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San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Milpitas, Ca

• Gather customer requirements to help influence product direction and portfolio strategy. Present technical materials to different audiences at different levels. Serve as a conduit between functional groups to help translate and surface interrelations. Influenced product roadmaps with customer feedback and internal testing.• Display understanding of industry direction and market interactions. Consider business implications and relevance of solutions and architecture choices. Design, develop, test, and deliver value propositions to customers. • Create enterprise strategy involving the implementation of purpose-built Cisco unified communication innovations and solutions.• Understand unique theater implications of a line of business. Offer an excellent understanding of specifics for Cisco products and technologies, the interconnection/dependencies between them, and the competitive landscapes. • Propose and defend technical innovations and solutions in front of senior audiences. Present at multiple levels, executive, line of business, and technology user. Develop technical material that establishes context/customer relevance for technical topics.• Executive conferencing support, including designing and deploying advanced audio-visual technology for C-suite and boardroom conference environments

Mountain View, Ca

• Managed and implemented PictureTel ISDN to Polycom IP enterprise transition. • Designed, implemented, and supported an enterprise webcasting technology from Qumu integrated with the in-house production studio built around a multicast CDN architecture for remote offices.• Partnered across cross-functional groups to align strategic plans, resources, and capabilities toward shared goals. Applied knowledge of the enterprise landscape and the competitive interplay between established vendors, emerging providers, disruptors, and opportunities in the market.• Provided SME escalation support in conjunction with IT for all voice, video, and webcasting technologies.• Resolved unique and/or complex conferencing architecture problems. Contributed to roadmap development.• Executive conferencing support, including designing and deploying advanced audio-visual technology for C-suite and boardroom conference environments

San Francisco Bay Area

• Supported hardware, software, and interoperability solutions for conferencing across heterogeneous networks.• Engaged with Sales and PM to design/implement custom, highly integrated solutions for high-visibility customers.• Served as lead engineer for Cisco Telepresence implementations. Provided service/installation support to partners.• Was responsible for implementing and supporting many of the major hardware manufacturers' systems. Designed and implemented custom solutions addressing deployments not covered by out-of-box solution. • Provided consultative support and training to ecosystem partners. Rendered effective technical leadership for the deployment of new emerging technologies such as Cisco's Immersive Telepresence Systems.•This position was culmination of mergers and acquisitions beginning with CLI

San Jose, Ca

San Jose, Ca

San Jose, Ca

Sunnyvale, Ca

Santa Clara, Ca

This was my first true professional job, and CEO/Owner Les Zoltan taught me the meaning of customer service, and to value the relationship more that than product you are selling/supporting. I was responsible for inside sales support, outside sales support, corporate IT, integrations, video editing workstation design and build, customer technical demos, and tradeshow technical management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Information Technology Software Development

Activities and Societies: National Society of Leadership and Success

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Computer And Video Imaging And Interactive Design

Studied 2D/3D animation and special effects, interactive multimedia, and video production engineering.

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