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More bioAs a Storage, Virtual Systems, Switching, Routing, Security and Application expert with sales and marketing leadership abilities and Patent holder for "Method for protecting a firewall load balancer from a denial of service attack." Product Manager, Product Marketing Engineer and Business development at SwiftTest, Cisco and Spirent with an expert level capabilities in network, security and applications (testing, development and design). In business development my ideas result in record sales growth at SwiftTest, Cisco and Spirent and 2 Billion worth at Cisco. Experience extends more than 17 years. Background includes testing, designing and implementing storage, security and network infrastructure. Practical experience in design and support for Cisco’s largest New York Financial customers. While at Cisco Systems worked as an emerging technology expert, product manager (Cat6k & CSM) and business development created the first marketing test lab, marketing strategy and marketing materials for Layer 2-7. In addition; started SmartTCP and Smartflow, L4-7, Security, Datacenter product ideas for Spirent. At Spirent my focus has been SpirentTestCenter & Avalanche network and security testing including storage, firewalls, IDS, IPS, and datacenter. At Spirent new technology business development and testing resulting in a 1500% increase in sales, speaking at seminars, workshops and conferences on testing and implementing network, application and security infrastructures. As a PM I started the Spirent datacenter market and security testing market. Also integrated L2-7 application and Security protocols into Spirent TestCenter led the acquisition of ThreatEx
At SwiftTest I came up with the original idea for the company and once again helped the company achieve record sales through technical business development that marries the right product changes and sales strategies with the companies place on the customer adoption curve with the result of record sales.