Network infrastructure orchestration and automation.

Department of Defense (DoD) programs.

• Management of distributed department of 15, including one manager across RTP, Santa Clara and Beijing performing software development, user support and operational maintenance• Management of multiple shared services, including: o Deployment and operation of distributed Enterprise production Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) toolset (Requirements Management, Software Project Management and Quality Management) using the IBM Rational Jazz tool suite o Full lifecycle development, deployment and operation of Test Automation Harness enabling CI/CD, the Common Test Harness (CTH) that orchestrates test requests, test execution, resource management, provisioning and reporting o Deployment and operation of the Desktop Unit Test Infrastructure (DUTI), a grid of virtual machines used for production development unit test• Departmental management of $4.5M budget, distributed across headcount and software licensing• Responsible for delivery of cross engineering team status communication, requirements negotiation and tracking, along with live Sprint/Release demos to stakeholders and engineers• Developed team members to take over Scrum Master responsibilities in the US and Beijing allowing me to maintain Product Owner responsibilities and migrating to a Scrum of Scrums• Collaboration and Program Management with Rally, JIRA and Confluence• Professional services and vendor management including contractors, contract negotiations and SOWs• Active participant in Diversity and Inclusion programs, including recruiting, live coaching, mentoring and panel participation for the Dell Black Networking Alliance

• Manual and automated testing of Layer 3 MPLS VPN solutions on Cisco’s Nexus 7000 platform running NX-OS• Utilized skills in network troubleshooting across multiple network operating systems, IOS, IOS-XR and NX-OS along with traffic generation and simulation equipment from Agilent and Spirent• Developed and executed automation using iTest and Unix shell scripts on local and remote test beds• Performance and scale testing of Cisco’s Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) virtualized on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS)• Configured test bed, including Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unified Presence and Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager• Provisioned and configured Cisco and 3rd party systems with VMware ESX 4.x , EMC SAN storage and Nexus 1000V virtual switch on the UCS platform

• Interface between engineering and operations to ensure escalated service/support requests were addressed according to Service Level Agreements• Technical resource to the product management team for identifying risks and opportunities for new product delivery• Developed and organized training for new technologies and solutions

• Lead, monitor, evaluate and train managers, software engineers and test engineers• Actively mapping my team’s goals, responsibilities, tasks and success to as specific of measurable business outcomes • Implemented a distributed remote development platform using VMware that saved 40 man hours per engineer and reduced support cost for IT and engineering by over $1 million per year• Project management responsibilities for multiple internal and external voice, network security and emulation related tools and projects• Utilized the Scrum Agile development methodology as Product Owner and Scrum Master• Managed the development and deployment of an enterprise Eclipse based RCP application• Managed engineering product lifecycle and subsequent commercial productization of the Snooper troubleshooting tool – externally available as Packet Telephony Center: Monitoring and Troubleshooting• Gathered internal and external customer requirements for complex next generation telephony solutions• Led joint Cisco/HP testing effort for VSM (Virtual Switch Manager) Network Management software• Partnered with Cisco Sales to conducted onsite service provider customer acceptance testing for a network infrastructure and associated network management platform• Led the development and support of a complex internal test automation framework• Designed and built out lab infrastructure with virtualization, routers, switches, servers and software• Active participant in Diversity and Inclusion programs, including recruiting, live coaching, mentoring and panel participation for the Cisco Black Employee Network• Cisco employee sponsor for Triangle Linux User Group and National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Alumni Extension• Represented Cisco as both technical presenter and hiring manager at multiple NSBE National conventions