Tech Council Election May/June 2021

The FOLIO Technical Council's charter is to maintain the community’s technical policies, best practices, infrastructure, and monitor the operational health of the FOLIO project. It will also track and report Technical Debt and facilitate architectural decisions as needed by the community. It operates with close collaboration with the Community and Product Councils.

Seats on the Technical Council are available to Members of the FOLIO community, in accordance with the FOLIO Governance Model. Member is defined as an individual who is an employee or a sponsored contractor of a Member Organization. Individuals will be elected to seats for two year terms. Shorter terms may be required for the initial transition period or to fill seats that become vacant between elections.

There will be up to 11 members selected for the Technical Council.

The Technical Council will be seeking nominees who have deep experience with one or more of:

Strong collaboration skills, able to drive decisions that champion the interests of the community and project
Deep understanding of software development processes and technologies required for a modern services oriented application
Agile software development methodologies, including Epic, Feature and Story creation
Knowledge of DevOps and Quality tools and processes
Experience with FOLIO’s code-base, technologies and development processes
Frequent contributor to FOLIO’s code-base
Experience managing technology, technical debt, and competing priorities
Participating in and/or managing open community governance
Library management systems and library workflows
Leadership of development or other technical teams

Dates

Nominations will be collected from May 18, 2021 through June 4, 2021

Voting will be open from June 7, 2021 through June 25, 2021

Council becomes active the week of July 12, 2021

Nominees

We are collecting nominees using this form: https://forms.gle/rojfBgzh2ZXCVa6q7

The following people have been nominated:

Name	Organization	Statement
Aaron Neslin	Five Colleges	I am nominating Aaron Neslin, 5 Colleges FOLIO implementation/maintenance coordinator. Aaron is collaborative, conscientious, and technically skilled. He has a great deal of experience brining up new library systems.
Phil Robinson	Cornell University	IT leader with 20+ years’ experience in these roles: Director of Library Systems (current), Assistant Director of Integration, Technical Architect, Manager of Custom Applications, and Sr Developer. I champion cloud-first and DevOps methodologies. In FOLIO I participate in these SIGs: SysOps, User Management, and Support. I attended the last WOLFCon and ran tests in the last two FOLIO Bug Fests. At Cornell I lead FOLIO systems integration efforts including identity management, user import, Caiasoft, accounting, bursar export (PO of fee/fine exports), BorrowDirect (OCLC Relais), and others. On the Technical Council I would focus on: systems integrations, technical debt, DevOps and IT security best practices, and enhancing community outreach.
Mark Deutsch	Duke University	I'd like to continue being a member of the Technical Council so that I can continue to be a voice that pushes to prioritise the needs of all kinds of users at all kinds of institutions. Whether those users are interacting with the UI, developing integrations, or customising their installation, we shouldn't lose focus of them when debating technical questions. While working for Duke University, I've spent time as a member of the Stripes Core and ERM teams. More recently, I've been working on more varied projects including the Courses front-end and edge modules, and integrating Folio into Duke's systems.
Craig McNally	EBSCO Information Services	* Developer on FOLIO for 4+ years with contributions in many domains, e.g. acquisitions, finance, permissions, OKAPI, Spring/RMB, authn/authz, edge APIs, etc. * Ongoing participation and leadership in several FOLIO groups: Tech Council, Tech Leads, Security Group. * Extensive experience with FOLIO DevOps/SysOps - Almost 5 years on the EBSCO FSE (FOLIO Hosting) team. * Strong interpersonal and organizational skills with a track record of getting things done. At various times have worked with many of the different SIGs and other groups within the community. * Not afraid to have an opinion and make decisions. * Excellent communicator - This is necessary to be an effective leader on a project with the size/scope that FOLIO has.
Jakub Skoczen	Index Data	Jakub is Index Data's Lead Software Architect and has been a member of the original FOLIO team behind the design and development of Okapi, RMB and Stripes. Currently Jakub is primarily the Product Owner for Core Platform team where he oversees the development of core FOLIO modules and frameworks. He is also the lead of the community DevOps team that maintains FOLIO's development environments, CI/CD tools and performs release management.
Jeremy Huff	Texas A&M University	I am happy to put my name forward as a nominee to serve on the folio Technical Council. I have been a member on the council for the past six months, and have been a contributing member to the folio community for the past five years. I am a Software Application III for Texas A&M University Libraries, and in that capacity I have had the opportunity to work on many open source projects, including FOLIO. Through my role as a developer for the libraries I have gained experience in all the areas which pertain to this appointment. It would be my pleasure to continue to serve the FOLIO project on this council.
Sha Jiang	JIANGSU JIATU NETWORK TECHONOLOGY CO.,LTD.	Master of software engineering management, Peking University. Head of JIATU FOLIO team. 15 years of software development experience. 8 years management experience in software development team. 3 years experience in FOLIO localization & deployment.
Raman Auramau	EPAM	I am an engineer with strong technical background in Java development and micro-service design, and with main professional focus in solution architecture. Having ~15 years of experience in software engineering I can now present myself as a skilled Solution Architect and Team Leader with proven success stories in different domains. I've been working with EBSCO for 4 years, and ~0.5y of them with FOLIO, so I've already got domain knowledge, understanding of terminology and processes. Since currently EPAM contributes a lot into FOLIO success (together with other Member Organizations of course), I strongly believe all my experience and skills should be useful for the community, and I can act as a bridge between Tech Council and EPAM teams.
Fred Schumacher	University of Colorado, Boulder	As the Program Manager for library technologies, I have been directly involved in assessing FOLIO as a viable next-gen LSP. In January 2021, CU Boulder launched our own FOLIO@CU initiative with a projected go-live date of mid 2022. I am the designated project owner and tech lead. I have 30+ years in engineering/IT and have performed senior roles in a variety of sectors. My experience has been mainly with large enterprise systems. I am also an experienced leader with significant experience in strategy development, and building and leading high performance teams. To that end, I would welcome an opportunity to contribute to the FOLIO open source project as a member of the Technical Council.