Distributed Management Task Force, Inc.

Developing management standards & promoting
interoperability for enterprise & Internet environments


DMTF Executive Biographies

Mike Baskey
DMTF Chair
Mike Baskey is an IBM Distinguished Engineer in the Systems and Technology Group. He's also a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and has been with IBM for almost 28 years. A graduate of SUNY Buffalo, Mike started in IBM's Airlines Control Program and has focused on networking and servers throughout his career. In the DMTF, Mike has served as VP of Membership and Treasurer, and he is active in the DMTF Networking and Telecommunications Work Groups, as well as the DMTF process committee. Mike is involved in numerous standards-related activities within IBM, and in the industry with several of the DMTF's alliance partners.
Josh Cohen
DMTF Vice-Chair
Josh Cohen is a Senior Program Manager in Microsoft's Windows Enterprise Management Division Strategic Alliance Team. He leads the standards engagements for the division such as WS-Management and was also a co-author of the WS-Management specification. Since 1993, he has worked on various Internet Standards such as HTTP and participated in the IETF as well as OMA. In addition to this role, he has experience as a Program Manager, Developer and Administrator working on various Web infrastructure products and systems. Prior to working at Microsoft, he has experience working at small software companies as well as Netscape Communications and United Parcel Service. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University.
Winston Bumpus
President

Winston Bumpus, Director of Standards Architecture at VMware, has had over 30 years of experience in the computer industry. He is currently the President of the DMTF. He has chaired activities in other standards organizations including, OASIS, and The Open Group. Prior to VMware he was Director of Systems Management Architecture at Dell and he was also Director of Open Technologies at Novell, Inc. He is co-author of the books "Common Information Model" and "The Foundations of Application Management." He has participated in the DMTF for over 14 years and worked on its early development of the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standards and founded and chaired its Application Management Working Group.
Jishnu Mukerji
VP of Finance 
Jishnu Mukerji is a Senior Systems Architect in the Software Global Business Unit of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). He represents HP in various capacities on numerous standards consortia including OASIS, OMG, DMTF, WSI, JCP, and has served on the OMG Architecture Board (where he was the editor of the Model Driven Architecture Guide), the OASIS Technical Advisory Board and the WSI Liaison Subcommittee. In the past he has made significant contribution to CORBA, J2EE and UML standards.

At HP, Jishnu is a member of the Core Architecture Team that defines and governs the Architecture for Management of the Adaptive Enterprise. Prior to HP, he worked at Bell Laboratories and Novell, and was involved in the architecture and implementation of diverse large distributed systems. Jishnu received his Ph.D. and MS in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and BS and MS in Physics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences in Pilani, India.
Jeff Hilland
Vice President of Technology 
Jeff Hilland is a Senior Systems Architect in the Enterprise Storage & Servers Business Unit of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Jeff is currently the chair of the Technical Committee and also serves as co-chair of both the Server Management Work Group and the Desktop & Mobile Work Group. Jeff has spent the last 10 years driving industry standards and has served in chairing roles in both the RDMA Consortium and the InfiniBand Trade Association.
Jeff's 25-plus year career in the computing industry includes systems and server management, distributed systems architecture, system software integration, automated deployment & configuration tool development, device driver and services architecture & development and performance analysis. It has also included significant contributions to high speed intercommunications protocol development & standardization including RDMA, InfiniBand and the Virtual Interface Architecture.
Wayne Adams
Vice President of Membership and Senior Vice President
Wayne Adams is a Manager within the Office of the CTO of EMC, responsible for expanding and managing technology initiatives with the industry standards bodies. He has held managing positions within partner management and software product management at EMC, where responsibilities have 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 software and hardware products at Digital Equipment Corporation. He started his high-tech career at Eastman Kodak as a system designer of real-time plant-floor control software for film manufacturing operations. Wayne holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a dual major in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh.
Sharon Smith
Vice President of Interoperability
Sharon Smith is a Senior Software Engineer within Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group’s Client Architecture and Planning’ organization, and has been with Intel since 1997. Her current responsibilities include mapping standards to product specifications, ensuring product compliance to standards, and system architecture for future client platforms. She has chaired the DMTF Pre-OS working group and was instrumental in the Platform Management Components Intercommunications (PMCI) technology transfer from Intel to the DMTF.

Her scope and experience in system manageability ranges from test, development, technical marketing, and system architecture of various SW and HW products from hand-held devices, servers, to desktops since 1995 to include enabling, configuration, integration, and interoperability. Sharon has taught classes on platform focused product initiatives to field engineers and marketing representatives, and has demonstrated manageability products at Intel Developer Forums, Microsoft Management Summit, and Enterprise Management World exhibitions.

Sharon received her Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Computer Science from the University of Puget Sound, and is matriculated into the M.S. Management in Science and Technology program at the Oregon Graduate Institute: School of Science and Engineering.
Mark Carlson
Vice President of Alliances
Mark A. Carlson, Senior Architect at Sun Microsystems' Network Storage division, has more than 25 years of experience with Networking and Storage development and more than ten year's experience with Java technology. He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. He is a co-chair of the SNIA Policy working group, chairs the DMTF Policy working group, serves as vice chair on the SNIA Technical Council, and represents Sun Microsystems on the DMTF Technical Committee as well as the DMTF Board of Directors where he serves as VP of Alliances. Mark was one of the original developers at Redcape Policy Software, Inc., a small, Boulder, CO, startup that was acquired by Sun Microsystems in June 1998.