Vojo Spahiu

Country:	Albania
Email:	vspahiu [at] gmail.com
LinkedIn:	[Profile Vojo Spahiu]
Twitter:	@vojo11

Vojo Spahiu has been a consultant with CII Albani, an ICT Institute, since 1999. He is the first ccTLD administrator for the national domain, .al. He is now based in Milan, Italy, though before transferring Italy, Mr. Spahiu had been the CTO and Deputy Director of the Albanian incumbent telecommunications operator, Albtelecom. He is currently a Senior ICT Consultant with Omega Sistemi Informativi.

Vojo Spahiu has been a member of the International College of AFNIC since 1998.

Mr. Spahiu speaks Albanian, Italian, French, and English, and is somewhat proficient in Russian.

Career History

Vojo Spahiu made the switch from Academia to the ICT industry in 1994. He had previously been a Computer Graphics and System Engineer at the National Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (INIMA), and also a Lecturer of Computer Sciences at Tirana University, Albania, from 1983 until 1997.

During 1998-2003 was appointed as Member of the Board of Directors and Director of Radio-Communications and Internet Development Directorate, in Albanian Telecommunications Regulatory Agency. Before that has been Head of Information Technology of Albanian Telecom, and earlier before has worked like Support Engineer for Hewlett Packard Hardware and Software in Information Business Company in Tirana (Local HP Distributor). Before transfering to

Education

Studies Computer Graphics and Operating Systems in Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy after earning a bachelor/master in Special (Nuclear) Physics, in Tirana University, Albania.