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As Chief Architect and Technologist, Marcos provides invaluable enterprise project expertise. During his two decades in the computer networking industry, Marcos Della has been actively involved with nearly every aspect of the trade. He has held executive management positions including President, CEO, and Director of Engineering, and has skillfully performed hands-on field engineering, project management, network design and implementation, system integrations, security and infrastructure development. His extensive experience working with some of the top U.S. and foreign corporations culminated in his founding of CSTONE, Inc., an Internet Infrastructure company providing application platforms and integration services using CSTONE patented technologies.Marcos served as Director of Engineering for InterNex Information Services, where the nationwide private ATM Peering network designed by Marcos Della still supports the latest merger under XO Communications. At InterNex, Marcos first developed the idea for the pop in a box which he ultimately designed, built, and deployed internationally. It was this early design that later morphed into the patented application platforms provided at CSTONE. He also spent two years as a Network Designer at Sun Microsystems after his software engineering careers at Borland, AT&T and Harris Corporations. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California.Marcos' favorite niche is in designing and implementing large data networks. He has installed fully redundant networks that extend across 12 countries and employ close to $30 million worth of capital equipment as well as designed and implemented multi-internet entry networks. This work has involved more than 100 worldwide peering negotiations and establishment of relationships with first, second, and third-tier ISPs. Though Marcos has designed networks with as few as four segments, he has also built multi-country WANs with over 100 segments. He has also developed a national backbone infrastructure to support T3-level customers. As a result of his expertise, Marcos has spoken at numerous technology conferences, including APRICOT and NANOG. Topics he has addressed include security, global web distribution, redundancy, and global peering relationships (BGPs). He is also an advisor to CSU Monterey's Network Department and lectures at Cisco CCNP classes. Marcos has been a valued associate of MindSource for more than eight years and is a featured speaker at many of the company's Birds of a Feather training events. | 