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The NANOG Program Committee reviews presentation abstracts and selects talks based on applicability to backbone engineering and timeliness of the topic. The group comprises operators, researchers, and industry leaders, and can be reached at
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Members include:
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NANOG Program Committee
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Cathy Aronson, Cascadeo Corporation |
Cathy began her networking career in 1988 at Merit, Inc where she worked on the NSFNet backbone and also CICNet, a network which interconnected the Big 10 universities. She engineered routing and addressing for BARRNet, the Energy Sciences Network, as well as @Home Network. Cathy was also a member of the technical staff at Packet Design, where she was responsible for operational aspects of their Internet scaling projects. Cathy has served on the ARIN Advisory Council continuously since 1997 and as well as one term on the ASO Address Council.
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Nina Bargisen, TDC |
Nina has worked at TDC, AS3292, the incumbent in Denmark and one of the leading ISPs in Scandinavia, since 1999, and currently works in the capacity planning group. She is responsible for all for all international interconnects for TDC and runs the IP registry and is part of the technical peering team at TDC. Other responsibilities include network planning, Traffic Engineering, budgeting, network modeling and network design.
Nina has an M.Sc in Mathematics with minor in Computer Science from Århus University Denmark.
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Larry Blunk, Merit |
Larry Blunk is a Senior Network Engineer at Merit Network. He also has roles in the Research and Systems Administration groups at Merit. Larry initially joined Merit in 1985 and has been an active participant in the IETF since 1991 and in RIPE since 2001. He has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.
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Jim Cowie, Renesys Corporation |
Jim Cowie is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Renesys Corporation. Although best known to the NANOG community for his work on BGP routing dynamics and analysis of Internet transit markets, Jim's research roots are actually in high performance computing, parallel language compilation, and network modeling and simulation. When the web was young, he authored one of the first web-based collaborative environments for large-integer factorization, and was part of the distributed research team that cracked RSA-130. His current interests include Internet stability metrics and the economics of the developing world's Internet markets. Jim received a BS in Computer Science from Yale University.
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Tom Daly, Dynamic Network Services, Inc. |
Tom Daly is the President of Dynamic Network Services, Inc. (DNS Inc.), a Manchester NH-based Internet Services company, best known for the dyndns.org dynamic network service. The company provides domain name, e-mail, monitoring, and disaster recovery solutions to clients utilizing the Company's worldwide network. Tom joined the company in 2001 when DNS Inc. and works on developing new products and services, expanding the company's geographic footprint in the US, Europe and Asia. He has been CIO, and is now President and Chief Technology Officer.
Prior to working at DNS, Inc., Tom worked for G4 Communications, Inc., one of NH's largest Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC). Tom graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He currently serves on the board of the New Hampshire High Tech Council and WPI's ECE Advisory Board.
Tom is currently the Vice Chair.
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Brian Deardorff, Level 3 Communications |
Brian Deardorff is a Senior Network Engineer at Level 3 Communications where he has worked on many technologies over the years including dial, VoIP, and IP. He joined Level 3 in 1998 through the acquisition of XCOM Technologies. Brian started off working for an ISP in the Boston area in 1995.
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Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo! |
Igor Gashinsky is a senior network architect at Yahoo!, a global content provider, where he is involved in projects ranging from overall network design (including highly resilient switching and routing architecture, peering, MPLS, L4-7 loadbalancing), as well as scalable content delivery methodologies and DNS architecture.
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Barry Greene, Juniper |
Mr. Barry Raveendran Greene is currently the Director of Juniper's Security
Incident Response Team (SIRT). With 30 years in the industry, Barry brings a
wide range of experiences and skills to the just of fulfilling Juniper's
mission to deliver products that are Fast, Reliable, and Secure. Before
Juniper, Barry's spent 12 years at Cisco Systems, spending the last 6 as
Cisco's Chief SP Security Architect and Instigator - driving programs,
products, innovation, and strategy to meet a SP's security business. Barry has
served on the NANOG Program Committee in the past as well was worked with
APRICOT, AFNOG, and other operational forums.
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Mike Hughes, London Internet Exchange |
Mike Hughes is Chief Technical Officer for London Internet Exchange (LINX), where he is responsible for the organisation's overall technical strategy, core peering infrastructure, and operational performance, specialising in high-speed metro ethernet platforms. With over 10 years of industry experience, Mike has become involved in activities within the community as a regular participant at industry for a (such as NANOG and RIPE meetings), and is a co-chair of the RIPE European Internet Exchange Working Group, as well as being a member of the UKNOF programme committee. He also sits on the Customer Technical Advisory Council of Extreme Networks.
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Mohit Lad, Nokia |
Mohit Lad received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2007 and
is currently working at Nokia in the Services Business Unit. At Nokia,
he is responsible for architecting and implementing instrumentation
and tools to monitor Nokia's network. Mohit Lad has been actively
involved in NANOG since his graduate study at UCLA. His thesis was on
routing diagnosis and security with a focus on solving real
operational problems. His research was supplemented with tools like
the Link-Rank visualization for BGP routing diagnosis, and PHAS:
Prefix hijack alert system (in joint collaboration with Colorado State
University). He has presented these tools in the general session at
prior NANOG meetings and was also the organizer and moderator for the
Routing tools BOF.
