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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, Tata Communications |
Sylvie LaPerrière, Director of Peering and Commercial Operations at Tata Communications, leads the expansion strategy of its Internet backbone network into new markets. Sylvie has 15+ years of product management experience in data and mobile telecommunications services. She joined the company (fka Teleglobe) in 1993 and launched its first commercial Internet service in 1995.
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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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Joe Provo, ITA Software |
Joe Provo is Network Architect at ITA Software, an airline IT and services provider at the forefront of a new generation of technology that is changing the way the travel industry works. Before joining ITA, he was in charge of Internet Engineering at RCN. He has been a systems and IP network consultant for over 15 years, and was the founding engineer at a New England ISP in the early wave of 1994 leading all aspects: building and managing servers, networks from the access to the border, NOC and support infrastructure, developing products and the platforms to support them. Since then he has been on both sides of M&A table, integrated and divested networks, designed and managed national infrastructure, and handled network policies including peering. He has managed portions of the MA.US tree since 1994.
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Andy Rosenzweig, Merit Network |
Andy Rosenzweig is Manager of Professional Learning at Merit Network. He directs an ongoing series of seminars, workshops, classes and community interactions for Merit's membership, and coordinates Merit's NANOG activities. He joined Merit in 1995 and has previously held managerial roles in customer relations and dial-in services. He holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and M.B.A. from Eastern Michigan University.
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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 Commi
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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.
Term ends October 2011.
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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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