About us

MAX's Mission

Our mission is to earn, on a daily basis, the respect and trust of those we serve in the academic, research, government, scientific, and business communities within the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States by designing and deploying an innovative high performance networking architecture that enables a range of advanced digital communication services and application flows.

We were created to support a wide range of discipline specific advanced research applications requiring persistent high performance and high bandwidth networking.

MAX demonstrates leadership by providing a multi-layer, robust, service infrastructure for research and production purposes, initiating and facilitating regional collaboration, anticipating evolving participant mission requirements, and disseminating knowledge and technical experience through outreach activities.

MAX is based upon the premise that at the core, the foundation and enabling technology for research, education, and scientific discovery will be high performance, broadband optical networks and that our community will continue to drive and be the bellwethers for advanced networking for the foreseeable future.

MAX Staff

Peter O'Neil, Executive Director

Peter O'Neil (Acting), Director, Research Initiatives

Chris Tracy, Network Engineer

Jarda Flidr, Senior Systems Development Engineer

Dan Magorian, Director, Network Operations

Quang Bach, Senior Network Engineer

Dave Diller, Senior Network Engineer

Matt Siniscal, Senior Network Engineer

Chris Tsonis, Services Engineer

Tessa Charlery, Director, Finance and Administration

Theresa Smith, Office Coordinator

Shandra Gumbs, Finance Clerk

Julianne Foster, Finance Clerk

MAX Participants

Federal Labs and Government Agencies:

• ATDnet - NRL, LTS, DISA
• D.C. Government
• Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
• Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences (LTS)
• Library of Congress
• NASA / GSFC
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• USDA, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• U.S. Department of State (through GWU)
• U.S. Geological Survey
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Higher Education:

• American University
• Baltimore Education & Research Network (BERnet)
• Catholic University
• GEANT
• Georgetown University
• George Mason University
• George Washington University
• Johns Hopkins University
• Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL)
• Montgomery College
• National Consortium for Supercomputing Applications / ACCESS
• Network Virginia (aggregating the State of Virginia)
• Smithsonian Institution
• Southern Universities Research Association (SURA)
• University of California, D.C. campus
• Internet2, D.C. Office
• University of Maryland, College Park
• University of Maryland, Baltimore
• University of Maryland, Baltimore Co.
• Univ. System of Maryland Network (aggregating 11 campuses)
• University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute / East
• Washington Research Library Consortium

Corporate and Non-profit:

• Columbia Telecommunications Corporation (CTC)
• Howard Hughes Med. Institute
• Fujitsu Labs of America
• Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
• Northrop Grumman Corporation
• The Institute for Genomic Research
• Windber Professional Services, Inc
• The Venter Institute