Voting & Positions
CVC Chair and Vice Chair
The vote for the CVC chair and vice-chair positions will be taken as a single Condorcet vote. The top ranked candidate will be selected as a chair, while the second ranked candidate will be selected as the vice-chair. Nominees must be employees of LFN member companies. The voting period will be 1 week.
Nominations
Nominee | Affiliation | Nominator | Nomination Statement | Nomination Accepted | Eligible? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
InterOperability Laboratory, UNH | I have been involved with the LFN OVP badge development since its inception as part of the OPNFV project. I have served as the CVC Chair for the past two years, as we have grown the programs for the NFVI only badge to the both the NFVI and VNF badges. In the coming year, CVC will need to oversee the inclusion of CNTT requirements in the badging programs, while accounting for the future Cloud Native world, with well organized leadership to bring those two worlds together as a holistic set of badges through the LFN OVP programs. | Y | |||
| Yan Yang | ChinaMobile | I am an architect and now mainly responsible for the management and development of automated test platforms at China Mobile Research Institute. I have more than 6 years experience in software design and development in telecom industry and 5 years experience in open source community project development and management, focusing mainly on NFV domain management and orchestration, VNF testing & certifications. I deeply participated in the design and development of OVP Tosca VNF validation in 2019 and demoed the VNF compliance and validation testing in ONS NA & EU 2019 conferences. I am also ONAP VF-C PTL for six releases and is responsible for the management of ONAP OpenLab subcommittee. From last year, I also involved in CNTT RC and is co-leading CNTT RC VNF work streams. I look forward to working with everyone in the open community and would do my best to contribute to overall CVC/OVP success. Thanks for your consideration. | Y | ||
| Huawei | Since 2018 Q4, I have been collaborating with CVC team and contributed in various part of OVP includes OVP badging requirements, OVP VNF certification framework, test case requirements, test tool implementation, integration of ONAP for VNF badging, NFVI and VNF test tool alignment with OVP portal, integration of Doveatil. Also co-leaded CNTT reference certification (RC) work stream and authored VNF testing framework, test case requirements chapters. And in ONAP, I have established VNF Test Platform (VTP) and leveraged it in OVP for VNF compliance and validation testing by using ONAP as MANO along with required Vendors/Community OpenStack. Also I have collaborated with networking industry includes 3+ operators 2+ vendors and 1+ partners & OVP lab providers and demonstrated the OVP values in 3+ ONS conferences & DDF events, which help to create awareness and importance of OVP. Currently I am working as Lead Architect in Huawei and PTL for 3 community projects includes OPNFV Dovetail, ONAP VNFSDK/VTP and ONAP CLI projects. Also participating in CNF support and VNF/CNF Test automation support in ONAP G release, which would help in OVP 2.0 for CNF badging. Earlier I was working as committer in OpenStack HEAT (Cloud Orchestrator) and Tacker(ETSI NFV Orchestrator) projects. And in total, I am having 15+ years of domain experience in management and orchestration (MANO) of ICT industries includes Datacenter, virtualization, Cloud, container, NFV and SDN. With these experiences in OVP and ICT industries, I am self-nominating for CVC leadership position, to work towards making OVP to next level of industry acceptance and adoption. Thank you. | Y |
Cloud Native OVP Subcommittee Lead and Co-Lead
The vote for the Cloud Native OVP subcommittee leadership positions will be taken as a Condorcet vote. The top ranked candidate will be selected as the subcommittee lead, while the second ranked candidate will be selected as the Co-lead. Nominees must be employees of LFN member companies. The voting period will be 1 week.
