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Biographical Summary
After completing his BS degree in Electrical
Engineering at UC San Diego in 1985, Russell Byrne spent five years at
Fairchild Space Company and ST Systems (NASA contractors), where he worked in
the areas of flight hardware Integration & Test, Attitude Control flight
software, and robotics research. During that time, he completed his MS Degree
in Electrical Engineering at the
He then spent five years at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) as a Senior Network Engineer, and three years at Cogent
Software (a regional ISP) as a Senior Network Engineer. He left Cogent to join a fast-growing network
consulting firm (Enterprise Networking Systems, which later became Netigy Corp.), where he spent three years as a network
infrastructure performance consultant.
Russell returned to JPL in 2002 to become the Ground Network System
Engineer for the Deep Space Network's flight network. In 2005, he left JPL for the second time to take his current
position at Cisco Systems as a Systems Engineer .
He has over twenty years of experience in
technology. His thirteen years in
networking include experience in LAN/WAN design, installation, management,
administration, analysis and troubleshooting.
Russell also has a strong background in software engineering and
modeling, including experience with database system design, software design and
implementation, and Unix system administration.
His unique expertise lies in the areas of application profiling, network
performance assessment, and capacity planning.
Education Summary
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Bachelor’s and Master’s
degrees in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on Control Systems from UC
San Diego and the University of Maryland at College Park, respectively.
Research areas were computer graphics, interprocess
messaging middleware and real-time simulation of space-based robotic systems.
Training Summary (click
here
for details)
Numerous week-long courses throughout his career,
ranging from network diagnostic tools, management tools, modeling and analysis
tools, programming, router and switch configuration, security, and project
management.
Certifications: CISSP
Skills Summary (click
here
for details)
Wide-ranging skills in technology, including system
administration, network design and administration, network management and
troubleshooting. He has a strong background in Internet, LAN and WAN protocols. His software experience includes design and
implementation of real-time robotic and spacecraft systems, and database system
design. He has software implementation
experience using over a dozen languages, from the machine level through
command-line scripting.
Security experience includes policy creation, system
design and management of client platforms, servers, network devices, and
enterprise-wide security systems.
Project management skills include task and milestone
scheduling, resource prioritization, cost and budget analysis, authoring work
agreements and proposals for new work, and project team management.
Strong people skills are accompanied by a love of
teaching, writing and presenting to large groups.
Professional Experience Summary (click here for details)
Russell’s professional career began in 1985 in the
aerospace industry working for NASA contractors in
He then spent two years doing C++ development in the
areas of off-shore oil rig instrumentation and custom database design.
Later, in the early 1990’s, Russell worked on various
networking research projects at NASA/JPL in Pasadena, including efforts focused
on inverse multiplexing using ISDN, voice & data compression on narrow-band
satellite networks, and voice, video and multipriority
data networking over low-speed international ATM links.
1995: Left JPL to pursue an opportunity with an
Internet startup, and built a regional ISP network over a period of three
years. The network was managed using a
network management and alerting system he wrote using Perl and Unix shell
scripts and tools integrated from the Big Brother monitoring system and the
MRTG trending system.
1998: Joined a consulting firm and became skilled in
Networked Applications Management, providing advice to IT leaders of Fortune
100 companies who were managing deployment, troubleshooting, optimizing and
capacity planning projects.
2002: Rejoined JPL to become the Deep Space Network’s
architect for the ground network system.
Led a staff of fifteen which was responsible for system and subsystem
engineering, flight project support, network administration, management and
design. A notable accomplishment during
this period was the implementation of IP Quality of Service techniques to
provide bandwidth guarantees and performance trending for over a dozen different
classes of critical flight project traffic.
Since 2005 he has been a Systems Engineer with Cisco
Systems, as a member of the enterprise healthcare vertical team. His areas of specialization are datacenter
and security.
Teaching Experience Summary (click here for details)
Russell is a natural teacher, beginning his paid
experience at the age of twelve, when he gave his first tennis lesson for $1
per hour. While at UCSD during his
undergraduate studies, he started the tutor program at the OASIS tutoring
center on campus.
While working at JPL in the early 1990’s, he became
involved with the Pasadena Unified School District’s after school program aimed
at fourth through seventh graders, teaching them about electronic circuits.
Later in his career he became active as a trainer,
giving lectures and training seminars on Internet technology and usage.
Most recently he was involved with the smart phone
rollout at JPL, developing training for the advanced Treo user.
Publication Summary (click here for details)
Russell has published
numerous technical reports while doing his graduate work at the
He has authored and edited
several research reports for NASA in the area of robotics and networking, and
presented at the SpaceOps 1994 and SpaceOps 2004 conferences.
He is currently writing a
book for Cisco Press – the working title is Networked Applications
Management.
Honors & Awards Summary (click here for details)
Russell has earned awards of various types from
nearly every organization he has supported.
The most notable was being selected as one of the nation’s top
engineering students in 1985 as a Fairchild Scholar.
Summary Education Training Skills Experience Teaching Publications Honors
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