2019-2020 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 2019-2020 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 2019-2020 Board, 5 Directors continue on the Board to serve their respective terms. Accordingly, 5 seats are open for election (for 2–year terms) by SNIA voting members and there are 7 Candidates for these seats. 3 seats will be 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 8 voting members elected by the voting membership and 3 voting members nominated by the Technical Council and appointed by the Board of Directors. For the 2019-2020 TC, 4 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 6 Candidates for these seats. 3 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 the Executive Director at ed@snia.org

The deadline for submission of a ballot is midnight Pacific Time, September 30, 2019.

Thank You – your support for SNIA and the Storage Industry is appreciated.

Candidates for Board of Directors

David Dale

Voting Member Company: NetApp
Title: Director Industry Standards
Length of Employment with Current Company: 19 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 35+ years
Education: BSc Applied Physics, University College London

Previous SNIA Service

• Active SNIA member since 2000
• Member SNIA Board (since 2006); vice chair & Executive Committee 2012/13;
  • Chairman & Executive Committee 2014/15; 2016/17; 2018/19
• 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 Chair Global Steering 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 (former) 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 representing Storage in the IT 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 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 on the Boards  of 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.

PK Gupta

Voting Member Company: Dell
Title: Senior Director
Length of Employment with Current Company: 22 years 4 months
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 34 years
Education: B. E. (Computer Science) and PGDM (IT)

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

Founded SNIA India in the end of 2003, grew membership to 100 companies in 18 months and was chairman till 2006. Moved to Singapore in July 2005 and joined SNIA South Asia in 2006 as vice chairman then became chairman multiple times till 2017 end before moving to Santa Clara in Oct 2017.  Also started SNIA Malaysia. Promoted SNIA storage courses and general storage education across Asia in organizations and universities.  Represented and spoke in 100+ events in last 15 years across Asia for SNIA and chaired sessions for SNIA.  Organized Storage Networking World (SNW) in Singapore and India 4 times.  I am also part of few universities international advisory board.  For contribution to SNIA International, was awarded SNIA Industry Impact Award in 2012.  Was first person in Asia to get this award.  Attended SNIA Board calls most of the time by webex and couple of times in person in last 15 years.  Participated in few Technical Councils also like ILM, Data Protection, 100 year archive etc. between 2004 to 2006.

Was nominated to Board in Oct 2018 for 1 year.  Have been actively attending meetings and contributing.  Helped inn organizing board meeting in DellEMC office in April 2019.  Also join DPCO TC and contributing.

Employment History:

• DellEMC – May 1997 till now. Leading team of 500 Data Protection Solutions pre-sales team globally.
• River Run Software Group – Feb 1990 to April 1997.  Group manager
• Uptron – Aug 1985 to Jan 1990. Software Engineer

Industry Achievement Awards:

• AIMA Distinguished Engineer Award 2009
• SNIA Industry Impact Award 2012
• EMC APJ Leadership Award 2013
• EMC President Club Awards 10 out of 12 years since 2007

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

Education is my passion, have been visiting professor in few universities since 1996.  I love networking people.  Have been in storage and data protection area from last 24 years.  Gone through software development, product management, product marketing and presales management. 

I have been associated with SNIA since Nov 2003 when first storage event happened in Bangalore, India organized by Brenda and Kumar Mallavali, founder of Brocade. SNIA has been my second job while I was in Asia since then till Oct 2017 when I moved to US.  Joined SNIA board in Oct 2018.  I enjoy doing selfless service for promoting storage industry.  Given the opportunity, I will be happy to contribute for SNIA in US like I served SNIA in ASIA for last 16 years or more as it is bigger platfor and last one year in US.  

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of:

DPCO

Biography:

Pushpendra Kumar “PK” Gupta has over 34 years of experience in the IT Industry.  P.K. received a B. E. in Computer Science in 1985 from MNREC, PGDM from AIMA.  Currently, P.K. is Global Presales Leader for Data Protection Solutions for DellEMC based out of Silicon Valley, USA .  In this role, PK is responsible for worldwide presales engineers.  P.K. has been with EMC since May 1997, earlier roles being Sr Director Specialty Presales, Director Product Marketing, Product Management and Director of Engineering.

