Action Week 2018: Meet our outstanding contributors

During each TM Forum Action Week event, we recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to our Collaboration Program. These individuals spend countless hours beyond their ‘day jobs’ working on the important standards and best practices TM Forum contributes to the communications industry. At the event in Dallas this week, we recognized six members whose dedication inspires us.

Mariano Belaunde, Orange

Mariano has consistently helped the teams in the Open API Program capture their designs in what is universally referred to as "Mariano's tooling". He has been instrumental in delivering an effective and consistent set of Swagger files to the developer community, especially recent clarifications of the Design Guidelines. Mariano has helped the teams generate consistent and validated Swagger file specifications – more than 80% of the Forum's APIs are based on his tooling, and the enhanced consistency and improved alignment to the Design Guidelines achieved in TM Forum Release 18 would not have been possible without his tireless support.

Sylvie Demarest, Orange

Sylvie's exemplary participation in the OSS/BSS of the Future workshops to develop the requirements helped lay out the initial white paper presented at Action Week in Vancouver. This, in turn, lead to the formation of the new work program. Sylvie has been a co-leader of the Open Digital Architecture since its initial charter. She has been a major contributor to the development of the functional architecture and helped the detailed and diligent mapping of ODA to the Business Process and Information Frameworks.

Daniela Galigniana, Telefónica

Daniela was a key participant in the OSS/BSS of the Future workshops held in May, July and November 2017 and kindly hosted the Madrid Open Digital Architecture workshop in April 2018. The London workshops developed the requirements that lead to the whitepaper presented at Action Week in Vancouver. She has been an active contributor to the ODA functional architecture providing Business Process and Information Framework mappings and doing valuable detailed reviews of the contributions from other collaborators.

Sousuke Izumida, NTT

Sousuke has been a continuous developer of new APIs and more recently of the API Reference Implementations. NTT has been a strong proponent of the APIs for over three years, and Sousuke has been developing new APIs since the beginning of the company’s involvement. He attends all the spec jams and face-to-face meetings and is now helping by taking a leadership role in developing the Reference Implementations.

Emmanuel A. Otchere, Huawei

Emmanuel is committed to leading the Open Digital Architecture and the Ecosystem Business Architecture to drive innovation and breakthrough capabilities for TM Forum members. He understands and communicates the value the Forum brings and he can lead the discussion at both a strategic and tactical level. Emmanuel developed the EBA/ODA value cycle that depicts how business architecture supports both ODA and EBA. He also developed the drivers for EBA and is relentless in establishing a business common language that business and technical users can agree to over time.

Dimitris Symeonidis, Vodafone

As Team Leader for ODA Concepts and Principles, Dimitris has brought a wealth of knowledge and experience to the role. He has provided a template for insightful and efficient collaboration, delivering the first Open Digital Architecture asset for TM Forum Release 18. His excellent meeting management and interpersonal skills have made this a positive and enjoyable experience for everyone involved. Dimitris was also a first-time leader for the Blade Runner Catalyst project, which resulted in the team winning an award for Outstanding Catalyst – Innovation.