Iftach Socher

Experience

1. Business Development Mgr, Global Systems Engineering

   Cisco

   Oct 2016 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Programmability Program for the Global SE organization.Working together with the Global SE Programmability & APIs leader: founding member of the DevNet Express program and community. DevNet Express is a 2-3 days event in which attendees learn about Cisco Programmability & APIs by “Listen, Learn and Put It into Practice”. Attendees enjoy an Experience event, learn and go through hands-on labs and missions in a fun, friendly, gamified atmosphere which place them in a better ‘space’ to observe this (usually new) content. Representative of the SE Team in the DevNet Express program team, guiding and providing priorities and feedback in developing the (currently five) program tracks covering different architectures / technologies as well the development of the program ‘boxed up’ content and supporting material: Virtual Logistics, Event Website, Registration, Train the Trainer Videos, Community chat, up to date program site, FAQ and more.Single approver for more than 400 global events to date. Follow up on every event request, understand the SE needs and desires, educate about the program, motivate and guide through the process of creating the right artifacts to get their event approved. Lead & Project manage large scale DevNet Express events: three Train the Trainer events and four events prior to Cisco Live in US and Europe (~100 attendees per each). More at:* https://developer.cisco.com/events/* https://developer.cisco.com/learning/devnet-expressCisco IMPACT Hub / Innovation Park – lead and manage Hub Talks, SE Design Workshops, SE Learning labs and more. Work with relevant teams from ‘call for papers’ phase to the successful delivery of the different activities on the ground.

Education

• The Open University of Israel

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

  1999 — 2004

• The Open university of israel

  Bachelor of Science, Computer & Management

  1999 — 2004