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==Personal and Career History ==

==Personal and Career History ==

Rogerio Mariano de Souza is an Brazilian Network Strategist and Network Architect from Rio de Janeiro, who works in Content Provider/OTT and Service Provider Consultant. Since Jun 2012 he has been the at ICANN Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers (ISPCP) and ICANN LAC Strategy WG.

Rogerio Mariano is an Network Edge Strategy Director at Azion Technologies, in 2018 I founded the Brazil Peering Forum - BPF (<nowiki>https://wiki.brasilpeeringforum.org</nowiki>) and has been the Chair of LACNOG (Latin American and Caribbean Network Operators Group) and IETF-LAC between 2015-2017. 

He is currently Chair of the Board of Directors at BPF (Brazil Peering Forum) and also was the Chair of the LACNOG (Latin American and Caribbean Network Operators Group), between 2015-2017, he is participant IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) in IETF-LAC (IETF Latin American and Caribbean Group), participant in IRTF (Internet Research Task Force) in GAIA (Global Access to the Internet for All), Internet Society Member, participant in Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Community,  Consultant for the definition and operation of the Service Provider and Content Provider/OTT direction related to the technical architecture of Routing Protocols and Core Infrastructure components and Public Policy for Access and Interconnection, SFI and Peering. Over 17 years of management experience working and is engaged in a variety of projects and operations spanning areas such as Peering (Interconnection Manager & Partner Engagement Coordinator), CLOS/Cloud Architecture, MPLS (TE/VPN/RSVP/PCE), Routing, Internet and Services. He was graduated of Brazilian Internet Governance School (EGI.br) and South School on Internet Governance (SSIG) in Washington, DC.

He has +19 years of experience in submarine cables industry and interconnection ecosystem, and technologies like MPLS,SDN, PCE, Segment Routing, also accompanying organizations like ESCA, ICPC and GPF. Today his planning and implementation, working in submarine cable capacity, interconnection and strategic sourcing (procurement). Primarily focused on underlying network infrastructure design, strategy and acquisition, enabling growth global backbone & edge production network. 

 

He has a student of Brazilian School Internet Governance (<nowiki>https://egi.nic.br</nowiki>) and South School Internet Governance by OAS - Organization of American States in Washington, DC (<nowiki>https://www.gobernanzainternet.org</nowiki>). 

 

In 2019 I was one of 60 globally selected by the Optical Society/OSA (<nowiki>https://www.osa.org</nowiki>) and Google for the Subsea OFC Submarine Cable School in Polvijärvi, Finland, an area that I served as a network program manager and network investment manager for 11 years. He has degree in mechatronic engineering and an MBA in Communications. 

 

Your scope of action includes sensitive regulatory, trademark, M&A and litigation matters. 

 

- Colocation (landing station, cache and peering POPs);

 

- Fronthaul, long-haul dark fiber and ILAs;

 

 

- Swap agreements, vendor strategy ;

 

 

- Planning and acquisition for network services and assets (transit/bandwidth/fiber/colocation);

Over the past four years it has been thoroughly dedicated part of Internet Governance which has worked with ICANN LAC Strategy WG and Public Policy for Latin American and Caribbean Region with focus in deployment developing for Internet access and connection in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Over the past four years it has been thoroughly dedicated part of Internet Governance which has worked with ICANN LAC Strategy WG and Public Policy for Latin American and Caribbean Region with focus in deployment developing for Internet access and connection in Latin America and the Caribbean.