Led a diverse team in creating and implementing technical messaging and showcases for Cisco IoT products and solutions, enhancing marketing campaigns, event strategies, and customer experiences across various platforms.• Team Performance: Gained HR recognition for team's record low turnover and high productivity as a model for successful organizational practices.•Collaboration and Program Delivery: Delivered tailored solution programs through direct collaboration with sales partners and business units, fostering alignment and engagement across virtual and in-person channels.• Acquisition Integration: Strengthened team and enhanced product set through the integration of multiple acquisitions into the core Cisco IoT portfolio.• Innovative Solution Development: Successfully assembled a comprehensive solution for the Indy Autonomous Challenge by integrating technologies from Cisco IoT, Fluidmesh, Thousand Eyes, and industry partners.• Employee Experience: Protected team morale and maintained operational efficiency during a downsizing, resulting in a positive employee experience, while workloads were redistributed effectively for scalability.• Cultural Preservation: Unified product teams aligned on portfolio direction by fostering strong collaboration and coordination, resulting in seamless partnerships.

Cisco Systems, Industrial Internet Of ThingsBuilt a team of highly technical product and solution TMEs responsible for growing the complex IoT business for routing, switching and wireless products working with industry customers on their digitization journey for critical infrastructure. • Market Expansion: Introduced multiple new products to the market including the IE3x00, IW6300, IR8140, IR8340, Industrial Asset Vision, and Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul growing to $1B in revenue.• Team Integration and Leadership: Streamlined integration of the Fluidmesh technical team into the existing Cisco TME and Sales organization.• Automation and Digital Transformation: Expert for digitization and automation across industries including Technical Lead for the world's fastest autonomous vehicles with the Indy Autonomous Challenge.• Collaboration: Brought the Enterprise and IoT Sales, TME and engineering teams together to break down organizational barriers.• Demo and Training Enhancements: Revamped the live and virtual demo capabilities in the San Jose Customer Experience Center and multiple remote training labs in Cisco Cloud and DevNet. Created the first turnkey, simple solution for LoRaWAN sensors in industrial environments.• Product Development and Promotion: Led the evolution of industrial routing at Cisco bringing new products to service utilities, manufacturing, transportation, mining and fleet use cases. Produced multiple product videos for product launches and crafted the Cisco IoT and TME YouTube channels.• Content Management: Cisco Live Session Group Manager (SGM) for all content and quality for all Cisco IoT sessions.

Cisco Systems, Enterprise RoutingLed the creation of Cisco’s SD-WAN architecture through the integration of Cisco's Catalyst Routing, Switching, and Wireless portfolios.• Technical Integration and Modernization: Enhanced the functionality of routers by integrating Thousand Eyes' agent and other 3rd party tools into Cisco branch routers in a virtual machine.• Team Leadership and Revenue Growth: Drove growth and success in the organization after leading a team of highly experienced Technical Marketing Engineers responsible for a $4B solution portfolio.• Technical Architecture and Innovation: Served as the lead architect for a broad spectrum of routing technologies, streamlining their convergence onto internal platforms, including SD-WAN & SDBranch, zone-based firewall, intrusion prevention (IPS), virtualization, voice, Enterprise NFV, Virtual Routers, WAN aggregation, Data Center Interconnect, and application routing.• Content Management and Event Success: Excelled as the Cisco Live Session Group Manager, Distinguished Speaker, and demo owner, ensuring quality and content of multiple Enterprise session tracks and all Enterprise Routing content, contributing to event success and the learning experience for participants.

Cisco Systems Enterprise Routing • Create the 1, 3 and 5 year roadmaps for technical innovation in Enterprise Routing• Architect of the Cisco Intelligent WAN solution and advisor for the Viptela acquisition. Responsible for bringing the technology from the two companies together into the Cisco SD-WAN and SD-Branch solution today.

Cisco Systems Network Management Technology Group • Helped stakeholders understand technical and systems views of Cisco Prime Infrastructure as well as our Application and Network Performance Management platforms including how our user experience (UX) affected adoption.• Developed a partner ecosystem to share and utilize application information from the network• Primary interface to standards bodies such as the Telemanagement Forum, Broadband Forum, IETF and IEEE.• Helped develop a strong suite of open programmable NETCONF/YANG models.Technical Marketing Engineer for the Cisco Broadband Policy Manager product. • Assisted multiple Tier 1 Service Provider customers in defining and building their Service Delivery Platform.

Cisco Systems Service Provider Aggregation Routing • Responsible for the definition, development and launch of several products in the SP Aggregation market including the Cisco 10000, 7200, 7300, 7400 and ASR 1000• Primary technical contact for several SPs including AT&T, MCI, NTT, DT, BT, Telefonica, Telekom Malaysia and Telecom Italia.• Built the Broadband Aggregation business from non-existent to $800M annual revenue.

Cisco Systems WAN Routing• Technical Marketing Engineer for the Cisco 7200 Series, 7300 Series, 7400 Series and Cisco 7500 Series edge aggregation routers.• Conducted multiple magazine tests with published articles.• Brought several products from conception to FCS.• Developed a broad repository of technical references and test data still in use today.

Cisco Systems Enterprise Switching • Managed design guides, troubleshooting strategies and assessment approaches for ATM and Ethernet Switching solutions.• Designed, built and operated the Interop show network 3 years in a row.• Technical Marketing Engineer – Catalyst 5500/8540, ATM• Represented Cisco at multiple ATM Forum interoperability events.• Led Cisco and Industry development of LANE and MPoA.• Launched multiple products in the metro ATM market space.• Worked on a team that developed one of the first Internet 2 segments between Cisco Systems, IBM, Time Warner Cable, UNC, NCSU, Duke and the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina.• Designed, built and managed a new Technical Marketing lab and laid a lab management framework still in use today.

Cisco Systems Customer Proof of Concept Lab • Designed and built the first of its kind lab for conducting large scale customer network simulations with real hardware and software.• Worked directly with customers and account teams to re-create large Enterprise and SP network environments then test and break them.