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Austin, Texas, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Solutions Architect in the Digital Transformation Group focusing on IoT solutions for manufacturing.- Created an end to end wireless IoT architecture with a sensor partner, thus paving the path for Cisco to be able to offer an end to end IoT solution.- Designed and implemented an industrial IoT demo that the sales team use to educate and excite customers Cisco’s IoT offerings.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Solutions and Product Manager in the Sports and Entertainment Solutions Group.- Defined product requirements, roadmap, pricing and support strategy for StadiumVision, a digital signage and IPTV solution aimed at the Sports and Entertainment market.- Grew the installed base of StadiumVision to 75+ customers. These included some of the most valuable sports brands, such as Real Madrid, NY Yankees & Dallas Cowboys.- Performed market research of existing SaaS based digital signage offerings, which then served as input to a new Cisco cloud based signage offering.- Lead the introduction of StadiumVision Mobile, which allowed customers to use multicast over WiFi to scale the delivery of real time video to a large number of fans.- Investigated performance of multicast over WiFi during numerous live sporting events, and then worked with the WiFi business unit on optimizations and problem resolution.- Managed a team of Technical Marketing Engineers and Solution Managers, thus ensuring that our solution portfolio was aligned and met our customer’s needs.- Presented updates to customers and ensured their feedback was reflected in the product roadmaps.- Negotiated licensing and OEM agreements with select partners, thus ensuring that their state of the art technology could be integrated into our sports solutions.- Lead the group’s transition from waterfall to agile development, with a resulting increase in feature velocity.

Technical Marketing Engineer in Cisco's Linksys division for SMB.- Architected the cloud component of the Linksys One (L1) managed services solution- Qualified xDSL, cable and T1 broadband services for use with L1, and then created guides used by VARs to select the best BB service and successfully deploy it.- Trained customers, resellers and the Cisco sales team on the L1 architecture and it’s benefits to a small business owner.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Network Consulting Engineer in the Advanced Services group.- Recognized as a leading subject matter expert in the area of Unified Collaboration, and accepted a corporate relocation to the US in order to work on critical customer projects.- Consulted on a large Centrex to IP Telephony conversion for Ford Motor’s campus in Dearborn, MI.- Provided planning, design and implementation services for an IP Telephony rollout for the - CenturyLink campuses in Denver, CO and Omaha, NE.- Presented regularly for customers and partners at Cisco Live in the US and Australia, and for the Cisco sales teams at the annual sales conference.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Network Consulting Engineer in the Advanced Services group.- Consulted on the Qantas next-gen IP network spanning 4 continents, ensuring on-time completion and a vast improvement in reliability and response time.- Provided Telstra with design and implementation expertise for their first MPLS/VPN network connecting Sydney and Melbourne.- Contributed expertise to the New Zealand Department of Social Welfare IP Telephony project where 164 Nortel PBX’s were displaced by a single Cisco Call Manager cluster.

Instructor delivering Cisco technical training to partners and customers.

Systems Engineer providing pre-sales and post-sales support on Cray Communication networking products.

Software Developer working on the ScaNet family of networking products.

Software Developer working on the ScaNet family of networking products.

Software Developer working on two-way radio communication for public transport and safety.

Master'S Degree, Telecommunications Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electromechanical Engineering