Dr Tim Chown
School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton

Bio

Dr Tim Chown works in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. His duties are split between lecturing, research and management responsibility for the School's IT systems. He has led the participation of the School in a number of projects focusing on IPv6, including the flagship EU IST project 6NET (www.6net.org) where he was coordinator for IPv6 transition technology studies and deployment.

His group has been working with IPv6 since 1996, and deployed the UK's first native WAN link in conjunction with UUNet in 1997. He has been participating in the IETF since 1998, and is active in a number of IETF WGs including 6man, v6ops, dhc and mboned.

The School has deployed IPv6 natively across a network of over 3,000 users and 5,000 hosts, as a dual-stack transition from an IPv4 service. The network encompasses host and router platforms from a variety of commercial and open source providers. A small IPv6-only testbed network is also maintained, which includes Mobile IPv6 support.

Dr Chown has acted as an advisor to JANET, the UK academic network provider, in areas including IPv6, IP security, wireless networking and network QoS. He also has interests in areas including ad-hoc and community networking, IP multicast and peer-to-peer applications.

Giorgio Lembo
Head of Research and Development, Tinet

Bio

Giorgio Lembo (Tinet S.p.A.) Giorgio Lembo is Head of Research and Development at Tinet. Mr Lembo began his career mid ‘90s with Wisper Plc later acquired by Internet Network Services Plc, part of the Cable&Wireless Group. In ’96 he cooperated to the works that lead to the creation of the Milano Internet Exchange, of which he became founding member. In 2001 Giorgio joined Ipergy Communications, a Brussels based ISP, being in charge of their Rapid European Deployment network design. He then joined the Tiscali group managing the European Networks Design within Corporate and subsequently in charge of the Italian B2B Presales activities. Since April 2008 he has been leading Tinet R&D, where he coordinates the company research toward network systems optimization.

Ruth Lynch
Research IT Team Lead in UCD IT Services

Bio

Ruth is Research IT Team Lead in UCD IT Services. Having worked for a number of years in the networking area she is now responsible for the delivery of research enabling services including HPC Clusters, Virtual Servers, Storage and Collaborative Services. She is a graduate of the Dublin Institute of Technology and Trinity College Dublin. She also holds a Masters in Technology Management, from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.

Richa Malhotra
SURFnet

Bio

Richa Malhotra holds a BSc degree (Honors, 1997) in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, a MSc degree (Distinction, 1999) in Applied Mathematics and a PhD degree (2008) in Computer Science both from the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

From 1999 till 2009 she was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies and later Alcatel-Lucent, where she performed research on network protocols and algorithms for both wired and wireless networks. It was while working there that she also defended her PhD thesis on QoS modeling and analysis for Carrier Ethernet. Since May 2009 she is working as a network architect at SURFnet where she is actively involved in the architectural design of the Next Generation Ethernet layer for SURFnet7 as part of the Gigaport3 project. She also co-ordinates the research activities carried out in collaboration with SURFnet’s research partners on various aspects of network modeling, design and performance.

Billy Glynn
Team Leader Application Support and Development Technical Services, IE Domain Registry Ltd

Bio

Billy Glynn is responsible for Application Support and Development activities in the IE Domain Registry Limited (IEDR), the company which operates and manages dot IE – the world’s second safest country code top-level domain. During his nine year career at the company Billy has been instrumental in the automation of mission-critical business systems and registration services for the local Internet community. In particular, he led the development of secure automated interfaces for accredited registrars, which was a major enabler of the volume growth of the .ie namespace over that period, and the development of a Java-based Core Registry System (CRS), launched in 2009. He was responsible for the deployment of an IPv6 nameserver for the .ie namespace in 2004, making IEDR one of the first European registries to do so.

Billy has recently completed an M.Sc MIS in Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and his thesis examined DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in an Irish context. Billy recently presented at IRISSCON 2010 on this topic, and he will share more granular detail on the results of the DNS risk research he has undertaken throughout 2010, as part of his thesis. Additionally, his presentation will pay particular attention to the challenges and opportunities related to the deployment of DNSSEC in Ireland. His recommendations on the multi-stakeholder approach required will no doubt be of interest to HEAnet Conference 2010 participants.

Rob Gallagher
Network Engineer, HEAnet

Bio

Rob Gallagher joined HEAnet in 2006 as a Network Engineer in the Managed Network Services (MNS) team. He is primarily involved in the areas of security and system administration. Prior to joining the company, Rob received an MSc in Security & Forensic Computing from DCU and spent 2 years working for Kerna Communications as a systems and network engineer. Rob also holds an EC Council Ethical Hacking & Forensics qualification and is an ISO 27001 Lead Auditor.

Jason O’Connaill
Eircom

Bio

Jason O’Conaill is the Data Centre Principal in eircom where he advises international organizations from the US and EMEA about data centre and hosting strategy and deployment execution into Dublin. Jason specializes in working with International companies looking at Ireland as data centre launch pad for pan European servicers using multiple carrier and technology platforms. Jason's experience reaches back to 1998 when data centers and hosting operations began in Ireland. Prior to joining eircom, Jason worked with data centre operators Above Net, Interxion, and Servecentric. He is a graduate of UCD with a BA Degree in Political Science. eircom is Ireland’s largest communications provider offering a broad range of services across IP Transit, outsourcing, hosted voice, mobile, managed services, security, unified communications and fixed line and wireless broadband. With the largest foot-print of any data centre provider in the country, eircom is responsible for some of Ireland’s largest data centre clients.

Eric Clarke
The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Bio

Eric Clarke began working in RCSI as a member of the Anatomy technical staff and since 1989 has been involved in the development of information and communication technology at the College. In 1998, Eric was formally appointed as Computer Aided Leaning Co-ordinator, this role gave him an opportunity to develop several projects including teaching software production, Intranet development and the implementation of online examinations at RCSI. Throughout the last 10 years Eric has also been closely involved in the RCSI compulsory laptop scheme and more recently in the implementation of Moodle. Eric has pursued formal training in Informatics and was awarded the degree of MSc in Healthcare Informatics in 2000. Eric was appointed as lecturer at RCSI in Medical Information Technology in August 2002.