Launch of OSS/J User Group in Developer Community

We have just launched the OSS/J User Group in the Developer Network.  Pierre Gauthier and Craig Gallen have kindly agreed to co-chair this User Group.  (See further below for more information on our co-chairs)   The intention is to use this area of the community to discuss items of interest to people working in the development and testing of the OSS/J Interface.  Please encourage your development and test engineers to join this user group and use it to ask questions, share experiences and hints & tips.

In order to participate and receive email notification go to the Developer Community, and select “Amend Preferences”, and alter your preferences so that you receive email notification of updates to the OSS/J User Group topic.

http://www.tmforum.org/community/groups/forum_developers_group/default.aspx

Thanks to Pierre & Craig who have agreed to co-chair this User Group.

Please forward this communication to other OSS/J Developer & Test Engineers so we can help make this a vibrate support structure for engineers working in this space.

Pierre Gauthier Bio:

Pierre Gauthier is a professional software architect with over 18 years’ of experience in the computing and telecommunications industry, primarily concerned with design, architecture and implementation of OSS distributed systems. A recognized Java specialist and a Java Community Process Star Spec Lead involved in the standardization of the Java standards for OSS Applications. He is recognized within international standardization circles for his strategic leadership, diplomacy, commitment, and technical competence. During his career, he has built an extensive network of contacts within the telecommunications and software engineering industry. He has worked for a number of companies including Oracle Corporation, MetaSolv Software and Nortel, designing and implementing OSS systems using Corba, J2EE, XML and Web Services. He has extensive knowledge of the Java, XML and Web Service Specifications. He is an Alumni Speaker at Java One.

Pierre was the Chair of the Architecture Board for the OSS Through Java (OSS/J) initiative from (2003-2006). He exploited his noted communications skills in panel discussions, presentations, and white papers promoting the initiative to customers and partners; promoted use of OSS/J specifications in Nortel, MetaSolv and Oracle OSS. In this role, he has led the establishment of a strong technical and architectural foundation for all OSS/J APIs.

Pierre's influence has substantially impacted every OSS/J API, but he was particularly involved with these JSRs: 

·  JSR 91 Spec Lead for OSS Trouble Ticket API

·  JSR 142 Spec Lead for OSS Inventory API

·  JSR 144 Expert for OSS Common API

He is currently the CEO of OSS Wave, a consulting company, where he architects and provide training on SOA and J2EE based OSS solutions. 

He is the coauthor of the OSS Design Pattern book. This book advocates a pattern-based approach to the design of interfaces to Operations Support Systems (OSSs) to reduce the cost of delivering telecommunications management solutions. 

Craig Gallen BIO:

Dr Craig Gallen, OpenNMS Group Inc, leader of the TIP Implementation team.

Dr Gallen MIET, C. Eng, has worked as an engineer in Broadcasting, Process Control and Network Management. Latterly he worked as a senior product manager with Nortel Networks before leaving to pursue his doctoral studies in open source operational support systems at the University of Southampton. He currently works as an OSS software consultant and as a committer to the OpenNMS project. He is the leader of the TM Forum Interface Program Open Source Project hosted at http://openoss.sourceforge.net/.