Intel® vPro™ Technology

Innovating Above and Beyond Standards

Authors' Biographies

Kevin Cline is a 14-year Intel veteran with experience in specification design, applications design and support, ecosystem development, as well as planning and strategic marketing across all enterprise platform segments. Specifically, Kevin has led the company in defining and integrating management and security technologies into Intel communications and client and server product lines—beginning with the solutions based on the Wired for Management hardware baseline and continuing with ecosystem and ISV solutions today. He is now focused on driving initiatives, standards, and ecosystem development for emerging technologies. He is Intel’s board representative in the DMTF. He has an undergraduate degree in computer engineering from California State University, Sacramento and an M.B.A. from University of California, Davis.

Lynda Grindstaff leads the business client strategy for platforms enabled with Intel® vPro™ technology, a strategy that improves IT’s ability to manage and secure PCs. An expert in her field, she has won several awards, including the Intel Achievement Award, the Intel Software Quality Award, and the Society of Women Engineers Emerging Leader Award. Her tenure at Intel spans more than a decade and includes a patent, system software development, chipset validation, and management of a global technical marketing team based in the United States and India. A valued industry conference speaker, Lynda holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the California State University, Sacramento. She remains active in community outreach programs.

Steve Grobman leads the team that defines Intel’s future business client strategy, architecture, and roadmap. Steve was instrumental in developing the architecture for Intel® vPro™ technology, Intel's first digital office professional platform. Previous positions in his 14-year Intel career include architecture, engineering, and management positions in Intel's Desktop Platform and Information Technology divisions. Steve is a principal engineer, has two patents and 22 pending, and has written two programming books. He received his bachelor of science degree in computer science from North Carolina State University.

Yasser Rasheed is the lead Digital Office Solutions Architect in the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel Corporation, driving architecture definition for next-generation business-client platforms. Yasser has been with Intel since 2000, and he has led various R&D projects on platform partitioning, advanced firmware technology, as well as wired and wireless multimedia networking in the home. Yasser played an instrumental role in establishing Intel’s early vision for Digital Home technologies. He was a co-chair of the UPnP Forum’s Audio Video working group, established the UPnP Forum’s QoS working group, and co-authored a number of specifications and publications in the area of wired and wireless multimedia networking in the home. Yasser holds a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Oregon.

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