Program Committee Members

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 . Members include:

NANOG Program Committee
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. Term ends October 2012.
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. Term ends October 2013.
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. Term ends October 2012.
Greg Dendy, Equinix	Greg Dendy manages networks and engineers for Equinix in North America. He and his team of tireless engineers operate the Equinix Internet Exchange platforms and other networks including carrier ethernet, Metro DWDM and TDM/SONET platforms to a five nines uptime standard. Greg began his career with Pacific Bell/SBC Internet during the rollout of broadband in the mid/late 1990s, did time with @Home during the implosion of 2001 and has been working for Equinix since 2004. He received a BA from UC Santa Barbara and a MA from CSU Chico. Term ends October 2012. Greg is currently the Vice Chair.
Ryan Donnelly, Verisign	Ryan Donnelly currently manages the Network & Security Architecture team at Verisign, which is responsible for the design and engineering of the company's global network & security infrastructure, as well as transport and peering arrangements. Ryan joined Verisign in 2004, and has served in various capacities that span architecture, operations, and the vast territory in-between. Previously, Ryan held engineering roles at both UUNET and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ryan's principal interests include interconnection, network automation and DNS, among many others. Ryan holds a B.B.A in Information Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Term ends October 2012.
Kevin Epperson, Microsoft	Kevin Epperson is currently with Microsoft working on the core infrastructure and interconnection strategies. Previously Kevin held positions with Cisco Systems providing architecture solutions for a large backbone provider and at Level 3 Communications, LLC in a variety of engineering and management roles with emphasis on scaling provider networks, peering and IPv6. Additionally Kevin teaches a networking course on IP Routing at CU-Boulder in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Masters Program. Term ends October 2012.
Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo!	Igor Gashinsky is a principal architect at Yahoo!, where his responsibilities range from overall network design, including highly resilient datacenter and backbone switching and routing architecture, peering strategy, MPLS design, and L4-7 loadbalancing, to distributed and scalable content delivery methodologies, DNS architecture, and R&D into future technologies. Term ends October 2013.
Greg Hankins, Brocade	Greg Hankins has been attending NANOG since 1998, first as a network operator and now as a hardware vendor. He also attends APRICOT, Euro-IX, various Peering Forums, RIPE, and regional operator conferences where he frequently speaks on network technology and operational topics. Greg currently works as a Global Solutions Architect, Service Providers for Brocade. In this role, he works with service providers and Internet exchanges around the world as a technology evangelist, consulting engineer and customer advocate, and he’s an active member of the network operator and peering community. His combined operator, customer, and vendor background gives him a unique view on current issues, topics and trends in the ISP operator community around the world. In a past life, he organized four Annual Linux Showcase (ALS) conferences, hosted NANOG21, served on the 1998 FREENIX and 1999 O'Reilly Open Source conference program committees, and served on the Linux Journal magazine advisory board. Term ends October 2013.
Manish Karir	Manish Karir has been an active participant in the NANOG community since 2005. He is a frequent presenter at NANOG and over the past 6 years has had the opportunity to present over 11 times on a wide variety of topics including, BGP analysis tools, traffic analysis and visualization tools, darknet traffic research, IRR enhancements, network reputation and RBL analysis, IPv4 address sharing techniques, and ARP/ND traffic studies. His research interests include Internet measurement studies, and large scale network data collection and analysis. Manish is currently the Director of Research and Development at Merit Network Inc. Term ends October 2013.
Mohit Lad, ThousandEyes Inc.	Mohit Lad is the co-founder of ThousandEyes, a network monitoring and security company. Prior to this, he was responsible for designing and implementing an internal monitoring system for Nokia's global network. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2007 and has been actively involved in NANOG throughout his graduate study at UCLA. During his Ph.D. he designed and implemented the Link-Rank visualization for BGP routing diagnosis. He was also the primary designer of PHAS: Prefix hijack alert system (implemented and maintained by Colorado State University). Term ends October 2013.
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. Term ends October 2012.
Dani Roisman, SoftLayer Technologies	Dani Roisman is currently the VP of Network Operations at SoftLayer Technologies (merged with The Planet Internet Services in Nov 2010), where he oversees the teams that run the network supporting over 80,000 managed servers across 11 datacenters. Prior to SoftLayer/The Planet, he was the Senior Network Architect and Network Engineering Team Lead at Peak Web Consulting, and prior to that Director of Network Engineering and Facilities Architecture at Sony Online Entertainment. Dani has specialized 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 massively-multiplayer games (EverQuest, Star Wars Galaxies, and PlanetSide) and social networking deployments hosting over 5,000 servers across 9 datacenters with Internet bandwidth capacities reaching 250Gbps. Term ends October 2013.
Tom Scholl, nLayer Communications	Tom Scholl currently is a Principal Network Engineer at nLayer Communications. He has worked in network engineering roles for the past 14 years and has been an active contributor to the NANOG program with several presentations. He previously was at SBC, which later acquired AT&T and was a key participant on network integrations with Cingular and SBC. While at AT&T, he was main contributor to their architecture of MPLS-TE, BGP and various other network architecture functions. Tom has worked in both engineering and operations roles and understand the needs of each individual group. Tom continues to try to distribute clue and help others when it comes to designing and operating networks. Term ends October 2012.
Michael Sinatra, Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)	Michael Sinatra has been involved in network operations for more than a decade. For over eleven years, he worked as one of the two lead network operator/architects for UC Berkeley. There, he implemented anycast DNS, DNSSEC, and spearheaded IPv6 deployment on the campus. In early 2011, he joined the network engineering team of ESnet where he is currently working on deploying one of the first nationwide 100GE networks. Michael has frequently disseminated his experiences deploying new technologies through presentations, talks, and tutorials at NANOG, the Internet2 meetings, and other community events. On rather short notice, Michael recently chaired a round-table and helped develop the program for the 2011 Chinese-American Networking Symposium in Kunming, China. He has attended NANOG on average of once per year since NANOG 27 in 2003. He has served on the program committees of the Internet2 Joint Techs conference and the CENIC regional conference. Term ends October 2013.
Tony Tauber, Comcast	Tony Tauber's past and present experience ranges broadly from architecture and design through on-going operations and evolution of large networks and at various layers of the protocol stack. Of special interest are network management and instrumentation as well as visualization and structure of network information. Currently, he is Principal Engineer and a founding member within the Backbone Network group at Comcast. Previously, a stint at MIT Lincoln Lab followed nearly a decade working at BBN through mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs and sundry name changes including: NEARnet/BARRnet/SURAnet, BBN Planet, GTE Internetworking, Genuity, and Level3. Term ends October 2013.
David Temkin, Netflix	David Temkin is the Principal Network Architect for Content Delivery at Netflix. He is responsible for the network architecture of Netflix's distributed content caching systems. Previously he managed the corporate Network Engineering teams as the Network Engineering Manager, responsible for global data and voice networks as well as CDN relationships. He has also held the position of Director of IP Product Development and Engineering at Telx. He wass responsible for all Layer 2 & 3 product architecture, design, and deployment across the Telx portfolio of data centers. Previously, he spent time at Yahoo! as the Layer 4-7 Network Architect, responsible for network load balancing. He also designed and built out the global network for Right Media, an online ad serving startup that was later acquired by Yahoo!. Term ends October 2012. David is currently the Program Committee Chair.