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Mountain View, California, United States

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San Jose, California, United States

• Responsible for $1B Software portfolio across the company
• Led cross functional initiative to forecast software needs and spend
• Built dashboard for Executive Leadership, Global Procurement and Finance teams summarizing SW expenditures, top publishers, upcoming renewals, and spend forecast

San Jose, California, United States

• Drove value in the form of 90% reduction in critical security vulnerabilities, $10M savings on discretionary spend, time to resolve exceptions reduced 70%
• Ensured compliance with data protection and privacy policy due to Restricted Data elements (Personally Identifiable Information PII, Current Quarter revenue, details on infrastructure and application security.
• Led large scale transformation initiative to establish automation and threshold-based reporting to enable data driven decision making for executive leadership team
• Engaged senior leadership team to establish key IT strategic objectives and measures with a cross functional tiger team
• Built platform to enable configuration of KPIs, thresholds, and visualizations based on target personas
• Built a data insight platform to enable real-time decision making at all levels of the organizational hierarchy (Cisco Operations wide insights for COO and direct reports, CIO Quarterly Business Reviews for IT $1.1.

San Jose, California, United States

• Created Integrated Digital Portfolio to manage $2 B annual investment decisions)
• Threaded processes and data across Cisco Operations from new product introduction, business architecture, capability maturity, portfolio management, project execution, change management teams, and release teams into a.
• Built platform that ensured data protection and privacy due to restricted data elements (offer pipeline)
• Created process and visualizations to review portfolio program status with senior leadership team, sponsors, and other stakeholders

San Jose, California, United States

• Led team of senior developers as Product Owner for Cisco-wide crowd-sourcing platform to connect customer, partner, sales and employee ideas to Engineering (Ideas to Execution)
• Ran competitive selling knowledge management initiative to collect details of tens of thousands of competitive sales ‘wins’ over the competition
• Ensured compliance with data protection and privacy policy due to Restricted Data elements in new product ideas
• Orchestrated dozens of peer nomination rewards programs
• Built Cisco's internal talent marketplace and changed how we grow Cisco's talent economy

San Jose, California, United States

• Scrum master for development of Innovation Management platform
• Established the IT Innovation service that supported business units across Cisco
• Created cost model that recovered operational and development costs
• Owned organizational change management for 7 program launches on the platform

San Jose, California, United States

• Lab manager for Innovation lab overseeing 8 systems administrators and network administrators
• Enabled software engineering team building smart network management product
• Built network topologies to simulate customer environments
• Supported 60 racks of equipment of various Network, Compute, Storage, Security, Call Manager devices
• Managed physical lab move with 0 business impact

San Jose, California, United States

San Jose, California, United States

• Supported a IT lab and engineer lab containing a variety of Cisco equipment and servers
• Assembled a network topology to simulate a customer environment and expand lab
• Automated network device configuration backups for lab equipment

• Managed sales, customer, inventory information
• Excelled in competitive sales environment
• Mastered the ability to discover customer needs

• Deployed IT software and hardware in the installation of new POS systems
• Directed hiring, training, and discipline of employees
• Developed cohesive sales and customer relations teams