RE: [dssa] "introductions" thread

["Drazek, Keith" <kdrazek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings! I'm Keith Drazek, Director of Policy at Verisign and
Vice-Chair of the GNSO Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG). 

I've been involved with domain names and the DNS since 2000 at both the
registry and registrar level, focusing primarily on policy development.

My background is non-technical and I look forward to engaging with (and
learning much from) the rest of the WG on this very important topic.

Regards to all.

Keith Drazek
Director of Policy
kdrazek@xxxxxxxxxxxx
m: +1-571-377-9182
VerisignInc.com 



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dssa@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-dssa@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Mike O'Connor
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 12:05 PM
To: dssa@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [dssa] "introductions" thread


hi all,

as promised a minute ago, here's a little post to kick off our
personal-introductions thread.  there are a couple of goals here;

-- get to know each other a bit better.  this is a very cross-functional
group so it is pretty unlikely that we all know each other.

-- find out what skills and interests we each bring.  there is a lot of
work to do and this will help us get it done.

a few reminders.  brief posts are good.  clear language is good.

here's mine:

you can read my bio here -- http://www.haven2.com/index.php/bio --
here's the first paragraph...  

"I'm a community organizer, entrepreneur and tech-geek turned
business-leader type person. I became moderately famous here in
Minnesota (USA) as one of the people who popularized the Internet back
in the mid-90's. These days I divide my pretty-retired time between
being a domain-investor (I've still got about a half-dozen great domain
names to figure out), volunteering on a variety of local and regional
broadband policy bodies, participating in various working groups at
ICANN, restoring 420 acres of Wisconsin farmland to the state it was in
prior to agriculture (www.APrairieHaven.com), helping out at a variety
of local non-profits and learning the craft of furniture making"

so i'm a happily-retired geek.  

my interest in DSSA is non-technical.  i have been responsible for
online security in a variety of ways 

-- i was the administrative CIO of the University of Minnesota 
-- i helped develop a security strategy and program for a 50-campus
university system at "the other" university system in Minnesota, MnSCU.
-- i owned an ISP
-- i'm working on broadband security and stability issues at the state
level here in Minnesota

i'm pretty good at small to mid scale project management 

i'm pretty good at negotiation and finding consensus views

i'm REALLY good at playing blues and rock n'roll keyboards.  :-)

how about you?

mikey

   

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