2009/2010 Board of Directors

Wayne M. Adams is a Senior Technologist and Director of Standards within the Office of the CTO, responsible for expanding and managing EMC technology initiatives with the industry standards bodies. Wayne has proudly served on the SNIA Board of Directors since 2003 and was previously elected Chair for two years. Wayne also is a Board Member for the DMTF technology association and serves as the Vice President of Marketing. Within EMC, previous managing positions include partner management and software product management, where responsibilities included API licensing and product lifecycle management for Storage Resource Management, SAN Management, and I/O pathing product lines. Prior to EMC, Wayne was responsible for product marketing and business development of various strategic software and hardware products at Digital Equipment Corporation. He started his high-tech career at Eastman Kodak as a system designer of real-time control systems. Wayne holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a dual major in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh.

David Dale the Director of Industry & Standards at NetApp where he drives product marketing initiatives related to NetApp’s iSCSI SAN solutions. With over 20 years experience in the computer industry he also participates in the industry as Chair of the SNIA IP Storage Forum, a regular contributor to industry journals, a frequent participant in IT seminars, and a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events around the globe. David was educated in England, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in applied physics from the University of London.

Phil has been involved in the architecture and design of storage controller interfaces throughout his 30+ year career at IBM. His experience ranges from IBM's Parallel OEMI Channel to Control Unit Interface and Parallel SCSI to the serial interfaces ESCON and FICON and then to Fibre Channel. He has been awarded several patents in the areas of channel protocols and storage controllers, and has received company awards for significant innovations and technical contributions to IBM products. He is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Systems & Technology Group, currently focusing on Storage Software Architecture and Standards.

Phil is also IBM's primary representative to the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). He has served on the SNIA Board as a Director and its Secretary from 2002 to 2007, in addition to previously chairing both the Supported Solutions Forum and the Data Management Forum. Phil holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with New Mexico State University.

A 31-year industry veteran and published author, he leads the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product planning and industry/customer liaison. He is a member of the SNIA Board of Directors, serves as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials, as a Board member of the Green Storage Initiative, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Blade Systems Alliance. He has extensive experience in storage virtualization, the architecture of large heterogeneous SANs, replication and archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and compliance, information risk management, distributed cluster storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars and conferences worldwide.

Prior to joining Xiotech in August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology specialist and engineering management positions over a nine-year period at StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network Systems Corporation. Prior to StorageTek, he held engineering development and product management positions at Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA Systems.

Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, and performed graduate work at Washington University’s Sever Institute of Engineering. His research background includes I/O performance analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems architecture and OS design, storage networking protocols, clustering algorithms and virtual systems optimization.

Eric Bart is a long-term storage industry veteran involved in multiple aspects of storage management software development. Eric participated for several years on the DMTF. His experience also includes participation in the SNIA SMI-S Lab and Interoperability Conformance Testing Programs since their inception.

Eric is a former member of Sun Microsystem's Systems Engineering team where he is responsible for developing and bringing to market Open Systems Storage Management products covering Storage Array, Tape Library, Fabric and Server Management technologies. He currently is serving as the Sun representative in the SNIA ECS program addressing the future requirements for SMI-S.

Prior to working at Sun, Eric was Vice President of Software Engineering at Storability Software, a pioneer in the distributed storage management of vendor agnostic storage environments. Eric has released products at Sun / StorageTek and Storability that have been SNIA SMI-S compliant and has regularly participated in plugfests supporting these products.

Prior to his work in Storage Management, Eric was employed for several years in the Financial Services and Defense Contracting industry building mission critical, secure management software.

Vincent Franceschini is the Chief Technology Officer of Distributed Data Storage Solutions for Hitachi Data Systems Corporation’s Department of File & Content Services, Media & Entertainment. In this role he is responsible for defining the future directions of HDS distributed data storage architectures on a worldwide basis and for selecting key future technologies and solutions that HDS will market in fast growing IT market segments such as Cloud Services. Franceschini is also Hitachi Data Systems' primary representative to leading Industry Associations and Standards Development Organizations such as the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) where he became Chairman Emeritus in 2008 after several years of Executive service. More recently Franceschini has contributed to the launch of Cloud Storage standards activities in SNIA. Since 1999, he has contributed to and held leadership roles in various SNIA activities such as SNIA International, Strategic Alliances, Storage Management Initiative and Grid Storage. Franceschini is also an active member of Open Grid Forum Europe’s Industry Experts Group (IEG).

