Chris Boyd is the treasurer of EFF-Austin. Chris has more than 25 years of experience in telecommunications, data networking, and ISP operations. His in-depth knowledge and practical experience provide insight into advanced technologies that affect EFF-Austin policy discussions.
Chris also brings an entrepreneurial background to the organization, having worked extensively with several large communications companies, and his own startups, to assist in product definitions, operational integration, and service delivery and management. His extensive understanding of various communications technologies, networking requirements, and cloud scale services allows him to explain new products and services, and how they affect the public.
Chris has worked for and consulted to MCI, Worldcom, Cox Enterprises, Mediacom Communications, Insight Communications, Suddenlink Communications, and Verizon. His previous companies include an innovative, vertically integrated managed services, hosting and colocation company that provided complete IT services to the SMB market – multimedia cabling, wired/wireless LAN, WAN and VPN implementation, VoIP, network management, remote backup, server and desktop support to the SMB market. Chris co-founded and worked as CTO of Midas Green Technology, which is developing a next generation immersion cooling system for high density data centers. Chris co-founded and worked as CTO of CH3 Data which is the only immersion cooling datacenter using immersion cooling in a live datacenter. CH3 is a spinoff from Midas Green Technologies, and provides cloud services – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), VPS, managed VPS, hosting, and colocation services, focusing on providing services to web development, marketing and startup web services companies.
Chris holds a BA in General Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, Management and Computer Science. Chris also has a patent – US Patent 6,633,562 “Method and apparatus using enhanced attachment for improved connectivity in telecommunications” for work done at the MCI Developers Lab. The patent describes a method for automatically configuring voice devices operating over a packet switched network. Chris also has several domestic and international patent applications in progress for enhanced immersion cooling systems for data centers.
