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== Career History ==

== Career History ==

Under his direction [[.cat]] showed a healthy and constant growth (more than 62.000 domains under management), renewal rates of 82% to 85%, high usage rates (active and non empty/parked domains) and full presence on the street. Being member of the Registry Constituency, he served as [[GNSO]] councilor (2007-09). On the technical side .cat was IDN and IPv6 enabled since sunrise and was the 1st gTLD to be DNSSEC ready. On the social side, being .cat a community sponsored gTLD, the registry started a Grants program to reinvest in community proposed projects, and an European program, together with other ccTLDs, to bring web content development and use to schools. Amongst other events, the registry organized a [[CENTR]] general assembly, the first ever joint CENTR-[[LACTLD]] joint working sesions and helped with Studienkreis held in Barcelona. <ref>[http://www.icann-studienkreis.net/puntcat.pdf icann-studienkreis.net]</ref>  

Under his direction [[.cat]] showed a healthy and constant growth (more than 62.000 domains under management), renewal rates of 82% to 85%, high usage rates and full presence on the street, as well as high information density of the registered domains (metric of domain use). Being member of the Registry Constituency, he served as [[GNSO]] councilor (2007-09). On the technical side .cat was IDN and IPv6 enabled since sunrise and was the 1st gTLD to be DNSSEC ready. On the social side, being .cat a community sponsored gTLD, the registry started a Grants program to reinvest in community proposed projects, and an European program, together with other ccTLDs, to bring web content development and use to schools. Amongst other events, the registry organized a [[CENTR]] general assembly, the first ever joint CENTR-[[LACTLD]] joint working sesions and helped with Studienkreis held in Barcelona. <ref>[http://www.icann-studienkreis.net/puntcat.pdf icann-studienkreis.net]</ref>  

Prior to [[.cat]], he worked at Hewlett Packard for 12 years in different countries and held technical and management positions in Training, Customer Support planning and Marketing. He has been associated professor at EADA business school, lecturing on Operations management and Innovation (2002-06).<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=4707847&authType=name&authToken=p_09&locale=en_US&pvs=pp&pohelp=&trk=ppro_viewmore linkedin]</ref>

Prior to [[.cat]], he worked at Hewlett Packard for 12 years in different countries and held technical and management positions in Training, Customer Support planning and Marketing. He has been associated professor at EADA business school, lecturing on Operations management and Innovation (2002-06).<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=4707847&authType=name&authToken=p_09&locale=en_US&pvs=pp&pohelp=&trk=ppro_viewmore linkedin]</ref>