Eduardo Díaz

Chair


Eduardo is currently Chair of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers North American At-Large Organization (ICANN/NARALO) representing the interest of the end-user in Canada, the United States, and Puerto Rico within the Domain Name System (DNS). He is also the current President of the Puerto Rico Broadband Taskforce (PRBT) and a member of the Board in ISOC Puerto Rico, and the Board of the Puerto Rico Institute of Computer Engineers. His experiences and affiliations include Professional Engineer (PE) member of the Engineering Professional College of Puerto Rico (CIAPR), founding member of the ICANN/NARALO organization, founding member of the North American School of Internet Governance (NASIG), and founding member and past President of the Internet Society of Puerto Rico (2006-2017).

Eduardo has been Director of Information Systems and Director of Product and Market Management at Puerto Rico Telephone Company (1989 - 2003), where he launched Residential voice mail system (1990), Enhanced 800 (1994), ISDN (1995), PRTC.net (1996), Broadband IP over Frame Relay (1997), Custom Calling Features (i.e. CallerId, Call Waiting, etc.) (1998). He was also instrumental in integrating PRTC.net & Coqui.net, the biggest ISP in Puerto Rico since 2000, and DSL services (2001) currently being marketed as DSL Max.

Earlier, he was a Member of the Technical Staff and Supervisor at AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany, New Jersey (1982 - 1989) where he designed narrow pass digital signal filters, digital spectrum analyzers, and system tests for a parallel computing environment.

Eduardo is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology (GaTech) with a Bachelor (1980) and Master (1981) degrees in Science of Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Computer Design and Electronics and a Master (1984) in Computer Science.