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Technical Steering Committee, Working Groups and Working Groups Projects
The Technical Steering Committee is co-chaired by the CTO and the VP Engineering and consists of voting positions for the CTO, VP Engineering, and one duly authorized representative from each Core and Club member. The Technical Lead and Project Manager from each Working Group participate fully in all TSC meetings. The TSC is the forum by which each working group discusses existing development projects and resources, as well as forward-looking roadmaps. The function of the TSC is to:
- Seek input from the multiple stakeholders and development experts
- Distil these needs into a set of technical goals attributed with focus and priority guidance
- Assign or reassign resources (as empowered by the Board) to align these priorities with the resources available
- Co-ordinate and arbitrate the plans of multiple Working Groups
- Act as a reporting body to the management team
ARM - Roger Teague
Roger is ARMs representative on the Linaro Technical Steering Committee. ARM differs from other Linaro members in that it originates much of the IP which forms the basis of Linaros consolidation activities and an important part of Rogers role is to help transition new IP into Linaro in an efficient manner. This is good for it's members and also the larger community. Within ARM, Roger is ideally placed as Engineering Director for Software for the Processor Division is to ensure that this transitioning process is coordinated internally across the whole of ARM as well as managing ARMs own internal OpenSource development. With a background initially in Hardware Roger has over 20yrs of experience in the Software Engineering industry working with technology ranging from highly structured developments delivering safety critical systems thru to wireless SoC products in a number of start-up organisations where the value of Linux is understood. Outside of his work life Rogers enjoys racing sailing dinghy's which with the English winter climate shows a true passion.
Freescale - Paul Kline
Paul Kline manages the i.MX Linux Board Support Package team at Freescale Semiconductor in Austin, Texas. Paul reviews i.MX software releases for open source license compliance and sits on the Freescale Open Source Review Board. Before becoming the manager of the BSP team in 2004, Paul worked as a software developer for several different companies in the semiconductor industry. Paul developed security and Bluetooth software for Java-based mobile phones, scheduling software for semiconductor manufacturing and user interface software for Lisp Machines. Paul is the author of books on expert systems and Java for Bluetooth Wireless Technology.
IBM - Paul E. McKenney
Paul E. McKenney is an IBM Distinguished Engineer with more than 30 years experience, the last year of which has been wiht the Linaro consortium. He maintains the read-copy update (RCU) implementation in the Linux kernel and has more than 20 years experience with parallel software.
Prior to IBM, he worked for Sequent Computer Systems developing parallel UNIX kernel software, and prior to that he carried out packet-radio and internet research at SRI International. He has published more than 100 papers and holds more than 50 patents.
Linaro - David Rusling
David always enjoyed mathematics, but America's space program together with 'Star Trek' made him think that computers were really interesting and so he graduated in 1982 with a degree in Computer Science. The future turns out to have less flashing lights than he expected. At Digital Equipment Corporation he got involved in the port of Linux® to the Alpha processor. This gave him an abiding respect for the power of open source in general and Linux in particular. He worked on StrongARM before moving to ARM where he added tools experience. He's an ARM Fellow; which he says, "really means that I'm a techno-dweeb with a wide freedom to meddle."
Linaro - Christian Reis (Kiko)
Kiko has been active in Linux and open source for 12 years, and has managed software development teams for at least that long. He has worked on a broad set of projects, from telephony switches to high-profile websites to ERP systems. His focus on the last 8 years has been on tools for open source development, acting as manager of the 30-person strong Launchpad.net team for 5 years. Kiko has a MSc in Software Engineering from USP and lives in Brazil.
Samsung - Sree Kumar
Sree Kumar did his post graduation work in Computer Engineering. Sree has around 15 years of experience in embedded systems; and has been involved with flagship product development based on various IPs and SoCs. Sree has been with SLSI division of Samsung for the last 8 years. Sree is a Sr. Member of IEEE with areas of interest in operating systems, multiprocessor and low power computing technologies.
ST-Ericsson - Andrea Gallo
Andrea Gallo is Linux Chief Architect in ST-Ericsson and Head of Ecosystem and Partners for Multimedia software in the Smartphone and Tablet Solutions division.
Andrea joined STMicroelectronics in 1995 and covered many roles and products, including the first dial-up 56kbps USB Pegas.usB softmodem in 1998, the first ADSL USB/PCI controllerless modem in 2000 and many products and prototypes based on ST Nomadik Application Processor.
Andrea set up and managed STM Linux Software Platform team in Bangalore, including recruitment and software engineering process, and then moved into ST-Ericsson when the JV between ST and Ericsson Mobile Platform was created. As a teenager, Andrea wrote software in Basic, Z80 and ARM assembler and C published by English and Italian magazines and Public Domain Libraries and also attended two summer time trainee programs in July 1987 and 1988 at Acorn Computers in Cambridge (UK) on the just released ARM2 processor, few years before the creation of ARM Ltd itself.
Texas Instruments - Vijay Pasam
Vijay Pasam has joined Texas Instruments in 2000 as a software engineer. He has been working on building software for smartphones and portable multimedia devices. Expertise areas include Mobile phone SW stacks including Base device drivers, Power Management, Multimedia software, 2.5G Modem, ARM/DSP systems, HW accelerators and SoC systems. Vijay currently heads open source software development team in Wireless Business Unit at TI.