Distinguished Engineers

The global Novell engineering community is renowned for its breadth and depth of talent. Our award-winning software is imagined and created by some of the finest engineering minds in the world. We recognize a few exceptional performers through our Technology Leadership Program.

Distinguished Engineers

This highly coveted title is bestowed on individuals whose creative work adds extraordinary value to Novell. These individuals continue their groundbreaking customer-focused development work, act as mentors for other engineers, help recruit outstanding new talent, and counsel senior Novell management on industry issues.

		Brady Anderson - Awarded 1998 Brady has worked on all major NetWare releases since NetWare 2.15, and is a prime contributor to the award-winning ZENworks for Desktops product. His latest work includes the design and development of XTier and NetStorage. His specialty areas are Operating Systems Internals, Web Services, File Systems and Storage. Brady was educated at Utah Valley State College.
		James Bottomley - Awarded 2008 James Bottomley is Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, the Linux Voyager port and the 53c700 driver. He has also made contributions to PA-RISC Linux development in the area of DMA/device model abstraction and memory management. He is currently a Director on the Board of the Linux Foundation and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board. He was born and grew up in the United Kingdom. He went to university at Cambridge in 1985 for both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees. He joined AT&T Bell labs in 1995 to work on Distributed Lock Manager technology for clustering. In 1997 he moved to the LifeKeeper High Availability project. In 2000 he helped found SteelEye Technology, Inc as Software Architect and later as Vice President and CTO. He joined Novell in 2008.
		Lloyd Burch - Awarded 1998 Lloyd joined WordPerfect as part of the innovation team. He was a core contributor to many GroupWise projects and the lead developer of the GroupWise WebAccess team. As part of the eDirectory (NDS) team, he worked in the pipeline for innovative projects and helped bring XML standards to the directory. Lloyd is currently creating a new architecture for iChain that will transform it from a proxy-only service to a web service security infrastructure. He was educated at BYU as an electrical engineer with a computer emphasis.
		Alexander Danoyan - Awarded 2006 Alex started his career at Design Bureau of Programmable Logic Controllers (Yerevan, Armenia) in embedded systems. Alex joined Novell in 1992. At Novell, he has been the key contributor for Novell's award winning Cluster Services and Native File Access Protocols (NFAP) for NetWare products. He was the leader for User Auto Provisioning component for Novell Branch Office Appliance (NBO). Alex was one of the architects for Nterprise Linux Services (NLS 1.0) and Open Enterprise Server products suite. He was leading the design and the implementation for Linux User Management and Samba integration with eDirectory via LDAP. He is currently one of the architects for Data Center Automation project, specifically in the area of CIM-based Distributed System Management. Alex has participated and participates in work with IEEE, DMTF, SNIA, Aperi. Alex is author and co-author of 6 pending patents. He was twice nominated to the Employee of the Year award and three times for RACE award for exceeding the expectations to support Novell customers. Alex graduated Summa Cum Laude from National Aviation University, Kiev, Ukraine with a MS degree in Computer Engineering.
		Tammy Green - Awarded 2005 In 1995, Tammy joined Novell to specialize in network security research and development. During her career, she has worked extensively in the areas of authentication, access control, PKI, and licensing. Currently, Tammy provides security guidance, expertise and training to product teams throughout the company. In addition, as a member of the Security Review Board, she analyzes products for security vulnerabilities. Tammy holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from Tulane University.
		Scott Isaacson - Awarded 2004 Scott joined Novell in 1992. He started his career at AT&T Bell Labs in network management and embedded systems. At Novell, Scott has been the principal architect for Novell Distributed Print Services (NDPS), iPrint, Native File Access Protocols (NFAP) for NetWare, Novell Branch Office, Novell Linux Services (NLS 1.0) and is currently the architect for the Open Enterprise Server product suite. Scott was a working group leader the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) effort and was the editor and principal author of IETF RFC 2911. Scott has participated in the IETF, W3C, OMG, SNIA, JavaOne, and has presented at various industry conferences and workshops. He is a published author in the ACM StandardView. In 2002, Scott was awarded the Kitty Hawk patent recognition award and the Employee of the Year award. Scott graduated Cum Laude from BYU with a BS degree in Computer Science. Scott also holds a MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
		Olaf Kirch - Awarded 2005 Olaf Kirch has been a Linux developer since 1992 (after spending some time on Minix). He has a strong background in kernel coding, networks, network file systems and security, and holds a degree in Mathematics. Olaf started life at Novell when Novell acquired SUSE. During his life at Novell, he worked for the security team, and was a team lead in the SUSE Labs. After taking a brief detour working for Oracle, he now acts as Technical Chief of Staff for SUSE R&D.
		Michael Meeks - Awarded 2004 Michael has worked with GNU/Linux for the last few years. Starting with Office applications & interoperability, then moving into CORBA based desktop components and their application. Having worked briefly on toolkit accessibility, he moved into improving and productising OpenOffice.org, where he is again amused with interoperability work. Michael holds a Masters degree in Engineering from Cambridge University, and dislikes herring.
		Jim Nicolet - Awarded 2000 Jim has worked on NetWare from version 68000 to NetWare 6. He has worked on various networking protocols, the OS/2 redirector, and various file systems. Currently he is working on block storage devices. Jim was educated at Utah Technical College and BYU, and has an AAS in Electronics Technology and a BS in Computer Science.
		Dale Olds - Awarded 2002 Dale Olds is a Distinguished Engineer in Novell's Identity and Security Management Group. He is currently working on the evolution of identity services and is an architect for identity-enabled and Open Source technologies. Dale was the lead designer and implementor of Novell Directory Services (NDS) and Novell eDirectory from 1990 to 2000. He is listed as an inventor on 11 patents and has received Novell's Edison, President's, and Inventor Hall of Fame awards. His recent industry experience focused on Linux and Internet content delivery services. Dale has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah. He writes code for fun.
		Troy Rovig - Awarded 2000 Troy has been exclusively associated with critical problem resolution, bug fix implementation and development of all NetWare versions since 3.x. He is able to quickly debug NetWare server problems in critical customer situations. He won Employee of the Year in 1997 and 1999. Troy was educated at Utah State University with a BS in Computer Science.
		Haripriya S - Awarded 2009 Haripriya joined Novell in 1996 and since then she has worked on various technology areas including file and directory services, security protocols, storage platforms, and has experience with working on a variety of Unix platforms, Linux and NetWare. She has contributed to multiple Novell products including the eDirectory, BorderManager, Novell Cross Platform Services, and Novell User Account Management products. She is currently the architect of the Open Enterprise Server product suite and also a member of the Security Review Board at Novell. Her areas of interest include security, storage and file services, and emerging technologies in the collaboration space. She holds a master's degree in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and a Bachelor's degree in computer science from Anna University, Chennai, India.
		KY Srinivasan - Awarded 2004 K. Y. came to Novell as part of the Unix acquisition. Prior to joining Novell, he was a Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he was an architect and a key contributor to several releases of the UNIX Operating System. At Novell, K. Y has led several efforts to enhance the NetWare platform - he was the principal architect of NKS (Novell Kernel Services API). He was also the Chief Architect of Novell's next generation 64 bit Operating System (Modesto). As one of the architects of Novell's caching product on Linux, he was responsible for architecting and implementing a highly scalable transport infrastructure - SLAN. His areas of interest are: Operating Systems, OS virtualization and Fault-tolerant computing. K. Y. has a Ph.D in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit MI and a MS in Computer Engineering from the Indian Institute Of Technology, Madras, India.
		Robert Wipfel - Awarded 2002 Robert started his career at a parallel processing startup, and then at INMOS, worked on a distributed operating system for the Transputer. Next, Robert helped Unisys enter the commercial parallel processing market. He worked on single system image Unix and parallel database server technology. At Novell since 1998, Robert is architect for Novell's award winning Cluster Services, Business Continuance Clustering and iSCSI (target) products. He is currently working on Linux technologies for next generation data centers. Robert is co-author of Novell's Guide to Storage Area Networks and has presented the benefits of commodity server clustering and storage networking at various industry conferences. He has received Novell's Inventor Hall of Fame, President's and Engineering Employee of the Year awards. Robert earned a bachelor's degree (with honors) in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K, and won the G.E.C. Avionics second year student award. He holds patents on parallel processing (machine vision) and server clustering.

