Execution-driven professional with 19+ yrs experience developing products for Enterprise and Service provider customers. Since last 5 years leading Cisco platform infrastructure team for ASR9K product lines. + Delivered Next-Gen routing/switching platforms - 1) A9K-RSP880-LT & 2) a Next-Gen Integrated Platform (under development), supporting scale and high availability.+ Managed concurrent projects with strong sense of ownership, drive to make a difference, and people skills to get the job done. Global perspective and working Experience in: US, India, Israel, China & Taiwan.+ Prioritization and allocation of work in an ongoing manner, get (cross geo) team alignment, optimally utilize resources, track metrics, represent progress, make necessary adjustments to deliver the product as per agreed goal.+ Periodically ‘dive deep’ into projects, assessing progress and risk, and removing barriers for direct reports; to help stay focused to moving targets. Ability to drive technical discussion with employee, external teams and business leaders.+ Program Management under tight timelines & high pressure, working closely with cross-geo teams and internal stakeholders in fast-paced environment. Ensuring + Skilled in people development and cross-functional relationship management. Ability to recruit, coach, motivate, measure, and retain diverse teams of professionals.+ Strong background in MPLS, IPv4, TCP, UDP, L2/L3 forwarding, and other networking protocols.+ Working experience on Element / Network Management System (NMS), North-bound interfaces, Operation Support System (OSS) - Asset/Inventory Management, Flow-Through Provisioning.Specialties: Engineering Management, Program Management, Product Development, Embedded Systems, IP Networking, Network Management, Manage Partners/Vendors, Agile/Scrum.