P.K. was a visiting professor in India for the last 23 years in various institutions such as Amity Business School, AIMA, IMT, IEC and JIMS.  Also P.K. is also on international advisory boards in a few Indian, Singapore and Malaysian universities.   P.K. writes technical and management articles in various international magazines; and he is an international speaker on storage management, cloud, big data, disaster recovery, IoT, Data protection & Privacy regulations and cyber security.  He is also founder and Chairman Emeritus for SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) India and SNIA South Asia.  P.K. was awarded the 2012 SNIA Industry Impact Award by SNIA International, 2013 APJ EMC President Leadership Award and has been nominated for President Club consistently from last 10 years. He was induced into EMC DPS Hall of Fame in May 2015.

Jim Pappas

Voting Member Company: Intel Corporation
Title: Director of Technology Initiatives
Length of Employment with Current Company: 25 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 37 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 have previously co-chaired 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.

Employment History:

• 1994 – Present:  Intel Corporation
• 2000 – 2019:  Director of Technology Initiatives (Datacenter) – 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 – 2019: 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, HPC 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

Industry Achievement Awards:

• 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

   

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 effects 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 introduction of Persistent Memory 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:

• Compute Express Link (Chair):  Chairman of CXL, an organization that defines a next generation interface between microprocessors and a wide variety of computational accelerators.  CXL will also become the next attach point for Persistent Memory across multiple CPU architectures.
• 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. 
• InfiniBand Trade Association: (co-chair) An organization that owns the development of specifications for InfiniBand clustering technology
• Open Fabrics Alliance (OFA):  I oversee Intel’s involvement in OFA, an organization responsible for the development of the OFED stack, which is the key software implementation for InfiniBand, RoCE, and iWarp clustering.
• Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF):  I oversee Intel’s involvement in the DMTF, with particular interest in The Redfish Forum.   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.

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 Persistent Memory.

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 37 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.

Scott Shadley

Voting Member Company: NGD Systems
Title: VP Marketing
Length of Employment with Current Company: 20 months
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 22 years, 17 @ Micron, 4 @ STEC, 20 months @ NGD
Education: BSEE, Device Physics; MBA, Marketing

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

I have served as a voting member for Micron, STEC and NGD. At Micron I was part of several TWGs and initiatives over my tenure.

I helped with the creation and now co-chair the Computational Storage TWG.

Employment History:

I have been a technical and management employee over my career. Holding many senior or higher level positions at my companies.

At Micron I started as an operator and held dozens of increasing responsibility in roles through my time there.

Industry Achievement Awards:

I have several internal company awards at Micron. I have a PMC-III certification.

I have been recognized by peers as a leader. However I rarely 'self promote' for other recognition.

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat

I have had a wealth of learning and hope that I may help educate people as a part of SNIA, and find the opportunity to be a part of the future a key opportunity to further improve myself and SNIA.

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

I have been in NVMe, Denali, and SATA (before it ended) and exposure with SCSI and GenZ, OpenCAPI, CCIX and OpenPower.

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

I hope to help with the continued molding of the storage and memory infrastructure as the evolution to something new is now more prevalent than ever before.

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of:

I have working and personal relationships with many existing board members and look forward to advancing those relationships in this process.

Biography:

Scott Shadley is VP Marketing at NGD Systems where he leads marketing, product management, and product development for the company’s industry-leading computational storage. He has been a key figure in promoting computational storage, being co-chair of the SNIA Technical Working Group on the subject which he helped found, and speaking on the subject at Open Compute Summit, Flash Memory Summit, NVMe Developer Days, and many other events, press interviews, blogs, and webinars. Before joining NGD Systems, Scott managed the Product Marketing team at Micron, was the Business Line Manager for the SATA SSD portfolio, and was the Principal Technologist for the SSD and emerging memory portfolio. He launched four successful innovative SSDs for Micron and two for STEC, all of which were multimillion dollar sellers. Scott earned a BSEE in Device Physics from Boise State University and an MBA in marketing from University of Phoenix.

Tatsuya Tanaka

Voting Member Company: Toshiba Memory Corporation
Title: Vice President SSD Technology Strategy (Toshiba Memory America, Inc.)
Length of Employment with Current Company: 34 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 34 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):

• Board of Directors (2017 / 2018)

Employment History:

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

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

Toshiba Memory 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, ecosystem partners and strategical marketing.  There are a number of areas that Toshiba Memory can assist in contributing to SNIA.  Toshiba Memory 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 Memory is the member of the following standard bodies.