With over 18 years experience in developing technology solutions, Franceschini’s expertise covers storage network technologies, solutions and markets, distributed architectures, software development, real-time systems, customer support and technical marketing. An accomplished and experienced public speaker, Franceschini has been working with storage networking and storage management technologies since 1995. 

Prior to joining Hitachi Data Systems, Vincent led real-time systems and computer-integrated manufacturing software and hardware projects with Ford Motor Company and Burr-Brown. Vincent began his career in IT at Digital Equipment Corporation as a software engineer. He received his “Ingénieur Informatique” degree in Artificial Intelligence & Industrial Applications from L’Ecole Pour L’Informatique et les Techniques Avancées in Paris, France

As director of planning and technology for QLogic Corporation, Skip Jones has been active in the storage industry for more than 27 years, with extensive background leading industry associations at the board level. Jones has been currently serving on the board of directors for the Storage Networking Industry Association, represents SNIA on the 4-person SNW Governing Board, and is on the SNIA/FCIA FC-Alliance Working Group that he helped create. Jones is also Chairman of the Fibre Channel Industry Association and Chairman of the FCIA Roadmap Committee which defines and drives the industry roadmap for Fibre Channel and FCoE technology.

Jones has worked in the storage industry since 1980, where at Priam disk drives he helped launch the first SCSI disk drive. He later moved to Maxtor where as engineering manager his team released the first 'in-form factor' embedded 5.25” (as represented in the Smithsonian Institute) and 3.5” SCSI drives, became a prominent early evangelist and educator for SCSI technology and became district sales manager before joining QLogic as strategic sales manager, where he later moved into various strategic and product marketing roles before becoming a leading early worldwide evangelist and industry driver for Fibre Channel technologies and SAN topologies.

Since joining QLogic in 1991, Jones has honed his broad technical-marketing-sales-corporate skill base as vice president of the SCSI Trade Association, served on be its board, the FCIA board, the SNIA board, the BladeS board, and other industry boards for a combined 25 years.

Jones currently represents QLogic and association alliances in the SNIA, SNIA Green Storage Initiative, SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative, InfiniBand Industry Association, FCIA, NCITS T11 and The Green Grid. Most recently Jones helped usher-in the FCoE debut and resolved its vendor-neutral industry association stewardship under a single industry association and initiated its FCoE committee. With Jones so deeply prominent throughout industry associations and activities, he is a primary liaison that cross-links industry corners; in the past year Jones was able to help drive and complete the first-ever IBTA roadmap whilst also driving early FCIA 16GFC industry MRD definition for the T11.2 standards development that began June 2008 as well as adopting FCoE into the FC roadmap, FCoE MRD market development, and FCoE Plugfest. Skip has also held leadership roles in the American National Standards Institute and NCITS T9, T10, T11, T13 committees, is named on two QLogic SCSI patents and has led numerous technical and marketing storage industry initiatives over the past two decades.

A career Information Technology professional, Mr. Leger has served in virtually all capacities of sales, business development, marketing, customer service, and education, in technology-related positions.

As Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, for Computerworld’s Strategic Programs and Events team, Mr. Leger drove sales and sponsorship programs for this key Computerworld line of business since 1999. He joined International Data Group (IDG) in 1996 and served as Vice President of Business Development for the successful launch of IDG’s Internet Commerce Expo (ICE) event business. He served on the Board of Directors of Storage Networking World (SNW) from 2001 until his SNIA appointment in 2007.

Mr. Leger began his career as a technology and operations advisor to the U.S. Treasury Department on a foreign service assignment in Montreal, Canada from 1974 to 1977. He worked for Honeywell Information Systems, Canada (later Bull Worldwide Information Systems) from 1977 to 1992, in positions including Director of Marketing, Regional Director and other senior management assignments.

Originally from Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Mr. Leger returned to the Boston area in 1993 where he founded the Institute for Computer Studies in Burlington, and served as its President until 1995. During this time, he was also an Instructor in Northeastern University’s State-of-the-Art Program. Mr. Leger achieved a Diploma from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland in 1971, received a BA with honors from Providence College in 1972 and earned an MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in 1973. He has participated in executive development programs at Harvard, MIT, and INSEAD in Paris, France.

