Biographies

 

Fourth Network Security Event for Latin America and the Caribbean

André Gerhard - USP.br

André Gerhard is a computer engineer graduated from Universidade de São Paulo Polytechnic School (POLI - USP), with a master's degree in Design of IC's by the same institution. He works at Centro de Computação Eletrônica (the organization responsible for coordinating USP's computing and networking resources) as a manager of USP's main Internet services (email, DNS, webhosting and others). He is a member of the USP CSIRT.

Daniel Araújo Melo - Serpro

Daniel Araújo Melo, Analista do Serpro - Serviço Federal de Processamento de Dados, atua no Grupo de Resposta a Ataques da Intranet - TIGRA. Possui as certificações: MCSO - Modulo Certified Security Officer, ACPCF - Axur Certified Professional Computer Forensics. Coordena o Curso Superior de Tecnologia em Redes de Computadores da Faculdade dos Guararapes, onde é professor da Disciplina Segurança de Redes. Graduado em Tecnologia em Telemática, através do Centro Federal de Ensino Tecnológico da Paraíba (CEFETPB). Atualmente é aluno do Mestrado em Ciência da Computação no Centro de Informática da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (CIN/UFPE), e pesquisa na área de Inteligência Computacional como utilizar técnicas de mineração de dados em sistemas de detecção de intrusão.

Marcela Pallero - ArCERT

Marcela Pallero. Es Ing. en Sistemas de Información (UTN.2001), Profesora en Disciplinas Industriales (ISPT-UTN.2003) y Especialista en Criptografía y Seguridad Teleinformática (ESTE.2004). Actualmente es Colaboradora en el dictado del Módulo Informática Forense en el Posgrado de Derecho Informático en la Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina. Ha participado en gran cantidad de cursos y congresos relacionados con Delitos Informáticos, Seguridad Informática e Informática Forense. Es consultora de seguridad en ArCERT desde Agosto de 2008. Anteriormente se desempeñó por más de 5 años asistiendo técnicamente en la Investigación de delitos relacionados con tecnologías en la División Delitos en Tecnologías de la Policía Federal Argentina.

Marta Cristina Bazzo Cilento

Marta Cristina Bazzo Cilento has a graduation in mathematics from Instituto de Matematica e Estatistica (IME), Universidade de Sao Paulo, and a specialization in Network Engineering and Telecommunications Systems from INATEL - Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicacoes. She works at Centro de Computação Eletrônica since 1990, with experiences in UNIX administration, networking and security. In 2008 she assumed the management of the university's NOC, she is also responsible for the USP CSIRT.

Jesús Martínez Alfonso

Jesús Martínez Alfonso, Ingeniero en Sistemas Automatizados de Dirección graduado del Instituto Politécnico de L'vov, Ucrania, en 1981, laboró desde 1984 y hasta 1999 en el Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente, es fundador del Centro Nacional de Intercambio Automatizado de Información (CENIAInternet), que dirigió hasta 1999. Es en esta organización donde crea y dirige el proyecto de interconexión de Cuba a Internet en el año 1996.

Desde 1990 participa en reuniones de la Región sobre el desarrollo de Internet. Ha impartido en conferencias en eventos de Venezuela, Perú, Argentina, Chile, México, República Dominicana, Panamá y otros países de la región. Es fundador del FORO Permanente de Redes de América Latina y el Caribe. Ha propuesto y dirigido proyectos de conexión a Internet en varios Ministerios de Cuba.

En 1998 dirigió el proyecto de creación de CUBA-NIC (Centro de Información de Red de Cuba). Dirigió la red de Internet del Ministerio del transporte desde 1999 y hasta 2000, donde se implementaron proyectos de Intranet y extranet. Ha sido consultor y ha asesorado proyectos vinculados a la temática de Redes para la Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela, ONUDI, UNESCO, PNUD y otras organizaciones internacionales.

En el 2001 dirigió la División de Internet de Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba (ETECSA) que comprendía el ISP INFOCOM y el Portal (www.cubasi.cu) hasta junio del 2002 que pasó a dirigir el ISP de Enet-ETECSA.

Es fundador y miembro de LACNIC. En noviembre de 2003 fue electo como miembro del directorio, desempeñando la función de Director como Segundo Tesorero. Ha participado en 3 Congreso de ICANN entre los años 2005 y 2006.

Desde 2003 creó, junto a otros especialistas de reconocido prestigio el Task Force de IPv6 en Cuba, el cual coordina y en esta temática ha impartido conferencias y participado en mesas Redondas en Cuba y diferentes países de la región.

En el periodo de enero 2006 a agosto 2007, trabajó como especialista en Temas de Transmisión de Datos e Internet de la Dirección de Regulaciones y Normas del Ministerio de Informática y Comunicaciones de la República de Cuba, donde realizó estudios sobre los Recursos de Internet para elaborar las propuestas de ordenamiento en el país. Ha sido tutor de tesis de pre grados en el ISPJAE en los años 1997, 1998 y 2006.

