Peter Elford's Biography 
Peter Elford a veteran of the Australian eResearch community, working within the sector, and for industry engaged with the sector for much of his career. He is currently the Network Programmer Manager for the Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI) project, a federally funded program to establish a nationally distributed federation of data stores, or Nodes, to provide support for the capture, management, access and re-use of nationally valued research data collections. Prior to starting with RDSI in January 2013, Peter spent nearly twenty years at Cisco in a variety of roles, most recently as the Business Development Manager, Higher Education and Research. Whilst in this position, he led Cisco’s involvement in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project and has been an active contributor to the SKA industry engagement program since 2006. He has held several other roles at Cisco including Public Sector Solutions Architect, responsible for articulating the alignment between networked technologies and public sector outcomes, as the Federal Region Manager, responsible for Cisco's engagements with the Australian Federal government, as a Corporate Consulting Engineer working on residential broadband solutions, and as a Senior Systems Engineer working on network security and internetwork design. Before joining Cisco Systems in February 1993, Peter worked for a decade within the university sector, initially at the Australian National University Computer Services Centre, and then for three years establishing the Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet), where he had responsibility for much of the hands on engineering for the embryonic Australian Internet. Peter holds a BSc (Hons) from the Australian National University.