Internet Security and Internet Architecture from Pollere LLC

Our mission is to apply proven research and business approaches to provide solutions that fit our client's needs. Pollere LLC can provide network and telecommunications consultants with technical expertise that is both wide and deep, who are customer-oriented, and are skilled at coming up to speed.

Kathleen M. Nichols, founder and CEO

Prior to founding Pollere LLC, Dr. Nichols was Vice President of Network Science at Packet Design LLC where she was part of the founding team. Prior to Packet Design she was Director, Advanced Internet Architecures in the Office of the CTO at Cisco Systems, Inc. She has held advanced architecture and research positions as both individual contributor and project lead at Bay Networks, Com21, Philips Research Labs, Apple Computer, and AT&T Bell Labs. In addition, she was co-chair of the IETF Differentiated Services Working Group, has held several positions with the IEEE Hot Interconnects Symposium, and has been a guest editor of both IEEE Software and IEEE Micro.

Dr. Nichols holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from University of California, Berkeley and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

Elizabeth L. Kaufman, Strategic Analysis and Design

Ms. Kaufman spent several years at Cisco Systems where she held positions as Business Development Manager, Product Line Manager for IOS Security, and General Manager of Security Products and Technologies. Prior to Cisco, she was employed by BBN in architectural and operational roles, specializing in security, and she got her start in IP networking in Yale University's Computing and Information Systems. Prior to joining Pollere LLC, she became owner/operator of New Prospect Ranch and an independent consultant specializing in product and service review, design, and delivery.

Ms. Kaufman is the author of Implementing IPsec: Making Security Work on VPNs, Intranets, and Extranets, part of Wiley's Networking Council series of books.

Peter J. Moyer, VP, Network Architecture

Mr. Moyer has over 20 years of communications and networking experience, spanning both military and commercial networks. Mr. Moyer has spent the last 10 years at Juniper Networks, most recently in senior consulting and network architecture positions. Early in his Juniper career, Mr. Moyer was a leading contributor to the establishment and stand-up of the Juniper Networks Professional Services division. He was also heavily involved with the Educational and Certification Services at Juniper. He has functioned as co-author and technical editor of numerous IP networking books (Juniper and Cisco) and has strong multi-vendor IP expertise (Juniper and Cisco). He has led the design of network architecture for many large service providers around the world. His credentials include a BS, CMIS (Computer and Information Science) from the University of Maryland, JNCIE #2 (Juniper Networks Certified Internet Expert) and CCIE #3286 (Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert).

Prior to Juniper, he held network engineering positions with International Network Services (INS) and GTE Government Systems.

Joan Cucchiara, Consulting Engineer

Joan Cucchiara has more than 14 years of experience in data and telecom, principally in the network management area. She carries the distinction of being an IETF MIB doctor, has authored multiple IETF RFCs, and made many contributions to the ATM Forum. She previously held Senior, Principal, and Consulting Engineer positions at established companies including Marconi Communications, Nortel Networks, Bay Networks, Wellfleet and Cabletron, as well as entrepreneurial positions at startups in the Boston, MA and Silicon Valley areas. Additionally, she has been an instructor at Boston University and the University of New Hampshire.

Ms. Cucchiara earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from University of New Hampshire.

Warner Warren, Consulting Engineer

Warner Warren has worked on Speech Recognition, Signal Processing, and VLSI design at Vocal Research, International Computer Science Institute at University of California, Bellcore, and AT&T. Most recently, he has served as Director of Special Projects at One East Palo Alto.

Dr. Warren has a B.S.E.E., an M.S.E, and a Ph.D. all from University of California at Berkeley.

Max Williams, Director of Network Modeling

Max Williams has over 15 years of technical experience with a broad range of DoD and commercial networks. Prior to joining Pollere, LLC, Mr. Williams was a principal communications engineer at ITT Advanced Engineering & Sciences where he led various R&D efforts in the areas of satellite and terrestrial RF communications, network protocol analysis and quality of service and routing architectures for IP and ATM based networks. He has over 10 years of experience applying modeling and simulation techniques and tools for analyzing complex communications networks. In addition to his DoD networking experience, he spent over 3 years as a senior network engineer at the commercial backbone provider UUNet with key roles in the areas of MPLS deployment, traffic engineering and capacity / network planning.

Mr Williams earned his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Mathematics at Virginia Tech and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University.

Tina Wong, Director of Network Science

Tina Wong has many years of experience working with network and systems data including routing, traffic, router configuration and performance data. Previously, she was a faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab and Information Networking Institute. Her main research at Carnegie Mellon was on automating and simplifying networking management and control. Before Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Wong was at Packet Design, working routing protocol analytics and visualizations. Before Packet Design, Dr. Wong was a research scientist at Hewlett Packard Labs, spending time in both Palo Alto and Tokyo Japan, working on next-generation streaming media research. Dr. Wong has published extensively in top journals and conferences such as IEEE Transaction on Networking, IEEE Journal on Selected Area of Communications (JSAC), IEEE INFOCOM and IEEE/IFIP Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN).

Dr. Wong received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley, and her B.S. in Computer Science from University of Washington.

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