Desde agosto de 2007 trabaja como director de la Red Transnet del MITRANS, donde ha realizado los proyectos de modernización y ampliación de la Red Transnet y el sistema Miralejos para la Gestión de Servicios y Clientes para Redes de Datos e Internet, que se encuentra registrado en el CENDA.

 

Regional Interconnection Forum NAPLA 2009

Alejandro Guzmán Giraldo - Internexa

Ingeniero Electrónico de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana de Medellín, Colombia, Especialista en Telecomunicaciones y Candidato a Magíster en Ingeniería con énfasis en Telecomunicaciones de la misma Universidad. Posee estudios en Innovación y Design Thinking, Desarrollo de Productos, Mercadeo, Estrategia Comercial y Gerencia de Proyectos. Es catedrático de posgrados en varias universidades en Colombia en áreas de Telecomunicaciones, Gerencia de Proyectos y Estrategia. Tiene amplia experiencia en implementación, expansión e integración de redes de telecomunicaciones y en el desarrollo de nuevos servicios. Actualmente se desempeña como Ingeniero Senior de Desarrollo de Productos en Internexa y es miembro del Comité Ejecutivo del NAP Colombia. Tiene a su cargo el desarrollo de nuevos servicios para la región andina y trabaja en el despliegue de la estrategia de contenidos de Internexa.

David Meyer - Cisco/University of Oregon

David Meyer is currently a Director in the Advanced Research and Technologies Group at Cisco Systems, where he works on future directions for Internet technologies. He is also a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) of the the IETF (www.ietf.org), where he also co-chairs the SPEERMINT working group. Until recently, he was also chair of the MBONED, MSDP, and DNSOP working groups. He is also a member of several IETF directorates and IRTF research groups. He is also active in the operator community, and was a long standing member of the NANOG (www.nanog.org) program committee. He is also active in other standards organizations such as ANSI T1X1. Prior to joining Cisco, he served as Senior Scientist, Chief Technologist and Director of IP Technology Development at Sprint. He is also Director of the Advanced Network Technology Center at the University of Oregon. Prior to working at Sprint, he worked at Cisco, where he was involved in software development, working both on multicast and BGP. See http://www.1-4-5.net/~dmm/vita.html for more information.

Jose Miguel Guzman - Google

Jose Miguel Guzman es el Technical Program Manager de Distibucion de Contenidos de Google para Iberoamerica. Su principal responsabilidad es desarrollar acuerdos que permitan que los usuarios de Internet puedan acceder a los contenidos de Google/Youtube con la mejor calidad posible, y al menor costo para los ISPs.

Sus objetivos incluyen mejorar el acceso a los contenidos desde toda la region, impulsar mediante http://ipv6.google.com/ una mayor adopcion de IPv6 en latinoamerica, y contribuir a un desarrollo de una mejor internet en español y portugues.

Jose Miguel ha estado involucrado en la industria el software y telecomunicaciones desde el origen de la Intenet en la region, y antes de Google ocupo diversas posiciones en empresas de tecnologia en Chile.

 

Seventh Latin American IPv6 Forum – FLIP-6

Alain Durand - Comcast

Alain has been working on IPv6 since 1994. He has authored numerous RFCs and Internet Drafts and served as working group chair of the IETF Ngtrans and Softwires working groups, developing tools to facilitate the integration of IPv4 & IPv6.

Alain is participating actively in the discussions with the various Regional Internet Registries related to the IPv4 completion. Prior to Comcast, Alain was at Sun Microsystems, working as the IPv6 architect during the development of Solaris 10.

Alain has a long history of working with the Internet Society, leading French-speaking Internet workshops for the developing countries from 1996 to 1998 as part of the INET.

Guillermo Cicileo - Red de Interconexión Universitaria de Argentina

Guillermo Cicileo se desempeña actualmente como Coordinador de la RIU, Red de Interconexión Universitaria de Argentina. Ha coordinado el Grupo de trabajo de multicast de RedCLARA desde 2005 y su actividad esta ligada a las redes cientifico y academicas de Argentina e Internacionales.

Mariela Rocha - FLIP-6 Moderator

Ms Rocha is currently working as a technical expert at the University Interconnection Network of Argentina. She has been the Coordinator of the IPv6 Latin American Forum - FLIP6, and the IPv6 Task Force for Latin America and the Caribbean since 2006.
She has strongly focused her professional activity on the areas of network engineering and the implementation of new technologies, basically within the academic environment.