NVM Express, DMTF, INCITS T10, INCITS T13, JEDEC, PCI-SIG, SATA IO, STA, TCG, Gen-Z Consortium

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 Memory America, 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 Memory.

Michelle Tidwell

Voting Member Company: IBM
Title: Program Directior and Global Offering Manager, Hybrid Cloud Storage
Length of Employment with Current Company: 25+ Years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 25+ Years
Education: Santa Clara University, Bachelor of Science in EECS (Electral Engineering and Computer Science)

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

• Board of Directors, Member (2015-2016 Term), Member (2016-2018)
• SNIA Green Storage Technical Working Group (2007-2011)
• CSI / CSTI 2016-2018, presented in Data Mobility for Multi Cloud Webinar in August.
• Hosted CSTI Webinar on Kubernetes in the Cloud in August
• Participated in article / interviewed for Data Mobility for Hybrid Cloud
• Co-Chair of SNIA Strategy Committee

   

Employment History:

A long history with IBM, working in Storage development and later in Solution Engineering with ISV Partners, and most recently leading our Hybrid Multicloud storage product delivery and strategy for IBM Distributed storage.   I have been employed with IBM since I graduated from Santa Clara University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Resume available upon request.

Industry Achievement Awards:

SNIA Emerald Award for the SNIA Emerald Program 2011 Launch

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

This is an exciting time in the storage industry, with a number of new technologies and solutions coming to maturity (Cloud, SDS, Hyperconverged, Object Storage – just to name a few). And these solutions are becoming much more Application aware today. SNIA provides a way for companies in the Storage field to maximize our collective brain trust in pushing the envelop around standards and better ways of bringing solutions to our clients.  I would like to put my experience to use, and offer any help I can in this journey through serving on the board. Adding to this, the opportunity to co-chair the Strategy Committee will be  a new venue to expand SNIA's importance and relevance in the industry.

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

No other industry associations at this time.

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

Cloud, Object Storage, Hyperconverged Solutions, Green Storage, Software Defined Storage, Networking Anything

Biography:

IBM Systems Storage, Program Director/Global Offering Manager, Hybrid Cloud Storage Offerings Michelle Tidwell is responsible for IBM's Software Defined Storage offering, driving product delivery, sales and strategy for hybrid Multicloud solutions. In this role, Michelle leverages her 8 years in IBM Storage ISV Alliances and Solution Engineering Management to bring the right application focus in the development of Software Defined Storage solutions. Michelle was previously responsible for IBM Storage ISV Strategy, and her role included working with Strategic ISVs globally to develop new solutions and business alliances in the area of Storage across a number of vertical segments and cross-industry.  Solutions included storage deployed in Clouds, Enterprise Data Centers, as well as MSPs/CSPs. Responsibilities included driving ISV technology investments and integration within the Storage portfolio and taking those solutions to market. Michelle is a native of San Jose, CA and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Santa Clara University.

Ted Vojnovich

Voting Member Company: Lenovo
Title: CTO External Storage
Length of Employment with Current Company: 5 years at Lenovo ( 30 years at IBM storage and networking)
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 35 Years
Education:BSEE Penn State, MSCE NCSU

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

• Rep Lenovo on various TCG
• Most active in SFF

Employment History:

Lenovo 5 years in storage  (2014 to present IBM 16 years (1998 to 2014) IBM 14 years in networking (1984 to 1998)

Industry Achievement Awards:

None

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

To help SNIA moving to next level (work to maintain/enhance presence in external storage) Help to manage all the emerging drive formfactors build bridge to OCP storage efforts help to grow alignment with Swordfish/Daggerfish and Redfish

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

• SNIA
• NVMe Express
• OCP Storage
• Monitoring T10 and T11

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

Drive form factor distillation (way to many in EDSFF, Samsung has there, now another drive vendor is using OCP for yet another standard) Swordfish/daggerfish/redfish alignment

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of:

Lenovo is growing its datacenter presence, so this would be an opportunity to bring fresh perspectives to SNIA

Biography:

• 5 years at Lenovo leading the team in the areas of SAN/NAS product deliveries as well as technology incubation around JBOFs and dense storage servers
• 16 years at IBM storage leading / focusing on various specific storage solutions around SVC, blades and rack level storage solutions
• 14 years at IBM network leading / focusing on entry level network routers and switches
• 40 patents across IBM and Lenovo

Candidates for Technical Council

Alan Bumgarner

Voting Member Company: Intel
Title:Product Planning
Length of Employment with Current Company: 22 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 24 years
Education: BS - Business Information Systems

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

Advisor to TC, Voting member of TC for Intel Corp, Co-Chair NVMP TWG

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 Strategic Planner for Persistent Memory 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.

