2017-2018 SNIA Board and Technical Council Election - Candidate Profiles and Ballot

Attention SNIA Voting Member Company Representatives -

Below, please find the candidate information and Ballot for the 2017-2018 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 the storage industry and this organization.

The Board of Directors (Board) is the governing body of SNIA. It is composed of 10 Directors elected by the voting membership, and 3 Directors appointed by the Board. For the 2017-2018 Board, 5 elected Directors continue on the Board to serve the second year of their terms. Accordingly, 5 seats are open for election (for 2–year terms) by SNIA voting members and there are 5 Candidates for these seats. 2 seats are presently open for Director appointments by the Board (after elections).

The Technical Council (TC) is the body of technical experts that guides the technical direction of the SNIA. It is typically composed of 7 voting members elected by the voting membership and 2 voting members nominated by the Technical Council and appointed by the Board of Directors. For the 2017-2018 TC, 3 elected members continue on the Council to serve the second year of their terms. Accordingly, 4 seats are open for election (for 2–year terms) by SNIA voting members and there are 7 Candidates for these seats. 2 seats will be open for appointment by the Board (after elections).

Please find and review information on each of the Board of Directors and Technical Council candidates below.

To vote (confidentially), complete and e-mail this - BALLOT and forward via e-mail to ed@snia.org.

The deadline for submission of a ballot is midnight PACIFIC TIME, September 30, 2017.

Thank You - your support of the SNIA is appreciated.

Candidates for Board of Directors

Sue Amarin

Voting Member Company: Micron Technology
Title: Senior Business Development Manager
Length of Employment with Current Company: 5 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 24 years
Education: BSEE / MBA

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)

SNIA member who keeps up to date on the latest discussions, industry advancements and proposals

Employment History

Intel - Analog designer that designed PLLs, SRAMs, IOBuffers, Oscillators that were used in multiple CPU and peripheral chips throughout the 90s.
Intel - Memory Enabling Program Manager, drove readiness and adoption of DDR1/2/3 as well as FB-DIMMs within the industry. 
Active JEDEC member representing both Intel and later IDT and driving needed changes.  Coauthored the DDR2 JEDEC specification.

Micron - Drove DDR4 readiness internally and adoption at customers.  Was an integral part of the NVDIMM enablement and adoption in the very early days. Evangelist for Flash and flash storage adoption in the industry

Industry Achievement Awards

Many achievements internal to the companies I worked at.  Including divisional and departmental awards for enabling new FF's, special programs, etc. at customers.

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat

Being a part of the industry for 24 years and being heavily involved with JEDEC when I focused on DRAM technology motivates me to change my focus to Storage now that I am heavily involved in the Flash market.  Much work is ahead of us in defining, driving and standardizing new and future NV technologies.  I feel that we are at the infancy of this new wave of SCM/NVM that it needs many of us to define and drive.  It also is very enriching to be able to work with many industry veterans in defining the future.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity

Was active in JEDEC for over eight (8) years, but moved on when I started focusing on Storage and flash.

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)

Storage Class Memory, NVDIMM, NVMe, future NVM/SCM

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of: Member of Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society Member of Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering Honor Society, as well as was Chapter president in college Member of Beta Gamma Sigma - The international Business Honor Society Director, Houston Chapter - ChickTech nonprofit, focusing on increasing the interest of little girls and women in pursuing STEM fields

Biography

An industry veteran with about 24 years in the semiconductor industry.  Graduated with a BSEE degree from San Jose State University in 1993 and worked as an analog design engineer at Intel, designing PLLs, IO-Buffers, SRAMs, circuits that were used on the Pentium class chipsets throughout the 90s and early 2000s. Was an active member of JEDEC for many years, advancing DRAM technology and enabling its adoption in the market place, all the way from DDR1-266 through DDR4, while at JEDEC I coauthored the DDR2 specification.  In 2010 I graduated with an MBA from Tulane University, co-founded an Oil and Gas services business, which is still thriving then Joined Micron as a Business Development Manager.  Current focus has been on Storage and Flash Technologies in the capacity of a technology Evangelist that works closely with customers on flash adoption and internally on focusing the products to solve customer workload issues.

David Dale

Voting Member Company: NetApp
Title: Director Industry Standards
Length of Employment with Current Company: 17 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 35+ years
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 2012/13;
Chairman & Executive Committee 2014/15 2016/17 Chair Global Steering Committee Chair Marketing Steering Committee
Former Chair Ethernet Storage Forum (since 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

David Dale is Director of Industry Standards at NetApp, where he is 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.

With extensive experience in the computer industry, he is a knowledgeable and valuable technology resource for customers, peers, and the media. He is a highly regarded presenter and technology evangelist. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the Board of Directors of the DMTF, and the Board of Directors of the Open Fabrics Alliance.

Prior to NetApp, he was director of Strategic Marketing at Avid Technology for 5 years. Prior to Avid, he was senior technical consultant at Data General, where he was 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

No official awards, but...