Nominations
Nominee | Affiliation | Nominator | Nomination Statement | Nomination Accepted | Eligible? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matrixx | Olivier Smith | Marc Price, CTO of MATRIXX Software, is a recognized telecommunications expert having held pivotal roles in the establishment of competitive carriers, the real-time charging model, digital transformation, and most recently the shift to cloud native practices for 5G. For almost thirty years, Marc has helped drive industry-changing technology into the market while helping some of the largest service providers achieve business success. In his current role, Marc spearheads MATRIXX’s strategic technology direction and engagement across a broad landscape of customers, partners, standards bodies, and community forums. In addition, Marc is a sought-after speaker for various worldwide conferences including MWC, Big 5G, 5G Asia and FutureCom. He is also a member of the Forbes Technology Council and a regular contributor to the Forbes Technology column. Marc has also published a number of articles in leading telecoms industry publications. With the arrival of 5G, the telecom industry is now embarking on the most significant technology and architectural shift since the advent of 1G. An entire ecosystem of vendors and operators are now urgently looking to harness and validate cloud-native best practices and open source technologies. Executed well, the charter of LFN OVP2 will serve this purpose by promoting, validating, and evolving an entire ecosystem of Cloud Native Network Functions that interoperate and run on the same immutable infrastructure. As such, I believe Marc can leverage his commercial and technology acumen, and commitment to early value creation, to propel and focus OVP2 activities to best serve the community. I therefore nominate Marc Price as Vice Chair for OVP2. | Y | ||
| Vodafone | Rabi is a Network Cloud Principal Architect and Senior Manager for Vodafone Group. He is highly experienced and active across CNTT and LFN projects including serving as vice-chair for the committee since 2018. Most recently, he has applied his energy and drive to bootstrap OVP Phase 2 – engaging and involving many parts of the community into action. The charter for OVP2 will require focus and efforts of many and this is where Rabi’s determination, technical expertise, and collaborative leadership can serve the cause. In addition, for OVP2 to be embraced and impact the industry broadly requires strong representation from service providers. In my opinion Rabi will bring invaluable experience and ideal personal qualities to shape and evolve OVP2. I therefore nominate Rabi for the position of OVP Cloud Native Sub-committee Chairman. | Y | |||
| Trevor Lovett | AT&T | I have 20 years’ experience in Software Engineering for telecommunications across a variety of domains. I am currently the Project Technical Lead for the VNF Requirements project in ONAP, and also a committer on the ONAP VNF Validation Platform. As an AT&T representative on the LFN CVC, I was a key contributor in driving the launch of the OVP VNF Verified badges for ONAP in 2019. I am experienced in running programs centered on Network Function requirements, compliance, and testing tools both in the community and internal to AT&T. I am well versed in containers and container orchestration technologies as well as general Cloud Native architectures and principles. I am both an active contributor and member in various Open Source communities (CNTT, ONAP, OPNFV, and CNCF TUG) related to VNFs and CNFs as well as an active member of AT&T’s efforts to adopt CNFs internally. I would welcome the opportunity to help expand the scope of OVP into this new domain. | Y | ||
| Loodse | Telco Developer Advocate, Loodse Bill Mulligan is the Telco Developer Advocate at Loodse. Loodse is the top 5 corporate contributor to the Kubernetes project. It is also home to Kubermatic and Kubecarrier, one of top cloud native platforms to automate Kubernetes cluster management, service management, and running containers and VMs side by side. Bill is the workstream lead for RC2 and the co-lead for RI2. Beyond his work with CNTT, he works with the Loodse developer team to build customer projects for telcos and demo cases like the Virtual 4G Simulation Using Kubernetes and GNS3 and the E2E 5G Cloud Native Network that was keynoted at KubeCon San Diego in front of 10,000 people. Bill is consistently advocating to expand the support of cloud native into other areas including telco networks. Bill will also bring the weight of Loodse’s cloud native expertise and development resources to bear for the success of OVP 2.0. | Y | |||
| Huawei | Since 2018 Q4, I have been collaborating with CVC team and contributed in various part of OVP includes OVP badging requirements, OVP VNF certification framework, test case requirements, test tool implementation, integration of ONAP for VNF badging, NFVI and VNF test tool alignment with OVP portal, integration of Doveatil. Also co-leaded CNTT reference certification (RC) work stream and authored VNF testing framework, test case requirements chapters. And in ONAP, I have established VNF Test Platform (VTP) and leveraged it in OVP for VNF compliance and validation testing by using ONAP as MANO along with required Vendors/Community OpenStack. Also I have collaborated with networking industry includes 3+ operators 2+ vendors and 1+ partners & OVP lab providers and demonstrated the OVP values in 3+ ONS conferences & DDF events, which help to create awareness and importance of OVP. Currently I am working as Lead Architect in Huawei and PTL for 3 community projects includes OPNFV Dovetail, ONAP VNFSDK/VTP and ONAP CLI projects. Also participating in CNF support and VNF/CNF Test automation support in ONAP G release, which would help in OVP 2.0 for CNF badging. Earlier I was working as committer in OpenStack HEAT (Cloud Orchestrator) and Tacker(ETSI NFV Orchestrator) projects. And in total, I am having 15+ years of domain experience in management and orchestration (MANO) of ICT industries includes Datacenter, virtualization, Cloud, container, NFV and SDN. With these experiences in OVP and ICT industries, I am self-nominating for OVPp2 leadership position, to work towards making OVPp2 to next level of industry acceptance and adoption. Thank you. | Y |