Program Manager
San Jose, Ca, Us
Worked in the Cloud Automation and Platform Services Department as a Program Manager. Leading multiple projects/programs in the Data Center space such as ACI, IOE, and Global Data Strategy Programs along with managing multiple enterprise stacks with a globally distributed team. - Leading the Cisco IT Global Data Center Strategy Program to develop a 5 year and 10 year view of the data center in the compute, networking, and storage area. - Leading the IOE space for Infrastructure to determine the ROI of all use cases submitted for the Data Center. Determine future investment and growth. - Transform architectures to fit the ACI / SDN framework. Build infrastructure for the same and migrate the application over to the new networks. - Leading PaaS Track on the ACI program to enable ACI capabilities while aligning to the Openstack and Lightweight Application Environment (LAE) - Container Environment. - Build and Manage Data Center Infrastructure ground up from storage, networks, and hosts to the middle and application tier to meet architectural standards. - Forecast and manage yearly roadmaps Determine the ROI, business value for projects and drive to completion within allocated budget and schedules.- Work closely with customer request Data Center builds and support production releases. Manage infrastructure for clients such as Cisco.com, Cisco sales application, and software downloads for Cisco. - Introduce newer automation and capabilities to the existing environments to improve resiliency, response, and availability. - Work with vendors on resourcing, hardware delivery, and renewing project plans. - Negotiate contracts and mitigate risk for the vendor-resourced programs. - Business Process Architect for all engagement models.- Automation of all underlying hardware infrastructure and reduce delivery time to end clients.- Present the Cisco IT solutions to Cisco’s external customers at Cisco Live, Technical session, and Executive Presentations.