J Metz

Bill has been involved in the storage industry for over 35 years 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. In addition to his role representing Samsung in SSD IO Standards, Bill currently holds the following industry leadership roles: co-chair of the SNIA Technical Council, Board member of the NVMe Board of Directors, Chair of INCITS T10, and Secretary of INCITS T13. Bill is: editor of the SNIA Computational Storage Architecture Model; editor of the SNIA Computational Storage API; editor of the SNIA Key Value Storage API; editor of SCSI Block Commands – 5 (SBC-5); and author of numerous proposals to: NVMe, SNIA, INCITS T10, INCITS T13, and INCITS T11. Bill has received numerous industry recognitions for his contributions to the storage industry over the past decades including: SNIA Volunteer of the Year award 2021, INCITS Gene Milligan award for effective 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.