Jeff Bartig Email & Phone Number

Madison, Wi, Us

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Architect and operate Internet2’s interconnection/peering services, responsible for all peering negotiations and implementations.• Manage growth and capacity planning by implementing dashboards and reports based on time-series data and netflow analytics using tools such as Grafana and Python.• Lowered interconnections costs, cutting cross-connect and exchange fees by more than 50% by renegotiating existing contracts with interconnection colo providers.• Designed and implemented Internet2’s Cloud Exchange service, enabling universities to extend their campus networks to cloud providers.• Designed Internet2’s L3VPN delivery of DDoS mitigation services.• Redesigned and implemented eBGP routing policy for upgrade from Juniper Nx100G core network to new Cisco IOS-XR Nx400G core network.• Provided numerous seminars and one-on-one consultations with education network and university network engineers on the use of IRR/RADb, RPKI, and PeeringDB as part of MANRS routing security outreach efforts.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Contracted to rapidly bring operations of AS11164 in-house after previous outsource contract was unexpectedly terminated.• Negotiated new colo space for west-coast PoPs and oversaw the transition of equipment and all peers to the new PoPs.

• Responsible for campus border and off-campus networking projects• Successfully separated WiscNet and University of Wisconsin’s state-wide optical/routed networks and rebuilt two separate operational networks meeting a tight 2015 legislative deadline.• Established Wisconsin’s first public peering exchange, MadIX.• Assisted developing bulk purchasing service provider transit contracts used nationally by most of the U.S. regional education networks.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Led the engineering and operation of Wisconsin’s regional education network.• Managed the evaluation, selection, and pricing negotiations for all core backbone equipment, achieving discounts significantly above standard educational discounts.• Shifted traffic from 100% paid transit to 95% settlement-free peering and on-net CDN caching.• Expanded WiscNet from serving just Wisconsin to serving most Big 10 universities.

• Managed campus-wide network services including DNS, DHCP, NTP, and RADIUS.• Operated WiscNet, connecting Wisconsin schools, libraries, and local governments.• Developed campus-wide authentication service and other networking applications in C and Perl.• Deployed and operated campus 56K modem service providing home Internet access to all faculty, staff, and students.

• Designed and implemented campus-wide distributed email system serving 40K campus users.

• Supported faculty use of shared computing resources and developed shell and Perl scripts.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Developed software and device drivers in C, C++, and assembly to automate the operation of and data collection from custom built psychology research hardware.