Avri Doria


Email:	Avri.Doria [at] ltu.se
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Education

She did BA from University of Rhode Island; Philosophy in 1978.
In 1979 she completed her MA from University of Chicago; Philosophy, Concentration on Cognitive Studies.
In 2001 she did MA from Rhode Island College; Counseling Psychology.

She did PhD from Blekinge University (2003-2007).

Career History

She has been an adjunct professor at Luleå University of Technology since 2007.
She was a visiting researcher at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (2003-2004).
Avri was the Director IP Routing at Nortel Networks.
Chief Architect of Routing and Policy Management at Internet Communications from 1999-2000,

1996 – 1999 General DataComm Corp., Marlboro MA Sr. Scientist, Acting Director - Responsible for technical and administrative management of GDC’s Boston Research Center. Projects included: GSMP controlled switch for Label Switched Router (MPLS) with Ericsson, LAN adaptation, IP/Label switching, and PNNI. In addition to technical leadership, was responsible for staffing and budget decisions as well as yearly project planning. Originally hired as lead architect for IP switch project.

1999: Revenant Networks President - Several of us decided, with GDC's permission, to attempt to spin out a startup. While we succeeded in getting one year's worth of contract funding from Ericsson to complete the GSMP/MPLS project for them, we were unable to negotiate continuing funding. We broke even financially when we closed down the company.

1995 - 1996 Bytex - Network Systems Corp., Westborough, MA Sr. Consulting Engineer, Lead Architect - edge module for interconnecting ATM with local and IP networks.

1993 - 1995 Proteon Inc., Westborough, MA Engineering Manager - Internetworking Systems Development Responsible for the following protocols: OSPF, BGP, SNMP, IPX, I-ISIS, and the TCP/IP stack. Responsible for complete project life cycle; i.e. from design to product.

1992 - 1993 Locus Computing Corp., Burlington MA 2/93-11/93 Engineering Manager for a group porting LAN Manager for UNIX, Responsible for project from initial proposal, through contract phases and into the design and implementation phases. 8/92-6/93 Project Manager of group porting Ultrix to Digital’s MIPS R4000/R4400 workstation family. Project was delivered on time and under budget. Responsible for documentation, test and development groups.

1990 - 1992 Clearpoint Research Corp., Hopkinton MA Network Engineering Manager - Developed a line of 4 products from conception and architecture to implementation and release. Managed the software, hardware and test groups.

1988 - 1990 Racal Interlan, Inc., Boxborough MA Software Engineering Manager – Protocol Development TCP/IP, OSI, DECnet and XNS.

1988 Texet Corporation, Summerville MA Senior Project Leader - Distributed Document Project, early SGML development

1987 - 1988 Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva Israel (contract position) Manager of the Computer Laboratories - Instructor - C and Unix Internals

1986 - 1987 Isra-Tel (AT&T VAR), Tel Aviv Israel Senior Software Engineer - Unix Communications Driver Development

1983 - 1986 Kibbutz Shomrat, Asherat Israel Project Manager - Computer services Teacher (part time) - Elementary and Middle school Computer Studies

1981 - 1983 Digital Equipment Corp., Marlboro MA Software Engineer - Large System Engineering (TOPS-20)

1978 - 1981 University of Chicago Computation Center, Chicago IL Systems Programmer (full time)

1976 - 1978 University of Rhode Island Chemistry Department, Kingston RI Scientific Programmer (part time and full time)

Publications

Avri Doria is the author and co-author of many publications: