2020 Cloud Native OVP - ad hoc election

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Last updated: Jul 19, 2020 by Kanag
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Cloud Native OVP Subcommittee Co-Lead

With the loss of the subcommittee co-lead, a nomination period and vote will be conducted for a new subcommittee co-lead. Nomination period will be Jul 14, 2020  to Jul 20, 2020 followed by voting by the CNOVP  designated voters during the period Jul 21, 2020  to Jul 28, 2020 . Nominees must be employees of LFN member companies. The term begins immediately following the election to April 2021.

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Marc Price

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.

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@Kanag

Huawei

@Kanag

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 and acting TSC for OPNFV. Also participating and leading 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.



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