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San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Promoted to manage P&L for Cisco’s Cloud Security (Umbrella/SIG), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Network Security (ASA/NGFW) portfolio, representing 55%+/- of security business, and double-digit YOY growth. Leading a global team of 140+ product managers, architects, and technical marketing engineers through pandemic and change.

San Francisco Bay Area

P&L responsibility of $1.1B of Cisco’s Network and Application Security portfolio. Turned around a failing business to drive 7 consecutive quarters of growth and 8%+ revenue Y/Y. Driving strategic initiatives around Workload/Application Security and Cloud native solutions. Directly managing a team of 60+ product managers, architects, and technical.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for product strategy, growth and business transformation for Cisco's $3B Security Business Group across verticals, geos and segments and for helping identify new areas of investment.
• Solution and GTM strategy across Cisco’s Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs)and global Federal customers (FedRamp). On-boarded 5 new partners to deliver a Managed Security Offering driving 11% growth Y/Y.
• Led a team of Product Managers/Senior Architects (14+) focusing on competitive and sales enablement, creation of architectures & solutions encompassing security, network, DC and Cloud technologies. Evolving from a.
• Define, develop and scale Cisco’s IoT /OT Security strategy and selling capabilities. Identified new areas of investment, resulting in an acquisition(Sentryo -closed Cisco’s Q1 Fiscal year 2020)
• Streamline pricing, packaging and offers across SBG to drive closer solution alignment and GTM enablement with customers, partners, sales, marketing and across other business units

San Francisco Bay Area

• Acquired by Cisco Systems
• Defined strategy and execution of Viptela’s Secure Extensible Fabric (SEN) to extend the enterprise to the Cloud. Partnering with Tier 1 cloud providers (AWS, MS Azure and GCP) to enable next generation Cloud.
• Turned around successive quarters of negative growth to deliver + 200% in revenue and led a successful exit; drove ongoing efforts to integrate Viptela into the Cisco ecosystem across products, sales and GTM

• Defined vision, strategy and execution of Cisco’s NG “Cloud” architectures and Cloud delivered SD WAN. Services (SaaS & IaaS) hosted and delivered from public, private, hybrid or SP cloud with end to end orchestration.
• Drove Cisco’s business model from primarily hardware and perpetual software to a majority software subscription model

• Drove product, architectural strategy and vision for Cisco’s NG Branch encompassing Software Defined WAN (SD WAN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Security across Cisco’s $4B Enterprise Routing platforms..
• Conceptualized, implemented and lead “Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN)”, centerpiece of Cisco’s NG & SD WAN strategy establishing market leader position in a space that is spawning dozens of startups with solutions that.

• Tapped to run Cisco’s 800 and 1900 Integrated Services Router (ISR) portfolio, selling 1.3M+ units annually with $900M in revenues. Drove product vision, direction and strategy for low end access routing and IoT.
• Delivered consecutive quarters of growth for low end access routing business, consistently beating forecast to return to 55% market share. Orchestrated 3G/4G (LTE) Wireless WAN product strategy and market development..
• Orchestrated company-wide alignment of marketing & sales development resources to protect/grow Managed Services related router revenues with Service Providers around the globe

San Francisco Bay Area

• Promoted to manage a wireless and integrated services router portfolio (3G/4G-LTE, 802.11 and xDSL solutions) for the Small/Medium Enterprise branch office. Managed product definition, strategy, planning and life cycle.
• Drove product and GTM strategy across 65+ Service Providers worldwide. Re-architected 3G router platform, achieving 15-20% margin improvements across the portfolio
• Restructured xDSL, EFM & Fiber WAN portfolio, establishing Cisco’s Business xDSL Access Routers as the platform of choice among key global SPs.
• Developed product and feature definition, GTM strategies, pricing bundles for entry into M2M and Retail Enterprise vertical, opening up a $500M + market opportunity for the business unit

San Francisco Bay Area

• Delivered technical support for mobility solutions (3G/4G-LTE, 802.11 and VSAT) on the Cisco ISR series. Regarded internally as the “go-to” person for technical escalations across product lines both within and outside.
• Defined and implemented the certification process to engage Tier 1 service providers globally. Navigated complex internal processes within these service providers to set the stage for a global roll-out. Certified 30.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Promoted yearly within the software engineering ranks. Selected to lead teams of 10+ engineers to define and validate IP based wireless network solutions. Developed and executed functional and system level testing for.
• Reached beyond the traditional scope of the role to break down organizational silos, engaging cross-functional and cross-BU stakeholders to drive initiatives. Led multiple engineering programs to develop products which.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Collaborated with competitive analysts to highlight Nortel’s competitive advantage. Defined test methodologies and conducted testing and benchmarking of products and solutions against competing products.

Masters, Computer Science

Graduated with Honors Teaching Assistant - Department of Computer Science

Bachelor In Engineering, Electronics And Communication