Jay Etchings

Jay Etchings is a well-known industry professional with 20 years of progressively versatile, cross-platform experience in management of open systems architecture.

As a recovery audit contractor for the centers for Medicaid/Medicare, focused on compliance and Health Information Management Systems, Etchings worked to implement innovative strategies in data management. Currently, Etchings and his team are deploying campus-wide Research as a Service over Software Defined Networks on Internet2 supporting inter-intra-university National Science Foundation-funded projects as well as international research efforts and optimization of the friction-free Science DMZ.

The ASU Research as a Service platform has been architected on a framework fortified with OpenStack and supplies ubiquitous compute to hundreds of researchers who otherwise would not have access to resources required to complete unfunded research objectives. Aligned with the design aspirations of the New American University, the RaaS componentry aims to facilitate the extension of HPC to underserved communities as well as socio-economically challenged communities in the state of Arizona.

Jay Etchings holds appointments, not only with Arizona State University but within The OpenDaylight Foundation (Linux Foundation), The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), and the OpenFog Consortium. Etchings is an active customer advocate for open source networking with Brocade and a customer advocate for Hortonworks.

Jay Etchings was nominated for a position on the 2017 board of directors for the Open Stack Foundation.