devnet-1147energizing your career with cloud technologies

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


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


Choosing the Right Path

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•  Research the role

•  Inspect Yourself

•  Seek feedback

•  Build sponsorship

•  Build your peer network


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


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


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


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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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

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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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