Federal Systems Engineer

Scientific Region, Washington D.C. area

• Trusted technical advisor for several large Federal Civilian agencies. Develop close relationships with customers by learning their business and technical challenges/initiatives and educate them on Cisco solutions to help achieve maximum ROI.
• Consistently overachieve quota
• Led many programmability projects to achieve business outcomes for customers and demonstrate the value of API/automation with Cisco solutions.
• Develop relationships with Cisco Business Units to provide customer needs/feedback to help shape solution creation/development.
• Mentor interns and CSAP Associates

Recognitions:

• Federal DevOps SE of the Quarter (Q4FY22)
• Sales Champion FY21(Top 10% of all Cisco Sellers)
• US Public Sector SE of the Quarter Q3FY21
• Federal SE of the Quarter Q3FY21
• Achiever FY22

Certifications:

• Cisco Certified Devnet Professional (Enterprise Automation Specialty)
• Cisco Certified Network Professional
• Engineering Cisco Meraki Solutions (ECMS)
• Cisco Certified Networking Associate
• Certified Meraki Network Associate

Associate Systems Engineer

A part of the FY20Q1 Cisco Sales Associate Program (CSAP) cohort based in Cisco's RTP office
CSAP Work Experience:

• In depth technical and sales training on Cisco technologies.
• Obtained CCNA, progressing towards CCNP.
• Led the development of a fully functional web app targeted to help networking between Associates and CSAP alumni, along with helping hiring managers to find top notch talent based on their criteria.
• Led the creation and execution of a teach-back program between Associate Engineer and Sales Representatives to deepen knowledge of technical skills, along with gaining more business acumen. This program will continue to be implemented in future cohorts.

Lab Support Technician

Work in the Sancar Lab in conjunction with Ogun Adebali's new lab in Istanbul, Turkey
Work on the following for Adebali's lab website, RepairRepo:

• Designed and implemented a fully functional backend using MongoDB to store experiment results
• Constructed the "search" page connecting the implemented database with a client-side page to accept various queries to retrieve data for users.
• Search page also utilizes plotly.js for plotting/visualizing experiment data and Bootstrap for webpage layout and tables.
• Constructed the "browser" pages for various organisms that utilizes IGV.js Genome Browser to visualize experiment results

Technical Sales Engineer Intern

Worked at Cisco Systems for two consecutive summers as a technical sales/field sales engineer intern

• Worked extensively in teams to provide actionable account insights for Cisco customers
• Gained extensive technical training in Cisco products
• Participated in and won a global hackathon with fellow SE interns.

Recently accepted a full time role into Cisco's Certified Sales Associate Program that will begin in the Summer of 2019