• 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 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, and working hard to make the organization successful.

Over the past ten 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 and the OFA.

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)

See previous

Biography

David Dale is Director Industry Standards at NetApp, where he is 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.

With extensive experience in the computer industry, he is a knowledgeable and valuable technology resource for customers, peers, and the media. He is a highly regarded presenter and technology evangelist. Besides serving on the SNIA Board of Directors, he represents NetApp on the governing Board of the DMTF and on the governing Board of the Open Virtualization Alliance – a Collaborative Project in the Linux Foundation.

He received a bachelor of science degree in Applied Physics from University College London.

Jim Pappas

Voting Member Company: Intel Corporation
Title: Director of Technology Initiatives
Length of Employment with Current Company: 23 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 35 years
Education: BSEE Electrical Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, University of Massachusetts/Amherst

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)

Active member of SNIA serving as Intel Corporation’s representative on the SNIA Board of Directors, and also the SNIA Executive Committee as the organization’s vice-chairman. In addition, I also co-chair one of SNIA's most active initiatives, Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) As Intel’s director of technology initiatives, I am very engaged with Intel’s broad participation across a large number of industry organizations, and as such, I am able to focus significant Intel resources toward the advancement of SNIA’s programs.

In 2012, I had the honor of proposing the formation of a new SNIA Technical Working Group (NVM Programming TWG) that has since become one of the most important new developments inside of SNIA, and across the industry.

I have devoted significant time, energy, and resources to enhance SNIA’s impact and success, and I have an impeccable personal history of driving programs for SNIA.

Industry Achievement Awards

1994 – Present:  Intel Corporation

• 2000 – 2015: Director of Technology Initiatives (Enterprise) – responsible for overall corporate participation in several industry organizations. Traditional focus being I/O technologies, storage interfaces, solid state drives, HPC clustering, system management, virtualization, and power management.
• 2000 – 2013: Responsible for the executive and technical management of the companies comprising the server IHV ecosystem. Major functional areas include: Solid State Storage (SSDs & SSD Controllers), Storage (DAS & SAN), Graphics, Local Area Networks, InfiniBand clustering, Ethernet Clustering, PCIe infrastructure silicon.
• 1997 – 2000: Director of Technology Initiatives (Consumer) – Responsible for >20 new technologies for client computers including USB, 1394, PCI, AGP Gfx, ACPI power management, PC ease of use, DVD optical drives, computer graphics, DVI, IAPC, etc.
• 1994 – 1997: Director of Universal Serial Bus – Overall responsibility for spec and product development, as well as creating a robust ecosystem of USB peripherals by the PC industry.

1981 – 1994:  Digital Equipment Corporation

• 1991 – 1994: Director of I/O responsible for creation of the PCI Bus industry standard: Worked as a founding director of the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI SIG) to invent the new bus standard, and drive industry wide adoption of PCI
• 1991 – 1994: Managed the product marketing of Digital’s PCI Si products including: Ethernet, Graphics, Multimedia, and PCI Bridge silicon products
• 1988 -1991: Engineering manager responsible for the development of Digital’s highest volume ever CPU chip (SOC)
• 1981 – 1988: Engineer, graphics architect, lead chip designer, and engineering manager of a number of graphics chips for Digital’s workstation products

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat

• Eight US patents in the area of computer graphics
• Intel Achievement Award (Intel’s highest award) for PCI Express
• Broad industry recognition as a speaker for breakthrough technologies
• Frequent keynote speaker at industry events, or executive seminars
• Invited to “ring the bell” for both the NYSE and NASDAQ

Describe Your Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

I personally believe that the advancement of Persistent Memory (PM), and its integration into computer systems is the single largest change to computer architecture since development of the microprocessor. We can readily see the affect of solid state storage on mobile and client machines in terms of SSDs, but still, the architectural impact is just beginning to emerge. The next advancement of this technology will be the convergence of both storage and memory into a single element in modern computer systems. As a result, I have decided to focus a majority of my personal time, plus that of my organization on Persistent Memory.

It is my belief that this technology is so important that an industry consortium must manage the specification development. I have been leading Intel in bringing this technology to SNIA (vs. a variety of other options) because of my trust in the integrity of the SNIA organization, and its technical ability to fairly and effectively manage its adoption.

I will continue to ensure that Intel effectively supports SNIA through TWG and TC technical contributions, marketing participation in the solid-state initiative(s), and management functions via the SNIA board, and by my leadership of SSSI.

List Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity:

I have a “career long” history of managing dozens of industry organizations, and I have a reputation for driving these fairly, effectively, and always working to ensure success of each organization. Some of those I am most proud of include:

• PCI Special Interest Group: Founding director who effectively managed the organization’s technology through ubiquitous industry adoption
• USB Special Interest Group: Founding chairman overseeing all aspects of the industry wide development and deployment of the technology into virtually all modern computer systems
• The Green Grid: Founding director, developing technology, and policy (both government and social) tackling the enormous problems of energy consumptions of data centers

Organizations that I currently manage include:

• SSD Form Factor Working Group (Chair): Secretary of this organizational consortium formed to define a new PCI Express standard physical interface for SSDs, supporting SATA 3.0, SAS 3.0, Multi-lane SAS, and for the first time, adding PCI Express 3.0. This connector specification work has been contributed to SFF-8639. This organization is also currently specifying a new interface for higher performance SSD products.
• InfiniBand Trade Association: (co-chair) An organization that owns the development of specifications for InfiniBand clustering technology
• Open Fabrics Alliance (OFA): Board member of OFA, an organization responsible for the development of the OFED stack, which is the key software implementation for InfiniBand, RoCE, and iWarp clustering.
• SSI: Chairman of SSI, an organization that defines a number of “system specifications” across a number of server technologies.
• Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF): I oversee Intel’s involvement in the DMTF, with particular interest in the Scalable Platform Management Forum (SPMF) which is responsible for the Redfish speciation. I also serve as Intel’s alternate Board of Directors representative for the DMTF organization.

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)

My primary interest is in the area of Persistent Memory for the reasons that I mentioned in the “motivation” section above. I will continue to attend all Board of Director functions and Executive Committee meetings as a top priority. I will continue to lead Intel into contributing its leadership architecture in the area of PM software architecture for consideration by SNIA’s NVM Programming TWG, and then help drive collaborative industry development via the Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) organization which I co-chair.

Furthermore, I will continue to represent all of Intel’s involvement in SNIA, expanding our contributions beyond my personal interest of PM.

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of
Intel has a long history of designing products with standard interfaces, and leading the industry in the development of those standards. Intel will continue to invest in PM technology, and drive new PM usages into modern computer architecture. We believe that the industry is best served when standards are developed, and when individual companies design products supporting those standards. As demonstrated, Intel is willing and eager to help SNIA be the organization that defines the future of the convergence of storage and memory into a single entity.

Within my role in Intel, I have enough influence, and direct staff to ensure that Intel provides a broad range of contribution to the organization. Intel will continue to contribute several technical resources to properly resource any proposals that we bring forward, or to those that we feel we can contribute. We will also continue to assign staff to the initiatives (ex: SSSI) in both marketing and engineering capacities.

I am personally very excited to be a member of the SNIA board, and I will continue to devote a significant portion of my time to the success of SNIA if I am re-elected. I have been doing this type of work long enough to have significant autonomy on which projects I undertake… and PM is the primary area where I choose to focus my efforts.

Biography

Jim Pappas is the Director of Technology Initiatives in Intel’s Data Center Group. In this role, Jim is responsible to establish broad industry ecosystems that comply with new technologies in the areas of Enterprise I/O, Energy Efficient Computing, and Solid State Storage. Jim has founded, or served on several organizations in these areas including: PCI Special Interest Group, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA), Open Fabrics Alliance (OFA), The Green Grid, Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and several emerging initiatives in his newest focus area of Solid State Storage.

Mr. Pappas has previously been the Director of Technology Initiatives in Intel’s Desktop Products Group, and successfully led technologies such as AGP Graphics, DVD, IEEE 1394, Instantly Available PC, PCI, USB, and other advanced technologies for the Desktop PC.

Mr. Pappas has over 35 years of experience in the computer industry. He has been granted eight U.S. patents in the areas of computer graphics and microprocessor technologies. He has spoken at dozens of major industry events and holds a B.S.E.E. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Tatsuya Tanaka

Voting Member Company: Toshiba
Title: Vice President SSD Technology Strategy
Length of Employment with Current Company: 32 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 32 years (including Memory Devices)
Education: MS in Physical Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)

N/A

Employment History

Toshiba (1985 - 2016)
Toshiba Memory Corporation (2017 - Now)
Note: Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (2016 - Now)

Industry Achievement Awards

N/A

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat

Toshiba is a leading NAND Flash vendor and a SSD vendor that supports client, datacenter and enterprise applications. Tatsuya Tanaka is in a position where he has visibility and responsibility to manage SSD standards and ecosystem partners. There are a number of areas that Toshiba can assist in contributing to SNIA. Toshiba can help become a bridge between SNIA and other standards bodies. And personally Tatsuya Tanaka can assist in contributing ideas for the SNIA roadmap based on NAND Flash and SSD technical knowledge as a leading vendor.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity

Toshiba is the member of the following standard bodies. NVM Express, DMTF, INCITS T10, INCITS T13, JEDEC, PCI-SIG, SATA IO, STA, TCG

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)

Non-volatile Memory Devices
Solid State Drives
Hyperscaler/Datacenter Storage
Client Storage
Enterprise Storage

Biography

Tatsuya Tanaka, Vice President, SSD Technology Strategy at Toshiba, has more than 30 years of experience with application engineering of memory devices (DRAM / NAND / SSD) and 2 years of experience with Corporate Audit. He participated in DRAM standardization at JEDEC, NAND Flash specification & product planning, and is now in charge of SSD standardization at Toshiba.

