Operations/Network Operations Centre

Marian Garcia-Vidondo - Chief Operations Officer

 Marian Garcia Vidondo finished her masters degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 1999 at the Public University of Navarra (Spain) specializing in optical communications. At the end of 1999 she moved to
England working as a Software Engineer at Techne Ltd (Duxford) developing embedded software for electronic devices.

In April 2000 she became part of the Operations team at DANTE, working
on day-to-day operational issues. During this time Marian participated in different projects such as the 'GEANT-IPv6' project focused in the deployment of native IPv6 in the GÉANT network. This project was considered a pioneering deployment of native IPv6 at a pan-European level.

Since January 2003 Marian became Operations Manager at DANTE and in July 2007 she was promoted to Chief Operations Officer. Marian is responsible for the operations of GÉANT, the Pan-European research network, providing IP services and point-to-point Ethernet connections to the National Research Networks in Europe. She is as well responsible for the operations of advanced multi-domain services in Europe such as the multi-domain monitoring service. Marian works together with other networks like Internet2 and Esnet in America in the
definition of the global operations for such services.

Toby Rodwell - Deputy COO

 Toby Rodwell studied Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Nottingham, gaining his BEng(Hons) in 1993. After graduating, Toby served in the Royal Navy, leaving in 2001 in order to pursue a career in IT and telecommunications. Having qualified as a Cisco Certified Network Professional, he joined Convergys EMEA Ltd, a company which develops billing software and manages customer support centres. Based in Cambridge, Toby was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the enterprise network, with particular responsibility for network monitoring, record keeping and asset management.

Toby joined DANTE in June 2003 as a network engineer in the operations team. His interests lie in network monitoring, security and routing, and he is the Operations point of contact for QoS issues.

Network Operations Centre	Toby Rodwell - NOC Manager Akileswaran Radhakrishnan - NOC Engineer Shift Leader Aleksandr Kurbatov - NOC Engineer Scott Clarke - NOC Engineer Darren Clarke - NOC Engineer Asif Noor - NOC Engineer Josep Rovira - NOC Engineer Temoor Khan - NOC Engineer Niall Donaghy - NOC Assistant Engineer
IP Team	Xavier Martins-Rivas - IP Manager Emma Apted - Senior IP Engineer Tony Barber - Senior IP Engineer Arefin Ahmed - IP Engineer Babatunde Omogbai - IP Engineer Mian Usman - IP Engineer László Szőllősi - IP Engineer James Wix - IP Engineer Sebastiano Buscaglione - IP Engineer
Transport Team	Stuart Ware - Transport Network Manager Henry Agbenu - Transport Engineer Craig Volp - Transport Engineer
Secutity Team	Wayne Routly - Security Officer Juan Quintanilla Pison - Security Engineer