 Sally
Long, The Open Group
Director of The Open Group Quality of Service Task Force
Project Manager of The Open Group NASPL Standards Initiative
Sally Long has been managing customer-vendor forums and collaborative
development projects for the past ten years. First as the Release Engineering
Section Manager for all collaborative, multi-vendor, development projects
(OSF/1, DME, DCE, Motif) at The Open Software Foundation (OSF), in Cambridge
Massachusetts. Following that Sally moved to Business Development as a
Program Manager for New Projects.
1997 – 2002: After The Open Software Foundation merged
with X/Open in 1997 to become The Open Group, Sally was at various times,
the Program Director for multiple Forums at The Open Group: The Distributed
Computing Environment (DCE) Forum, The Enterprise Management Forum, and
The Quality of Service Task Force. Sally is currently the Director of
The Quality of Service Task Force at The Open Group.
October 2001 - October 2002: Sally also plays a role in The
Open Group’s business development area and was the business development
lead on the North American State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL) project.
Present: Sally is currently the Director of the Quality of
Service Task Force at The Open Group. The Task Force is focused on the
specification of customers’ service level requirements through Service
Level Agreements and policies that can translate and propagate across
domain boundaries. Sally is also the Project Manager for the NASPL (North
American State and Provincial Lotteries) Standards Initiative, an initiative
managed by The Open Group, which brings lotteries from over 48 states
and provinces in North America, together with gaming vendors and retail
representatives, to develop open standards, best practices and certification
programs that will benefit the lottery industry.
Sally has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts and a Bachelor of
Science degree in Occupational Therapy from The Ohio State University.
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