| The TM Forum’s Distinguished Fellow Award recognizes individuals who have made valuable contributions to the TM Forum and the communications industry.
The award is given out to those who have:
- A lengthy and sustained record of service to the industry and to TM Forum
- Contributed to the technical excellence of the TM Forum
- Helped to materially advanced the OSS/BSS industry
- Demonstrated leadership and teamwork
- Shown a commitment to helping advance the principles of the TM Forum in the communications industry
- A proven track record of achievements and accomplishments
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Recipients of TM Forum’s Distinguished Fellows Award
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Dr. Makoto Yoshida, Professor, Tokyo University: Mac was the long standing Board member from NTT and was instrumental in building awareness of TM Forum in Asia Pacific. He was also an integral part of the technical program throughout most of his tenure. Today, Mac is a Professor at Tokyo University and serves as an Advisory Director to TM Forum. |
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David Milham, OSS Strategies, BT: Dave has also been actively involved with TM Forum from the very beginning and has served on or led numerous teams and projects. Dave is also active in numerous other industry organizations including the ITU, ETSI and IEEE. |
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Bruce Murrill, Consultant: Bruce was involved with the Forum from the very beginning when he was at BT and worked closely with Keith Willetts during the founding of the organization. He became the TM Forum’s Technical Director in 1989 and was one of the first staff members. He held that role until he retired in 2001. Bruce continues to be active in TM Forum as an Advisory Director. |
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Lightsey Wallace, Principal Consultant, Lightsey Enterprises: Lightsey is most recently retired from Spirent but was involved in TM Forum’s work from the early years when he was at Atlantic Research and later Hekimian. He was the team leader on the SLA handbook, a groundbreaking piece of work that remains one of our most popular documents. |
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Hans-Rudolf Stucki. Partner and co-founder, Smartrek AG: Hans joined the TM Forum in 1992 and has been a contributor on many teams, including TOM, Customer QoS and the SLA handbook. He was involved with several Catalyst activities and was the leader of the 'SLA for UMTS' team, the very first Catalyst project in TM Forum history that received the 'NGOSS Powered' award. |
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Roberta (Robbie) Cohen, Sr. Group VP, Telcordia Technologies: Robbie was an active team leader and member during the founding years of the organization when she was with AT&T and Bell Labs. She also played an active role while at Lucent Technologies. In addition to the TM Forum, Robbie has been a Board member of the IEEE and received numerous other industry awards for her significant contributions. Click here to view photos of Robbie's Fellowship Award Ceremony |
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Joel Fleck, Chief Architect at HP. Joel is responsible for developing strategic architectures for communications industry solutions and the associated standards. Supporting this role, Joel serves as a Board Advisor to the TMF Board of Directors, is an active member of the NGOSS Architecture Red Team, leading efforts in defining the NGOSS Distribution and Transparency Services, the NGOSS Use Cases, and the NGOSS Methodology. In addition, Joel led the Phase I NGOSS TNA effort. Previously at HP, Joel served as Senior Consultant responsible for solution integration architectures for the communications industry with particular emphasis on the global wireless industry. Prior to joining HP, Joel worked 16 years at Bell Labs and Bellcore as Manager and Lead Architect for such NGOSS foundational architectures as INA, XIS and NGS. Click here to learn more on Joel from his personal spotlight. |
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Enrico Ronco, has been active in the TM Forum since 2000 and is the leader of the highly successful eTOM team, which recently saw its work adopted by the ITU as its official standard process framework map. Enrico is currently Project Manager at Telecom Italia Lab (formerly known as CSELT). Click here to learn more on Enrico from his personal spotlight. |
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John Strassner, Fellow, Motorola Labs. John works as a Fellow of the Technical Staff and Director of Autonomic Computing in Motorola Labs, where he directs work in autonomic computing, policy management, modeling, ontology and other forms of knowledge engineering. He was formally the Chief Strategy Officer of Intelliden Corporation and a Fellow at Cisco Systems. The inventor of DEN (Directory Enabled Networks) and DEN-ng, John currently chairs the Shared Information and Data model, Policy, and Metamodel working groups of the TMF, and is active in ETSI TISPAN, ITU-T, E2R, and OSS/J. John has published over 90 refereed conference papers and journals, two books, and authored chapters of two other books. John received the 2005 Daniel A. Stokesbury memorial award from IEEE/IFIP in network management. He has been elected as an Advisor to the TMF Board of Directors for the past several years, and also serves on the Industry Advisory Board for University of California Davis. Finally, he is an Associate Professor at Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland for Autonomic Computing and Computer Science. |
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John P. Reilly, Advisory Product Architect, 1320. John is an advisory product architect and principal member of the technical staff for MetaSolv Software, Inc. In this role, he is responsible for transforming business requirements into business object models, data models and process models. These models are the foundation for The MetaSolv Solution. applications. He is the author and co-author of a number of books and articles on project management, business modelling, and software development and is a frequent industry speaker on these topics. He holds degrees in mathematics and systems engineering. His experience includes over thirty years in software development, fifteen years of which have been devoted in part or whole to communications-related software. |
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James L. Warner, Founder and President, Westport Group. James (Jim) Warner is Founder and President of the Westport Group, a Strategic Consulting and Marketing Communications Agency that specializes in helping companies enter new markets with new services using a mix of innovative services, tools and techniques. For the past 5 years, Jim was the President & CEO of the TeleManagement Forum. He led the organization through the telecom industry recession and to its current position as one of the largest, most influential and financially stable organizations in the telecom industry. Jim also spent 10 years as the Forum’s Director of Marketing where he built the organization’s formidable marketing capability and created the TeleManagement World Conference and Expo – the largest event of its kind.
