Avri Doria

avri@acm.org

125 6^th St., Providence, RI 02906, USA

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+46 73 277 1788

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Areas of Experience

• Internet Governance – Multistakeholder models and relations, techno-political and international considerations

• Standards and Policy Organization and Industry Forum Management Leadership and Strategy

• Domain Name Policy Issues including Internationalized Domain Names, Freedom of Expression, and Privacy issues

• Network System Architecture

• IP Routing Architectures and Protocols, including:

  • Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks, Probabilistic Ad Hoc Routing Protocols

  • Management and Control Protocols; GSMP/ANCP, ForCES

• International Cross Cultural Awareness

• Project Team Leadership, Consensus Building, Staff Counseling, Conflict Resolution

• Requirements Analysis and Budget Planning

Research and Contracts

• Current

• 2012 – Present: Part Time – VP Policy and Governance at dotgay LLC.

• 2011 - Present: Part time Research Consultant advising PIR on issues related to new gTLDs and ICANN processes

• 2008 - Present: Core faculty International Summer Schools in Internet Governance, (responsible for Technical Curriculum) Programs in Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, and Mexico.

• Past

• 2010 - 2012: Part time Research Consultant advising SPI Marketing on issues related to new gTLDs and ICANN processes

• 2011: Contracted Research Project: Policy Implications of Future Internet Architectures and Technology. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

• 2010 - 2011: External Researcher - Anticipating the Network of the Future– From Theory to Design: Governance in the Internet of Things. EU Framework Programme 7 Grant no. 216366

• 2006 - 2011: Part-time contract as Consultant to Secretariat – Internet Governance Forum, United Nations Department of Economic and Scientific Affaires

• 2008 - 2010: Part-Time Funding as Principal Investigator: Networking for Communications Challenged Communities (N4C) - Architecture, Test Beds and Innovative Alliances, EU Framework Programme 7 Grant no. 223994,

• Also served as Chair of the Technical Advisory Board 2008 – 2011

• 2007 – 2009 : Associate at Interisle Partners Completed an assignment for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on Governance of a new broadband backbone.

• 2008 Consultant Iometrix (Project completed)

• 2005 – 2008: Part-time Senior Consultant CTO Office: Operax AB (company closed)

• 2004 – 2007: Part-time Research Consultant – Arbetsvetenskap (Human Work Science Department), Luleå University of Technology

• 2004 – 2006: Technical Lead - 3 year partial funding by Vinnova (Swedish national funding agency) and EU Objective 1 to build pilot program for providing Internet connectivity to semi nomadic populations of Sapmi (Lapland)

• 2004 – 2007: ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea), part-time external research support on topics in NGN.

• 2004 – 2005: 4 month research contract for DoCoMo Communications USA on Internet routing futures.

• 2004: 1 year retainer contract with Switchcore reviewing IPv4/IPv6 forwarding chip design

• 2003: 1 month contract at Acreo in Sweden. Analysis of requirements for creation of a next generation broadband Metro Network

• 2003: 4 month contract at ConnecTerra: Initiated development of an architecture for policy management service in an Internet telemetry system

• 2002: 2 month contract at Operax AB: Assist in developing technical marketing strategy to appeal to European carriers and service providers

Employment

2007 - 2011: Luleå University of Technology – Sweden (part time)

Adjunct Professor – Human Work Science – Gender and Innovation; Graduate student supervision (supervised 2 Ph.D. Students ).

2003 - 2004: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute – Republic of Korea

Visiting Researcher – Worked on Next Generation architectures and standardization efforts.

2002- 2007: Lulea University of Technology, - Luleå Sweden

Visiting Researcher, MSF Fellow – Computer Science Department

Research projects included: Futures in domain routing, routing system decomposition, Delay Tolerant Networks. Some graduate student teaching and supervision. Documentation on proposed creation of a network in communications challenged Sapmi (Lapland) can be found at www.snc.sapmi.net.

2000 - 2001 Nortel Networks, Burlington MA

Director IP Routing – Advanced Network Architecture, (originally hired as Chief Architect - Routing Architecture Lab). Responsible for Advanced Routing Technology for optical and wireless applications. Technical and managerial lead for projects within internationally distributed organization including: multiple sites in the US, Stockholm SE and Harlow UK. In addition to technical leadership, was responsible for staffing and budget decisions as well as yearly project planning. The Advanced IP Routing Research division was closed down in 2001.

1999 - 2000 Nokia Internet Communications, Burlington MA

Chief Architect - Routing and Policy Management, Primary project: Defined initial architecture of Nokia's Policy Server product. Served as acting development manager on the first stage of project. Before Dec 99, was responsible for routing and policy management architectures.

