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These Want Ads detail the opportunties to get involved in TM Forum Strategic Collaboration projects.  If you are interested in getting involved please contact the staff person listed for each project.  For any general comments, please contact jobrien@tmforum.org.

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Strategic Initiative: Frameworx

Build out Business Process Frameworx (eTOM) Level 4 Process Definition
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Frameworx 4 Business Process Modeling experts @ 10% availability, 1 eTOM modeling expert @ 20% availability Business Process Modeling and eTOM expertise 1 year Huawei, Progress Software, TM Forum Staff Urgent Mike Kelly
(TM Forum)

Strategic Initiative: Defense Market Support Center

Security Management Workshop at TAW
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All Frameworx Security Management Subject Matter Experts Security Management Subject Mattter Experts 2011 Projects and Plans to be discussed at TAW. See the Security Management Web Community for a list of interested members. Important, actively seeking participants Christy Coffey
(TM Forum)

Policy Information Exchange Phase II Interface
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Technical Interface Program (TIP) Policy Experts  Policy Management Subject Matter Expertise, Interface Program Liaison Expertise, Interface Developer 6-12 months (depends on Project Charter and tooling available) See the
Policy-Based Management Web Community for a list of interested members.		 Important, actively seeking participants Christy Coffey
(TM Forum)

Spectrum Management Workshop at TAW
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All Frameworx Spectrum Experts  Spectrum Subject Matter Expertise 2011 Projects & Plans to be discussed at TAW Paris See the Spectrum Management Web Community for a list of interested members. Important, actively seeking participants Christy Coffey
(TM Forum)

Defense/Cloud Workshop at TAW
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All Frameworx Defense Cloud Experts Defense Cloud Subject Matter Esxpert 2011 Projects & Plans to be discussed at TAW Paris See the
Government & Defense Web Community for a list of interested members.		 Important, actively seeking participants Christy Coffey
(TM Forum)

Strategic Initiative: Enabling New Services

Software Enabled Services (SES) Management Solution Specifications & Frameworx Relationships Technical Report
This team is working to extend previous Service Delivery Framework (SDF) efforts addressing valuable new applications in a Telco 2.0 world; current goal is to complete extensions to the TM Forum Information Framework (SID) in support of the SMI (SES Management Interface); future work will include producing the SMI spec as a deliverable for incorporation into the SID.
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Software Enabled Services - Management Solution 1 SID Information/SOA Services Architect @ 40% availability, 1 Senior Architect in Web Services/SDPs @ 20% availability, 1 Advanced Applications Service Management R&D Expert @ 20% availability, 1 OASIS SCA implementation expert & liaison coordinator @ 15% availability Information Framework (SID) modelling expert and team coordinator, with expertise in Service, Logical Resource, Party and Performance and SOA service. Senior Architect for customer-facing Web Services gateways and advanced SDPs for exposing both network and IT application services. Web Application Service Management R&D Experts. Knowledge of TR139 and TMF061. 6 months AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Portugal Telecom, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, CISCO Important Michele Drgon
(TM Forum)

Business Process Framework (eTOM) B2B Addendum Update
This team is focusing on defining requirements for various B2B service provider business relationships essential to Telco 2.0 business models and new services; scope of work includes updating GB921 (B2B Integration) to address these models.
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Business Process Framework (eTOM) 1 Business Strategist @ 10% availability, 1 eTOM expert @ 20% availability, 1 B2B Application Architect @ 15% availability, 1 B2B Tech/Trading Standards Expert @ 10% availability, 1 Enterprise Telecom Procurement/Expense Management Buyer Expert @ 10% availability Communications coprorate strategy & new business models (e.g. Telco2-sided, etc), Business Process Framework (eTOM) knowledge, eCommerce & B2B Gateway Application Architecture, B2B Technology & Trading Network Standards (OASIS UBL, ebXML, RosettaNet, SWIFT, GS1, etc) 6 months Sterling Commerce, Telcordia, InfoNova Urgent Michele Drgon
(TM Forum)

Strategic Initiative: Cloud Services Initiative

Cloud Service Definitions (Taxonomy)
This project will define and maintain a set of standardized definitions of common cloud computing services as commercial products as well as key service components. This will allow common policy definitions to be established, common benchmarks & metrics, common language in SLAs and service contracts and will allow SKUs for Cloud Services to be built into product catalogs.
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Cloud Initiative 1 from each of 2 enterprise customers, 2 cloud Service Providers and 2 Technology Suppliers @ 50% availability Subject Matter Expertise from enterprise customers, cloud service providers and technology suppliers 6 months Deutsche Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, CA, Huawei, Oracle, AT&T, Cisco, Saudi Telecom Important Aileen Smith
(TM Forum)

Cloud SLA Management
The objective of this project is to expand the GB917 Service Level Agreement Management Handbook by ensuring Cloud use cases are covered. Use cases will be examined to create the Cloud Application note for the SLA Handbook with the aim of closing the loop between business intelligence, data analytics and benchmarking.
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Cloud Initiative 1 from each of 2 enterprise customers, 2 cloud Service Providers and 2 Technology Suppliers @ 50% availability Subject Matter Expertise from enterprise customers, cloud service providers and technology suppliers 6 months HP, CA, Huawei, Oracle, IBM, AL Important Aileen Smith
(TM Forum)

Cloud SDO Liaisons
The purpose of this project is to understand the work groups within Cloud Standards Development Organizations (SDOs). Once the work groups have been investigated new collaboration and work registers will be identified.
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Cloud Initiative 1 from each of 2 enterprise customers, 2 cloud Service Providers and 2 Technology Suppliers @ 50% availability Subject Matter Expertise from enterprise customers, cloud service providers and technology suppliers 3 months Huawei, Cisco, Oracle, Telecom Italia Important Aileen Smith
(TM Forum)
Cloud Initiative / Information Framework 1 or 2 information modelers @ 10-20% availability Familiar with UML and the Information Framework (SID) to work on DMTF CIM / SID model alignment  6 months    Important  Aileen Smith
(TM Forum)

Enterprise-Grade External Compute IaaS
This Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council (ECLC) led project explores the business requirements for an External Private Cloud in commercial, technical and operational categories. It contains background information on the cloud business case and use-cases from the enterprise consumer perspective with the objective of mapping these business and technical requirements against Frameworx.
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Cloud Initiative 1 from each of 2 enterprise customers, 2 cloud Service Providers and 2 Technology Suppliers @ 50% availability Subject Matter Expertise from enterprise customers, cloud service providers and technology suppliers 6 months ECLC, Cloud Service Providers, Technology Suppliers Important Aileen Smith
(TM Forum)
 
Cloud Business Process Framework
The project looks at the end-to-end Order Handling process flow defined in GB921-E to explore a cloud-specific use case. It will review the Order Handling flow, and the relevant Order Handling level 4 process elements from GB921-DX. The team will develop a use case based on IaaS that addresses real-time services, partners, storage, security, interoperability, portability, etc. The use case development will be split into two phases: Phase 1 - a complete end-to-end worked example; and Phase 2 - ITIL linkage methodology.
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Cloud Initiative 1 from each of 2 communications service providers, 2 cloud service providers and 2 technology suppliers @ 50% availability Subject Matter expertise from Communications Service Providers, Cloud Service Providers and Technolgy Suppliers 6 months Progress Software, Oracle, NSN Important Aileen Smith
(TM Forum)