Daniel King

Current

Senior Consultant at Old Dog Consulting

Past

Co-Founder & VP Technical Field Support at Aria Networks
IP/MPLS Consultant at Marconi
Director Business Development at Movaz Networks

Customer Support Manager at Redback Networks
Senior IP Engineer at Bell Labs / Lucent Technologies
Customer Support Engineer at Cisco Systems

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Education

I never let education get in the way of my learning.

Recommended

9 people have recommended Daniel

Connections

250 connections

Industry

Telecommunications

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Daniel King’s Summary

Daniel is an entrepreneurial, technical professional who specialises in IP, GMPLS, MPLS, and optical networking. He has supported a number of successful technology start-up ventures. He was a co-founder of Aria Networks, Applied Insilico, and Darwinian Neural Network Industries, and held key early-stage roles with Movaz Networks, Redback Networks, and Cisco Systems. He also worked at Marconi and Bell Labs.

As a leading technologist, Daniel holds patents in machine learning and evolutionary computing, and often speaks at conferences presenting leading-edge ideas in networking. He has collaborated on a variety of papers for IEEE journals, and is editor or author on a number of IETF Internet-Drafts and RFCs related to path computation and network optimization. Daniel is secretary of three IETF working groups, namely PCE, CCAMP and L3VPN.

Daniel is the founder of PathComputation.com, a resource website tracking the evolution and standardisation of the Path Computation Element (PCE) and related traffic-engineering technologies.

Daniel King’s Specialties:

Telecoms, Technology, Routing, Traffic Engineering, Entrepreneur, Thinker, Artificial Intelligence, Statistician, Intellectual, Research & Development, Science, Math, Computers, Analytical, Research, Problem Solving, Business Development, Sales, Management, Start-up, Software, Hardware, MPLS, IP GMPLS, PBT, PBB, OSPF, IS-IS, Path Computation Element, PCE, OSS.

Daniel King’s Experience

Senior Consultant

Old Dog Consulting

(Telecommunications industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

Old Dog is a successful consultancy company, which provides support on implementation, deployment, and standardization of Internet Protocol-based solutions to leading vendors and network operators. Old Dog specializes in the arena of MPLS, GMPLS, Multicast, IP and optical networks.
Co-Founder & VP Technical Field Support

Aria Networks

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

May 2006 — July 2008 (2 years 3 months)

Aria Networks, is the leader in intelligent software solutions for planning, optimising and delivering next generation networks and services. I currently perform various research & development and technical sales roles within Aria.
IP/MPLS Consultant

Marconi

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

October 2005 — May 2006 (8 months)

As a technical consultant I reported to the Sales Engineering and CTO team. I reviewed network design proposals and reported on emerging Internet technologies.
Director Business Development

Movaz Networks

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

July 2001 — December 2003 (2 years 6 months)

Movaz Networks, was a globally established optical equipment supplier that provided next generation solutions for delivery of wavelength services. Movaz also pioneered a number of Internet technologies including, Generalized Multi-protocol Label Switching (GMPLS). I was responsible for the technical management of international projects and sales.
Customer Support Manager

Redback Networks

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 1999 — March 2001 (2 years 3 months)

Redback Networks, designs, develops, and markets networking solutions for IP based services and next generation network communications. Redback’s products include intelligent routers, IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) platforms and optical transport elements. I was one of the first technical engineers hired outside of North America; I established and managed the EMEA technical team and provided technical escalation.
Senior IP Engineer

Bell Labs / Lucent Technologies

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

July 1998 — November 1999 (1 year 5 months)

Bell Labs has been responsible for a number of seminal scientific discoveries, created powerful new technologies, and built the world's most advanced and reliable networks. I worked in the Advanced Internetworking System group researching and developing routing & Internet technologies.
Customer Support Engineer

Cisco Systems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

April 1995 — May 1998 (3 years 2 months)

The leading supplier of networking equipment & network management for the Internet. I provided technical support to the world’s largest telecoms carriers, solving problems in large complex networks with heterogeneous media and third party products.

Daniel King’s Education

I never let education get in the way of my learning.

1985 — 1994

Additional Information

Daniel King’s Websites:

Daniel King’s Groups:

IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), LRIG (Laboratory Robotics Interest Group), BCS (British Computing Society), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)