Jim Williams

Voting Member Company: Oracle
Title: Product Manager for Oracle Automatic Storage Management
Length of Employment with Current Company: 17 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 34 years
Education: BS Computer Science

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)

I have been an active member of SNIA since 1999. My contributions include:

1. Served on SNIA’s Board of Directors.
2. Served on SNIA’s Technical Council.
3. Developed and delivered Flash Storage class at “Hands on Lab”.
4. Presented at Storage Developers Conferences.
5. Founded and chaired Data Integrity Working Group.

Employment History

Since summer of 2000, I have been at Oracle in the capacity of Product Development and Product Management for Oracle’s principal storage management feature called Automatic Storage Management. Previous employment before Oracle, I had worked for 17 years at Amdahl Corporation in the role of product architecture for their storage product offerings.

Industry Achievement Awards

Four storage related patents related to my development role at Oracle.

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat

With respect to the enterprise, the storage industry is at a crossroads regarding storage technology evolution. The evolution of solid state-based storage, widespread commercialization of public cloud computing, and the acceptance of Software Defined Storage stands to have profound impact on our industry. SNIA facilitates customers, and the industry as a whole, through its membership with talent and vested interests helping bring vital changes to realization. As a board member, I would bring both experience and excitement for assisting SNIA’s membership as the industry embraces these fundamental changes.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity

Key areas of interests include:

1. Evolution of storage in the Enterprise vis-a-vis sold-state storage
2. Evolution of public Cloud Computing
3. Software Defined Storage

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)

Previously held Oracle seat on INCITS T10 committee.

Biography

Jim Williams serves in a Product Management role for Oracle Corporation. A 39-year industry veteran focusing on storage management for large-scale data and storage systems. In 2000, Jim was a founding member of the development team for Automatic Storage Management, bringing a vision of automated management of storage for the Oracle database to fruition. He is currently the Product Manager for ASM and his storage industry background helps make the product the preferred storage management platform for Oracle databases worldwide. Specific areas of contribution include methods of storage access optimization, achieving end-to-end data integrity, and strategies for integrating Oracle’s storage management stack in customers’ environments.

Jim was an early SNIA member and believer in the value and opportunity that SNIA brings to its members and the storage industry as a whole. He has served on SNIA’s Technical Council, presented at their Storage Developers Conferences, led hands-on lab workshops, founder and chair of the Data Integrity Working Group. As a board member, he would bring both experience and excitement for assisting SNIA’s membership as the industry embraces fundamental changes including sold-state storage in the Enterprise, Software Defined Storage, and Cloud Computing.

Prior experiences include the role of product architecture in Amdahl’s storage product group. His last responsibly at Amdahl was directing and advising on the intersection between storage management and the development of enterprise-class storage array products. Jim’s career at Amdahl spanned 17 years beginning in the early 80’s and includes working in their mainframe development.

Jim has a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Arizona State University.

Candidates for Technical Council

Alan Bumgarner

Voting Member Company: Intel Corporation
Title:: Strategic Product Planner
Length of Employment with Current Company: 20 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 20 years
Education: Bachelor of Science, Business Information Systems

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)

Co-Chair NVM-P Programming Group
SNIA Technical Council Advisor
SDC 2017 Committee

Employment History

Alan Bumgarner began his career at Intel Corporation in Folsom, CA more than 20 years ago. Since then his roles included front line technical support, remote server management of multiple Intel datacenters, product/channel/technical marketing, field sales, and strategic product planning.  These roles took him from California, to New Jersey, Texas, and Oregon, and finally back to Folsom, CA where he currently  holds the position of Senior Strategic Planner for Storage Software in Intel’s Datacenter Group.  He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Systems from the University of Phoenix. 

Industry Achievement Awards

Due to the nature of my daily work I have no industry awards but I have multiple Divisional Recognition Awards at Intel.

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat

I'd like to help guide the council and the associated TWG's toward the technologies that are relevant to end users and making those technologies easier to adopt and standardize.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity

Flash Memory Summit - Presented on behalf of SNIA at FMS

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)

Persistent Memory and PMoF programability NVMe and NVMe-oF storage and storage systems Byte Addressability

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of

N/A

Biography

Alan is an outdoor enthusiast who loves to hike, mountain bike, and ski.   He has three children, one in college, one in high school, and in one grade school.  In his spare time Alan enjoys cooking, spending time with his wife and kids, and volunteering for shelters and using his cooking skills for feeding the homeless programs.

