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Employer Name
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Cisco Systems, Inc. |
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Employer Website
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www.cisco.com |
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Job Title
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Senior Manager / Technical Leader |
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Major and Class
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BS Geology/Computer Science-1984 |
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Briefly describe what you do
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I serve as both an architect on Cisco's call
control application servers for Voice Over IP products, and manage a
team of development engineers both here in the Dallas area as well
as in Shanghai, China. |
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What other jobs have you had? Please include
job title and name of organization
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What are the key skills, abilities, and
personal qualities necessary to succeed in this type of work?
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Good communication skills, good team-working,
strong software methodology training, strong programming skills,
willingness to work in an aggressive and diverse environment. |
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What do you enjoy most about your current
position?
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Mentoring others, managing people and
developing their careers, understanding and creating new cutting
edge architectures. |
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Most important/valuable lesson or activity
in college that impacted your career
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Two things actually - interacting effectively
with my peers, and taking the Software Engineering class in the CS
department - it was very important to see how what we learned in the
classroom was applied in the real world. |
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What advice for someone entering this field?
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Get any work experience that you can prior to
graduation. |
Questions?
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E-mail your questions to
askalumni@trinity.edu
Put the name of the alumni you wish to
contact in the subject line, then type your question. |