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A seasoned technology executive and innovator, focused on developing and driving market shifting technology and systems architectures. Heavily customer focused and outcome oriented in decision making and strategy development. An ability to coalesce and articulate complex strategic transitions into actionable planning, prioritization and execution. Skilled team builder and leader of large scale engineering organizations. Proven track record...

A seasoned technology executive and innovator, focused on developing and driving market shifting technology and systems architectures. Heavily customer focused and outcome oriented in decision making and strategy development. An ability to coalesce and articulate complex strategic transitions into actionable planning, prioritization and execution. Skilled team builder and leader of large scale engineering organizations. Proven track record in developing and aligning individual and group strengths to execute on strategic goals and business priorities. Advisor to private and public sector organizations in the areas of emerging technologies and developing markets. Accomplished public speaker to business, technical and industry audiences. Experienced in systems design, development, deployment and implementation for varying market segments including Internet, Content and Cloud Service Providers; Commercial Enterprises and the Public Sector across developed and emerging geographies.SVP/Chief Strategy officer @ From November 2015 to Present (2 months) Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer @ Defining strategy for long term company growth in the areas of Workload, Cloud, Virtualization, Automation, Performance and Assurance Management and IT Service Management. Driving early stage innovation through incubators, next generation user experience and highly differentiated solutions. From January 2015 to September 2015 (9 months) Vice President and CTO - Cloud and Virtualization Group @ From April 2014 to December 2014 (9 months) Vice President, CTO @ Responsible for Cisco's Cloud Services and Management Strategy. From August 2012 to April 2014 (1 year 9 months) Chief Strategy Officer @ Providing mid to long term strategic leadership to the CEO/Chairman of the Board. Specific areas of focus: • Product/Platform technology development prioritization • Overall technology advancement through development, partnerships and potential investment activities • Market/Segment development and opportunity analysis • Competitive market/technology analysis From September 2011 to August 2012 (1 year) Commissioner @ Provided technology and market guidance to various commission working groups and overall steering committee, that resulted in the development and subsequent presentation of the "Cloud2" report to congress outlining specific initiatives, policy implications and accelerators that could be implemented to enhance the adoption of Cloud based services within the Federal Government. From April 2011 to October 2011 (7 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaVice President, Platform Engineering and Strategy @ Inventor/developer of vBlock Platform. Responsible for the initial and ongoing design and development of the vBlock Platform. Created a product line that led to over $500M of revenue in its first year of availability and continues to be the market leader in the area of converged infrastructure. Developed market specific solutions and architectures supporting customers as they migrate business critical workloads into private and public cloud environment. Founded and led the Product/Platform Engineering organization including • Grew organization from 20 to 128 Engineers in a 9 month period. • Fully automated Test/Development facility reducing the time taken to fully qualify platform development by 3 months per product line • QA Operation and Performance Management procedures and team. These processes allowed the team to conduct over 600 individual system level test per platform prior to product availability and reducing time to market by up to 50% per platform • Product/Platform Life-Cycle management process and team coalescing up to 32 individual asynchronous release trains into a coherent release mechanism providing a moving 18 month window of capability availability. This allowed customers to move to a reliable 6 month update cycle from the previous multi-year maintenance window • Management and Orchestration, middleware development team that created a fully unified infrastructure management capability for the first time in the market • Product Management, Marketing and Engineering team focusing on Platform scope, requirements and customer engagement. This resulted in an expansion to the product line that encompassed mid-range and commercial customers as well as incorporating new products from JV parent business units. 7 new members to the product line were announced within the first 12 months of operation From May 2010 to 2011 (1 year) Senior Director/CTO, World Wide Partner Organization @ Strategic leadership of technology and systems development opportunities with key alliance partners that included Technology, System Integrators and Service Provider partners. Creation of the Office of the CTO and Engineering team, focusing on proof of concept and technology/product development. Founding member of the Acadia/VCE development team, creating the organization to develop and deliver the vBlock Platform I co-designed/developed. Definition of reference architectures with leading ISV partners including Microsoft, Redhat, and Citrix. From 2007 to May 2010 (3 years) Corporate Consulting Engineer @ Large Scale Enterprise Architecture development • Campus/LAN design • Branch/WAN design • High performance Metro-infrastructure design Service Provider Infrastructure development • Public Exchange Point design and operation • ISP Point of Presence (PoP) design and operation • ISP address allocation operational models Router and Switch Architecture Design and Optimization • QoS deployment and operation • IPv4 and IPv6 protocol development • Routing protocol configuration and operation From April 1996 to August 2007 (11 years 5 months) Consulting Engineer @ Responsible for field technology development and customer engagement in 13 countries within the Middle-East/Africa geography: • Opened 7 new countries within the ME/A market • Designed and implemented initial infrastructure for 6 Internet Service Providers that brought Internet Services to 8 countries for the first time (Including Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, Oman, Dubai, Dubiety, Eritrea) • Developed early Internet Points of Presence (PoPs) in various ME/A countries • Responsible for multiple large scale ATM/Layer 2 infrastructures in utility and financial services enterprises in various ME/A countries From August 1993 to April 1996 (2 years 9 months) Network Manager @ Developed, deployed and operated International X.25/XNS/AppleTalk/DecNet Infrastructure. Designed, deployed and operated International TCP/IP/VoIP Infrastructure (First fully commercial Internet based infrastructure in the UK). Consulted on operation and design of various domestic and foreign government communication infrastructures including: • Her Majesties Government (UK) Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) • Russian Ministry of Finance From 1986 to 1993 (7 years) Network Support Engineer @ Operation and design of BACs funds transfer service Operation of SWIFT data center/node. From 1986 to 1986 (less than a year) Phil Harris is skilled in: Cloud Computing, SaaS, Data Center, Enterprise Software, Channel, Service Provider Infrastructure, Routing Protocols, Virtualization, Storage, Management and Orchestration, Network Administration, Network Security, Strategic Planning, Scenario Planning, Game Theory