 4 SNIA Tutorials around Data Sharing, File Storage, Massive Scalability and Cloud Storage since 2002. He received in 2005 the "Outstanding Service Award", from the SNIA Europe, for his industry and association contribution and he's a founding member of SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative.
He owns 2 famous French Storage blogs (http://filestorage.blogspot.com/ and http://continuousdataprotection.blogspot.com/), #1 independent storage blog in France, with 1500+ blogposts and 8+ years of existence. His twitter account is @CDP_FST.
Molly Rector
Voting Member Company: Spectra Logic
Title: Chief Marketing Officer – EVP Product Management & WW Marketing
Length of Employment with Current Company: 10 Years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 14 Years
Education: Bachelor of Science Degree – Major – Biology; Minor - Chemistry
Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)
I have been on the SNIA Board for approximately 1.5 years and have served in the following areas:
• Co-Chair of ABDC
• Member of the SNIA4 portion of the SNW8
• Panel member on joint ABDC and DPCO Webinar
• Miscellaneous support efforts in “Ask the Expert” sessions, topic tables, etc. at events
• My additional historic experience with SNIA has been in the areas below:
• Attended conference as end user when worked with a Storage Service Provider
• Sponsor as a vendor in the exhibit portion of SNW Spring/Fall several times over multiple years
• Participation as a content provider for Archive Hands-on Lab
• Speaker on backup, archive, and tape at multiple SNW shows
• Attended SNIA summer session related to Active Archive when the alliance was originally launched
Employment History
Active Archive Alliance (April 2010 – present)
Founder and Chairman of the Board (hold this board position concurrently with role at Spectra Logic)
• Created vision for new industry based on current market demands.
• Came up with definitions and terms for new industry, driving awareness and acceptance through standards organizations, with major industry analysts and through press awareness.
• Founded non-profit organization through Spectra Logic and recruited appropriate industry partners with shared vision to found the Active Archive Alliance.
Success measured by:
• Active Archive solutions now accounting for nearly 50% of Spectra Logic’s new opportunity pipeline
• New corporate members consistently applying for and approved for membership
• First major analyst report issued by Aberdeen July 1, 2011 tracking the Active Archive market
Spectra Logic, Corp. (July 2004 – present)
Chief Marketing Officer: Responsible for Worldwide Marketing & Product Management Teams
• Manage very high performance, data driven Marketing organization within a high growth storage manufacturer
• Member of Spectra Logic Executive Management Team reporting directly to CEO
• Responsible for all corporate Marketing functions as well as both inbound and outbound Product Management
• Accountable for creating, managing and measuring results for $4.3M annual operational budget for Marketing department
• Lead strategic vision and manage team of currently 28 marketing team members plus external PR agencies in the US and Europe
• Responsible for all lead generation initiatives including: creating new market opportunities to sell current products into; driving new sales opportunities through direct and indirect marketing; and, identifying new products that would have accessible markets to our business as growth opportunities. Marketing driven lead generation activities must measurably ensure a minimum of 40%+ pipeline growth and 25%+ annual revenue growth YoY
• Lead worldwide business and channel partner channel for focus areas in US, CAN, LA, EMEA and AP
Primary Responsibilities
• Strategic Vision: Create, define and execute upon visionary leadership on markets, solutions and products
• Successfully migrated Spectra Logic’s outbound sales effort from being a point technology sale to part of a larger solution
• Moved Spectra solution positioning from end point storage for backup to part of high performance compute and broadcast archive solutions. This included new outbound corporate positioning, new product positioning, new industry partnerships and new branding and lead generation sources.
• Created the Active Archive message to offer a new solution for Spectra tape to be positioned and sold into
• Management: Lead the following departments and functional areas
• Marketing Communications (1 Manager + 7 individual contributors)
• Channel Marketing (1 Director + 4 individual contributors)
• Product Marketing (2 individual contributors)
• Press and Analyst Relations (1 individual contributor + 2 external agencies)
• Product Management (1 Director + 3 individual contributors)
• Strategic Alliances (1-2 individual contributors)
• Sales Training (1 individual contributor)
• RFP/RFI Responses (1-2 individual contributors)
• PR/AR Spokesperson: Primary corporate spokesperson to press and analysts for product, financial and corporate communications worldwide. Maintain strong personal relationships with all major IT, Storage, HPC and Broadcast industry analysts and press
• Public Speaking: Primary executive presenter as subject matter expert on solution landscape product offerings at events and conferences
• External public engagement: Frequently recruited as honorary spokesperson at thought leadership events in Mass Storage and Information Explosion. Also fill corporate sponsored speaking engagement in the industry and with end users.
