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'''Kent Crispin''' has been involved with [[ICANN]] since before it was ICANN; he was Chairman of an initial [[PAB|Policy Advisory Board]] and a member of the [[POC]], both of which were entities that foreshadowed the creation of ICANN itself. He currently works as a Technical Advisor to ICANN after being its Technical Systems Manager and Director for many years. He also owns [[SongBird.com]], which is a hosting and consulting business.<ref>ICANN40 Interview</ref>
==ICANN==
Mr. Crispin was [[ICANN]]'s first Technical Systems Manager, and when he began he had a staff of only one other person. He officially joined ICANN in 2002.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-04feb02.htm ICANN.org Announcements]</ref> He has written vast amounts of code for ICANN; including work with the [[LACARLO]] servers which are automated to translate messages from English into Spanish. He worked on the recent audit of [[Whois]] servers.<ref>ICANN40 Interview</ref>

==Other Work==
Kent Crispin was a Computer Scientist at the Lawrence Livermore Lab, a government facility specializing in nuclear technology, for 22 years.<ref>ICANN40 Interview</ref><ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/crispin.htm ICANN.org Bio]</ref>

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