He is frequently featured in industry publications, writes a monthly column in Telecommunications magazine and has been quoted in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. Jim has over 25 years of marketing, product management and executive experience with several leading companies such as Lanier, Digital Communications Associates, Southern Bell and Burroughs.
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David Raymer, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Chief Software Architect, Autonomics Research, Motorola. Dave Raymer is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and Chief Software Architect for Autonomics Research within Motorola Labs. Prior to joining Motorola Labs, he provided technical leadership and participation in next generation network management standards and specification fora for the Motorola Networks’ OSS Group as the technical lead for advanced technologies exploration. In addition to acting as Chief Software Architecture for Autonomics Research, Dave’s current research work is focused on mathematical foundations for modelling and model transformations.
Dave joined Motorola in 1997 as a principal software engineer within the Paging Infrastructure Group where he was responsible for the architecture and implementation of the Paging Network Management System. Prior to 1997, Dave worked as consultant specializing in the architecture, design and implementation of large scale distributed systems.
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Dr Stephen Fratini, Senior Engineer and TM Forum mTOP Director, Telcordia Technologies. Dr. Stephen Fratini (from Telcordia Technologies) has been an active member of the TM Forum for 11 years during which time he has been the leader of the MTOSI team and director of the mTOP program. Steve started his work in the TM Forum as part of the Peer-to-Peer Service Configuration team within the SMART program. After successful completion of the SMART activity, he joined the MTNM team at its inception in 1998. He wrote the initial proposal that started the MTOSI work and became the first leader of the MTOSI team. Steve was instrumental in establishing mTOP (the first program structure of its kind in the TM Forum) that brought together the MTOSI, MTNM and IPNM teams under one umbrella program. Steve is also an active contributor to a number of other working groups and has been an excellent ambassador for the TM Forum.
During Steve’s tenure as mTOP director, the ambitious mTOP program has delivered industry leading specifications through the MTOSI and MTNM projects and is now working on MTOSI R2.0 for release later this year. Steve’s leadership has guided the mTOP program to successfully integrate the potentially divergent work of the original MTOSI, MTNM, and IPNM teams into one coherent program. Equally importantly, under Steve's stewardship the team has encouraged liaison activity with a large number of external industry bodies such as 3GPP, ITU-T, and ETSI-TISPAN.
Steve holds a PhD in Mathematics from Drexel University and was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics before moving over to the telecommunications industry. |
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Jenny Huang, OSS/BSS Strategic Standards Convener, AT&T Inc. Jenny sets the strategic policies for AT&T's influence and adoption of the critical industry standards that unite next-generation infrastructure and next-generation operations and business practices to facilitate the creation and expansion of new services. Jenny is uniquely suited to support this mission by her background in software engineering; on joining AT&T in the mid 80’s, she worked on software projects ranging from Unix kernel development, OSI and IP protocol implementations to enterprise applications design.
Jenny has been active in the TM Forum since 2000, where she was instrumental in the creation of several TM Form strategic programs focused on OSS/BSS evolution. She has led initiatives such as the Services over IP (SoIP), NGN Management and the Service Delivery Framework teams. Jenny is also active in groups such as TM Forum Industry Group Advisory Council (IGAC) and co-chairing the Object Management Group (OMG) Telecom Group.
Jenny holds a Bachelor Degree in Economics and a Master Degree in Computer Science, and her insightful systems design skills are combined with practical hands on experiences across a number of commercial and open source applications. |
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Hisashi Tada, Consultant. Tada was the long standing Board member when he was at NEC. Tada was also active in various other standards organizations including the ITU-T, TTC, and TMF-JMT. Tada continues to be active in TM Forum as an Advisory Director.
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