Erik Huesca

Country:	Mexico
Email:	erik.huesca [at] gmail.com
LinkedIn:	[erik-huesca Erik Huesca]

Erik Huesca is the Executive Director at ECOESAD. He is also a member of several professional organizations, including founder and first executive director of the Internet Society Chapter Mexico.

Erik Huesca studied physics at the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and has Graduate Degrees from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of IPN, specializing in Mathematics Education, and University of California at Berkeley, Science computer. He is an specialist in consultancy services in the field of digital convergence (Telecommunications, Computing and Media). He has taught in various academic institutions in Latin America. He is widely known as an entrepreneur, consultant and lecturer.

Career History

• He began his career as Professor of Mathematics at CMU and later joined the INEA to start the learning of mathematics research, over a period of five years.

• During 1985, he worked for the CICH of the UNAM as a researcher in Information Technology, focused on networks and open systems. During this period, he also worked for research projects at Berkeley and the University of Glasgow with hypertext systems and in 1988 became a member of the Internet committee.

• In 1989, he became Director in RESTEL technical computing, consulting firm CONDUMEX Telecommunications, where he was responsible SICARTSA networking project, the first fiber-optic local network to open systems for real-time operation in the country.

• In 1991, he was among a group of researchers who started the National Laboratory for Advanced Computing (LANIA) in Xalapa, Veracruz. This project focused on the development of TCP / IP. During this period he co-founded the first association of universities in the country on the Internet (MEXnet).

• On May 1998, he became the CEO of ATM Consultants, a firm specializing in open technologies, which in the short term achieved a great reputation among the companies involved in digital business strategy.

• From June 2000 to May 2001, he worked with Deloitte Consulting to develop Telecommunications and Media practice, as the director of it.

• In 1993 he joined Consorcio Red Uno was the first instructor of Cisco technology to Latin America. Managed several projects, among which the design and development of the UNINET and was Director of Research and Development and Latin America Prodigy.