Dr. Summerhill retired as Chief Technology Officer for Internet2 on June 19, 2009. He is now involved with network consulting, and also works as a photographer for Rick Summerhill Photography. As Chief Technology Officer for Internet2, Dr. Summerhill was responsible for leading the technology development efforts within the Internet2 community. His duties included providing technology vision for the community and he served as the focal point for such diverse areas as dynamic circuit services and middleware. Rick's team also provided specific support for the network research area. In his previous position as Director of Network Research, Architecture and Technologies for Internet2, Rick had engineering responsibility for the Abilene network and led the Internet2 Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure (HOPI) project. Prior to joining Internet2 in December of 2002, Rick served as the executive director of the Great Plains Network, an advanced regional network centered in Kansas City, Missouri. He has been associated with advanced networking at the campus, state, regional, and national levels for the last twenty years. Prior to network engineering, he served on the research faculty in Mathematics at Kansas State University. Rick attended Monmouth College where he received a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics and University of Iowa where he received a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics.

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