Gary Phillips is Senior Director of Standards and Open Source in the Office of the CTO for Symantec Corporation. In this position, Gary manages a diversity of responsibilities, including open source operations and strategy, Linux strategy, interactions with all standards bodies, standards compliance, shared development tool investigations, shared code management and technology control planning.

Gary has previously served the SNIA as a member of the board of directors, board vice chairman, board secretary, chairman of the interoperability committee, and chairman of the technology center committee. Gary currently serves on the board of directors of the Distributed Management Task Force as well.

Prior to joining Symantec, Gary held several senior management and technology positions for Compaq, Schlumberger, Western Geophysical, and Fairchild. He earned his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attended graduate school at the University of South Florida and the University of Houston.

Julie is currently the Director of Alliances with LSI Logic’s Engenio Storage Group and a certified Project Management Professional. Julie is a long-time veteran in the computer industry with a focus on storage systems partnerships, product management, and IT Management after graduating with a B.S. in computer science from Kansas State University. Julie has published articles in various industry publications and is a member of Leadership Wichita.

Julie Ryan was elected to the SNIA Board of Directors in October, 2004. She has been an active member of the SNIA Storage Management Forum (SMF) since its formation in 2002, holding the Business Development, Education, and Secretary chair positions and received the SNIA Outstanding Volunteer Award in 2003.

Doug Voigt is a Distinguished Technologist in HP’s StorageWorks division and Chief Technologist of HP’s Disk Array, Storage Networking and Tape organization. With over 30 years experience in HP’s storage business Doug is heavily involved with storage strategy, architecture and intellectual property. In the course of his career Doug has provided technical leadership, organizational guidance and planning for numerous protocol, implementation, architecture and advanced development projects in disk and disk array product lines.

Doug’s career includes 7 years experience in disk controller protocol development, 17 years of experience in disk storage management automation, disk array development and distributed array architecture. Most recently Doug has 7 years experience in storage technology and IP evaluation. Highlights of Doug’s contributions include work on Service Oriented Storage, Quality of Service, IPv6, Storage Utility, Storage Consolidation, Federated Arrays, HP AutoRAID, Attribute Managed Storage, Disk Controller Fault Tolerance, SCSI and other disk protocol standardization and implementation efforts.

Doug holds MS and BS degrees computer science and electrical engineering respectively from Cornell University. He currently has 25 US patents, primarily in the field of virtual arrays with 11 patents pending.

SW Worth is a Sr. Program Manager at Microsoft, and an elected member of the SNIA Board of Directors. From 2002 through 2006 he was the worldwide lead for the SNIA Tutorials. Before joining Microsoft in late 2003, SW Worth was Technical Marketing Manager at Crossroads Systems. From 1991-1999 he was an internal IT consultant with a large integrated electric and gas utility in the northeastern United States. He has a background in environmental engineering, and worked in paper mills in several U.S. states and in France.

Alan Yoder Alan Yoder, Ph.D. is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at NetApp, Inc., in Sunnyvale, California. Alan has been at NetApp since earning his Ph.D. in distributed systems in 1997, working on protocols, management frameworks, management applications, management partnerships, the Manage ONTAP™ SDK, and other projects. He also has experience in construction and industrial accounting, CAD design and programming, GUI design and development and project management. He holds Bachelors, MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Goshen College and the University of Notre Dame.

Mr. Zmyslowski's responsibilities include engineering support for enterprise servers, storage, mobile and BPM products sold by Fujitsu America. In addition, Mr. Zmyslowski directs engineering pre-sales support, conducts interoperability and performance testing, and manages proof of concept work at the Fujitsu North American TRIOLE Integration Center.

Mr. Zmyslowski has 30 years of experience in the IT industry. He began his career at Amdahl Corporation in 1979 where he worked on CPU design and development. Mr. Zmyslowski held various technical and management positions at Amdahl before being named Vice President of the Integration and Solution Center at Fujitsu Technology Solutions in 2000. With the merger of Fujitsu Technology Solutions and Fujitsu PC in 2004, he became SVP of Engineering of Fujitsu Computer Systems. Mr. Zmyslowski took on his present position in April 2009 when Fujitsu America was formed.

Mr. Zmyslowski is the inventor of 12 U.S. patents. He holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Kettering University and a master of science in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.