Bio

Passionate principal engineer leading technical marketing for Cisco's Emerging Technologies & Incubation group (i.e. Cisco's leading-edge R&D team). Trusted advisor to over a hundred Fortune 500 companies in deploying technology solutions to meet their business needs. Architect of several Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) solutions. Accomplished inventor (of 15 Cisco-approved patents), author (of 4 Cisco Press books), speaker (Cisco Distinguished Speaker Hall of Fame Elite, representing Cisco's Top 1%) and industry-influencer (IETF RFC 8325).