Craig W. Carlson

Voting Member Company: Cavium
Title: Senior Technologist
Length of Employment with Current Company: 23 Years of Storage Industry / IT Community
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 20 years
Education:Bachelor of Science

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)

SNIA Technical Council, 2010-2016
Fibre Channel TWG – HBA API, Contributor to SNIA dictionary for Fibre Channel terms, Green Storage TWG – Contributor
DCB BOF – Presenter
Various interoperability events at the SNIA Lab
Presentor SNW 2011
Presenter DSI 2014

Employment History

Ancor Communications 1994 – 2000 – Software architect
QLogic Corporation 2000 to August 2016 – Technologist, Office of the CTO
Cavium, Inc. - Acquired QLogic in August 2016

Industry Achievement Awards

2001 – FCIA contribution award for Switch standard contributions
2002 – FCIA contribution award for SANMark contributions
2004 – INCTIS Gene Milligan award for effective committee management as T11.3 Chair
2007 – INCITS T11 Officers Team Award
2010 – FCIA Award for Contributions to the Storage Networking Industry
2012 – Completion of Technical Editing for STD IEEE 802.1Qaz

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat

To participate in applicable technical activity and help represent SNIA in relation to network technologies and associated protocols such as FC, FCoE and NVMe and their impact on other SNIA technologies.  I am also interested and believe an asset to SNIA regarding standards development and publication that results from my expertise and experience with NCITS and IEEE.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity

Chair, ANSI INCITS TG T11.3 – Fibre Channel Protocols Chair, T11.3 Projects FC-SW-6, FC-NVMe Technical Editor, T11.3 Standards FC-GS-7, FC-FS-4 NVM Express

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)

Green Storage TWG, Cloud TWG
Interoperability
SNIA Dictionary
Standards Development (INCITS Fast-track and other possible options) NVM

Biography

Craig Carlson is a Senior Technologist at Cavium, Inc. (formerly QLogic Corporation).  Craig has over 20 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-3, and FC-FS-4, as well as the Chair of T11 Standards FC-SW-6 and FC-NVMe.  He was also involved with NVM Express, 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, NVM Express, 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.

Philip Kufeldt

Voting Member Company: Huawei Technologies
Title: Dir Storage Standards
Length of Employment with Current Company: 6 months
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 23 years
Education: BSE CS

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)

Member SSM, NVMp and Object Drive TWGs

Employment History

Chair Technical Steering Committee
Linux Foundation Kinetic Open Storage Project August 2015 – April 2016 (9 months) As a founder of the Kinetic Open Storage Project I have been intimately involved with Open Kinetic movement since 2014, by adopting the Kinetic interface for new Key Value drives at Toshiba and promoting to the cloud storage software community. I see great promise in the Kinetic interface and work hard to continue its development and growth.

As a founder and initial chair of the TSC, I:

• organized the the LF project and various committees, including the technical steering committee.
• oversaw the initial source donations from Seagate as well as contributed to the base code.
• laid down the technical direction for the 4.x version.
• planned and executed the first Open Kinetic plugfest which established the interoperability of the protocol stack.
• evangelized via public presentations, such as this at Openstack: http://www.slideshare.net/Inktank_Ceph/ceph-low-fail-go-scale

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
Senior Manager
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
January 2014 – April 2016 (2 years 4 months) San Francisco Bay Area Envisioned, designed and architected a new class of object hard drive, the KVDrive. KVDrive is an Ethernet-attached hard drive with compute, multiple HDDs, SSD and NVRAM all in a standard 3.5” HDD form factor.

• Responsible for all aspects of the drive’s hardware and software design and implementation
• Became intimately familiar with all technologies in KVDrive: SoC, SSD, HDD, and NVRAM
• Managed an international team that created and tested over a petabyte of KVDrives
• Completed a full QA cycle in preparation for formal POCs
• Was customer-facing, pitching KVDrive to OEMs for them to integrate the new drive into existing storage products. Signed up EMC, Dell, Lenovo, HP, Quantum and Supermicro.
• Demonstrated an all-KVDrive Ceph cluster at Openstack and presented on kinetic/object drives
• Moved market leader, Western Digital, to enter Kinetic marketplace

Marvell Semiconductor
Architect DragonFly Team
Marvell Semiconductor
October 2011 – January 2014 (2 years 4 months) Co-architected a Linux caching stack on top of the Marvell DragonFly PCIe NVRAM/Flash Caching card that provided up to 2TB of file/block write-back cache. Worked with an international team to implement the architecture. Toshiba acquired our team in 2014.

Parascale
Director Business Development
August 2009 – August 2010 (1 year 1 month) Responsible for business development, sales and sales operations for a venture-backed cloud storage software company.

• Organized and ran sales operations
• Negotiated all major deals/contracts, closing nearly 50% of the total company revenue
• Managed M&A effort that sold ParaScale’s intellectual property assets to Hitachi Data Systems.

Software Contractor
Windspear, LLC
January 2008 – March 2009 (1 year 3 months) Phoenix Technologies: For over a year, I provided technical software services in the areas of Virtualization and embedded Linux development.

