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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.

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.