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Meet the Steering Committee currently serving the NANOG Community. Steering Committee members can be reached at
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NANOG Steering Committee
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Steve Feldman, CBS Interactive
Steering Committee Chair |
Steve Feldman has been involved in computer networking since 1978. He has worked in software development and network engineering for Tymnet and MFS/Worldcom, where he was the principal architect for the MAE Internet exchanges. Since then, he has gone on to work for several startups and acted as an independent consultant, and is now a network engineer for CBS Interactive
(formerly CNET Networks). He was also chair of the NANOG Program Committee from 2005 through 2007. Steve received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Patrick W. Gilmore, Akamai Technologies |
Patrick W. Gilmore is principal architect at Akamai Technologies, where he has worked
for over eight years. He currently oversees the Network Architecture department.
Prior to Akamai, he worked at Onyx Network, Concentric Networks, and
Priori Networks.
He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the London Internet
Exchange, a member of the Board of Directors of the Seattle Internet
Exchange, and an Administrator of the PeeringDB.
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Sylvie LaPerrière, Google |
Sylvie LaPerrière has been an active builder of the global Internet Infrastructure, developing peering relationships with Internet players around the world and expanding the network in underserved markets via new undersea cables or satellite connectivity. She serves as Steering Committee Vice-Chair for the North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG).
At Google Inc., Sylvie is on the program management team building out the Internet connectivity and content distribution reach required to deliver Google services worldwide. While at Tata Communications Ltd, she pushed the expansion of its Internet backbone network into more than 25 new markets, had it circle the globe and achieved Tier1 status.
Sylvie has 17 years of international business development experience for Internet, data and mobile telecommunications services. A frequent speaker on international panels, she received her Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and Information Systems from École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal.
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David Meyer, Cisco Systems
Program Committee Chair |
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.
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Robert Seastrom, Afilias |
Robert Seastrom's professional background includes over twenty years of system
administration, network design, roll-out, and operations (including
pioneering networks in Japan and the Republic of Georgia), building
data centers and content distribution networks, and service as a
corporate officer and cofounder of both Internet-related and
non-Internet-related non-profit corporations. He is presently serving
his second term on the ARIN Advisory Council.
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Michael K. Smith, Adhost
Communications Committee Chair |
Michael is the CTO of Adhost Internet - a Seattle-based provider of colocation, hosting and managed services. He also serves as a technical adviso r to the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX), and is a SANS Mentor. He has previously held senior network engineering positions at NoaNet, Semaphore Corporation and Northwest Link.
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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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Duane Wessels, VeriSign |
Following his college education in Physics and Telecommunications, Duane worked on the Squid/IRCache project at UCSD. For many years his company, The Measurement Factory, developed open source testing and measurement tools for HTTP and DNS. Recently he was the Director of the Domain Name System Operations Analysis and Research Center (DNS-OARC). Currently Duane researches DNSSEC deployment for VeriSign.
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