Sun Microsystems: Provided embedded Linux development services.
CEO and FOunder
Protium Computing, Inc.
October 2005 – June 2008 (2 years 9 months) Co-founder, CEO, and Chairman for Protium Computing, Inc. Protium Computing was founded to create a home portal device, that centralized home storage while providing secure access from any location. I secured $185,000 in seed capital that funded prototype development, market research and a funding search. My responsibilities covered all aspects of the business including (but not limited to): business formation, funding, product development, marketing, finance and accounting, tactical and strategic planning, and management of all areas of the business. I personally brought up a full cross-toolchain and Linux on top of a commercially available embedded NAS device, repurposing that device for Protium. Principal member of the Open Protium development team (www.openprotium.org).

Product Marketing Advisor
Self Employed
2003 – 2005 (2 years)
Eternal Systems, Inc.: Evaluated Duration, a cluster package that provides state-full application failover, and provided long term recommendations for the product requirements and corporate direction.
Radiant Data, Inc.: Evaluated PeerFS, a multi-node replicated Linux files system, and provided long term recommendations for the product requirements and corporate direction.
Revivio, Inc.: Devised requirements for and developed prototype integration of their hardware CDP solution and the VERITAS Volume Manager.

CEO and Founder
Integratus, Inc
May 1998 – March 2003 (4 years 11 months) Co-founder, CEO, and Chairman for Integratus. Based upon my experience at VERITAS Software, I saw a need for simplified storage management and high availability software. Integratus brought to market the first wide-area failover product for the Solaris platform, as well as 5 other storage management products. At its peak, Integratus had 30 employees including software engineers, support engineers, sales representatives, professional services engineers, finance and administrative personnel; over 20 resellers; partnerships with VERITAS Software, EMC and Network Appliance; raised $3.3M in investment capital and generated over $9M in revenue. My responsibilities covered all aspects of the business including: business formation, funding, investor relations, hiring, business development, mergers and acquisitions, product development, marketing, finance and accounting, sales, sales support, tactical and strategic planning, and management of all areas of the business.

Sold to VERITAS.
VERITAS Software
Various
1996 – 1998 (2 years)
As creator and director of VERITAS’ Professional Services group, I productized and price listed fixed priced and T&M priced services that included cluster installation, cluster tuning, storage management installation, storage tuning, and onsite training. For nearly two years I performed the majority of VERITAS’ Professional Service engagements working with the Fortune 2000 to implement high-end storage management and high availability environ¬ments. I eventually trained a team to deliver these services. I was a VERITAS trainer, teaching VERITAS courses for VxVM, VxFS, VCS and Advanced VxVM Tuning and Recovery.
VERITAS Software
Senior software engineer
1994 – 1996 (2 years)
Senior software engineer for the VERITAS Volume Manager group. I partici¬pated in the development of the VERITAS Clustered Volume Manager by designing, implement¬ing and delivering the entire kernel-to-kernel network communication infrastructure. I participated in several releases of standard VERITAS Volume Manager. I developed in 1996 an early proto¬type of a software storage virtualization product. I co-ported the VERITAS Volume Manager ker¬nel drivers to Windows NT.

Industry Achievement Awards

None

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat

I see great opportunities for new standards and open source projects in the storage cloud arena.  SNIA has been leading efforts in standardization in the cloud and with my background I believe I can lend significant expertise to assist SNIA further develop and execute their cloud strategy.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity

NVMe MI, TCG
TCG StorageWG
CNCF StorageWG
K8s Storage SIG
Linux Foundation Kinetic Open Storage Project Linux Foundation Kinetic Open SDS

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)

KV Drives
Storage Class Memories
Unified Server-less Scale Out architectures

Biography

Philip Kufeldt is a Director of Storage Standards focusing on NVMe, new key value and smart media based storage standards. He has over 20 years of experience in storage, software and systems.  Before Huawei, Philip was at Toshiba creating new smart media devices, Marvell, Parascale, VERITAS Software, Sun Microsystems IBM and has founded several storage oriented startups.

Bill Martin

Voting Member Company: Samsung
Title: SSD I/O Standards
Length of Employment with Current Company: 5 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 22 years
Education: BSEE/CS University of California Davis

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)

Chair/Co-Chair/Vice-Chair Technical Council, Co-Chair Object Drive TWG, Chair Recognition Program Task Force, Chair Data Integrity TWG.

