Career
He is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. After graduating from the Ecole Polytechnique of France, Huitema served for 5 years as an engineer in the SEMA Montrouge before returning to the National Center for Telecommunications Research in Issy-les-Moulineaux. In 1986, he joined the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique).
Huitema collaborated on several research projects including the NADIR Project (jointly with Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications) to study the use of computer satellites, the ESPRIT THORN project (The first implementation of the X500 distributed directory), and the RODEO project, which aims to define and test communication protocols for high speed networks.
He worked as a chief scientist for Bellcore in the mid-1990s. Huitema was also involved with the creation of the Teredo tunneling system.