• Financial Management:
• Create budget and market development plan to meet business needs
• Maintain operational expenditures at or below budget
• Perform quarterly product margin and MSRP analysis ensuring profitability is tracking to business goals and looking for opportunities to increase margin
• End User Interaction: Responsible for maintaining executive relationship with subset of key target accounts to grow relationships and ensure needs are being met holistically by product, sales, service and future roadmap.
• Expand Channel Sales Revenue:
• Ensure current channel partners are armed with appropriate tools and training to ensure success
• Measure and track revenue growth by individual channel sales representative, by channel partner company and by vertical market to ensure marketing initiatives are producing measurable results
• Selectively recruit new channel partners in geographic areas or vertical markets that do not have sufficient coverage
Managed Storage International / Incentra Solutions, Oracle DBA; Engineering Manager (August 2001–July 2004)
• Managed Storage International was a fully funded startup from StorageTek
• Initially hired as technical writer and Oracle DBA for GridWorks service and customer management portal
• Also did some DBA work for DIVArchive (now owned by Front Porch Digital)
• Managed two engineering teams: systems integration and software engineering
• Systems engineering: architected, tested, configured and provided 3rd level support for primary storage and backup systems at major Fortune500 accounts and in shared managed storage environments. We were offering “cloud” storage and services 10 years ago but the “hot” marketing term was SSP.
• Software engineering: managed team of developers that architected and wrote customer and service SLA management software.
• Member of technical due diligence team for M&A activities as we acquired three other SSPs during my time at MSI
IBM, Technical Writer (August 1999–July 2001)
Industry Achievement Awards
CommVault Certified System Administrator
Veritas Certified Data Protection Administrator
Oracle Certified Enterprise DBA
2010 Channel Chief by Everything Channel’s CRN
2011 Boulder County Business Report’s 40 Under 40
Co-Author of Active Archive for Dummies book
Presenter at conferences approximately 6-8 times each year in Cloud, Storage and Big Data
Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat
I am very passionate about working within the storage industry to help keep developers and users up to speed on the changes needed to accommodate the constant data growth that is occurring nearly worldwide. I feel it is very important for businesses to have information and education available to keep up with the rapid technology changes. SNIA is in a great position to bring vendors together to align on changes and deliver a strong, consistent message to the users. I believe collaboration between vendors and technology providers is critical in such a dynamic environment and am enthusiastic to share in the efforts, time and experience that needs to come together.
Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity
Active Archive Alliance - Chairman of the Board
INSIC - Technical Committee member
Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)
Archive
Big Data
Backup
Unstructured data, NAS
SSD
Tape
Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of
Molly is very invested in the storage industry growth and education as well as highly motivated to drive worldwide and local community betterment initiatives. In 2010, she led teams the helped recover from the Fourmile Fire in Boulder, Colorado. She is also an active participant in Spectra Logic’s corporate philanthropic activities which include the support of Kohl Elementary Walk/Run, Adopt a Trail, and Room to Read. In her personal time, Molly is also involved in local and international outreach groups building homes in Mexico (Homes for Hope) and environmental welfare programs for Costa Rica’s wildlife and rainforest inhabitants.
Biography
Molly Rector joined Spectra Logic in 2004 and brings more than a decade of data storage industry experience to her current role as chief marketing officer. In this position, Rector leads a department of channel and market development, marketing communications, public relations and product management professionals. A key member of Spectra's executive leadership team since 2005, she helps define and execute the company's future product roadmap and overall corporate direction, and serves as its primary corporate spokesperson. In 2010, Rector's vision led to the formation of the Active Archive Alliance, a non-profit storage industry association, on which she represents one of nine vendor organizations and serves as the chairman of the board. Rector holds certifications as CommVault Certified System Administrator; Veritas Certified Data Protection Administrator; and Oracle Certified Enterprise DBA: Backup and Recovery. She earned a bachelor's of science degree in biology and chemistry.
Bill Martin
Voting Member Company: Samsung SSI
Title: SSD I/O Standards
Length of Employment with Current Company: 7 months
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 20 years
Education: BSEE/CS University of California Davis
Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)
Chair Data Integrity TWG.