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David Meyer, Cisco Systems |
David Meyer is currently a Director in the Advanced Research and Technologies Group at Cisco Systems, where he works on future directions for Internet technologies. He has been a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) of the the IETF (www.ietf.org), and has chaired (or co-chaired) the SPEERMINT, MBONED, MSDP, and DNSOP working groups. He is also a member of several IETF directorates and IRTF research groups. He is also active in the operator community, and was a long standing member of the NANOG program committee. He is also active in other standards organizations such as ANSI T1X1.
Prior to joining Cisco, he served as Senior Scientist, Chief Technologist and Director of IP Technology Development at Sprint. He is also Director of the Advanced Network Technology Center at the University of Oregon. Prior to working at Sprint, he worked at Cisco, where he was involved in software development, working both on multicast and BGP.
David is currently the Program Committee Chair.
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Chris Morrow, Google, Inc. |
Chris Morrow started with UUNET/MCI in the Internet Customer Security Department assisting customers with mitigation of live security incidents and Denial of Service attacks. Over the five years he has been with UUNET/MCI he has remained in the Internet Customer Security Department while expanding his responsibilities to include development tasks and backbone security threat mitigation.
While in this position Chris has helped develop several techniques for Denial of Service Mitigation, including the method currently used by UUNET/MCI to track attack traffic across its backbone and the method which allows UUNET/MCI customers to blackhole their own IP space in the event that space is being attacked. Additionally, Chris has contributed to several features available now on Juniper and Cisco routers used to provide security services. His responsibilities now include resolving security engineering tasks for the UUNET/MCI IP Backbone as well as customer security issues.
Chris has presented to several industry conferences the current 'best practices' for backbone security and customer security on a large backbone network. This has enabled many other large network service providers to implement similar reaction methods used to mitigate customer security issues, allowing better cooperation between network providers during global security incidents.
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Kevin Oberman, ESnet |
R. Kevin Oberman is a Senior Engineer for Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) at Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
1995 to present: Senior Engineer, ESnet
1985 to 1995: Network Manager, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Engineering Department
1980 to 1985: System Analyst, Engineering Research Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1977 to 1980: Systems Programmer, Engineering Research Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2004 to present: Member of the Program Committee for Joint Techs, ESnet/Internet2
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Dani Roisman, The Planet |
Dani Roisman currently works at The Planet. He previously provided Network Design and Engineering services at Peak Web Consulting. In addition to his role as a Senior Network Architect, he was also the Network Engineering Team Lead, providing technical guidance and oversight to other Network Engineers. He specializes in large content datacenters and networks, with a focus on peering and multi-homing to reduce costs, improve customer negotiating stance, as well as increased network capacity, performance, and fault-tolerance. His network design and implementation accomplishments include multiplayer game and social networking deployments hosting over 5,000 servers across 9 datacenters with Internet bandwidth capacities reaching 250Gbps.
Prior to his tenure at Peak, Dani was the Director of Network and Facilities Architecture at Sony Online Entertainment. Since starting at Sony in 1997 as a computer technology generalist, he was a key asset as the company grew from a 40-person team making a handful of free web-based games, to a leader in the massively-multiplayer market, boasting a profitable business providing subscription-based premium games including EverQuest, Star Wars Galaxies, and PlanetSide. Responsibilities at Sony included design, implementation, and operations of a multinational content hosting network of over 4,500 servers.
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Sonia Sakovich |
Experience
I have been working at Sprint for 12 years where I started as a NOC Engineer. One year later I moved to the Data Engineering Organization where I was responsible for building Sprintlink sites in both the US and Asia. Various roles I performed included:
- Site engineer – performed both physical and logical router installations from Cisco 2511 to GSR 12416 routers to CRS routers (logical only)
- Principal Program Manager for Sprintlink Asia Build involved in site selection, vendor review and installation
- Management of budgets for capacity planning and new site builds ranging from 2M to 27M
- Present role as Peering Coordinator for Sprint
- Regulatory extern with the Sprint Regulatory Group/Legal group writing draft legal responses to the FCC and performing economic analysis related to impacts of legal decisions
Prior to Sprint I worked as an on site tech at DOJ for JCON Program, and wrote RFP responses for GTE. In addition, I worked at Lexis Nexis where I was responsible for the sales and service of private database services to the Legal community
Education
- Master Degree in Law and Economics (JM), George Mason University School of Law, 2006
- Master Degree in Information Systems from George Mason University School of Information Technology and Engineering, 1995
- Master Certificate in Program Management form George Washington University, 2000
- Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University
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Tom Scholl, AT&T |
Within the Global IP/MPLS backbone design & development team, his role is to design routing architectures for the core network and work on network integration of the legacy SBC Internet Services network to the AT&T common backbone. Tom has spent his last several years at SBC and Ameritech working in both operations and network engineering roles. He has presented several times at NANOG and always makes time available to help peers and distribute clue where needed.
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Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications |
Richard Steenbergen is the co-founder of nLayer Communications, a respectably sized and profitable North American based IP backbone, where he currently serves as the Chief Technical Officer. Richard brings years of experience in practical techniques for network operators, and is a frequent contributor in many community forums. Previously, Richard served as a Senior Network Engineer at several large NSPs, and was the Senior Software Engineer responsible for developing optimized routing technologies at netVmg, Inc.
Richard is also an active developer for tools and software used by the network operator community. Some notable projects include PeeringDB, a portal used by many networks to help coordinate their peering activities, and IRRPT, a software package used by ISPs to maintain IRR-based prefix filters.
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