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October 2002
Sicker
Douglas Sicker,
an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary
Telecommunications Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, has
been awarded a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science.
Before joining the University of Colorado faculty, Doug was Director of Global
Architecture at Level 3 Communications, LLC. Prior to this, Doug was Chief of
the Network Technology Division at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
He has also held faculty positions in the field of medical sciences.
Doug's technical interests include network signaling as well as network
security and reliability. He is also interested in the interaction of federal
policy and network technology. His efforts at Level 3 focused on optimizing
network service architectures, particularly in the area of securing IP-based
signaling. His responsibilities at the FCC included all Internet related
issues, advanced services, cable open access and communications merger
proceedings.
Doug is a senior member of the IEEE, as well as a member of the ACM and the
Internet Society. After leaving the FCC, he served as the Chair of the Network
Reliability and Interoperability Council steering committee, an FCC federal
advisory committee that focuses on network reliability, wire line spectral
integrity and Internet peering. Doug also served on the Technical Advisory
Council of the FCC, focusing on communication related disabilities issues. He
presently serves on the program committee for the Telecommunication Policy
Research Conference (TPRC). Doug completed a PhD at the University of
Pittsburgh, where his dissertation examined emerging IP signaling and control
architectures.
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