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--- about [2019/04/25 16:31] – [January 2014 to date: PFS Internet Development Pty Ltd] philip
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-===== Philip Smith - Career Highlights =====
+====== Philip Smith - Career Highlights ======
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+===== Biography =====
+Philip Smith has been working in the Internet industry since the early 1990s after catching the Internet bug in the mid 1980s while at University. He runs his own consulting company, PFS Internet Development.
+Philip spends some of his time working for the Network Startup Resource Centre as a Senior Network Engineer and Training Coordinator, assisting with Network Operations Groups coordination, and providing network design assistance and training around the Pacific, South and South East Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He also provides consultancy services via his company to various network operators and other organisations across the Asia Pacific region. Philip has been involved with APRICOT, the Asia Pacific region's annual Internet technology and operations summit in various roles since 1998 when he first moved to the region from the UK. He is currently Chair of the Board of the Asia Pacific Network Operators Group Ltd, the parent organisation responsible for and custodian of APRICOT.
+He previously worked at APNIC as Learning and Development Director, where his team's responsibilities ranged from Training, APNIC Conferences and Events, Network Operations Group support, Technical Programmes such as IPv6 Deployment, Internet Exchange Points, and Rootname Server deployments, and the Information Society Innovation Fund grants programme. Before APNIC, he was a member of the Internet Infrastructure Group in CTO Consulting Engineering of Cisco Systems for more than thirteen years, helping to build the global Internet infrastructure, and teaching more than 100 BGP workshops for Internet Services providers all around the world. He also served for 3 years on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society.
+Over the last two decades, Philip has been actively involved in providing consultation and advice to ISPs primarily in the Asia Pacific region, but also to other providers around the world. He concentrates specifically on network strategies, design, technology, and operations, as well as configuration, scaling, and training. He has played a major role in training ISP engineers, co-founding the Cisco ISP/IXP Workshop programme, and providing ISP training and tutorials at many network operations events around the world, including NANOG, RIPE, APNIC, SANOG, MENOG, AfNOG, PacNOG and APRICOT conferences. His other key technology interests include IPv6, BGP, OSPF and IS-IS, and network performance and data analysis.
+Philip was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in December 2021. He is a Doctor of Philosophy and has a First Class Honours Degree in Physics. A native of Scotland, he lives in Brisbane, Australia.
+===== Detailed Career Overview =====
 ==== January 2014 to date: PFS Internet Development Pty Ltd ====
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   * Campus Network Design & Operations Workshops for Research and Education Networks, including LERNET (Lao PDR), PREGINET (Philippines), KENET (Kenya), RENU (Uganda), CAREN (Central Asia), PIREN (Pacific Islands), BDREN (Bangladesh), MYREN (Malaysia), MORENET (Mozambique), GARNET (Ghana), PERN (Pakistan), DrukREN (Bhutan), and MMREN (Myanmar).
   * Technical assistance for many Universities and Colleges following on from each of the Campus Network Design & Operations Workshops.
+  * Campus Design Best Practices tutorial as part of the Pacific Island Telecoms Association (PITA) AGM
   * BGP for NRENs Workshops for ASREN and Ubuntunet Alliance
   * BGP Workshop for PREGINET (Philippines)
   * LINX (London) and BKNIX (Bangkok) BGP Peering Workshops
-  * The [[https://learn.nsrc.org/bgp/|"BGP For All" Video Training Library]]
+  * The [[https://learn.nsrc.org/bgp/|BGP For All]] Video Training Library, co-presenting with several industry colleagues.
-  * MARIIX (Marianas Islands Internet Exchange) and BKNIX (Bangkok Neutral Exchange) technical assistance
+  * MARIIX (Marianas Islands Internet Exchange) and BKNIX (Bangkok Neutral Exchange) implementation guidance and technical assistance
   * Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG) conferences (technical presentations and tutorials), and MENOG BGP Workshop (UAE)
-  * South Asia Network Operators Group (SANOG) conferences (technical presentations and tutorials), and SANOG BGP and IPv6 Workshops (Kathmandu).
+  * South Asia Network Operators Group (SANOG) conferences (technical presentations and tutorials), and SANOG BGP and IPv6 Workshops.
   * Trans-Pacific R&E and PIREN network infrastructure technical assistance
   * Technical assistance for IDREN (Indonesia) and for LEARN (Sri Lanka)
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 === APNIC ===
-APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific region, based in Brisbane, Australia. Philip has been involved in the following activities for APNIC since January 2014:
+APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific region, based in Brisbane, Australia. Philip has been involved in the following activities for APNIC from January 2014 until January 2020:
   * BGP Workshops for BDNOG (Bangladesh), APNIC conferences (Australia, Indonesia) and btNOG (Bhutan)
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 Note: WorldCom was the parent company resulting from mergers of the original PIPEX with its parent Unipalm, and subsequent mergers with UUNET Technologies Inc, MFS, and WorldCom. The UK operations HQ of WorldCom was based in Cambridge. Following WorldCom folding in bankruptcy, the UUNET Internet business is now operated by Verizon.
-July 1996 to January 1998
+=== July 1996 to January 1998 ===
 Head of Network Engineering for UUNET UK and UUNET PIPEX, reporting to the Technical Director. This position had full technical responsibility for the UUNET UK network, including backbone, leased connections, dialup networks (PIPEX DIAL and Microsoft Network UK) and included the two main operational groups in the company. Network Engineering consisted of Network Operations and Network Development – combined both teams had around 60 members of staff. Within Network Operations, there were teams to cover server systems, dialup services, and the 24-hour Network Operation Centre. The Network Development team was a smaller team, reporting to me through team leaders who were responsible for particular development areas. In particular, the leading edge technical development work wais very strong, working closely with vendors such as Cisco on technologies such as IPv6, BGP routing enhancements, and infrastructure design.