Mark Leese STFC Daresbury Laboratory Warrington WA4 4AD United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1925 603730 Email: mark.leese@stfc.ac.uk

Bio

Mark is a senior network designer for the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), based at Daresbury Laboratory. After graduating in computer science, he worked as a software engineer in the telecoms industry before joining the STFC (then CLRC) in 2002. Between 2007-09 Mark was seconded to JANET(UK), the UK National Research and Education Network, where he led their measurement and monitoring work.

Beyond networking for the STFC, Mark's main interest is network performance monitoring, and it is in this area that he contributes to various groups, most notably GridPP and the OGF, where he co-chaired the NM-WG.

Mark is also responsible for the development of monitoring infrastructures for the UK e-Science and Physics communities, with a current focus on publication of network metrics to network operators and Grid middleware via Web Services. He has also worked to educate end users with respect to obtaining better network performance for their applications, mainly through the Networkers for non-Networkers workshops. His OGF work involved automating access to network monitoring services across multiple administrative network domains.

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• End-to-end performance: issues and suggestions - TERENA 5th NRENs and Grids Workshop, 11-12th June 2007, Paris
  Slides: PPT (1.36MB), PDF (720K)
• GGF17 NM-WG: All Slides - GGF17, 10-12th May 2006, Tokyo
  Slides: PPT (1.11MB), PDF (1.04 MB)
• Grid Network Performance Monitoring - TERENA Networking Conference, 15-18th May 2006, Catania
  Extended Abstract: PDF (179K)
• Network Performance Monitoring for the Grid - UK HEP System Managers Meeting, 9-10th May 2006, RAL (Rutherford Appleton Lab)
  Zipped PowerPoint Presentation (with narration): .exe (20.0M)
• Bridging Network Monitoring and the Grid - CESNET Conference 2006, 6-8th March 2006, Prague
  Paper: PDF (476K)
• Life of a Packet - Networks for non-Networkers 2 (NFNN2), 20th-21st June 2005, NeSC, Edinburgh
  Presentation slides: PDF (2.24M)
• Diagnostic Steps - Networks for non-Networkers (NFNN), 13-14th July 2004, UCL, London
  Presentation slides: PDF (8.2M)

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