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Change-Id: I0652171c107309d6ff4aa23c5e9aa3b385088ded Signed-off-by: Drew Walters <andrew.walters@att.com>
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Hello Airship community,
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I would like to announce my candidacy for the Airship Technical Committee.
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Since 2014 I have had the good fortune of leading the cloud engineering program as director of
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development at AT&T. This opportunity has been humbling as it shifted my career focus from being an
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opensource corporate champion to the challenges of institutionalizing enterprise commitment to
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community adoption and development. The role required me to build a cloud engineering organization
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to lead the development of our Software Defined Network (SDN) transformation. Lacking a strong
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community development presence I championed a corporate movement towards a commitment to opensource
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contribution. The initial effort focused on tooling our existing employee base and start a college
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hire program to address both growth and retention challenges. By 2016, AT&T was recognized with the
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OpenStack Super User Award. Under my leadership my team has continued to demonstrate a steady
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commitment to the community by achieving top 10 corporate contributor status since Pike, rising from
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a status below 100.
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In 2018, driven by technology advancements and the evolving needs in the SDN program I directed the
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shift towards declarative infrastructure leading to the creation of the Airship project. From
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inception I have ensured the project has upheld the Four Opens to engage a broader community to
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jointly participate in moving an industry solution forward. I remained committed to identifying
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and collaborating with organizations to identify opportunities to contribute to the advancement of
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this project. Airship has been utilized by AT&T since late 2018 to deploy critical 5G
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infrastructure. I am excited to continue my deep involvement in leading a community focused
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engineering team participating in the development of Airship 2.
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Over the years I have been a speaker at the OpenStack summit including various live presentations
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and panel discussions focused on automation and enabling delivery at scale for AT&T.
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* OpenStack Presentation in Vancouver, Canada – May, 2018 | The Anatomy of a Network Cloud
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* OpenStack Presentation in Boston, MA – May, 2017 | Virtual to Container based (CICD)^2
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* OpenStack Panel Discussion in Barcelona, Spain – Oct, 2016 | AT&T's Agile Journey
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* OpenStack Panel Discussion in Austin, TX – April, 2016 | AT&T s OpenStack Journey
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* OpenStack Superuser Award in Austin, TX – April, 2016 | YouTube Video
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* OpenStack Keynote in Austin, TX – April, 2016 | YouTube Video
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Thank you for your consideration of this opportunity.
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Andrew Leasck
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