About the Technical Reviewers

Merwyn Andrade works as a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, California. Merwyn works closely with Cisco engineering and customers on features running across Cisco switches as well as enhancements to minimizing downtime and convergence and improving network availability. Merwyn also has a patent in progress in this area. Prior to Cisco, Merwyn worked with the Bombay Stock Exchange and as a Network Consultant with HCL-Hewlett Packard in India. He is an Industrial Electronics Engineer from Bombay, India.

Philip B. Bourgeois has been in the computer industry for fifteen years, spending seven years as a networking specialist with IBM and the past five years as a Senior Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems. Phil is experienced in the design and implementation of large IP and multiprotocol networks, encompassing complex wide area network designs and campus local area networks. Phil is a networking consultant to the largest commercial enterprises in the northeast area, including insurance, the health care industry, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, casino/gaming industry, state government agencies, and higher education. His current position is as a Consulting Systems Engineer with a specialty focus in high-speed LAN switching and ATM network design projects.

Jennifer DeHaven Carroll is a Principal Consultant for International Network Services. She is CCIE number 1402. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from University of California, Santa Barbara. In the past 11 years, Jennifer has planned, designed, and implemented many networks, utilizing both Layer 2 and Layer 3 techniques. She has also developed and taught many theory and Cisco implementation classes on various networking technologies.

Stuart Hamilton is the Senior Manager of Enterprise Network Design at Cisco Systems where he leads a team of engineers focused on the design requirements of enterprise customers. Stuart is a CCIE and joined Cisco in 1992 where, as a System Engineer and Consulting Engineer, worked closely in the field with numerous customers on large scale network designs and implementations. Early in Stuart's 14 years of experience he held various technical design and engineering roles at Bell Northern Research, Northern Telecom (now Nortel Networks), and Cognos Incorporated.

Tom Nosella is Manager of Network Design Engineering for Cisco's Enterprise Line of Business. Tom and his team of network design engineers provide direction and expertise in enterprise network design for both Cisco's worldwide systems engineers and Cisco's enterprise customer base. Tom is a CCIE and has six years of experience in managing and designing large data networks for customers within the enterprise and service provider area. Tom joined Cisco Systems from Bell Canada where he led a team of network engineers providing outsourced network management services for large enterprise customers.