Keith Kidd, Verizon, NTAF President
kkidd@ntaforum.org
Keith Kidd is a Director in Verizon’s Network and Technology Labs with responsibilities for the organization’s Automation strategy as well as testing of Enterprise class equipment utilized by Verizon’s customers. Thirty years in the industry has exposed Mr. Kidd to all facets of IT work, from data center operations to software development.
During this time, Mr. Kidd has remained a strong advocate for automation. He was an early adopter of tools that facilitated reducing the test cycle and speeding the time to market for new products and services. Mr. Kidd pioneered the use of automation tools in the Internet sector as a start-up business, Within this framework he applied techniques that enabled the same test tool environment to be moved between test and production environments so that new code could be tested in a true production environment without increased costs and overheard.
In his present role with the Labs, Mr. Kidd has used his influence and considerable experience with the vendor community and his own organization to leverage open standards, as well as those published by key vendors, to create a common structure for automation within the multi-lab Systems Integration & Testing environment. Mr. Kidd is a strong proponent in adhering to open standards as a means of reducing the burden of automation on all parties. Such standards ultimately increase the value of the tools and will enable the automation industry to prosper in the future through broader adoption.
B.S. Information Systems Virginia Commonwealth University; MS – Management New Jersey Institute of Technology |
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Todd Law, Spirent Communications, NTAF Vice President
tlaw@ntaforum.org
Dr. Todd Law's professional experience includes over 18 years in the networking industries, with leading employers such as Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, Nortel Networks, and most recently Spirent Communications. Network test has been his focus for the past 14 years, and he has specialized in automation aspects of network test for the past five years. During that time, he has driven automation strategies that span from traditional script-based techniques, to next-generation automation tools which bring orders of magnitude in automation efficiency. Most recently, Dr. Law has also been instrumental in the formation of the Network Test Automation Forum, or NTAF, whose mission is to standardize the mechanism by which various test solutions communicate with one another. |
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Madhusudan Nanjanagud, Cisco
mnanjanagud@ntaforum.org
Madhusudan is well recognized in the Networking Industry for immense contributions over the past 16 years with special focus on Service Provider Network Solutions. As a Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems, Madhusudan is responsible for leading technical teams in strategizing and execution of end to end Cisco solutions. As part of Cisco Development Organization (CDO), he is responsible for providing the strategic direction for Core Routing Business Unit and Mobility Internet Technology Group as it relates to designing and deploying solutions with innovation and customer success. He has been instrumental is designing, development and deployment of Cisco Core product families like MGX/RPM, GSR , CRS-1/3 and Next generation products to enable growth for Cisco’s customers. Madhusudan regularly speaks at various Industry forums like NANOG.
Prior to joining Cisco, Madhusudan worked as Global Networking Solution Architect at AT&T Managed Internet Services group and was responsible for the design and deployment of AT&T Common Backbone networks.
Academically, Madhusudan earned his Masters in Systems Engineering from BITS, Pilani University, India and Bachelors of Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University, India.
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Torbjorn Nyman, Ericsson
tnyman@ntaforum.org
Torbjörn Nyman is currently heading the Practice Lead R&D within Project Delivery in the Ericsson Group IT and Test Environments organization. This position includes managing tools development and tools provisioning groups in Montreal, Canada and in Budapest, Hungary. Torbjörn is based in Linköping Sweden, and is through his position also supporting the Engineering Service Delivery organizations within Ericsson. The Ericson Engineering Service Delivery organizations are responsible for the set-up of the test labs as well as the engineering development environment for Ericsson's entire R&D on a worldwide basis.
Torbjörn has 25 years experience in SW development with a focus on integration and testing since more than 20 years. Torbjörn has worked within the Swedish defence industries in various positions until he joined Ericsson in 1996. Torbjörn holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics with specialization towards telecommunication from the Linköping University. |
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Lars Friedrich, JDSU
lfriedrich@ntaforum.org
Lars Friedrich is currently Vice President and General Manager of JDSU's Lab & Production Business Unit. He has
responsibility for a number of optical and digital telecom test instrument product lines, among them the MAP, ONT,
Hydra, and TestPoint platforms. Prior to joining JDSU, Dr. Friedrich was with ADVA Optical Networking AG, the German
Network Equipment Manufacturer, in a number of product management and technology strategy roles. Dr. Friedrich holds
several US and European patents in the area of optical transmission and has authored over 20 papers, given numerous
talks at industry events, and authored or co-authored two book chapters. | |
Haj Elfadil, Juniper
helfadil@ntaforum.org
Haj Elfadil has more than 25 years experience in Networking, Inter-networking, Testing Automation and R&D. His current role is Automation Architect at Juniper.
Prior to Juniper, Haj held positions as QA Director, Senior QA Manager and QA Manager positions at Converged Access, Certeon, AutoCell, Snowshore, and VDSL Systems respectively, where he built successful QA Engineering Teams from ground zero. Haj's experience also includes Senior and Principle QA engineering positions at Data General, Proteon, Xylogics, Baynetworks and Nortel.
Haj earned a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. |
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