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==Career History==

==Career History==

Prior to joining ICANN, Akcin worked against much resistance to found [[IX.PR]], the first [[Internet Exchange Point]] in the Caribbean. Dr. [[Oscar Moreno]], Director and Founder of [[Gauss Research Laboratory]], assisted him with the project and has since taken it over. At the time, Mehmet was also working as Senior Network Engineer for [[NIC.PR]] (July 2005 – June 2006), as Senior Systems and Network Engineer at pharmaceutical company CIQA Inc. (March 2002 – June 2006), and as IT Advisor to the Dean of College of Natural Sciences and the Executive Director of Academic and Administrative Technology at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (June 2004 – March 2006). He has also been a System Engineer with [[Geneva.CH]]'s Undernet IRC Network (August 2001 – May 2005), a project created by CERN to help students researching [[DDoS]] attacks figure out how to stop them. Akcin moved to Puerto Rico from Turkey in 2002. in Turkey, he worked as a System Engineer and Radio Programmer for Radio Klas, 98.7, hosting the first Turkish radio show about the Internet and Technology (May 1999 – July 2000), and before that, he assisted with the setup and administration of the first linux servers at Istanbul Technical University and Marmara University. He has been working with the Internet in various capacities since 1995, and is considered o of Turkey's Internet Pioneers.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/mehmet LinkedIn]</ref><ref>[http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mehmet-Akcin NationMaster.com]</ref><ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/akcin.htm ICANN Staff Bio]</ref>

Prior to joining ICANN, Akcin worked against much resistance to found [[IX.PR]], the first [[Internet Exchange Point]] in the Caribbean. Dr. [[Oscar Moreno]], Director and Founder of [[Gauss Research Laboratory]], assisted him with the project and has since taken it over. At the time, Mehmet was also working as Senior Network Engineer for [[NIC.PR]] (July 2005 – June 2006), as Senior Systems and Network Engineer at pharmaceutical company CIQA Inc. (March 2002 – June 2006), and as IT Advisor to the Dean of College of Natural Sciences and the Executive Director of Academic and Administrative Technology at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (June 2004 – March 2006). He has also been a System Engineer with [[Geneva.CH]]'s Undernet IRC Network (August 2001 – May 2005), a project created by CERN to help students researching [[DDoS]] attacks figure out how to stop them. Akcin moved to Puerto Rico from Turkey in 2002. in Turkey, he worked as a System Engineer and Radio Programmer for Radio Klas, 98.7, hosting the first Turkish radio show about the Internet and Technology (May 1999 – July 2000), and before that, he assisted with the setup and administration of the first linux servers at Istanbul Technical University and Marmara University. He has been working with the Internet in various capacities since 1995, and is considered on of Turkey's Internet Pioneers.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/mehmet LinkedIn]</ref><ref>[http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mehmet-Akcin NationMaster.com]</ref><ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/akcin.htm ICANN Staff Bio]</ref>

==Education==

==Education==