Participant in: Standards Committee, SSSI, NVMP TWG, Solid State Storage TWG, PCIe SSD Committee, and SSS Performance & Benchmarking subgroup
Employment History
2013 – Present Samsung - SSD I/O standards
2004 – 2012: Emulex - Engineer Consultant Storage Industry Standards
2002 – 2004: Brocade – Sr. Principal Engineer Storage Industry Standards and Interoperability
1997 – 2002: Gadzoox – Sr. Principal Engineer Storage Industry Standards
1980 – 1997: HP – Member Technical Staff (Storage Industry Standards 1993 – 1997)
Industry Achievement Awards
2013 - INCITS Merit Award
InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
INCITS recognition for numerous contributions to the Fibre Channel standards community. As one of the principal architects of the Fibre Channel technology, you have held leadership, technical, and marketing roles that help helped ensure the success of the Fibre Channel industry. Through your tireless contributions, the Fibre Channel technologies have become the cornerstone of the multi-billion dollar Storage Networking industry. In addition to the development of the technical and interoperability aspects of Fibre Channel, you have served in various officer capacities at the committee level, including INCITS/T11.3 Vice Chairman and INCITS/T11 Secretary.
2010 FCIA Achievement Award
Fibre Channel Industry Association
In recognition and appreciation for efforts in developing and advancing the technical standards and market adoption of Fibre Channel.
2007 - INCITS Outstanding Leadership Team Award
InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
Honorary award presented to a team of participants who have provided outstanding service to the INCITS organization through committee work. Outstanding teamwork in rapidly progressing the subgroup's national and international activities; demonstrated skill in developing technically sound standards.
2005 -INCITS Technical Excellence Award
InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
Honorary award presented to recognize technical contributions and dedication to the technical program of work. This award is presented with the concurrence of the TC officers for contributions to the work of the TC.
2005 - FCIA Lifetime Achievement Award
Fibre Channel Industry Association
Lifetime achievement for developing Fibre Channel standards and interoperability
2004 - Outstanding Theme Lead for the Interop Lab
Storage Networking Industry Association
SNIA award for outstanding Theme Lead for the Interop Lab at Storage Networking World Spring 2004
Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat
I have been involved in leadership roles in the Storage Industry since 1993. In my new role leading standards activities for Samsung Solid State Storage and Memory devices, I would like to help direct the technical work of SNIA as the industry moves forward into the high performance area of solid state storage as it is used in cloud storage, and analytics and big data; and the impacts of green storage and storage security in these evolving technologies.
Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity
INCITS T10 – Vice Chair, editor of SBC-4; INCITS T13 – Contributing member; FCIA – Consultant on the evolution to 32 GFC; SATA-IO – Contributing member.
Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)
Solid State Storage – ALL areas; Storage Security; Green Storage; Cloud Storage; Analytics and Big Data.
Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of
I have recently come on board at Samsung, and am in the process of getting involved in the list of areas above. I have a wealth of past experience in the Storage Industry that I will contribute to the future directions of the SNIA.
Biography
William Martin is responsible for driving Solid State Storage forward within the industry for Samsung, currently representing Samsung SSD products in a variety of standards and marketing arenas. William has served as SNIA chair of the Data Integrity TWG, serves on the SNIA Standards Committee, and recently joined the Solid State Storage Initiative and several technical work groups in the Solid State Storage area.
William also is Vice Chair of the INCITS T10, SCSI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee, Secretary of the INCITS T13, AT Attachment Technical Committee, and editor of SCSI Block Commands – 4 (SBC-4). Previous positions within the storage community include Vice Chair of INCITS T11.3, Fibre Channel Interconnection Schemes, Secretary INCITS T11, Fibre Channel Interfaces Technical Committee, and various editor positions within the Fibre Channel Standards community. William has led Fibre Channel interoperability events for over 17 years, and participated in the SNIA interoperability lab in the early 2000’s.
William has received numerous industry recognitions for his contributions to the storage industry over the past decade including: INCITS Merit award 2013, FCIA Achievement award 2010, INCITS Outstanding Leadership Team award 2007, INCITS Technical Excellence award 2005, FCIA Lifetime Achievement award 2005, and SNIA Outstanding Theme lead for the interop lab 2004.
He has been involved in the storage industry for 30 years, starting in 1983 with the development of a proprietary optical storage interface for HP, architecting the HP Tachyon interface chip for Fibre Channel, serving on industry consortiums and standards bodies for storage including SNIA, INCITS T11, INCITS T10, INCITS T13, SATA-IO, and NVMe for HP, Gadzoox Networks, Brocade, Sierra Logic, Emulex, and Samsung. William holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the University of California, Davis.
