Company history
Welcome. I've been using the 'web' since before it was the web -- starting wih SGML in the 1980's. Despite my experiences in software development, systems engineering, hardware and software engineering and even electrical engineering, I remain a network strategist, architect, and engineer at heart.
I truly feel that I am passionate about understanding networks services, applications, and developing scaleable and reliable network infrastructure. Perhaps more importantly I enjoy working in our industry and have developed long standing relationships with the companies, and more importantly the people that have brought the Internet home to millions, to work, and now with us everywhere we go as network services go globally wireless.
I have been fortunate to have experience in enterprise campus, building (premise), and data center design with firms including Spherion, Aerotek, and EDS Corporation having served both small and large customers. In my early years I wrote mail software that 'routed' software from once seperate email systems before the advent of the Internet Back in those days we wrote software manually to forward messages from seperate email systems. I've also writen printer drivers.So I have a great deal of respect for develpers, but I do not write much software these days.
Most of my professional experience has been in the service provider space. There I have done outside plant engineering, data center engineering / facilities, power systems design, and of course optical, Ethernet, IP, and wireless netwok and systems design and implentations.
I have very significant experience in large scale optical and IP/Internet design. I co-designed one of the largest Tier I global IP networks -- AOL Transit Data Network (ATDN) and also ran Aleron Broadband (later acquired by Cogent) Tier II backbone.
I've designed networks for some of the largest applications running on the Internet including AOL.COM, Netscape.com, Netscape Rado, CompuServe, ICQ, MapQuest, MovieFone, and AOL Instant Messenger. I have deep subject matter expertise in Global Server Load Balancing and Local Server Load Balancing, having built some of the largest complexes and also having worked for Foundry Networks for almost 5 years. There I specilized in intellectual property development, especially of Layer 4-7 applications. Connection Rate Limiting, Transparent Redirection, et. al.
Most recently I've designed a CLEC transport and IP network (for ILEC interconnect over TDM and VoIP -- over IP obviously) including all of the networks for signaling, transport, and OAMP.
I've also desiged a mutiple small to large (~700km) DWDM transport netwok and converged IP/MPLS networks for full converged services for a large cable operator. In addition to the usual, the design includes end to end services optimized for MEF compliance for large scale local and regional Ethernet transport.
Quitely I've also worked with a team that now has the the largest EPON deployment in North America.