General

Working Group Officers

BOARD

Role Name Company Email Election Date Expiry Date Comments
Chair Scott Migaldi T-Mobile USA, Inc. scott.migaldi@t-mobile.com
Vice Chair Matthew Gillmore Itron matthew.gillmore@itron.com

DMSO

Role Name Company Email Election Date Expiry Date Comments
Chair Matthew Gillmore Itron matthew.gillmore@itron.com
Vice-Chair Jaime Jiménez Ericsson 13/06/2024

Strategic Communications

Role Name Company Email Election Date Expiry Date Comments
Chair Travis Shanahan Itron travis.shanahan@itron.com

Smart City

Role Name Company Email Election Date Expiry Date Comments
Chair Nicola Crespi Paradox Engineering ncrespi@pdxeng.ch
Vice Chair Giulio Mazzoleni Paradox Engineering gmazzoleni@pdxeng.ch

Archived Groups

Utility Outreach&Interoperability

Role Name Company Email Election Date Expiry Date Comments
Chair Travis Shanahan Itron

ARCOM

Role Name Company Email Election Date Expiry Date Comments
Chair Jerry Shih AT&T 28/02/2023 09/03/2025
Chair Jerry Shih AT&T 28/02/2021 09/03/2023
Chair Jerry Shih AT&T 23/02/2019 09/03/2021
Chair Shahram Mohajeri AT&T 05/11/2018 14/11/2020 ARC

DMSE

Role Name Company Email Election Date Expiry Date Comments
Chair
Vice Chair Travis Shanahan Itron 10/10/2023
Chair Hannes Tschofenig ARM 22/01/2021 21/01/2023
Chair Hannes Tschofenig ARM 19/01/2019 21/01/2021
Vice Chair Travis Shanahan Itron 28/09/2019 10/10/2021

IPSO

Role Name Company Email Election Date Expiry Date Comments
Chair Matthew Gillmore Itron 03/05/2022 14/05/2024
Vice Chair Jaime Jiménez Ericsson 14/06/2022 13/06/2024
Chair Matthew Gillmore Itron 03/05/2020 14/05/2022
Vice Chair Jaime Jiménez Ericsson 14/06/2020 25/05/2022

LOC

Role Name Company Email Election Date Expiry Date Comments
Chair Mark Younge T-Mobile USA, Inc. 25/01/2022 01/02/2024
Chair Mark Younge T-Mobile USA, Inc. 25/01/2020 01/02/2022

IOP

Role Name Company Email Election Date Expiry Date Comments
Chair Vacant

CD

Role Name Company Email Election Date Expiry Date Comments
Chair
Vice Chair Seung Wook Lee ETRI 30/01/2021 19/01/2019

Chair Election Process

Chair Election Process

Election Announcement

  • OMA SpecWorks Election Officers sends an email to the working group announcing the start of a chair/vice-chair election process.
  • Sponsor and Full members are permitted to be candidates for chair positions.

The email sent to the group SHOULD contain the following information:

Announcement Information
Working Group/Committee Officer Positions up for election Nominees Current Officer(s) Expiry Date Election Results
DD/MM/YYYY

  • Nominees can find useful information on the roles and responsibilities they would have, if elected, in the Group Officer Checklist

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  • Elected officers will receive a wide range of support in fulfilling their duties from their group DSO. More details can be found here: OMA Process.

Nomination Process

  • To submit a candidature for a Working Group officer position send an e-mail to the election officers.

  • You may self nominate for these positions.

  • The nomination must contain the following information:

    • the candidate's name and company
    • identify if it is a self-nomination or the nomination of somebody else

  • The candidate MAY also submit a Letter of Support (from the candidate's company to affirm the company's support for the candidate's nomination and identify that the candidate shall allocate the necessary time and resources to properly execute the position), CV and a position statement. These can be supplied with the nomination or at a later time. The position statement SHOULD include the candidate's vision and approach on how the working group would benefit from their leadership.

  • Nominations will be posted as soon as they arrive during the nomination period.

  • The submitter of the nomination will receive confirmation that the candidate has been added to the list of nominees.

  • The use of OMA SpecWorks e-mail lists shall not be permitted for any campaign purposes by candidates.

To assist the candidates in informing the membership of their qualifications, the candidates' Letters of Support, CVs and position statements are provided below.

Key Dates for the Elections

  • The Election Officer will send a notification to the working group with the following dates:
Action Starts Ends
Nomination Period Day Month Year (XX:00 UTC) Day Month Year (XX:00 UTC)
Consultation Period Day Month Year (XX:00 UTC) Day Month Year (XX:00 UTC)
Ballot Day Month Year (XX:00 UTC) Day Month Year (XX:00 UTC)
Ballot Results Published Day Month Year (XX:00 UTC)

Process

Further information related to chairs/vice-chairs roles, elections, removal of the role, etc., can be found on the the OMA Organization and Process document. Please refer to section 8 Officers.

Terms

  • Chairs and vice-chairs will hold their positions for a 2-year term.
  • The OMA Organization and Process document defines how to fill a vacant position should an officer resign before a term expires.

Election Officers

The Election Officers for this election are Joaquin Prado and Gordana Dimic, both contractors working for OMA SpecWorks.

Consultation Period

  • If more than one person has submitted a nomination for a chair, vice-chair position, then a vote will be required.
  • The Election Officer in conjunction with the working group define the Consultation Period. See Key Dates for the Elections
  • During this period the candidates MAY lobby members of the group.
  • The Election Officer will coordinate with the working group and the nominies a day for the nominies to present their candidancy to the working group.

Ballot

  • The Election Officer will send an email with private Poll containing the instructions on how to vote for the candidates.

Voting instructions

  1. Any individual from a Sponsor or Full member company is entitled to vote.
  2. Members are entitled to change their vote as often as they wish until the close of the vote.
  3. Go to the WG Messages page, locate and click on the corresponding Chair poll message.
  4. In the message click on "Vote Now".
  5. Select your preferred candidate.

Election Results

  • The Election Officer will announce to the working group the score (in percentage) received by each candidate and will update the Officers table for the working group.

Candidates

Candidates for WG Chair positions (alphabetical order) To view a candidate's Nomination Letter, Position Statement and CV click on the appropriate links by the candidate's name.

WG/Committee Name, Company Nomination Letter Position Statement CV
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