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Austin, Texas, US

Tempe, AZ, US

DNS Architect, including Anycast authoritative managed DNS, DNSSEC, networking, security, and system and POP architecture.

San Jose, CA, US

Infrastructure & Network Security Architecture.Contributed to Information Security Standards.Reviewed and authored secure design templates.Participated in crypto validation, including co-author on patent applications.Built Network Security Lab (with DNSSEC+validation, TLS mutual auth, SSH host auth only via DNSSEC, SSH bastion north-south only, HTTPS.

San Francisco, CA, US

DNS, VPN, DDOS, Firewalls, on-call, BGP, JunOS, flow-spec, Arbor, Radware, and investigating network security issues.

Reston, Virginia (VA), US

In the Verisign Labs group, doing research for DNS etc.Developed prototype/POC DNS/HTTP transport/proxy.Identified (not-yet-published) DNS protocol-level vulnerabilities based on earlier intern's PhD work.Co-authored DNS RFC (IETF RFC 7535).Initial work on BGP route leaks (IETF drafts), for what became IETF RFC 7908.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA

Identified client business/user requirements and analyzed, defined, and developed network architectures within complex computing environmentsDesigned project documents, configuration guidelines, and MOPsWorked with other solution providers to identify ways to improve services for clients and reduce costsLed trouble-shooting of complex, multi-provider.

Horsham, PA, US

Assisted in design, implemented, and deployed BGP anycast global authoritative TLD (top level domain) nodes for a global DNS provider. This included router (BGP, OSPF), load balancer (F5), server and software (Linux and freeBSD, BIND and NSD) installation, configuration, and operation. Deployment was at five sites on three continents.Tested vendor DNS.

US

Designed the product architecture for a BGP-based IP exchange service for over two dozen ISPs/NSPs.Developed Internet network simulation (for the entire Internet) using commodity consumer host hardware, VMs with in-house built BGP software and network performance simulation stack (hops, latency, loss) for every IP prefix.

Paris, FR

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Developed routing and peering polices for an IP over DWDM network;Selected/deployed equipment and created operations documentation;Provided pre- and post-sales, network, and customer support

CA

Designed and implemented routing policy on a what became a Tier-1 backbone network.Deployed and upgraded all routers, moving older routers to the edges.Deployed advanced technologies that included multicast, IPv6, and caching-over-satellitePerformed capacity planning and developed long-term network plans (DS3 through OC-48) on the backbone network.Built.

Developed and implemented routing and POP design for service provider’s major backbone network.Conducted network and capacity planning for integration of acquired networks and selected/deployed new technologies.Triaged and diagnosed telco transport network problems (first ISP DS3 in Canada) and access issues (ISDN interoperability between routers and.