Dave Cavanaugh Email & Phone Number

Spokane, WA, US

Plano, Texas, US

With wife, Tami Cavanaugh, own the first two European Wax Center franchises in the Inland Northwest. Seeking to make the Inland Northwest Gorgeous!

My goal is to use my voice to help directors and producers achieve their ultimate goals.My voice is exuberant, optimistic, caring, and knowledgeable yet relatable. I am pursuing a lifelong dream of delivering entertainment and education to a broad audience. Following formal Voice Over training, my focus is on Commercial, Narration, E-Learning, Corporate.

Launched and led an incubator for customer service-focused small businesses in a variety of technical and non-technical markets in Northern California and the Inland Northwest.

Responsible for the successful transition of over 500 employees into Cisco from two complex, international acquired companies (Meraki & Intucell). Led cross-functional workstreams to plan and deliver the employee onboarding experience. Program Management activities spanned the entire acquisition process starting in deal diligence through to successful.

San Jose, CA, US

• Reporting to the Vice President of HR, was responsible for talent development for HR and Engineering while establishing a Program Management Office and portfolio management process for the world-wide HR Operations..
• Developed and deployed comprehensive talent development strategy for engineering managers across 4 major North American product development sites.
• Created balanced scorecard to guide site executives toward realizing business aspirations and increase employee engagement.
• Co-led HR Development initiative to transform the capability of the organization. Drove implementation of new HR competency model, training, and on-line reference library. Personally developed web-based resource (wiki).

San Jose, CA, US

• Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Engineering Operations, directed successful internal training business by balancing innovative core content development and community learning programs with cost effective.
• Achieved yearly goal of 60% of world-wide Engineering organization participating in at least one learning solution and nearly 29,000 global learners across all corporate functions participating in a multitude of.
• Established international delivery strategy and operation to match rapid global engineering growth with focus on Bangalore, India and Shanghai, China.
• Managed world-wide professional skills training curriculum for the entire company, including Project, Program, and Portfolio Management.

San Jose, CA, US

• Reporting to the Vice President of SW Engineering, IOS Technologies Division, was responsible for establishing the first Engineering Education function at Cisco and scaled up the onboarding of new software engineers to.
• Developed and delivered Engineering newhire bootcamps. By speeding engineers’ ramp to proficiency, reduced development cycles of the proprietary Cisco IOS source code that drove 70% of Cisco’s revenue for over a decade.
• Software Quality Training: Led change management across the company’s software engineering community. Drove consistent adoption of best development practices resulting in improved software quality (measured by reduced.
• Established scalable infrastructure for community learning, including in-room events, live streaming video, and on-demand video library that produced thousands of engineer-to-engineer transfers of information and best.
• Expanded the Engineering course catalogue ten-fold with development of in-house content and off-the-shelf instructor-led training content to fill gaps in learning roadmaps. Negotiated aggressively to provide greatest.

San Jose, CA, US

• Reported to the Vice President of Advanced SW Technology Development, IOS Technologies Division. Responsible for establishing the first Engineering Education function at Cisco to scale the onboarding of new software.
• Developed/Delivered engineering newhire bootcamps (combining technology, tools, and culture) and programmer’s reference documentation for proprietary technology: Cisco IOS. Repeated this effort for the next generation.
• Scaled leader-led training delivery operation to match the explosive pace of corporate engineering growth.

San Jose, CA, US

• Dual reporting role to the Vice President of Corporate Quality and Vice President of Engineering (Corporate Product Development).
• Led internal software development process improvement efforts including coordination of regular software process symposia among the engineering technical leaders and senior management. Brought focus on innovation in.
• Established two-way customer feedback mechanisms including delivery of customer presentations on process & quality, customer satisfaction surveys, and quality metrics. Used this feedback to drive further improvement to.

San Jose, CA, US

• Reported to the Director of Corporate Quality.
• Developed and deployed Cisco’s first product development methodology for hardware and software products. This methodology enabled the organic development of products that fueled Cisco’s growth for more than 15 years.
• Developed and deployed company-wide ISO 9001-compliant Quality system and led the achievement of ISO 9001 registration.

Micromodule Manufacturing Group, Cupertino, CA

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology Center, Marlboro, MA

Computer Systems Manufacturing Engineering Group, Acton, MA

Ba, Computer Science, Psychology

Computer Science - Ms Program

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