Jordi Palet Martínez - Consulintel

Jordi Palet Martínez has been working in computers, networking, and telecomm business during the past 20 years. His experience includes programming in several languages, OS porting, electronic and microcomputer circuit design, consultancy and network design and implementation, among others. He has been involved with technical, marketing and product management in several companies, and nowadays is working as CEO/CTO at Consulintel, Madrid.

Jordi frequently writes articles, white papers, and presentations about most of the high-end technologies. He is involved in many forums, such as: ISOC, IETF, RIPE, the European Commission IPv6 Task Force. He has co-authored numerous IETF documents.

Over the past 3-4 years, he has been involved in the RIRs policy making process, having actively participated and presented in all the meeting in all the regions, and volunteers his time to assist all the RIRs in training activities, mainly related to IPv6. Jordi also maintains a web site for IPv6 news and information The IPv6 Portal. Also part of its relevant work on this field is IPv6day, and in Spanish 6SOS.

Jordi has had considerable experience working in the development, promotion and deployment of IPv6, including the IPv6 Forum, the IPv6 Logo Committee, European IPv6 Task Force, Spanish IPv6 Task Force (among others in many countries), IPv6 Task Force Steering Committee, 6POWER, 6QM, Eurov6, IPv6 Cluster, ENABLE, RiNG, 6DEPLOY, and the Eureka project PlaNetS. He was the designer of Euro6IX and its Scientific Project Coordinator.

Jordi is also working in other areas, including new security architecture for Internet (Distributed Security), Mobility beyond MIPv6, Routing in Next Generation, and Power Line Communications (PLC/BPL/PLT).

He also participates in the OCCAID project to provide free (time-limited) IPv6 transit to ISPs when their existing upstream providers don't support yet IPv6 transit by their own (mainly in Africa, LAC and AP).

Jorge Niedbalski - CL

Jorge is a software engineer, experienced in the design of TCP/IP client-server applications. He is currently working in the integration and migration of IPv4 software to IPv4/IPv6 compatible software. As part of a research project, he designed and implemented DDOMP (Distributed Data Over Multicast Protocol), a protocol of data distribution over multicast IPv6 nodes. In Chile – acting as administrator for the corporate network of the Chilean Public Works Ministry – he pioneered the implementation of dual-stack networks, through three medium-scale projects for the public sector. He participates in most of the discussion lists on IPv6, and is an active member of organizations focused on developing free software, especially in relation to the *BSD projects.

Jose Miguel Guzman - Google

Jose Miguel Guzman es el Technical Program Manager de Distibucion de Contenidos de Google para Iberoamerica. Su principal responsabilidad es desarrollar acuerdos que permitan que los usuarios de Internet puedan acceder a los contenidos de Google/Youtube con la mejor calidad posible, y al menor costo para los ISPs.

Sus objetivos incluyen mejorar el acceso a los contenidos desde toda la region, impulsar mediante http://ipv6.google.com/ una mayor adopcion de IPv6 en latinoamerica, y contribuir a un desarrollo de una mejor internet en español y portugues.

Jose Miguel ha estado involucrado en la industria el software y telecomunicaciones desde el origen de la Intenet en la region, y antes de Google ocupo diversas posiciones en empresas de tecnologia en Chile.

Martin J. Levy - Hurricane Electric

Martin Levy has been involved in the TCP/IP world since the publication of the first TCP/IP RFCs. Born and educated in England, Martin moved to the United States to work as a software developer at the prestigious Bell Labs. It was at Bell Labs that he ran their first TCP/IP network-enabled UNIX computers. After seven years in New Jersey, Martin moved to California and joined the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial life to continue his focus on networking software and systems. When the ISP industry started to take root in the early 1990s, it was natural for Martin to move into this industry. Since then, Martin has been building networks in California, the greater US, Europe, and Latin America. Since joining Hurricane Electric in early 2008, Martin has taken on the role of markedly expanding the Hurricane Electric IPv6 commercial offerings, including its expansion into Asia and additional cities worldwide.

Santiago Aggio - AR

Mr Aggio holds a degree in Electronics Engineering and has specialized in data and computer networks for scientific and academic applications. At present he is involved in the implementation of HPC (High Performance Computing) technologies by means of clusters and virtual machines on IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
In addition, he is working as network administrator at the National Technological University of Bahía Blanca, and as a Professional at the CCTBB (the Technological and Scientific Center of Bahia Blanca), reporting to CONICET (the Argentine National Scientific and Technological Research Council).