<br /><br />Wayne’s SNIA involvement started in 2002. For the past 10 years, I have served on the SNIA Board of Directors; 6 of those years as Chair, 2 of those years as Treasurer. I am involved in Green, Cloud, SMI-S, SNW, and Strategic Alliances work. I have been involved in a number of board task forces for 3 year Strategy, Software, China, Global Organization, Alliances, and CTP. In 2002-04, I served as chair of the Conferences Committee. During the same time-period, I served on the SNW Board. In 2010- 2013, I rejoined the SNW Governing Board to invigorate new concepts and event elements to restore its industry appeal. </p><p>I also participate in many SNIA international outreach efforts; I have made trips with SNIA Board delegations and participated in recent SNW/Storage conferences in China, Japan, and Europe. For recent Alliances related work, for Green Storage Initiative, relationships are in place for EPA, TheGreenGrid, 80Plus, ITI, and SPEC. For the Cloud Storage Initiatives, relationships are in place for Japan based GICTF, Cloud Standards Customer Council and Open Data Center Alliance. For SNIA and SNW, a relationship with IDG, Computerworld, China ComputerWorld, and Angel Business Communications is in place. Strategic relationships with key SNIA service providers are in place including Kavi, MHTB, LSI, and Hanson Bridgett.</p><p><b>Employment History</b><br /><br />1997-present, EMC Corporation, <a data-cke-saved-href=http://www.emc.com href=http://www.emc.com>www.emc.com</a><br />Office of the CTO: direct consortia and industry standards strategy<br />Global Alliances: direct ISV API program<br />Product Management: direct product roadmap for SRM, IO Pathing, SAN Management, and manage Fibre Alliance</p><p>1984-1997, Digital Equipment Corporation<br />Business Development and Technical Marketing for OEM products, manufacturing industry plant floor control and device management solutions, and oil & gas retail & distribution solutions.</p><p>1981-1984, Eastman Kodak<br />System Designer: design system, implement and maintain solution for real-time plant floor control systems and for automated QA systems.</p><p><strong>Industry Achievement Awards</strong></p><ul><li>On behalf of SNIA, acted as spokesperson, featured keynote and press conferences as well as social media and web TV</li><li>SNIA recognized volunteer awards for F/I work such as Green, XAM, Cloud and Committee work including Conferences and SNW.</li><li>Instrument Society of America, Best Conference Paper, on the topic of plant-floor networks<br />Harvey Communication award for the most effective technology ad campaign appearing in both business and technical magazines.</li><li>Secured best of show product award for a newly released single board computer<br />Keynoted several conferences addressing standards-based computer technologies in manufacturing industries.</li><li>Authored several trade conference papers and trade magazine articles.</li><li>Numerous EMC and Digital Equipment employee recognition awards for business and industry impact.</li><li>IDG Enterprise Management World inaugural launch</li></ul><p><b>Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat</b><br /><br />I desire to lead and shape the storage networking industry by continuing SNIA’s importance to the entire IT industry. I plan to continue to drive key SNIA Board projects including new areas of SNIA focus such as Solid State, KMIP Test Program, SNIA Emerald Program, cross-industry alliances and relationships including EPA, TheGreenGrid, USITO, ODCA, industry analysts, and several others to advance data management, green storage, and security as SNIA pillars. Also to ensure SNIA global execution takes place and is uniform within boundaries of SNIA’s available resources in key geographies. </p><p><b>Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity</b></p><ul><li>DMTF: various committees</li><li>W3C: primary rep and Advisory Council</li><li>TheGreenGrid: monitor technical committee and manage SNIA-TGG alliance</li><li>ANSI: consortia interest group and ITS 39 and DAPS 38 (part of INCITS)</li><li>Manage EMC resources for ISO JTC1 ANSI representation and INCITS Exec Board</li><li>Direct EMC Standards Program Office for involvement and alignment with OASIS, TGG, OMG, and INCITS.</li></ul><p><b>Potential Areas of Interest</b> (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)<br /><br />SNIA Board of Directors and key committees of the board including Alliances, International, Executive Committee, Standards, Industry Events Strategy. Continued linkages from Board to F/I areas of interest including Cloud, Green, SMI-S, and SSSI. </p><p><strong>Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of</strong><br /><br />I can devote 40% of work time to SNIA and can leverage additional EMC company resources to support/drive SNIA initiatives and technical work. I believe my efforts since 2002 have made a difference for the SNIA including: SNIA presence and recognition beyond the storage industry and key industry alliances. </p><p><b>Biography</b></p><p>Wayne M. Adams is a Senior Technologist and Director of Standards within the Office of the CTO at EMC and is responsible for expanding and managing EMC technology initiatives with the industry standards bodies. Wayne has proudly served on the SNIA Board of Directors since 2003 including roles as Treasurer in addition to Chairman during these terms. He has served in a number of leadership roles for conferences, forums and initiatives, and strategic alliances.