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

Persistent Memory

Biography:

Alan is an outdoor enthusiast who loves to hike, mountain bike, and ski.   He has three children, two in college, 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.

Glen Jaquette

Voting Member Company: IBM
Title: Distinguished Engineer
Length of Employment with Current Company: 36 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 36 years
Education: MSEE (University of Arizona, 1988);  BSEE (UC Davis, 1983)

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

I served 1.5 terms on the SNIA Board of Directors (2011 though 2013). I have also been a member of the Security TWG.  More recently I was appointed a Technical Council Advisor, representing IBM, since April 2019 when David Pease retired.

Employment History:

I have worked for IBM since I graduated from UC Davis with my BSEE in 1983.  I started at IBM San Jose working on IBM's 3380 disk storage systems.  I transferred to IBM Tucson in 1986 to work in IBM Development on IBM's magneto-optical disk drives.  In 1995 I transferred to IBM Tape storage systems rising through the ranks to become Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for all of IBM Tape.  In 2013 I transferred to IBM FlashSystems in Houston where I was Security Architect for the FlashSystems branded products. In 2018 I transferred to the office of CTO for the IBM Storage brand, working as the lead engineer in security-related matters.

Industry Achievement Awards:

I was lead architect on the world’s first storage drive with native encryption capability, the IBM TS1120, which shipped in 2006.  That first integration of encryption into storage drives started a trend which has become so prevalent it might be considered a de facto standard capability these days.  I hold more than 160 patents related to storage-related technologies. I was involved from the very start in two storage-related standards that have changed the industry.  The first being part of the Linear Tape Open (LTO) Consortium which created the interchangeable LTO standard which transformed the tape drive industry.  The second being the creation of the specification within a private consortium which was later contributed to OASIS and standardized under the name Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP).  I was also been involved in the creation of standards at IEEE such as P1619 and P1619.1 which created IEEE standards for the two most prevalent encryption-modes in use today in storage systems implementing encryption of data at rest: the non-expanding XTS mode of AES used in most self-encrypting HDD and SSD drives, and the authenticated GCM mode of AES used in all encrypting tape drives still being shipped.

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

Having worked as a non-voting TC Advisor, I would like to increase my involvement, and IBM's representation on the TC, by becoming a Voting Member of the TC.

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

Though I have previously worked in multiple other consortiums and Standards Development Organizations, I am not currently active with any of those.

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

I am interested in the TC's role in nurturing the standardization of new storage technologies generally.  I have specific interest in security-related technologies and assuring that new storage technologies take security into account, as necessary.

Biography:

Glen Jaquette has been working at IBM on storage products since 1983.   Since 1986 he has been in product development, eventually reaching the level of IBM Distinguished Engineer.  In those years he has worked on a variety of different types of storage systems with different forms of non-volatile media:  from IBM 3380’s large (14” diameter) disk spindles, to hard-disk drives, optical drives, tape drives, and most recently flash-memory-based systems. He was lead architect on the world’s first storage drive with native encryption capability, the IBM TS1120, which shipped in 2006.  That first integration of encryption into storage drives started a trend which has become so prevalent it might be considered a de facto standard capability these days.  He holds more than 160 patents on storage-related  technologies used in IBM storage products. He was involved from the start in two storage-related standards that have changed the industry.  The first being part of the Linear Tape Open (LTO) Consortium which created the interchangeable LTO standard which transformed the tape drive industry.  The second being the creation of the specification within a private consortium which was later contributed to OASIS and standardized under the name Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP).  The KMIP standard allows compliant storage systems which require keys (e.g. to unlock encryption-capable ones) to interface with external key managers from other manufacturers. He has also been involved in the P1619 and P1619.1 technical working groups at IEEE which produced IEEE standards covering the XTS and GCM modes of encryption used in most encryption of data at rest implementations today.  He has represented IBM at INSIC’s Tape group and contributed to INCITS T10 standards. He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Arizona.  He now works in the office of CTO for IBM Storage.

Bill Martin

Voting Member Company: Samsung
Title: Principal Engineer, SSD IO Standards
Length of Employment with Current Company: 7 years
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 26 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 Committee, Chair Data Integrity TWG.