Roque Gagliano - LACNIC

Roque Gagliano holds an engineering degree from the Universidad de la  República, Uruguay and a M. Sc from the University of Kansas, USA. He  is currently a Senior Project Engineer and Policy officer at LACNIC.  There he oversights the LACNIC policy development process and  different LACNIC projects. Particularly, he has been the LACNIC IPv6  instructor as part of the 6Deploy project and has help to the  establishment of different IPv6 task forces throughout the Latin- American and Caribbean Region.Previously to joining LACNIC, worked as  Network Engineer at ANTEL, Uruguay having responsibilities in network  planning and operations and in Sprint, USA. He also chaired NAPLA  (Latin American IXP group) between 2006 and 2008 and is currently a  researcher in the Future Internet group at the Computer Science  Institute (INCO-UdelaR). Mr Gagliano is a regular speaker in different  meetings such as NANOG, GTER, APRICOT and has taken part in the main  access panel in the IGF forum in Rio de Janeiro in 2007.

 

Tutorial: BGP - Introduction / Tutorial: BGP - Traffic Engineering

José Domínguez - University of Oregon

José Domínguez is currently a Senior Network Engineer with the University of Oregon, where he provides leadership and guidance in building the University's network. As part of his work at the University, José also manages and operates the Oregon Gigapop and the Oregon Internet Exchange which provide connectivity to Internet2 and commodity Internet. During the last 20 years, José has been involved in building networks and deploying emerging technologies in the educational sector and service providers in Dominican Republic, where he designed the first NREN initiative for the country, other countries in Latin America and the USA. José also works with the Network Startup Resource Center (http://www.nsrc.org) and the Escuela Latinoamericana de Redes (https://www.eslred.org.ve) providing strategic training and technical advice to networking projects in emerging markets.

 

Tutorial: IPv6 in the last mile

Michael De Leo - Cisco Systems

Michael De Leo works at Cisco Systems as a CTO for Latin America under the Office of the CTO. He has worked at Cisco for 12 years and has been involved in networking and designing networks for over 18 years. He is currently involved in Connected Real Estate, IPv6, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Building Automation and other new technologies that are transforming customer networks. During his years at Cisco he has help service provider and enterprise customers design networks, look at new technologies and best practices, help promote the development of the Internet in emerging markets in Latin America, Asia and Africa as well as create awareness internally about some opportunities in new areas of technology.

 

Tutorial: IPv6 - Introduction and Configuration

Jordi Palet Martínez - Consulintel

Jordi Palet Martínez has been working in computers, networking, and telecomm business during the past 20 years. His experience includes programming in several languages, OS porting, electronic and microcomputer circuit design, consultancy and network design and implementation, among others. He has been involved with technical, marketing and product management in several companies, and nowadays is working as CEO/CTO at Consulintel, Madrid.

Jordi frequently writes articles, white papers, and presentations about most of the high-end technologies. He is involved in many forums, such as: ISOC, IETF, RIPE, the European Commission IPv6 Task Force. He has co-authored numerous IETF documents.

Over the past 3-4 years, he has been involved in the RIRs policy making process, having actively participated and presented in all the meeting in all the regions, and volunteers his time to assist all the RIRs in training activities, mainly related to IPv6. Jordi also maintains a web site for IPv6 news and information The IPv6 Portal. Also part of its relevant work on this field is IPv6day, and in Spanish 6SOS.

Jordi has had considerable experience working in the development, promotion and deployment of IPv6, including the IPv6 Forum, the IPv6 Logo Committee, European IPv6 Task Force, Spanish IPv6 Task Force (among others in many countries), IPv6 Task Force Steering Committee, 6POWER, 6QM, Eurov6, IPv6 Cluster, ENABLE, RiNG, 6DEPLOY, and the Eureka project PlaNetS. He was the designer of Euro6IX and its Scientific Project Coordinator.

Jordi is also working in other areas, including new security architecture for Internet (Distributed Security), Mobility beyond MIPv6, Routing in Next Generation, and Power Line Communications (PLC/BPL/PLT).

He also participates in the OCCAID project to provide free (time-limited) IPv6 transit to ISPs when their existing upstream providers don't support yet IPv6 transit by their own (mainly in Africa, LAC and AP).

 

Tutorial: IPv6 - Planning its Development

Roque Gagliano - LACNIC

Roque Gagliano holds an engineering degree from the Universidad de la  República, Uruguay and a M. Sc from the University of Kansas, USA. He  is currently a Senior Project Engineer and Policy officer at LACNIC.  There he oversights the LACNIC policy development process and  different LACNIC projects. Particularly, he has been the LACNIC IPv6  instructor as part of the 6Deploy project and has help to the  establishment of different IPv6 task forces throughout the Latin- American and Caribbean Region.Previously to joining LACNIC, worked as  Network Engineer at ANTEL, Uruguay having responsibilities in network  planning and operations and in Sprint, USA. He also chaired NAPLA  (Latin American IXP group) between 2006 and 2008 and is currently a  researcher in the Future Internet group at the Computer Science  Institute (INCO-UdelaR). Mr Gagliano is a regular speaker in different  meetings such as NANOG, GTER, APRICOT and has taken part in the main  access panel in the IGF forum in Rio de Janeiro in 2007.