Franck Martin
Franck Martin is a Information and Communication Technologies Specialist from Fiji. Currently he is serving as the Trustee at San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Internet Society, Email Deliverability Services Engineer at Genius and Chief Technology Officer at Avonsys. He is the former Board member and Chairman at Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC)
Franck is an ICT specialist with over 15 years experience on the many aspects of modern information systems, including database systems, network routing and protocols, software development and systems support.
He has connected Avonsys on IPv6 with BGP peering in Fiji. This was the first organization on IPv6 with BGP peering in Fiji. The first organization to be on IPv6 was the University of the South Pacific. He has completed the IPv6 sage level at Hurricane Electric. He is the chairman of the IPV6 Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society.
Prior to joining Avonsys, Franck worked for SOPAC, a Pacific-based regional inter-governmental organization, where he led many projects and initiatives in Internet and technology development.
During this time he established the operations of two ccTLDs (country code Top Level Domains),dotKI and dotNR, as well as an Internet Service Provider.Author of the SSL Certificates HowTo on the Linux Documentation Project.
Franck is also a regular contributor to the open source community, and the Internet community. He is a promoter for wikipedia in Pacific Islands. His other projects include Tikimaps in Tikiwiki, deploying OpenSource website in Pacific Islands that serve interactive maps. He is an author of the SSL Certificates HowTo on the Linux Documentation Project.
Franck is a French national and a graduate of the École Centrale de Marseille and Lycée François 1er de Fontainebleau.
Carrer History[edit | edit source]
- ICT Specialist at SOPAC, September 1993-September 2008
- Vice-Chairman at Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC), May 2003-October2007.
- Trustee at Internet Society (ISOC), August 2006-Austut 2009.
- Chairman at Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC), September 2007-October 2009.
- Board Member at Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC), November 2009-September 2010.
- Chief Technology Officer at Avonsys, September 2008-present.
- Email Deliverability Services Engineer at Genius, October 2008-present.
- Trustee at San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Internet Society (SF-BAY ISOC), Febraury 2009-presnet