1996 - 1999 General DataComm Corp., Marlboro MA

Sr. Scientist, Acting Director - Responsible for technical and administrative management of GDC’s Boston Research Center. Projects included: GSMP controlled switch for Label Switched Router (MPLS) with Ericsson, LAN adaptation, IP/Label switching, and PNNI. In addition to technical leadership, was responsible for staffing and budget decisions as well as yearly project planning. Originally hired as lead architect for IP switch project.

1999: Revenant Networks: President - Several of us decided, with GDC's permission, to attempt to spin out a startup. While we succeeded in getting one year's worth of contract funding from Ericsson to complete the GSMP/MPLS project for them, we were unable to negotiate continuing funding. We broke even financially when we closed down the company.

1995 - 1996 Bytex - Network Systems Corp., Westborough, MA

Sr. Consulting Engineer, Lead Architect - edge module for interconnecting ATM with local and IP networks.

1993 - 1995 Proteon Inc., Westborough, MA

Engineering Manager - Internetworking Systems Development

Responsible for the following protocols: OSPF, BGP, SNMP, IPX, I-ISIS, and the TCP/IP stack. Responsible for complete project life cycle; i.e. from design to product.

1992 - 1993 Locus Computing Corp., Burlington MA

2/93-11/93 Engineering Manager for a group porting LAN Manager for UNIX, Responsible for project from initial proposal, through contract phases and into the design and implementation phases.

8/92-6/93 Project Manager of group porting Ultrix to Digital’s MIPS R4000/R4400 workstation family. Project was delivered on time and under budget. Responsible for documentation, test and development groups.

1990 - 1992 Clearpoint Research Corp., Hopkinton MA

Network Engineering Manager - Developed a line of 4 products from conception and architecture to implementation and release. Managed the software, hardware and test groups.

1988 - 1990 Racal Interlan, Inc., Boxborough MA

Software Engineering Manager – Protocol Development: TCP/IP, OSI, DECnet and XNS.

1988 Texet Corporation, Summerville MA

Senior Project Leader - Distributed Document Project, early SGML development

1987 - 1988 Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva Israel (contract position)

Manager of the Computer Laboratories - Instructor - C and Unix Internals

1986 - 1987 Isra-Tel (AT&T VAR), Tel Aviv Israel

Senior Software Engineer - Unix Communications & Driver Development

1983 - 1986 Kibbutz Shomrat, Asherat Israel

Project Manager - Computer services

Teacher (part time) - Elementary and Middle school Computer Studies

1981 - 1983 Digital Equipment Corp., Marlboro MA

Software Engineer - Large System Engineering (TOPS-20)

1978 - 1981 University of Chicago Computation Center, Chicago IL

Systems Programmer, both IBM and DEC (full time)

1976 - 1978 University of Rhode Island Chemistry Department, Kingston RI

Scientific Programmer - physical chemistry (part time and full time)

Education

Organizations and Volunteer Work

ACM member since 1980

APC Volunteer Research Associate (2011 - Present)

APC Women's Network Support Program member since 2005

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers)

Chair, At-Large New gTLD Working Group (2011)

Co-Chair, Inter Registrar Transfer Policy Part C - Policy Development Process (2011)

Chair, Non Commercial Stakeholder Group Executive Committee (2010, 2011)

Co-Chair – Working Group on Support for New gTLD applicants from developing economies (2010)

Chair, GNSO Council (2007, 2008, 2009)

Nominating Committee Appointee to GNSO Council (2005-2009)

Chair, Policy Development Task Force on Contractual Conditions for existing TLDs (2006 – 2007)

Chair, Reserved Name WG – Subgroup on Controversial Names (2007)

Member of multiple working groups

IEEE member since 1995

IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) Participant since 1988

Former Member of Sub IP Directorate

Former WG chair:

Operation of the IESG/IAB Nominating and Recall Committees,

IETF Problem Working Group, GSMP Working group

Nominating Committee (1998-2001); Chair – 2000

Education Team (2003-Present) ; Co-Leader (2005-2007)

General Area Review Team; Secretary (2004-2005), Reviewer (2005-2007)

IGC - Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus

Interim Coordinator (2006)

Member Appeals Team (2007 – 2008, 2010)

IRTF (Internet Research Task Force)

Past Chair Routing Research Group (2003-2007)

Past Member Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG) (2003-2007)

MSF (Multi Service Forum) Participant since 1999

Life time Appointment as Senior Fellow (2006)

Board of Directors (2000 - 2002), Elected Secretary of MSF Corporation (2001-2004)

Editorial Board Member (2001-2007), Chair (2001, 2003)

Technical Committee: Vice Chair (2002 – 2003); Chair (2004-2007)

Coordinator – NNI Certification Task Group (2008)

UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) – Appointed member (2004-2005)

World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Volunteer Civil Society member of the Swedish delegation to WSIS – working with the Foreign Ministry (2003 - 2005)

Other Information

Educational addendum can be found at: http://psg.com/~avri/resume-teaching.html

An annotated bibliography can be found at http://psg.com/~avri/papers/

Updated: 23. Dec. 2011 22:09