Participant in:

• Computational Storage (editor)
• Standards Committee
• SSSI
• NVMP TWG
• Solid State Storage TWG
• S4 TWG
• S3 TWG
• Cold Storage Tack Force
• Open Source Task Force
• Data Recovery and Erase SIG
• SDC Agenda Team
• PCIe SSD Committee
• 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 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
  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 Computational Storage, 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.

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

• Computational Storage
• Object Drive
• NVMp
• S3 TWG
• S4 TWG
• Performance
• PCIe SSD Committee,SSS Performance & Benchmarking subgroup Standards Committee; SDC Agenda Team; Storage Security; Cold Storage Tack Force; and Analytics and Big Data.

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: Pure Storage
Title: Technical Marketing Engineer, FlashArray Performance
Length of Employment with Current Company: 5 months
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 40 years
Education: Multiple certifications in networking and storage technologies, MCSE 2013 Office

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)
• Co-chair, Solid State Storage System Technical Working Group (2018-2019)
• Member, Workload Technical Working Group (2017)
• Co-chair, Workload Technical Working Group (2018-2019)
• Member, Technical Council (2014-2019)

Employment History:

• Pure Storage - Technical Marketing Engineer, FlashArray Performance (2019)
• Virtual Instruments/Load DynamiX/SwiftTest - Principal SE, Technical Evangelist, Product Specialist, Product Manager (2009-2018)
• F5 Networks - Technical Marketing Manager covering WAN acceleration, geographic load balancing, server load balancing, web application optimization and web application access security (2008-2009)
• Spirent Communications - Technical Marketing Engineer covering L2-7 testing, network and Application threat testing, WAN impairment injection (2004-2008)
• Nortel Networks/Bay Networks/SynOptics Communications - Product Manager (L2-L4 routing and switching), Principal Technical Sales Support Analyst performing opportunity support, document production and speaking engagements at the level of a product manager (10/100/1000 Ethernet switching and routing, remote access, server load balancing, SSL security and network management), Instructor (1992-2002)
• Cabletron Systems - Systems Engineer/ Field Unix Network Management Engineer (1999-2002)

Industry Achievement Awards:

• MCSE (2003)
• CompTIA Security + (2003)
• Citrix Certified Technical Consultant (2003)
• VMware Certified Consultant (2003)
• Certified Sun Microsystems Systems Engineer (1992 - 1994)
• 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 knowledge and help guide the direction of storage networking technology. The seat additionally offers me a means to share my storage array testing, data center monitoring and networking knowledge with a wider audience.

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 the wide scope of my networking and storage experience, especially with regard to my membership on 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 - My current work is primarily internal to Pure Storage. I expect my involvement with SDC, FMS and other organizations to increase in the next year.

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

• Solid state storage systems
• Computational Storage
• On-premise and Cloud data center architecture
• Green computing
• NVM technology and programming
• Object, NAS and SAN technology and testing

Anything Else the SNIA Should Be Aware Of:

• Speaker, SDC 2010-2018
• Speaker, FMS 2014-2018
• Speaker, DSI 2013-2015
• Participant, SNIA Windows Plugfest at SDC and Microsoft Open Protocols
• Plugfest 2009-2018 Multiple other speaking and participation in vendor-sponsored seminars/technical forums

Biography:

Peter Murray serves as Technical Marketing Engineer for Pure Storage. He additionally serves as co-chair of the SNIA Solid State Storage System Technical Working Group, as co-chair of the SNIA Workload Technical Working Group and as a member of the SNIA Technical Council.

Peter Murray is an expert with over 35 years of experience testing, characterizing performance, implementing, troubleshooting, and maintaining secure, fast, and highly available storage systems and networks.

Prior to Pure Storage, Peter served on technical teams at test equipment and network equipment manufacturers, including Virtual Instruments, F5 Networks, Spirent Communications, and Nortel Networks.

Leah Schoeb

Voting Member Company: AMD
Title: Sr. Developer Relations Manager
Length of Employment with Current Company:
Years of Storage Industry / IT Community Experience: 29 years
Education: BSEE, MBA Office

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

I have been serving SNIA since 2007. I have been part of the Technical Council going on a decade.  I was the co-founder of the S4 TWG and have served as TWG chair on the Green and S4 TWGs. I have presented at several SNWs, DSIs and SDCs. 

