Christopher Norris
Leander, TX
currently: Job hunting
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Work history
Technical Leader
tags:
project management
• leadership
• innovation
How would you describe your time at Cisco Systems?
Lead engineer and project manager for multiple teams in the Service Provider Routing Software Group. Delivering applications and infrastructure for Cisco's next-generation operating system for terabit-speed routing platforms ($1bn+ revenue).
- Rapid promotions to noted Technical Leader position through contributions across entire OS program, resulting in multi-million dollar business wins with large Service Provider customers.
- Inventorship on five Patents Pending for innovative network management architectures and techniques.
- Identified problems with cross-platform features and troubleshooting capabilities that could cost business wins, and lower ROI for customers. Initiated and led efforts to address those issues by creating specifications to introduce common standards, interfaces and code-reuse. Drove implementation discussions with 5 development teams, issue resolution and final sign-off by multiple business units.
- Represented business unit and Cisco in emerging IETF NETCONF XML device management standard meetings to align the standardization effort with Cisco's technological capabilities.
- Championed quality-improvement through detailed defect escape detection processes, use of tools for programmatic detection of defects, and internal standards documents for emerging features to ensure cross-program consistency and awareness.
- Grew responsibilities from leading a single two-man team to three teams with a total of 12 engineers, with additional consulting role for other teams.... 
Software Developer
tags:
innovation
• customer service
• software development
• project planning
How would you describe your time at Data Connection Ltd?
Performed software development in a broad range of areas including networking protocol stacks (SNA, APPN, LANE, MPOA) and collaboration software.
- Lobbied CEO for greater investment in research and development and gained approval for exploratory project using genetic algorithms for handwriting recognition. Created business plan, technical specification and prototype software. Provided weekly updates to executives and presented results at company meeting at conclusion of project.
- Initiated daily reports to upper management on emerging technologies, and performed detailed research for areas of interest. Introduced new brainstorming sessions to allow individual contributors to provide input on possible future business and software feature directions.
- Integrated with development and support teams of Fortune 500 companies OEMing DCL software, providing development expertise & Level 3 customer service and support. Companies included Microsoft, IBM, Cisco Systems, NCR and Fujitsu.
- Worked on-site at international locations: London, England, Herndon, VA and Seattle, WA....
Education
Engineering & Computing Science
How would you describe your time at Oxford University?
MEng, Engineering and Computing Science, 1991 - 1995
Graduated with 1st Class Honors
Dissertations in :
- "3D Sculptured Surface Graphics"
- "Real-time Three-Dimensional Tracking using a Single Camera"
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