</p><p>Wayne also is a Board Member for the DMTF technology association and serves as the Senior VP of the Board. Within EMC, previous managing positions include partner management and software product management, where responsibilities included API licensing and product lifecycle management for Storage Resource Management, SAN Management, and I/O pathing product lines. Prior to EMC, Wayne was responsible for product marketing and business development of various strategic software and hardware products at Digital Equipment Corporation.</p><p>He started his high-tech career at Eastman Kodak as a system designer of real-time control systems. Wayne holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a dual major in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh.</p><p> </p><div align=center><a href=){kind=link}
 IBM<br />(1993-1995) AS/400 File Server Design & Implementation IFS (Integrated File Server)<br />(1996-1997) Architect/design QFileSvr.400 remote file system<br />(1998-2001) IBM NetworkStation NAS protocol architect<br />(2002-2004) Architecture and design of Fix Central <br />(2004-2007) Power System HMC System Plan Architecture<br />(2007-2009) IBM Storage Cloud Architect<br />(2010-2012) Product Owner/Architect Storage Control<br />(2012-current) IBM FlashSystem Storage Product Manager</p><p><b>Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat</b><br /><br />Interested in simplifying, standardizing, and automation of storage management, with collaboration, innovation, and leadership thru SNIA service.</p><p><b>Potential Areas of Interest</b> (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)<br /><br />Green Storage, Storage Management.</p><p><b>Other Comments</b><br /><br />2011, assisted with the IBM equipment setup after relocation of SNIA test lab (Colorado Springs, CO).</p><p><b>Biography</b></p><p>Dave Gimpl is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Senior Product Manager over the FlashSystem product line. He achieved STSM designation several years ago for his leadership in defining the architecture for the storage cloud implementations, and for his role in delivering Power CloudBurst, VMControl, Storage Control, and Smart Cloud Entry to market. </p><p>Dave’s history of architecting systems integration and automation solutions goes back as far as his early career at IBM. He architected and created the Client Access file sharing protocol, providing integrated access from PCs to shared folders and files via the AS/400’s file server. This led to the innovative Remote File System architecture and implementation allowing integrated server to server file sharing, as well as the diskless Network Station network boot and operational NAS protocols.</p><p>As Dave progressed in his career, he adhered to the philosophy of leading by example, and he continues to be hands on with every product he architects, designs, and develops, and all hardware that it involves. He is a technical resource in his company for his knowledge of server storage and networking technologies.</p><p>Dave holds a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Mathematics from Saint Cloud State. He also holds 14 patents, his most recent ones, Zoning in the User Context, and methodology for self-aware storage systems, have been focused at simplifying storage management.</p><p> </p><div align=center><a href=){kind=link}
<br /><br />Lead the transition into SNIA and initial development of SMI-S, chairing the TSG in the early years.<br />Chair of the policy TWG, management frameworks TWG.<br />Lead the formation of the Cloud Storage TWG (Chair) and Cloud Storage Initiative (Vice Chair)</p><p><b>Employment History</b><br /><br />Numerous storage and networking companies.<br />Helped start a small software company in Boulder, CO called Redcape Policy Software that was then acquired in 1998 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.<br />Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010.<br /><br /><b>Industry Achievement Awards</b><br /><br />SMI Distinguished Engineer<br />DMTF Star Award<br />SNIA Industry Impact award</p><p><b>Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat</b><br /><br />I feel that I can continue to contribute to the SNIA as both a leader and champion of open interoperable standards and software. As storage technologies evolve, it is important that companies work together to increase the market adoption of these technologies and create standards to address customer pain points. I will continue to serve as a catalyst for activities in the SNIA that return value to its members and benefit the industry.</p><p><b>Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity</b><br /><br />DMTF – VP of Alliances<br />INCITS DAPS 38<br />ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 38</p><p><b>Potential Areas of Interest</b> (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)<br /><br />Cloud Storage and Data Management</p><br /><p><b>Biography</b><br /><br />Mark A. Carlson, Principal Cloud Strategist at Oracle, has more than 30 years of experience with Networking and Storage development and more than fifteen years of 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.</p><p> </p><p> </p><div align=center><a href=){kind=link}
