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Managing Your Career
Ken Owens – CTO, Cloud Infrastructure Services
Rob Boetticher – Sr. Director, Cloud Architectures
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• Introduction
• Managing Your Career
• Software Disruption Impact on Your
Career
• New Technologies in the Cloud World
• Use Case of Transforming Career
• Conclusion and Q&A
Agenda
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You Own Your Career
• Careers can be a seemingly
random series of steps
• You may have to step back to step
forward
• Establish your goals
• And options (what if you don’t
achieve your first goal)
• Recognize and seize opportunities
• Seek help

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The Three Es of Career Development
Education
• Classwork
• Certifications
• Conferences
• Self-paced learning
• Reading
Experience
• Work assignments
• X-functional project
• Shadow
• Mentoring
Exposure
• Networking
• Speaking engagements
• “Interview” potential
employers
• Share work product
(open source)
• Project leadership

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Choosing the Right Path
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• Research the role
• Inspect Yourself
• Seek feedback
• Build sponsorship
• Build your peer network

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Make Four Lists
• What do you like to
do?
• What are you good
at?
Strengths Areas to Avoid Aspirations Future Roles
• What do you NOT
like to do?
• What makes you
procrastinate?
• What do you want
to do?
• What are your
goals, professional
and personal?
• What job would
you like to have?
• Do you know
someone whose
role you’d like to
have some day?

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CCNA Cloud Certification
! Fundamentals of Cloud
infrastructure and deployment
models
! Introduction to Cloud
administration and support
CCNP Cloud Certification
! Private and hybrid cloud
design, cloud security design
! Advanced Cloud infrastructure
! ACI and APIC automation
! Private and hybrid cloud IaaS
provisioning and management
Deep-Dive Product Training
Grow technical Cloud Admins,
retrain IT employees for Cloud
Extract the most out of
Cloud tools and technologies
Address talent gap for Cloud
Architects and Engineers
! UCS Director: Cloud and DC
infrastructure management
! Prime Service Catalog: Cloud
service portal
! Intercloud Fabric: Hybrid cloud

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Cloud Technology
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Software Disruption Impact on Your Career
Technology Shifts Will Transform Your Career
• Network
• Security
• Cloud
• Customer Journey
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Every Enterprise Is Becoming a Software Company
• What is the impact of Software Defined on your Career
" Organizational Scrum
" Transformational Areas of Opportunity
• Areas to Grow

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New Technologies in the Cloud World
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Technologies of Interest
• Systems Engineer Approach to Services
• Silos/domains to Systems/Services
• Automation
• Orchestration
• Software Abstraction
Areas to Grow Your Knowledge
• Training
• Classes
• Online

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Continue Your Education
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• Demos in the Cisco campus
• Walk-in Self-Paced Labs
• Table Topics
• Meet the Engineer 1:1 meetings
• Related sessions

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Experience Cloud @ Cisco Live
Attend other
cloud breakout
sessions, visit the
Cloud Booth in
the Cisco
Campus (World
of Solutions), and
in the DevNet
Zone

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Breakout
Session
Title Date and Time
PSOCLD-1006
Cisco Cloud Architecture on OpenStack
Rohit Agarwalla, Technical Lead, OpenStack
Tues, Jun 9, 2:30 -
3:30 PM – 23C
Upper Level
BRKCLD-2003
Building Hybrid Cloud Applications with
Intercloud Fabric, Ben Del Vento
Wed, Jun 10,
8:00-10:00 AM 7A
Upper Lvl
DEVNET-1109
Cisco Executive Panel: All about the Cloud
Cisco's Executives Lew Tucker, Faiyaz
Shahpurwala and Ken Owens discuss the
current and future opportunities around public,
private and hybrid clouds.
Wed, Jun 10, 9:30 -
10:30 AM
DevNet Theater
PSOCLD-1004
Cisco OpenStack® Private Cloud (Formerly
Metacloud) Niki Acosta, Marketing Manager
Wed, Jun 10,
9:30-10:30 AM –
28D Upper Level
BRKCLD-2001
Building Scalable and Highly Available
Enterprise Applications on Cisco Cloud
Services: Chandra Venkatapathy, Ken
Schroeder, Technical Staff, CSG
Wed, Jun 10,
1:00-3:00 PM 25C
Upper Level
Cisco Live 2015 Cloud Breakout Sessions
Breakout
Session
Title Date and Time
BRKCLD-1004
End-to-end Cloud Management: A holistic
approach for developing and managing the
platform and service offerings that transform
IT: Ben Del Vento
Wed, Jun 10,
3:30-5:00 PM 24C
Upper Lvl
BRKCLD-1002
Cloud Onboarding - Jeff Minson; Abhi Sing,
Technical Solutions Architects, CMS
Thurs, Jun 11,
8:00-9:30 AM, 30E
Upper Lvl
BRKCLD-1828
Designing Hybrid Cloud operations with
ServiceGrid and Intercloud Fabric
Ben Del Vento
Thurs, Jun 11,
8:00-9:30 AM 25C
Upper Lvl
BRKCLD-1003
A Practical Introduction to DevOps Practices
and Tools: Christopher Jackson, Vallard
Benincosa
Thurs, Jun 11,
1:00-2:30 PM 28C
Upper Lvl
LTRCLD-2011
Intercloud Fabric - Configuring and Deploying
Hybrid Cloud Solutions: Chris Martin

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Cloud @ DevNet Sessions
Theater
Classroom

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Questions?

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