David Hanes, CCIE No. 3491, currently works as an engineer for the Cisco Customer Assurance Engineering (CAE) group based out of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina supporting various emerging technologies through product testing and field trials. In addition, David is a technical expert for Cisco in the area of fax over IP technologies and assists with network design and troubleshooting for critical fax over IP deployments. Since joining Cisco in 1997, he has worked as a Technical Assistance Center (TAC) engineer for the WAN, WAN Switching, and Multiservice Voice teams, a team lead for the Multiservice Voice team, and an Escalation Engineer covering a variety of voice and fax technologies. David has troubleshot escalated issues in Cisco customer networks worldwide and remains a technical resource for other Cisco employees and customers. Before working at Cisco, David was a Systems Engineer for Sprint, where he gained his first computer networking experience working on the Frame Relay and X.25 protocols. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University.
Gonzalo Salgueiro, CCIE No. 4541, is a senior engineer for the Unified Communications Infrastructure Escalation team of the Technical Assistance Center (TAC) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. In his current role, he is a technical leader for fax and voice over IP technologies working directly with Cisco development engineering, TAC support teams, and product serviceability organization, providing support for various Unified Communications products and technologies. Over the past 12 years at Cisco, he has specialized in troubleshooting complex issues for some of the largest VoIP networks and has provided technical leadership for some of the most critical worldwide voice and fax deployments. Before joining the Escalation team in 1999, Gonzalo had roles as a TAC engineer for both the Access/Dial and Multiservice Voice teams and as a team lead for the Access/Dial team. Gonzalo has developed and delivered all levels of training and documentation on these technologies both internally to Cisco technical teams and externally to Cisco customers worldwide. He holds a bachelor of science degree in physics from Jacksonville University and a master of science degree in physics from the University of Miami.