Fellows

		Steve Carter - Awarded 2003 Steve joined the WordPerfect Corporation in 1989 and headed up the development of the award-winning WordPerfect InForms product. During this time he chaired the DOD E2300 Electronic Forms Industry Steering Group. Shortly after the Novell acquisition of WordPerfect, he was promoted to CTO of the Collaboration Division and spent significant time influencing IETF specifications and coauthored RFC 2518 (WebDAV). He joined the ICS team at its inception and later became lead architect of all Volera products. He returned from Volera to become the SIM architect is currently responsible for driving the architecture of Novell's next generation secure identity and access management products. Steve has been involved with the Novell Patent Program since it began in 1995. He has over 40 patents with several pending and is serving his second term on the Novell Inventions Committee. Steve was educated at the University of Utah and BYU holding both a BS and MS in Computer Science.
		Greg Kroah-Hartman - Awarded 2007 Greg Kroah-Hartman has a wide reaching impact on the whole Linux community and open source industry. He is widely recognized as one of the leaders of the Linux kernel project within the open source community, is a maintainer of several subsystems within the mainline Linux kernel, and has written two popular books about the Linux kernel. He currently works in the SuSE Labs department at Novell, and in the past has been the manager of Novell's kernel teams, helping them deliver enterprise Linux product releases. Greg recently started a community-based Linux drivers project, gathering volunteers from all over the world willing to help companies to develop Linux drivers acceptable for the official Linux kernel releases. This project has seen great success so far, has been joined by more than 300 programmers and is actively developing drivers for a variety of hardware devices for Linux.