The GENIVI Alliance: Open Source Collaborative Development in IVI

Steve Crumb serves as the Executive Director of the GENIVI Alliance and provides leadership to three other technical alliances. As Executive Director and Vice President of Global Inventures, Steve has helped launch and managed numerous communities of innovation around a variety of technologies and standards. Steve's role with GENIVI involves acting as the Chief Operating Officer and a facilitator/advisor to the Board of Directors. Previously, Steve served for five years as Executive Director and VP of Operations with the Open Grid Forum. Steve provided strategic and tactical leadership, including facilitation of board, advisory and management steering committees. Steve has spent more than 20 years with various high-tech companies, often applying leading-edge technologies to their business operations.

As a Senior Systems Engineer at Convergys Corporation, he provided leadership to systems engineering and development teams exploring component-based development techniques. At Motorola, he worked in the corporate networking lab, serving as a test engineer for internetworking equipment and architecting many of Motorola's first internetworks. At the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, he installed and managed industrial and academic networks and was involved in the Internet Engineering Task Force. Steve holds a degree in Computer Science from Western Kentucky University.