Johnson County Community College - Information Science
Sr. Advisor Customer Experience at Cisco Systems and Advisory Board Member at Johnson County Community College
Higher Education
Masood
M. Syed
Overland Park, Kansas
• Career Networking Professional with Cisco Systems, Inc., a leading provider of telecommunications services.
• Leadership
Network Security + Project Management + Orchestration
• Extensive Routing & Switching within Mobile Wireless and Data Networks
• CCIE - Cisco Certified Internet Expert Routing and Switching
• DevOps + ICAgile Certified
• SCRUM Master
• Cisco Networking Academy Instructor
• IOS-XR Specialist
Information Technology - Professor Adjunct
Masood worked at Johnson County Community College as a Information Technology - Professor Adjunct
Advisory Board Member
Masood worked at Johnson County Community College as a Advisory Board Member
Senior Systems Engineer
Masood worked at Cisco as a Senior Systems Engineer
Senior Technical Leader
• Manage multiple projects and balance priorities across multiple technical teams and business groups
• Perform analysis and diagnosis of customer most complex networking problem
• Lead a team of 10+ senior engineers for design validation consulting of leading edge product network solution and cater to customer requirements
• Understand customer’s business objective and priorities based on business driver.
• Provide network troubleshooting on the Customer network for a complex and critical issue’s.
• Reduced time spent on solution validation decreasing overall customer acceptance time and accelerated time to market (TTM) for newer technologies by 40-50%
• Provide knowledge of customer’s network to assist in a critical issues or service requests.
• Attends conference calls to assist in resolving the service request, Act as a focal point of most complex network problem resolution.
• Providing a software recommendation for a known problem that has been discovered by TAC.
• Create Critical problem resolution and provide them with root cause analysis documents
• Provide methods and procedures to assist customers with management and deployment of Cisco software, delivered best practice knowledge and using custom AS tools I assisted the customer with implementing a software strategy that allows process and procedure to e established that address all the facts of software management within the customer network.
• Provide leadership to less experienced and peer Network Consulting Engineers.
• Leads and works on projects that are strategic, of high visibility.
• Build a very strong cross functional relationship with Advanced Services, Account team and Business Unit.
• Mentored newer members of the team on technical / functional direction, customer sentiment and internal collaboration
Senior Advisor, Customer Experience
• Trusted Advisory - Influential and Confidence Inspiring + builder of deep and enduring relationships with key executives who influence and make business decisions.
• Technology Innovation and Leadership
• Technical Outcome + Expert Focused - projects from concept through execution
• Applied Understanding of Cisco Cross-Architectural + Horizontal Solutions - developing business cases and business proposal collateral used broadly across Services.
• Solving Cisco’s Key Customer Problems using multiple technologies
• Responsible for Engaging + Influencing multiple constituents across the Advanced Services Centers of Excellence/Practice Delivery organizations, with Services organizations outside of AS, and other Cisco Business Entities to develop Services-Wide Engagements
• Deep and Strategic Customer Relationships - Interfacing with and influencing senior-level executives for Cisco’s top customer accounts.
• Proven and effective leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with others
through conflicting pressures and priorities while resolving complex issues.
• Manage multiple projects and balance priorities across multiple technical teams and business groups.
• Project scoping, define resource requirements and manage allocations, scope of work (SOW); work with project managers to control schedules, risks, cost and performance, reprioritizing resources along project milestones based on service level agreements (SLA)
Aircraft Maintenance Engineer
Masood worked at Pakistan International Airlines as a Aircraft Maintenance Engineer
M.S
Electrical Engineering
Master's degree
Physics
Bachelor's degree
Physics | Mathematics | Geology