Mehmet Akcin

Manager, DNS Operations at ICANN

Location: Orange County, California Area
Industry: Internet

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Mehmet Akcin's Overview

Current

Referee at United States Soccer Federation
Operations Manager, DNS Group at ICANN
Co-Founder at TRNOG

Past

Program Committee at Middle Eastern Network Operators Group
Chief Engineer , IT Ops at ICANN
Founder and Senior Engineer at IX.PR

Senior Network Engineer at NIC.PR
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

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Education

UCLA
Inter-American University of Puerto Rico-Metropolitan Campus
Istanbul Technical University

Dogus Science College

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Recommendations

18 people have recommended Mehmet

Connections

500+ connections

I have been working in Information Technology and Telecommunications industry over 10 years now and had been involved in projects like Root DNSSEC Signing, DNS Root Server operations, Network Design for ISPs in various countries and operation of one of the largest Anycast DNS clouds in the world. My goal is to continue to design networks and systems which require high availability and the most advanced security.

I am currently studying towards becoming Juniper Certified Internet Expert as well as CISSP.

Specialties

Peering , Internet Exchanges , Routing , BGP , IPv6 , Anycast , International Relations, DNSSec , DNS , Root Servers , L.Root , Apple , Mac OSX, Cryptology , SAN/NAS , NSD , IANA , IP Addresses, SCIF, AEP HSM, RPKI, DKI, DEFCON, Blackhat , NANOG , RIPE , gTLD , TLD , ccTLD , FreeBSD, JNCIA, JNCIS , JNCIE , CISSP

Referee

United States Soccer Federation

Nonprofit; 10,001+ employees; Sports industry

July 2010 – Present (1 year 11 months) Costa Mesa, CA

I am a Soccer Referee for United States Soccer Federation in South California Region.

Operations Manager, DNS Group

ICANN

Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; Internet industry

December 2008 – Present (3 years 6 months)

Member of the team which is responsible engineering and operations of L.Root Server, DNSSEC Infrastructure, DNS Services at ICANN. I was the Ceremony Administrator for the first and the second ROOT KSK Ceremonies where the KSK that will be used to signed the ZSK was generated.

Co-Founder

TRNOG

Internet industry

October 2008 – Present (3 years 8 months)

Turkish Network Operators Group, The group was found to create a platform where Turkish network ops can discuss the latest technology, network/system issues, etc. the group meets 2 times a year.

Program Committee

Middle Eastern Network Operators Group

May 2009 – July 2011 (2 years 3 months)

Helped Program Committee to pick presentations for MENOG, asked people to submit presentations, I have also suggested MENOG7 meeting to take place in Istanbul, and helped sponsors TTNet and TurkTelecom to collaborate.

Chief Engineer , IT Ops

ICANN

Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; 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.

Founder and Senior Engineer

IX.PR

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.

Senior Network Engineer

NIC.PR

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.

Senior Systems and Network Engineer

CIQA Inc.

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.

Technology Advisor of Executive Director

University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

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.

System Engineer

Geneva.CH, Undernet IRC Network

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.

System Engineer / Radio Programmer

Radio Klas, 98.7

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.

Network / System Engineer

Istanbul Technical University

Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; 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.

DNSSEC Implementation in Root DNS
- January 2009 to Present
Team Members: Mehmet Akcin, Joe Abley, Tomofumi Okubo, Dave Knight, Rick Lamb

Signing DNS Root System with DNSSEC. I was part of the core design and implementation group which was consist of staff members of ICANN, Verisign and U.S. Department of Commerce. My area of involvement were the building construction of Key Management Facilities for KSK and running the ICANN's KSK Ceremonies as Ceremony Administrator who over sees the aspects of the ceremony and executes the ceremony according to the rules publicly announced prior to the ceremony.
Root DNS Server Operations
- December 2006 to Present
Team Members: Mehmet Akcin, Joe Abley, Dave Knight

I have been part of the L-Root Operations team and were one of the people who have designed the model currently in operation of L-Root. I have been involved with Systems, Network, Security as well as contract negotiations with partners and peers.

Soccer Referee Grade 7
- United States Soccer Federation
- January 2012 to December 2012

English
(Native or bilingual proficiency)
Spanish
(Limited working proficiency)
Turkish
(Native or bilingual proficiency)

UCLA

Information Technology Management

2011 – 2016 (expected)

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