Re: [dssa] "introductions" thread

[Mohamed El Bashir <mbashir@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings everyone, 

My name is Mohamed El Bashir, I have been involved in managing ccTLD registries 
management since 2001 when I founded an ISOC chapter which managed .SD ccTLD 
registry. I have been involved in ICANN and ccTLD community in the last 10 
years, ccNSO councilor  from 2004 to 2011 and an ALAC member .

I have been involved in IDN policy development and fast track process, member 
of IDN guidelines committee, ICANN's IDN working groups . Currently managing 
Qatar Domains Registry ( .QA and Qatar IDN ccTLD Registry ).

Kind Regards,
Mohamed El Bashir

> -----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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