Tim Garner Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Identity Security

Palo Alto, California, United States

Engineering, Product, Design. Acquired by SailPoint.

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Cloud Workload Security ● Joined Cisco through internal-acquisition of Tetration (see below) to the Security Business Group.● Played a central role in transforming Cisco Security, sales, and services from a traditional device selling business to a forward looking software security enterprise, primed for the future of computer security.● Immediately led cross-functional activities with a wide range of Cisco products to partner, integrate, and scale technologies through validated customer use cases discovered using a design-thinking approach, driving joint sales and increasing revenue.● Co-ordinated and influenced the roadmap and delivery of cross-product features on portfolio products, including the multi-billion dollar network firewall, increasing customer security, satisfaction, and value in joint ownership.● Helped recruit and grow headcount from 15 to over 200, both product and engineering; becoming a mentor to a number of new employees.

Palo Alto, California, United States

Datacenter Workload Security● Selected by Cisco alongside a small group of engineers to form a security startup outside of corporate influence.● Helped to design, develop, and grow the resulting product, Tetration, from a zero dollar business to 100s of millions of dollars a year revenue. Facing many challenges a typical startup endures, I helped navigate and guide us through.● Leading technical marketing, I fostered deep relationships with customers, engineering and sales, developed new ideas and use cases, documented concepts and features, published blogs, whitepapers and videos, created open source projects, and spoke at numerous industry events with audience sizes frequently ranging in the thousands.

San Jose, California, United States

Software Defined Networks● Selected to transfer from Cisco UK to Cisco US to lead the technical marketing team for the newly introduced software-defined datacenter switching product Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).● Using customer insight, devised, designed, and validated multiple key features that were later fully implemented by engineering, leading to hundreds of millions of dollars of product growth, reaching an annual revenue rate of multi-billion dollars.

London, England, United Kingdom

Datacenter Network Switches● Ideated, designed, developed, and implemented an automated network switch testing infrastructure, replacing an existing manual process, identifying tens of thousands of software defects while saving thousands of employee-hours in efficiency gains.