Masood Syed

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Masood M. Syed

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Biography

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


Experience

  • Johnson County Community College

    Information Technology - Professor Adjunct

    Masood worked at Johnson County Community College as a Information Technology - Professor Adjunct

  • Johnson County Community College

    Advisory Board Member

    Masood worked at Johnson County Community College as a Advisory Board Member

  • Cisco

    Senior Systems Engineer

    Masood worked at Cisco as a Senior Systems Engineer

  • Cisco

    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

  • Cisco

    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)

  • Pakistan International Airlines

    Aircraft Maintenance Engineer

    Masood worked at Pakistan International Airlines as a Aircraft Maintenance Engineer

Education

  • Wichita State University

    M.S

    Electrical Engineering

  • Karachi University

    Master's degree

    Physics

  • Karachi University

    Bachelor's degree

    Physics | Mathematics | Geology

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