RE: [dssa] "introductions" thread

["Matt Serlin" <matt.serlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Apologies for the delay, but here is a quick intro to me...thanks Mikey
for kicking this off.

I am the Senior Director of Domain Management for MarkMonitor (an ICANN
accredited registrar focused exclusively on large, corporations and
managing their global domain name portfolios) responsible for day-to-day
operations of the company's entire global network of registry and third
party relationships, including all gTLD and ccTLD registry
relationships.  I  also regularly attends ICANN meetings where he
represents MarkMonitor's client base of intellectual property owners as
well as serving as the Secretary of the Registrar Stakeholder Group
within ICANN.  With over nine year's experience in the domain name
industry, I also serves as a senior domain name consultant working with
corporations on portfolio consolidations, domain name strategy and
online brand management.  

Given my company's client base and the scope of responsibilities I have,
the security of the domain name system is very near and dear to my heart
and I look forward to working with all of you on this working group.

Regards,
Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dssa@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-dssa@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Mike O'Connor
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 10:05 AM
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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