Participant in: Standards Committee, SSSI, NVMP TWG, Solid State Storage TWG, S4 TWG, Cold Storage Tack Force, Open Source Task Force, Data Recovery and Erase SIG, SDC Agenda Team, 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

2016 - INCITS Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management
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. Currently I am participating in a large number of SNIA TWGs, Committees, Task Forces, SIGs, and Initiatives where I hope to continue to lead SNIA as a leader in the storage industry. In my current role leading standards activities for Samsung Solid State Storage and Memory devices, I would like to continue to help direct the technical work of SNIA as the industry continues moving into the high performance area of solid state storage, including Non-Volatile Memory and Object Drives, as they are used in cloud storage, and analytics and big data; and the impacts of 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 – Secretary; NVMe – Board member and Contributing member; SATA-IO – Contributing member; SCSI Trade Association – participating member.
Describe Your Potential Areas of Interest :
Solid State Storage – ALL areas;
Object Drive
NVMp
S3 TWG
S4 TWG
Performance
Data Recovery and Erase SIG
PCIe SSD Committee, and
SSS Performance & Benchmarking subgroup Standards Committee; SDC Agenda Team; Storage Security; Cold Storage Tack Force; Data Recovery and Erase SIG; and Analytics and Big Data.

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)

There are still many areas in cloud storage computing, big data, data analytics, software defined X and Solid State Storage that are still growing and developing.

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of

I have a wealth of past experience in the Storage Industry that I will contribute to the future directions of the SNIA.

Biography

Bill has been involved in the storage industry for over 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. He has demonstrable skills in gaining industry agreement in a variety of technologies and bringing together competitors for the advancement of the industry.

His technical leadership is exemplified as:
Editor of SCSI Block Commands – 4 (SBC-4); Editor Fibre Channel - Framing and Signaling - 4; Editor Fibre Channel - Simplified Configurations and Management; Author of numerous proposals to standards bodies; and Editor of the SNIA Data Integrity Model.

Bill has received numerous industry recognitions for his contributions to the storage industry over the past decade including: INCITS Gene Milligan award for efffective committee management 2016, 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.

Peter Murray

Voting Member Company: Virtual Instruments
Title:Principal Systems Engineer, Technical Evangelist
Length of Employment with Current Company: 8+ years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 12 + years Storage Industry, 26 years networking and security
Education: Multiple certifications in networking and server technologies

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)

Co-chair, Solid State Storage System Technical Working Group (2014-2017)
Member, Solid State Storage System Technical Working Group (2017)
Member, Technical Council (2014-present)

Employment History

Virtual Instruments/Load DynamiX/SwiftTest - Principal SE, Technical Evangelist, Product Specialist, Product Manager (8 +  years)

F5 Networks - Technical Marketing Manager, WAN acceleration, geographic load balancing, server load balancing, web application access security (1 1/2 years)

Spirent Communications - Technical Marketing Engineer, L2-7 testing, Threat testing, WAN impairment (5 years)

Nortel Networks/Bay Networks/SynOptics Communications - Product Manager (L2- L4 routing and switching), Principal Technical Sales Support Analyst (10/100/1000 switching and routing, remote access, load balancing, SSL security, network management), Instructor (10 years)

Cabletron Systems - Systems Engineer (2 years)

Western Digital - Technical Support Engineer and Networking consultant (2 years)

Independent networking, systems and applications consultant (7 years)

Industry Achievement Awards

MCSE (2003)
CompTIA Security + (2003)
Citrix Certified Technical Consultant (2003)
VMware Certified Consultant (2003)
Certified Sun Microsystems Instructor (1992, 1994)
Certified SynOptics Instructor (1992, 1994)
Novell Certified Netware Engineer (1986-1991)
Novell Certified Consultant (1984-1986)

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat

The SNIA Technical Council offers me the opportunity to share my passion for and and knowledge regarding storage networking, especially testing, and to contribute to the premier industry storage networking organization.

I bring a perspective from both the vendor and end user communities in both networking and storage technology that I believe to be an asset to SNIA in advancing Storage Networking technologies and initiatives.

I believe my contribution to the SNIA Technical Council has benefited SNIA and I look forward to continuing my service.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity

N/A

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)

Solid state storage systems
Green computing
Storage testing
NVM Technology and programming
Object, SAN and NAS technologies

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of

I have participated as a speaker at the SDC and the Microsoft Open Protocols plugfest since 2009, participated in plugfest testing at SDC and Microsoft Open Protocols Plugfest since 2009 and was a DSI speaker from 2014 to 2016.

Biography

Peter Murray serves as Principal Systems Engineer and Technical Evangelist at Virtual Instruments Corp. He additionally serves as a member of the SNIA Solid State Storage System Technical Working Group and as a member of the SNIA Technical Council.

Peter is a performance testing expert with over 35 years of experience implementing, trouble-shooting, and maintaining secure, fast, and highly available networks and storage systems. 

In his role as Principal SE/Technical Evangelist, Peter works with customers, prospects, and partners to ensure Virtual Instruments storage performance validation and monitoring products meet market requirements and are used to maximum benefit.

Prior to Virtual Instruments, Peter served on technical teams at network equipment manufacturing companies including F5 Networks, Spirent Communications and Nortel Networks.  While at Spirent Communications, Peter was extensively involved with L4-7 device, storage and network testing. He has amassed over 25 years of technical experience within the network equipment manufacturing industry and over 13 years in the storage and network testing industry.

