Craig Hill Email & Phone Number

Sterling, Va, Us

San Mateo, California, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

32+ years of computer networking design, deployment, and consulting to large Government and Enterprise IT departments on how to best leverage technology for optimizing their business or missions. Unique skill-set combines in-depth knowledge in large-scale network architectures, technical depth, business alignment to those technologies, leadership, and strong public speaking skills, with ability to translate technology across all levels within IT organizations, from CxO level to in-depth engineering levels. Recent technical focus areas target public cloud adoption (AWS, Azure, GCP), "as a Service" adoption with SD-WAN, SASE, and Service Provider architectures with Segment Routing, early works with Quantum with COTS routing solutions, high speed encryption, and ML/AI and DevOps integration into network operations. Has held a wide breadth of technical engineering and leadership positions at Cisco Systems since joining Cisco in 1995, and maintains the Cisco CCIE certification (#1628) since October 1995 in Routing and Switching.Currently hold clearances to support Dept of Defense, and the U.S. Intelligence Community. Support outside of Federal extends into world-wide sales in both Fortune 50 Enterprise and global service provider.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Senior consulting, CTO technical strategy, and direct support to the $10B US Public Sector sales organization within Cisco world-wide sales.Primary responsibilities include and require strong technical, business, and leadership skills and combining that into world-class customer solutions. Technical focus areas include large complex cross-domain architecture and design that span multiple product sets and network elements. Deep expertise in design and deployments of carrier-class high-end IP/MPLS global customer networks and large-scale SD-WAN. Recent focus is around anything Software Defined, in-depth DevOps operation methods and the integration for extending SD-WAN and our new cloud transformation solutions into the large cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and GCP and integration into middle-mile providers. Primary customer focus areas within the US Gov are Civilian, US Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), as well as large Fortune 100 customers. Finally, my role requires a variety and breadth of strong public speaking and presentation skills focused on in-depth technical training, CxO executive briefings, as well as external open source events, seminars, and an 11 time recipient of distinguished speaker award at Cisco Live events world-wide.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Network engineer supporting Cisco Federal sales teams in driving revenue and overall increasing sales. Responsibilities included pre/post sales, installations, phone support, product updates to customers, large network designs and assisting customers in ways to properly integrate Cisco's product portfolio into their intranet.

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Electronic And Computer Engineering

Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering