Boston
May 8-11, 2017

Event Details

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Tales of 5 Women Making AT&T a Leader in OpenStack Adoption

AT&T has publicly announced its aggressive goals to virtualize the services it delivers. It has been successful in meeting its goals so far on an OpenStack based Cloud platform. In this panel discussion you will hear from 5 women that are from the SD&E organization in AT&T who have been key contributors to this success from the inception of this program. They play varied roles in planning, requirements, development and testing areas at different levels from a general manager to engineers. You will hear about their current responsibilities, backgrounds and their rapid evolution into catalysts of the rapid growth of AT&T’s Openstack Cloud.  

 


What can I expect to learn?

You may be a technologist or a manager. You might be from data center management, application development, QA or some related discipline! If you want to hear about successful journeys of five women just like you who are blazing their trails in the OpenStack program at AT&T, this panel discussion is the right place for you to be at!

Tuesday, May 9, 2:50pm-3:30pm (6:50pm - 7:30pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Advanced
Associate Director, AT&T Network Cloud Quality Assurance
 I am currently the Director of Technology in the SD&E organization for AT&T; who manages a large global technical team of employees (120+) charged with developing, transforming, and supporting the quality assurance of the Cloud Computing OpenStack platform of AIC – AT&T Integrated Cloud. Charged with leading the test architecture, strategy and... FULL PROFILE
AT&T
Manage cloud development for the AT&T Integrated Cloud. Previous repsonibilities include development and support of AT&T SilverLining clouds on Havana and Grizzly, managed large data center upgrades from IceHouse to Juno, OpenStack custom development for internally required features, upstreaming of custom features, & OpenStack upgrade from Juno to Kilo.  Currently managing... FULL PROFILE
AT&T
Janet started her career in AT&T with Bell Laboratories and has a breadth of experience from software development, systems engineering, process re-engineering, testing, and project management. Janet has led key projects responsible for redesigning processes and applications to reduce provisioning cycle times, defining software solutions for Switch Services and Hosting Services. Janet is... FULL PROFILE
Software Engineer
Software Engineer at AT&T focused on growing AT&T's Community presence and helping shift the culture of our company to one with more openness. Technical interests include advanced algorithms and, in particular, clustering data.  Previously presented at the OpenStack Summit in Austin 2016 and Barcelona 2016. FULL PROFILE
Quality Engineer