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Dear TSC,

It is with great enthusiasm that I self nominate for the position of the Akraino Technical Steering Committee Chair.

An Tina Tsou is an Enterprise Architect at Arm, I have served as Co-Chair of the TSC for the past two terms. During this time, I have contributed multiple sample blueprints including:

>> Public Cloud Edge Interface (PCEI) Blueprint family: specifies a set of open APIs for enabling interworking between multiple functional entities or Domains that provide services needed for implementation of Edge capabilities/applications requiring close integration between the Mobile Edge, the Public Cloud Core and Edge—as well as the 3rd-party provided Edge functions. Release 3 will expose the set of location APIs as defined by the MTSI MEC to showcase PCEI capability.

>> KubeEdge Edge Service Blueprint: showcases end-to-end solution for Edge services with KubeEdge centered Edge stack. The first release will focus on the ML inference offloading use case and support multi-arch.

>> Radio Edge Cloud Blueprint: member of Telco Appliance blueprint family designed to provide a fully integration tested appliance tuned to meet the requirements of the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC). Changes since Release 2 (2019-11-18) include New Features like Arm64 Support! – REC Release 3 supports Arm-based CPUs for the first time. Support includes Ampere Hawk and Falcon servers.

>> IEC (Integrated Edge Cloud): platform enabling new functionalities and business models on the network Edge.

>> IEC Type 2: focus on high-performance computing system of medium and/or large deployment at data center.

>> IEC Type 3: focus on Android Application running on Edge Arm Cloud architecture with GPU/ vGPU Management.

If elected to the Chair position, I will promote the deployment of these blueprints, and enable the Public Cloud Edge Interface (PCEI) Blueprint family. Lastly, I will work tirelessly to enhance the effective collaboration with various upstream communities including CNCF, O-RAN, and CNCF.

Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Tina Tsouwhere she is responsible for designing and implementing robust strategies to establish first tier status for Arm architecture within open source communities and projects. In this role, Tina employs a comprehensive knowledge of relevant NFV/SDN collaborative open source initiatives, open source development tools, processes, build systems, packaging, continuous integration, and test methodologies. Recognized as a thought leader, she forges powerful partnerships with open source communities in support of multiple architectures, while prioritizing requirements for open source enablement in collaboration with Arm key stakeholders and relevant ecosystem partners. Tina also drives and empowers Arm’s Edge Computing Team.  

Currently, Tina is completing her second term as the Co-Chair of the Technical Steering Committee for Akraino.

Prior to joining Arm, Tina excelled as the Digital Domain Expert for Connectivity at Philips Lighting, where she championed the company’s first NB-IoT solution, and facilitated the company’s transition from conventional lighting to LED and digital lighting technology. Additionally, she was employed by Huawei for 16 years in Technical Lead and Principal Engineer roles, where she led network architecture design, new product definition, product marketing strategy, and technology research—and developed the company’s first IPv6 network migration professional service product.

Tina has been awarded 100+ patents and 15 IETF RFCs. She earned her Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Xi’an University of Architecture and Technologies in China.

Oleg Berzin graduated from Technical University of St. Petersburg, Russia with the MS degree in Computer Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Berzin worked at Verizon for 20 years, where he held various technology leadership roles, including development of enterprise mobile and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) services and capabilities on the 4G LTE network. He is currently a Technology Innovation Fellow at Equinix where he is responsible for development of innovation strategies and prototypes in the areas of Mobile and Fixed Edge Infrastructures, Internet of Things, Next Generation Interconnection, Virtualization, and Network Automation. Oleg has extensive expertise in complex multi-protocol, multi-technology network and infrastructure products and services, and he is proud to hold the Lifetime Emeritus status for his three CCIE certifications (R&S, WAN Switching, SP).