Employment History:

Leah Schoeb is a Sr. Developer Relations Manager in the platform architecture team at AMD.  She is also the Founding Data Architect at Data Glass, where she helps systems companies with performance engineering and optimization, market positioning, and benchmarking.  She also architects virtualized, containerized, and big data solutions.   She has over 25 years of experience in the computer industry, with the last decade in solid state technology.  She was previously Acting Director Business Development at Intel, where she led a team of segment managers and architects managing cross functional teams for flash and NVMe based data solutions, and reference architectures in major cloud and enterprise solution design assignments.   She has prior experience as a Sr Partner at the analyst firm Evaluator Group, where she focused on storage, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure.  She has held management and engineering positions at VMware, Dell, Intel, and Sun Microsystems.  She has many publications on such subjects as optimizing Oracle, automated tiering, and solid state performance specifications, and has presented at many technical conferences including SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference and Data Storage Innovation Conference.  She currently serves as the Updates Chairperson for Flash Memory Summit. 

Industry Achievement Awards:

I received awards from the SNIA in early 2012 for my contribution to the GSI and the Green TWG.  Received an award of appreciation for my participation as the 1st day instructor for the Emerald Training. I have also receive leadership awards for leadership participation in the other industry associations as well.

Your Motivation for Seeking This Seat:

I have spent most of my career as forward thinker in technology to help solve the challenges that server computing and networking have created for storage technology. 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 organization’s future.

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

Computational Storage, all forms of non-volatile memory, and the use cases for this technology

Biography:

Leah Schoeb is a Sr. Developer Relations Manager in the platform architecture team at AMD.  She is also the Founding Data Architect at Data Glass, where she helps systems companies with performance engineering and optimization, market positioning, and benchmarking.  She also architects virtualized, containerized, and big data solutions.   She has over 25 years of experience in the computer industry, with the last decade in solid state technology.  She was previously Acting Director Business Development at Intel, where she led a team of segment managers and architects managing cross functional teams for flash and NVMe based data solutions, and reference architectures in major cloud and enterprise solution design assignments.   She has prior experience as a Sr Partner at the analyst firm Evaluator Group, where she focused on storage, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure.  She has held management and engineering positions at VMware, Dell, and Sun Microsystems.  She has ten publications on such subjects as optimizing Oracle, automated tiering, and solid state performance specifications, and has presented at many technical conferences including SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference and Data Storage Innovation Conference.  She currently serves as the Updates Chairperson for Flash Memory Summit.  Leah has also participated and provided thought leadership for industry groups such as the Transaction Performance Council (TPC), Storage Performance Council (SPC), and Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). She is a member of the SNIA Technical Council and a co-founder of their Solid State Storage System Technical Work Group.  She earned an MBA at the University of Phoenix and a BSEE at the University of Maryland.

Tom Talpey

Voting Member Company: Microsoft
Title: Network Storage Architect
Length of Employment with Current Company: 10 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-current
• SNIA SDC Program Committee member 2017-current
• Long-time and frequent presenter at Storage Developer Conference events
• SNIA TWG contributor, NVMP TWG Co-chair
• SNIA PMEM Summit contributor
• SMB Plugfest event contributor
• SNIA Education sessions presenter

Employment History:

• Microsoft 2009-present. Network and Storage Architect for RDMA, SMB3, SMB Direct (SMB3 over RDMA), and advanced storage technologies (e.g. Remote Persistent Memory). SMB3 protocol documentation and partner ecosystem enablement. Windows RDMA support. 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

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 further the SNIA organization itself. To continue SNIA’s 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 Persistent Memory, RDMA, and especially in combination. E.g. PM programming model, SMB3/NFSv4/Block access to these technologies, PM technologies, public and private cloud applicability, many other areas.

Biography:

Tom Talpey is currently an Architect in the Windows Networking Team at Microsoft. His responsibilities include Windows RDMA, SMB3, SMB Direct (SMB3 over RDMA), and all the protocols and technologies that support the RDMA and remote storage ecosystems. Tom has worked for many years in the areas of network filesystems, network transports and RDMA, and contributed deeply to NFSv3, NFSv4, NFSv4.1, DAFS and SMB3, all of which he layered on RDMA. He recently has been working on applying these to remote access of Persistent Memory, to enable new classes of low latency storage deployable across diverse networks.