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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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Betty Burke, Merit |
Over 33 years tenure at the University of Michigan previously in Business Operations, Computer Science, School of Business, and Information Technology Services responsible for all campus networking and academic computing support requirements. Merit appointment bega in 1997 working with MichNet Dial-In, AAA Consortium activities, RSNG, Infrastructure and Facilities Manager, currently serving as the NANOG Project Manager and the MITC Facilities Manager.
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Steve Feldman, CBS Interactive (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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Randy Epstein, WV Fiber
MLC Chair |
Randy is a 21 year veteran of the industry. He is President of WV Fiber, a multi-national transit and transport provider as well as the Co-Founder and CIO of Host.net, an Inc.500 provider of enterprise/government Internet transit, transport, managed security and colocation services. Mr. Epstein serves on the Board of Directors of OCCAID, an IPv6 research and development network deployed globally to assist researchers and Internet service providers in their transition to next-generation IPv6 technology. Mr. Epstein has taken a keen interest in peering strategy and negotiation.
Term ends October 2010.
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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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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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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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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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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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Duane Wessels, Domain Name System Operations Analysis and Research Center |
Following my college education in Physics and Telecommunications,
I worked for many years on the Squid/IRCache project at UCSD. My,
company The Measurement Factory, develops open source testing and
measurement tools for HTTP and DNS. Currently I am the Director
of the Domain Name System Operations Analysis and Research Center
(DNS-OARC).
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