Critial Infrastructure Engineer at ICANN
Orange County, California Area
- Current
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- Critial Infrastructure Engineer at ICANN
- Member at TRNOG
- Member of the Congress at Besiktas JK
- Past
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- Senior Systems and Network Engineer at CIQA Inc.
- Technology Advisor of Executive Director at University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
- System Engineer at Geneva.CH, Undernet IRC Network
- System Engineer / Radio Programmer at Radio Klas, 98.7
- Network / System Engineer at Istanbul Technical University
- Education
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- Chapman University, The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics
- Inter-American University of Puerto Rico-Metropolitan Campus
- Dogus Science College
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Mehmet Akcin’s Summary
If it doesn't answer dig, it's not my gig.
Mehmet Akcin’s Specialties:
Peering , Internet Exchanges , Routing , BGP , IPv6 , Anycast , International Relations, DNSSec , DNS , Root Servers , L.Root , Apple , Mac OSX, 64bit operating systems, Cryptology , SAN/NAS , NSD , IANA , IP Addresses
Mehmet Akcin’s Experience
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Critial Infrastructure Engineer
ICANN
(Non-Profit; Internet industry)
December 2008 — Present (1 year )
Member of the team which is responsible engineering and operations of L.Root Server, DNSSEC Infrastructure, DNS Services at ICANN
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Member
TRNOG
(Internet industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
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Member of the Congress
Besiktas JK
(Sports industry)
January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)
I am a voting member of the Besiktas JK congress, The oldest sport institution in Turkey with many success in the history.
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Chief Engineer
ICANN
(Non-Profit; Internet industry)
July 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 5 months)
ICANN is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers. These include domain names (like .org, .museum and country codes like .UK), as well as the addresses used in a variety of Internet protocols. Computers use these identifiers to reach each other over the Internet. Careful management of these resources is vital to the Internet's operation, so ICANN's global stakeholders meet regularly to develop policies that ensure the Internet's ongoing security and stability. My main duty is to ensure the daily server and network operations of ICANN Infrastructure. I am also technical lead to the IT-OPs team that consist of System Administrators and Network Engineers. Negotiations with Vendors, Datacenters World Wide to deploy ICANN Hosted Services.
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Founder and Senior Engineer
IX.PR
(Telecommunications industry)
September 2004 — July 2006 (1 year 11 months)
The first and only Internet Exchange in Caribbean/Puerto Rico. Been there, Done that. I have started the project my own and while many have ignored the movement. Dr. Oscar Moreno, Director & Founder of Gauss Research Laboratory and ccTLD .PR Manager , have adopted the project. Currently IX.PR is part of Gauss Research Laboratory serving Puerto Rico.
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Senior Network Engineer
NIC.PR
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; NIC.PR; Telecommunications industry)
July 2005 — June 2006 (1 year )
I was one two system & network administrators of Country Code Top Level Domain .PR working closely with the latest security and network technologies daily. He was also doing a lot with the Public Relations for NIC.PR , Going to International meetings presenting the projects of NIC.PR. Implementations made on NIC.PR: IPv6 , Anycast DNS on Secondary DNS , Physical Multi-homing , BGP Multi-Homing the Core Network of NIC.PR. I have reported directly to Dr. Oscar Moreno during this position.
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Senior Systems and Network Engineer
CIQA Inc.
(Pharmaceuticals industry)
March 2002 — June 2006 (4 years 4 months)
I was in charge of the all IT Operations for this office which had unique needs. The company is a Pharmaceutical Validation company which requires the highest reliability in their all systems. I have installed Windows and Linux Servers as well as Cisco L2 & L3 switches for this company and maintained them for 2+ years remotely. I was in charge of all the IT Equipment purchase and I managed to get approval for an equipment of nearly nearly half million USD with the proposals and projects I wrote during my time working for the purchase of computers, servers, switches, routers, etc. I have reported directly to the President of CIQA, Ramon Cayuela in this position.
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Technology Advisor of Executive Director
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
(Higher Education industry)
June 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 10 months)
I have worked and reported directly to the Executive Director of Academic and Administrative Technology Department of University of Puerto Rico , Rio Piedras Campus. One of the largest and old (1903) University in the USA. (The oldest and largest in PR & Caribbean). I was part of special research projects including e-mail server migration, groupware solutions and security of network.
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System Engineer
Geneva.CH, Undernet IRC Network
(Internet industry)
August 2001 — May 2005 (3 years 10 months)
That's where I have met with DDoS and started to think of methods to stop and/or prevent it. The server was administrated by Senior Network Engineer and one of my closest friend in the world, Pascal Gloor. He made me his co-administrator when I was 18 and thought me a lot of things from network to linux, real life. etc. The Geneva server was hosted by Cable & Wireless Switzerland and after that by European Nuclear Research Center (CERN). The purpose of hosting this server at CERN was to help students who were researching about DDoS and trying to find ways to stop it. Project has been completed at 2005.
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System Engineer / Radio Programmer
Radio Klas, 98.7
(Broadcast Media industry)
May 1999 — July 2000 (1 year 3 months)
I was a disc jockey at Radio Klas 98.7 , one of the top 5 radio stations with 50M reachability and 2M average listener. I made the first internet radio program at 1999 in Turkey. Where I was making software recommendations to the listeners as well as website recommendations in different subjects. I also had famous IT executives as my guest and we were discussion about Turkish Internet in future. This was the first %100 dedicated to Internet and IT media broadcasting in Turkey.
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Network / System Engineer
Istanbul Technical University
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; ITU; Higher Education industry)
October 1999 — May 2000 (8 months)
I have worked in Meteorology Dept. while I was studying there in the installation of the first Sun Laboratory.
Mehmet Akcin’s Education
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Chapman University, The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics
Executive MBA , Business , 2008 — 2010 (expected)
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Inter-American University of Puerto Rico-Metropolitan Campus
BS , Computer Science , 2002 — 2005
3.66 GPA
National Dean's List in United States of America.
Couple dozens of honors/awards and full money back scholarship for my %75 of education expenses (I loved that part)- Activities and Societies:
- Penguins@Beach.PR , Linux Puerto Rico , Netops
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Dogus Science College
3.1 , Science , 1995 — 1998
Additional Information
Mehmet Akcin’s Interests:
Football (The european one, real football!)
Mehmet Akcin’s Groups:
Besiktas JK - Member of the Congress
ICANN,NANOG,IETF,ARIN,LACNIC,RIPE,SANOG,APRICOT.., Peering Forum
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RIPE community -
NANOG - The North American Network Operators' Group -
Turk IT -
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Undernet Admins and Operators -
Besiktas JK Congress -
LACNIC -
MENOG
Mehmet Akcin’s Honors:
I have been listed in Who is who in America several times. As well as National Dean's List (USA).
"The Official Firefighter of ICANN" by ICANN Board 2007
Mehmet Akcin’s Contact Settings
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