Shamim Pirzada
Leader, then Director, Engineering @Cisco
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WORK HISTORY
Leader, then Director, Engineering @Cisco
Office of the CTO, CollaborationInventing the Future of Collaboration as the “Horizon 3” team. Understand trends, define standards, nurture talent and build products to make the collaboration experiences of the future possible. Directly supporting 12+ very senior engineers on the team to generate ideas, develop prototypes/proofs-of-concept and partner with BUs to bring disruptive, potentially $B products to market.One of our innovations, Webex Hologram went public on 10/26/21 to rave reviews (e.g.
EDUCATION
Imperial College London
PhD, BSc(Eng), Software Engineering Management
Scrum Alliance, USA
Certified Scrum Master & Product Owner
SKILLS
ABOUT SHAMIM PIRZADA
Seasoned engineering leader with cross-functional experience in telecommunications and cloud collaboration at institutions such as Cisco Systems and AT & T/Lucent Bell Labs. Established high performance innovative engineering teams multiple times, directly supporting up to 5 teams and 45 engineers in multiple geos. Worked in Europe and North America with dotted lined teams in Asia.Striving to make the world a better place by repeatedly introducing bleeding edge technology, examples include: world’s first large scale speech recognition IVR cloud application, industry’s first multi-protocol VoIP/PSTN gateway, first consumer & SMB telepresence end point & cloud service, game changing cloud collaboration admin portal/service. Ability to quickly learn new technologies.16 issued patents in UC/collaboration/security. PhD in Software Engineering/Management from Imperial College, London. Certified Scrum Master & Product Owner.Specialties: ReST APIs, Cloud Computing, Consumer & Business Telepresence, Multimedia (audio, video, IM, etc) gateways, Anti-Spam Technology, Internet Telephony, Voice over IP, Interactive Voice Response, Computer Aided Software Engineering, OpenStack, Web Applications, Agile/Scrum
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