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2010ArchitectureBoardElections

Revision as of 00:50, 21 October 2010 by RickClark (talk)


The OpenStack Architecture Board is made up of a combination of appointed and elected seats. For 2010, there are four seats up for election. Two of the seats will be elected to a two-year term and and two of the sears will be elected to a one-year term.

We received nominations and after vetting them for variety and experience, have produced a list of X nominees. Elections will be held and anyone who is a registered launchpad user for the OpenStack projects will be able to vote.

2010 Architecture Board nominees [INCOMPLETE LIST--STILL ADDING FINAL CANDIDATES]

Soren Hansen - Rackspace

Christofer Hoff - Cisco Systems

Hoff is Director of Cloud & Virtualization Solutions at Cisco Systems where he focuses on virtualization and cloud computing security, spending most of his time interacting with global enterprises and service providers, governments, and the defense and intelligence communities. Previously, he was Unisys Corporation’s Chief Security Architect, served as Crossbeam Systems' chief security strategist, was the CISO and director of enterprise security at a $25 billion financial services company and was founder/CTO of a national security consultancy amongst other startup endeavors.

Hoff is interviewed regularly by the media and press, is a featured guest on numerous podcasts and has keynoted and presented at numerous high-profile security conferences including Black Hat, DefCon, Microsoft's Bluehat, Source, SecTor, FIRST, SANS and Troopers.

Hoff is a founding member and technical advisor to the Cloud Security Alliance, founder of the CloudAudit project and the HacKid conference and blogs at http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog

Hoff is a CISSP, CISA, CISM and NSA IAM. He was twice nominated as the Information Security Executive of the Year and won the Security 7 award in Financial Services in 2005. Hoff is a 2010 Microsoft MVP (Security) and a 2010 VMware vExpert.

David Lemphers - PricewaterhouseCoopers

David Lemphers is a passionate technologist and engineer. As the Director of Cloud Computing @ PwC, David is responsible for unifying the business needs of his customers with emerging cloud technologies and platforms. Prior to joining PwC, David was a Principal Engineer at Microsoft, where as part of the Windows Azure team, he led the design and development of data center containers, cloud billing systems, and technology adoption programs. David is a strong community contributor and regular speaker at major conferences and user groups. David holds degrees in Applied Science (Computer Science), Engineering (Software Engineering), and Law (eLaw).

Romain Lenglet - Midokura

Romain Lenglet is a senior engineer at Midokura, where he leads R&D projects related to network virtualization technologies. Before that, he was software engineer at Google Japan, where he has made significant improvements to the Youtube infrastructure and operations.

He started his career as a research engineer at Orange Labs in France and then in Japan, in domains including program transformation, distributed middleware architecture, and 4G wireless access network architecture. He was also invited for two years to the Tokyo Institute of Technology as a researcher, where he worked on automatic distributed systems management. In the last 15 years he has been hacking at all software layers, mostly in C, C++, Python, Java, and Erlang. He is a contributor to several Free Software projects, including GNU Autoconf and Erlang-related projects. He is active in the Erlang community, and he served as a member of the CUFP 2010 workshop's program committee. He is an enthusiastic public speaker and he co-founded Bonjour Toastmasters Club, the first French public speaking club in Japan.

Romain holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science (Systems and Networks), a Master of Research in Computer Science (Software and Systems), and a Ph.D in Computer Science, from the Grenoble Institute of Technology (INPG).

Brian Lucas - Sling Media

Ewan Mellor - Citrix

Dale Olds - Novell

Dale Olds is a Distinguished Engineer in Novell's Identity and Security Management Group. He is currently working on the evolution of identity services and is an architect for Novell's Cloud Security Service. Dale was the lead designer and implementer of Novell Directory Services (NDS) and Novell eDirectory from 1990 to 2000. He has received Novell's Edison, President's, and Inventor Hall of Fame awards. Other recent industry experience focused on Linux and Internet content delivery services. Dale has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah.

Jean-Christophe Smith - Cloudscaling

Sebastian Stadil - Scalr

Sebastian has been making apps with Amazon Web Services since 2004, starting with the E-Commerce Service (now Associates Web Service), then the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as it was launched. He founded the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group, a user group of over 2700 members that meets monthly to present the latest developments in the industry.

Recently, Sebastian founded Scalr, a software-project-turned-startup that scales website infrastructure automagically.

When he is not working on Scalr, Sebastian likes to make sushi and play rugby. He will also belly-dance at the next OpenStack summit should he be elected.

Chuck Thier - Rackspace

Dave Walker - Canonical