<br /><strong>Office #:</strong> 520-799-5409<br /><strong>Cell #:</strong> 520-991-6279<br /><strong>E-mail:</strong> <a data-cke-saved-href=mailto:jcpratt@gmail.com href=mailto:jcpratt@gmail.com>jcpratt@gmail.com</a></p><p><b>Previous SNIA Service</b> (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)<br /><br />Active member of the GSI-TWG since 2008 and co-chair of the TWG since 2013. Member of the GSI governing board since 2013.</p><p><b>Employment History</b><br /><br /><strong>Mexico:</strong><br />1989-1991 ITESM-Teacher assistant<br />1991-1992 Tres Estrellas de Oro (Network technical support)<br />1992-1996 Ernst & Young consulting (last position: Senior Consultant IT strategies)</p><p><strong>USA:</strong><br />1996-1999 Modular Mining systems (last position: Development lead for GPS based data acquisition of heavy mining equipment)<br />1999-Present: IBM (last position: Senior Engineer Storage Performance Technical Support, Energy Efficiency Development and Performance Tools Development lead and architect.</p><p><b>Industry Achievement Awards</b><br /><br />Recognition for work on the development of Emerald</p><p><b>Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat</b><br /><br /><strong>Green Grid: </strong>Working with their storage metrics group<br /><strong>SPC: </strong>As backup of IBM’s representative and helped with the latest SPC-1/E and SPC-2/E specifications and initial measurements</p><p><b>Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity</b><br /><br />Energy Efficiency and storage.<br />Cloud<br /><strong> </strong>Global alliances<br /><strong> </strong>Interoperability<br /><strong> </strong>Standards in general</p><p><b>Potential Areas of Interest</b> (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)<br /><br />At the moment and due to the recent IBM’s budget constraints my travel will be limited. Most likely the first year with the TC I will have to participate mostly via teleconference.</p><p><b>Biography</b><br /><br />Carlos Pratt has worked in the Digital Storage industry since 1995 working mainly on static storage for the mining industry. After Joining IBM in 1999, Carlos worked on the Channel adapter device driver for the VTS (Virtual Tape system), in 2000 Carlos joined the IBM disk test organization to help with the function and performance evaluation of the fiber channel connectivity between storage and different types of servers. In 2002 Carlos helped the IBM-Tivoli group to validate the performance module of the Multiple Device Manager (MDM) later known as Tivoli Productivity Center (TPC). Since 2005 Carlos has been part of the hardware systems storage performance organization. His main role in this organization is to provide architecture guidance to several of the IBM storage products; he helps with complex technical support problems and is the technical lead for all IBM storage efforts on Energy efficiency design for storage.</p><p> </p><p> </p><div align=center><a href=){kind=link}
Leah Schoeb
Voting Member Company: Evaluator Group
Title: Sr. Partner
Length of Employment with Current Company: 1.5 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 23 years
Education: EE – Univ. of MD and MBA – Univ. Of Phoenix
Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)
I have served on the SNIA TC for the past three years with the past 2 years being the vice chairperson. I have been the chairperson of the GSI for about 4 years and was a subcommittee chair for the Green TWG for 1 year.
Employment History
I have been in high tech for about 23 years with such companies as Amdahl, Intel, Dell, Sun Microsystems, VMware, and now the Evaluator group. I have a long background in system performance and end-to-end architecture with most of career focused on storage.
Industry Achievement Awards
I received awards from the SNIA in early 2012 for my contribution to the GSI and the Green TWG. In 2013, I received an award of appreciation for my participation as the 1st day instructor for the Emerald Training. I have also received leadership awards for leadership participation in other industry associations.
Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat
I have spent most of my career as a forward thinker in technology to help solve the changing challenges that server computing (and now multiple devices) have created for storage technology with the vendors who create the products to meet those challenges. This has always been the best part of my career when I get the chance to participate in technology futures, like participating in SNIA activities. I think that the Technical Council is another outlet for this kind of work and I enjoy the helping the storage industry to develop new areas for the organizations future.
Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)
There are still many areas in cloud storage computing, big data, analytics, software defined X, and Solid State Storage that are still growing and developing.
Biography
Leah Schoeb is a Senior Partner at the Evaluator Group bringing expertise ranging from cloud infrastructure and virtualization to system and storage performance. She draws from over 20 years of experience in the computer industry helping systems companies with performance engineering and optimization, market 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 solid state technology and 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.