David Pease

Voting Member Company: IBM
Title: Distinguished Engineer
Length of Employment with Current Company: 24 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 27 / 46 years
Education: MS & PhD in Computer Engineering, U. C. Santa Cruz

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)

Founder and Chair, LTFS TWG
Technical Council Advisor
Various SDC and SNW talks, LTFS BrightTalk

Employment History

1993-Present: Researcher/Manager/Executive at IBM Almaden Research Center
1983-1990: Independent Consultant (customers included PG&E, PacBell, BofA, IBM, Amdahl, many others)
1980-1983: VP Customer Support, Software Authority Corp.
1977-1979: Manager, Microcode Developement, Itel Corp. Systems Development Div.
1971-1977: Programmer, Systems Programmer Occidental Life Ins., Pacific Mutual Life

Industry Achievement Awards

IBM Distinguished Engineer, many Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, Research Division Awards, patent level achievement awards, etc.

Emmy Award for LTFS (awarded to IBM for my work, but I was at ceremony in Hollywood)

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat

1. Give IBM the best representation on the TC that I can, based on my experience with both the IBM Corporation and SNIA
2. 2. Provide thoughtful and experienced leadership input to SNIA through the Technical Council

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity

U.C. Santa Cruz, Adjunct Professor, Computer Engineering

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)

File Systems, Storage Class Memories, “Cloud” Standards, Cold Storage tiers, Open Source issues

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of

I was a founding member (along with Dr. Alan Bell) of what became the DVD TWG, and am personally responsible for the use of UDF (ISO-13346) on DVD (and now BluRay) disks.  I also worked with OSTA (the Optical Storage Technology Association) on file systems and standards.

As mentioned earlier, my work on LTFS won an Engineering Emmy from SMPTE (the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers).

Twice Tutorial Chair and once Organizing Committee member for FAST (File and Storage Technologies) conference.

Organizing Committee member, and co-chair, Research Track of IEEE MSST (Mass Storage Systems and Technology) conference.

Biography

David Pease has been working in the computing industry since 1971.  He has a varied background in everything from home-built computers to mainframes, and computer microcode to machine intelligence.   For the past 27 years, he has been associated with IBM Research, first as a consultant and later as a researcher, manager, and eventually Distinguished Engineer.  During the bulk of his time with IBM he has worked in areas related to Storage, including backup systems (TSM), file systems (Storage Tank/SanFS, UDF,  LTFS), optical storage, policy-based storage management, and more.  He holds 15 patents on storage technology, and has published more than 20 papers in storage conferences and journals.  Prior to joining IBM full-time, Dr. Pease ran his own technology consultancy in San Francisco.  He holds a Master’s Degree and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from U. C. Santa Cruz, where he has also taught and held an Adjunct Professorship.  He occasionally sets
off on such ill-advised adventures as riding a motorcycle from his home in the Bay Area to the Panama Canal.

Tom Talpey

Voting Member Company: Microsoft
Title: Networked Storage Architect
Length of Employment with Current Company: 8 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 30 years
Education: Mathematics, Bard College. Graduate work Mathematics, Brown University

Previous SNIA Service (Technical Working Groups, Forums, Initiatives, Committees, Board, TC, Task Forces, Projects)

SNIA Tech Council member 2016-2017
SNIA SDC Program Committee member 2017
Long-time and frequent presenter at Storage Developer events SNIA Education presentations SNIA TWG contributor SNIA NVM Summit contributor SMB Plugfest event contributor

Employment History

Current:
Microsoft 2009-present. Storage Architect for SMB3, SMB Direct (SMB3 over RDMA), and advanced storage technologies (e.g. Remote Nonvolatile Memory). SMB3 protocol documentation and partner ecosystem enablement. Liaison to multiple industry and standards organizations including SNIA, IETF, Open Fabrics, IBTA, Usenix, etc.

Previous:
NetApp 2000-2009. Storage Architect and standards liaison for NFSv4.1, author of NFS/RDMA and NFSv4.1 Session, Linux/open source liaison and contributor. RDMA Consortium and IETF specification of iWARP RDMA protocol. Regular SNIA SDC contributor.
Orca Systems (acquired by NetApp), Mitsubishi Electric ITA, Open Software Foundation, XPI Systems (co-founder of startup), Brown University

Industry Achievement Awards

N/A

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat

To continue my contribution to maintaining SNIA as the premier industry venue for networked storage innovation, education and standards. To continue the groundbreaking work in Remote Persistent Memory and ultra-low latency storage.

Other Associations That You Are Currently Active With and In What Capacity

IETF, IBTA and Open Fabrics, as protocol standards contributor.

Potential Areas of Interest (Marketing, Work Groups, Standards, Interoperability, End User Council, Other)

Low latency storage including NVM, RDMA, and especially in c