QoS Biographies

For the past three years, Denis has been working with Broadcom in the area of IP QoS and Network Management, mostly on Eurescom Projects, P1008 and P1103, and an IST project called FORM, which implements a Bandwidth Broker based in the Internet2 QBone Architecture.The focus of Denis’ work at Broadcom has been on QoS and more specifically DiffServ, IntServ, MPLS and Policy management and SLA/SLS specification.

Prior to joining Broadcom Denis worked for EDS Canada in Toronto in the Network Operations Dept.  In academia, Denis studied Business in Dublin City University and Computer Science in the University of Limerick, majoring in Telecommunications Network Architectures.

Mr. Wells is working with the DARPA Quorum community to integrate resource and fault management components into a multi-level QoS toolkit.  He led the Real-Time and Adaptivity groups at The Open Group Research Institute in developing commercial-grade QoS-aware components and in applying those components within real-world applications, including the Navy's AEGIS and the Air Force's AWACS weapons systems.  Previously, he managed projects at Concurrent Computer Corporation in secure, real-time, distributed systems.

Mr. Wells has also served as architect and project leader for real-time and distributed system development at several companies, including Stratus Computer, Data General and MIT.  He holds 10 patents on performance and security aspects of multi-domain, object-based systems and is currently a member of Distributed Real-Time Specification for Java expert group.

Dr. Michael Smirnov, GMD FOKUS (CADENUS Project)

Born 15.x.00, MSc. in Comp.Sci (1977) and PhD in Comp.Sci (1984) from St.Petersburg Electrotechnical University; Ass.Prof. since 1987.
Since 12.1994 with GMD FOKUS (Berlin) as visiting scientist, project manager, group (Global Networking) leader (1998). Published 50+ papers, book chapters and technical reports on Internet routing, performance analysis, QoS, multicast services, etc., several Internet drafts.
Since 1999 - chairperson of COST263 "Quality of future Internet Services", PC chairman for QofIS'2000, steering committee chairman for QofIS"2001.
Teaching with TU Berlin: "Internet technology, protocol and services"; "Research topics of the Internet". Workpackage leader of IST project CADENUS.

Geoff Beeley, Research Manager, Consignia (formerly – The Post Office Group)

Geoff is responsible for all the Server, Client and Service Management research within Consignia. He has been a regular contributor to The Open Group in the Enterprise Management Program Group, where he has helped provide the customer input to the groups activities.

Chris Sluman – Open-IT Ltd.

Chris was a founder of OPEN-IT Ltd. in 1992, and has a specific interest in the development and application of long-term strategies for IT interoperability in business. He is an experienced Principal Consultant, with 26 years successful work in the IT industry across a variety of markets. Between 1978 and 1992, Chris was a Principal Consultant with Sema Group plc (formerly CAP Group plc), ultimately responsible within Sema Group Consulting for its Technical Consultancy practice.

Since 1979, Chris has been a prime mover in the international effort to develop open standards for Network and Systems Management. Between 1980 and 1990 he led the OSI Management Architecture work as Rapporteur, and is the current editor for the architectural framework for OSI Management, ISO 7498-4. Since 1988, he has been promoting the need for standards for Quality of Service in distributed systems and is currently editor of the ISO/IEC Quality of Service Framework (ISO 13236), the QoS Guide to Methods and Mechanisms (ISO 13243) and the current work on QoS in ODP (ISO 15935). Chris has a specific interest in the ‘systems approach’ to IT, having tackled many assignments where the combination of security policy, management policy, quality of service and other constraints were a major factor in determining the total systems solution.

David Wade, Marketing Director EMEA, Net-Reality

David Wade started in the IT industry in 1982 as a technical specialist in PC board design. Moving from design to networking design and support, he moved through pre and post sales roles before becoming the Product Marketing Manager at Shiva Europe and most recently with Intel Corporation. In this role he was responsible for writing many technical white papers on the integration of mobile data telecommunications into the Remote Access telecommuting model. As European Marketing Director, his role with NetRealty is a natural evolution from promoting the integration of LAN and WAN solutions, to optimizing mission critical applications across WAN infrastructures using NetReality's product portfolio.

Dr. Ruiz, whose research gave rise to Discrete Multitone (DMT) technology, which is the basis for the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), a multi-billion dollar industry in wired broadband Internet Access, has held several executive and management positions throughout 23 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining MEGAXESS in January 2000,he was General Manager and Vice President for Infrastructure Products at Racal Data Group since 1997, based in Florida. Prior to 1997, Dr. Ruiz was Director of Video and Multimedia Solutions for the IBM Telecommunications and Media Industry Solutions unit.

Dr. Ruiz received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York, a Master's degree in EE and Computer Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. n EE from Stanford University.

Mark Strangio, Vice-President Business Development, Sitara Networks

Mark Strangio joined Sitara from Bay Networks where he was director of sales development and corporate systems engineering. In this capacity, he managed worldwide, multi-channel corporate sales and systems engineering support functions. Prior to Bay Networks, Mark worked for a number of major data communications companies and has nearly 20 years of industry experience.

Mark is a graduate of Indiana University and received an MA from the University of Michigan.

Norman Eaglestone , Sun Microsystems

Member of Strategic Markets and Industries group. Architected Solaris to be a integrated real-time and Time Share environment. Currently focused on future implementation of Solaris with real-time systems and real-time networks as a subset of QoS. Focus is on industry standards for QoS, modifying sun's current QoS products to conform with such standards and provide accurate kernel trace points and measurement points to accurately measure such QoS policies.