NANOG Opportunities

Jezzibell Gilmore, GTT

Jezzibell currently serves as the Vice President of Business Development for GTT, one of the largest transit free network service providers in the world. She brings 15+ years of professional experience on the Internet. Jezzibell began her tenure in the industry at AboveNet, when it was still just a startup that no one had heard of. She has held various positions in Management, Marketing, Operations, Global Sourcing, Corporate Strategy, and Business Development at companies such as: AboveNet, Akamai Technologies, State Street, Roam Data, IX Reach, ServerCentral / nLayer, and GTT. Jezzibell was the Vice Chair of the Development Committee from 2012 - 2013. She has been an active NANOG participant since 2001.

• Susan Forney, Markley Group.

DNSSEC & RPKI

Mark Kosters, ARIN Chief Technology Officer

Mark Kosters is the Chief Technology Officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for all engineering initiatives within the organization, leading both development and operations. Mark has over twenty-three years of experience as an applications developer, networking engineer, technical manager and executive. For eighteen years previous to his employment at ARIN, he has been a senior engineer at Data Defense Network (DDN) NIC, chief engineer and Principal Investigator under the NSF-sponsored Internet NIC (InterNIC), and Vice President of Research at VeriSign. Over his career, Mark has been involved in application design and implementation of core internet client/server tools, router administration, UNIX system administration, database administration, and network security. He has represented both network information centers in various technical forums such as the IETF, RIPE, APNIC, CaribNOG and NANOG. Additionally, he has co-authored many IETF RFCs running from directory services to IP Address Practices to improvements to DNSSEC.

Tutorial: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking

Richard Steenbergen, Turkbergen Telecom

Richard A Steenbergen worked for several ISPs in the late 1990s, served as Chief Scientist at ServerCentral, founded nLayer Communications and stayed as CTO through its acquisition by GTT. He's most recently merged with Turkes Industries and established a growing boutique residential experience brand, "The Turkbergen".

The Interplay of Operations Knowledge and Policy in IPv6 Deployment

Jesse Sowell, MIT

Jesse Sowell recently completed a PhD entitled “Finding Order in a Contentious Internet” in the Technology, Management, and Policy track of MIT’s Engineering Systems Division. Sowell’s dissertation evaluated common resource management institutions that sustain the integrity of the Internet’s numbering and routing system, focusing on the character of authority in these communities (in contrast to state authority) and the family of consensus processes used to adapt resource policy apace with Internet growth and development. Sowell’s has previously done work on the contextual integrity of online privacy (Master’s thesis). Currently, Sowell is a Research Affiliate at MIT building on his work with anti-abuse communities as one element in the larger complex of non-state (“private”) institutions supporting cybersecurity. Sowell is also building on his studies of IX development and management, most notably contributing to ISOC’s work on IX deployment in developing regions.

Untethering the Branch: Enterprise Peering Opportunities

Gabe Cole, RTE Group

Gabe Cole, Founder of RTE Group, is an accomplished Technology Executive with over 20 years’ experience across data center, network, and cloud. Gabe assists service providers and enterprises with converged network and data center design, procurement, and migration including colocation and the XaaS stack of services. He has personally worked on over 150 engagements in North America and EMEA. He is an expert at balancing reliability and performance requirements against technology and business limitations to consistently increase performance at progressively lower price points. In addition, he is frequently called on by investors for assistance with data centers, telco hotels, data center technologies, and services companies. Gabe has also founded and/or participated in a number of venture-backed emergent technology companies including Telwares, Virtustream, Verne Global, Enclave, and Ixpanse. He was one of three founders of CO Space, Inc., a leading provider of colocation and data center facilities and related operations services to the telecommunications, data, and Internet markets. CO Space was acquired by Internap Network Services Corporation in 2000. Gabe is an engineer at heart and an expert in IT architecture, with a current professional focus on the development of highly efficient data centers at "edge" locations where the convergence of local (mobile and terrestrial) networks, backbone networks, and content/application providers is enabling next generation services. Gabe holds SB and SM degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Open Mic, Survey, Program Wrap-up

• Sean Kennedy.