Tom is a software engineer and architect with more than 30 years experience in telecommunications and network technology. He has been an independent consultant specializing in telecom, datacomm, media, technology, market forecasting, and regulatory policy analysis since 1979, and CEO of CIMI Corporation since 1982. Tom writes regularly for No Jitter and multiple TechTarget publications, and publishes his own public blog dedicated to telecom, media, and technology strategy professionals. He also creates a series of reports on technology, market, and economic conditions. Most recently, Tom launched CloudNFV, a multi-vendor initiative the ETSI standard for Network Functions Virtualization using principles of cloud computing and the Telemanagement Forum's GB922 Services domain, which grew to become the ExperiaSphere open source management and orchestration project.