British Citizen, Relocating to US Q1 2006
E-Mail: miar48@dial.pipex.com
Age: 43
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My background is as a Founder/CEO/CTO/Chairman of high-growth
entrepreneurial and nonprofit startups, with a track record of
providing the leadership and technical vision that turned these into
profitable and high-profile international organizations.
My technical experience includes twenty years in Internet network
engineering and development, building teams to operate innovative
infrastructure to mission-critical standards. In multi-stakeholder
environments I am a proven communicator, striking a balance between
consensus building and driving strategic change.
After time at a trade association since selling my most recent
venture, I am ready for a new challenge in a new country.
I believe the skills and experience I have to impart represent a
significant growth opportunity for a new or established innovative
enterprise, or could benefit an organization seeking to make a
difference in the public policy arena or to fill an advisory role.
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2004 - Present INTERNET TRADE ASSOCIATION
Nov 04 - Present TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
- Board member of trade association for Internet Service Providers
- Chair regular successful technical co-ordination conferences of ISPs
2000 - 2005 METRO INTERCONNECT OPERATOR
Sep 00 - Jan 05 CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, COMPANY FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
- Formation and funding of company from previous management team and staff
- Design and implementation of 3-country, 4-city, 16-site Gigabit Ethernet/
DWDM metro-area network
- Definition of product range, including Patent application
- Grew service from start-up to 6Gb/s traffic for 190 customers and 50% market
share
- Raised additional $9M funding to expand operations into Germany and
Netherlands
- Successful upgrade of London network to 10 Gigabit technology
- Achieved service level and budgetary targets throughout
1994 - 2000 INTERNET EXCHANGE OPERATOR
Jul 96 - Sep 00 CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Nov 94 - Jun 96 FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN
- Grew organization from volunteer co-operative to one of largest three
Internet Exchanges globally, with 120 members and >90% market share
- Architected successive network upgrades from 2-switch platform to one of
world's first multi-site, Gigabit Internet Exchanges
- Co-ordinated several hundred large community of stakeholders and associated
projects
- Deployed Internet Root Name Server
- Defined framework for and managed trade association and regulatory
activities
- Ran successful PR programs raising profile of organization to mainstream
media coverage
- Formation of regulatory body to address illegal content issues
- Successful industry lobbying on interception legislation
- Conceived and chaired Internet privacy forum
- Revenue growth from $170k to $1.8M over 4 years, maintaining
10-20% budget surplus in not-for-profit environment
1992 - 1996 MAJOR UK ISP Cambridge
Aug 95 - Apr 96 HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING
Mar 92 - Jul 95 FOUNDER, TECHNICAL & NETWORK MANAGER
- Established technical operations and network infrastructure for one of first
commercial ISPs in UK
- Built international partnership programme with ISPs in over 13 countries
1986 - 1992 SPIDER SYSTEMS LTD Edinburgh
May 89 - Jan 92 NETWORK MANAGER
Jan 88 - May 89 SENIOR ENGINEER
Oct 86 - Dec 87 SOFTWARE ENGINEER
1984 - 1985 ACORN COMPUTER LTD Cambridge
Aug 84 - Aug 85 VLSI SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORSHIPS
Aug 1996 - Jul 2002 NATIONAL INTERNET DOMAIN REGISTRY
Oct 1997 - Oct 1999 REGIONAL INTERNET ADDRESS REGISTRY
EXECUTIVE BOARD CHAIR
- Represented Regional Internet Registry during ICANN formation process
- Established ICANN Address Supporting Organization with other RIRs
EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS
Oct 1985 - Sep 1986 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Master of Science
Data Communications Networks & Distributed Systems
Oct 1980 - Jun 1984 UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Bachelor of Science (Honors) 2/1
Computer Science
Sep 1973 - Jun 1980 George Heriot's School Edinburgh
Languages Russian
TECHNICAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
Over twenty years of TCP/IP and Internet backbone engineering, including:
- Cisco IOS router configuration
- BGP4, OSPF, IGRP and other routing protocols
- Ethernet and SONET DWDM
- PPP, Dial-up, GSM and GPRS access technologies
- IPv6
Eighteen years experience of Ethernet networking technology, including:
- 10 Mb/s through 10Gb/s copper and optical physical layers
- IEEE 802.1d and 802.1w STP LAN, MAN and Internet Exchange design
- IEEE 802.1q VLAN-based service provisioning
- IEEE 802.11 DS/b/g Wi-Fi wireless LANs
- Extreme, Cisco, Foundry and other Gigabit Ethernet switching platforms
Twenty years of Unix system administration experience, including:
- Linux: Redhat/Fedora, SUSE, Slackware
- Unix: Sun Solaris, BSD, System V, X11
- SSH, SSL, DHCP, BIND DNS, Samba SMB, Apache web and EXIM mail server
applications
- Kernel configuration and development
Other Operating Systems including Microsoft Windows 95/98/XP, Symbian/EPOC
Uncompromized system security track record
- no significant vulnerabilities detected in last 4 external security audits
Operate own multi-homed "ISP" for personal/professional use
PROFESSIONAL PARTICIPATION
2003 - Present Adviser to Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Directorate
2001 - 2005 Member of equipment vendor Customer Advisory Council
2000 - Present Member of RIR IP Address Conflict Arbitration panel
1999 - 2000 Chair of Internet Time Technical Working Group
1999 - 2000 Chair of Internet Privacy Forum
1998 - Present North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG)
1998 - 2000 Representative on National Domain Registry Policy Advisory Board
1998 - 2000 Participant in Internet law enforcement forum
1996 - 2000 Founder and board member of Internet content regulation body
1996 - 1998 Founding and chairing of Internet Exchange working group
1994 - Present Reseaux IP Europeans (RIPE)
1992 - Present Internet Society
1992 - Present Several international Internet conference presentations per year
REFERENCES
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