Adrian Fernandez
Engineering Product Manager at Cisco
Engineering Product Manager at Cisco
Cisco
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cisco
San Francisco Bay Area
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Engineering Product Manager
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
https://www.linkedin.com/company/carnegie-mellon-tepper-school-of-business
● Concentrations: Business Technologies, Strategy, Marketing, Finance

● Track: Technology Strategy and Product Management

● Leadership: 
Masters Career Center - Peer Career Assistant (PCA)
Marketing Teaching Assistant
Latin American Business Club Board - Alumni Relationship
Business and Technology Club (Mentor)
Statistics Tutor

● Honors: Net Impact - Future of Energy Challenge (Finalist)

● Memberships: Business and Technology Club, Data Analytics Club, Organizational Leadership Club, Latin American Business Club
Pennsylvania, United States
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2021 MBA Candidate - Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business
Cisco
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cisco
● Results
Defined inputs and metrics to support a transition to a software-centric business. Resulted in a model that analyzes the health of a proposed software (deal or project) in order to make strategic, market-driven profitable decisions.

Created tool to extract and clean data to consolidate hardware and software roadmaps in a single consumable format. Resulted in automated process that enables live visibility of roadmap evolution across platforms.
San Jose, California, United States
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Product Management Intern
Grupo Corporativo La Peninsula
● Recognition: Awarded “Green Growth” seed capital grant by the Ministry of Commerce in Costa Rica and The Costa Rican USA Foundation for Cooperation. Award based on technology innovation

● Innovation: 
Charged with driving innovation technology strategy. Assessed current plans then identified opportunity areas and pain points. Developed recommendation and plan for innovation pipeline. Resulted in gaining buy-in to leading digital transformation.

Conceived and spearheaded initiative to reduce costs by eliminating pesticide use. Created business case for using drones to improve operations. Resulted in successfully implementing plan and gaining recognition from Senior Management for innovative thinking. Process still in place today.

Revolutionized historically manual process into technology innovation. Created a new tech tool to create, collect and centralize environmental data via a web application. Resulted in reducing historical report generation from weeks to minutes.
Costa Rica
Innovation Advisor
IBW Central America
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibw-central-america
●   Addressing Customer Needs/Problem Solving
Analyzed declining business results. Recognized loss of current users then initiated analysis to uncover root cause. Resulted in uncovering insights on how technology and products were not meeting user needs. Recommended strategy to address problem.

Revised targeting strategy to stem decline. Based on analysis, recognized opportunity to enter untapped geographic segments and meet consumer needs in those areas. Resulted in successfully implementing plan and turning around business results.   

Charged with improving product offerings.  Conducted analysis of competition, customer needs, and company capabilities. Resulted in uncovering white space and recommending new product initiatives.   

Created tool to evaluate business results. Invented a metric system based on key business data to evaluate customer and infrastructure profitability. Reduced operating expenses by ~10% based on report analysis. The metric report is still in effect today.

●   Leadership and Teamwork
Championed efforts to create one aligned tech team. Orchestrated plan, earned the trust of associates and reached agreements from a variety of individuals. Resulted in successfully integrating two very different teams after M&A. 

Initiated direct relationship with customer service team. Effectively led them to commit to key customer needs. Reduced customer visits waiting times from two weeks to three days.
Costa Rica
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Operations Manager
Grupo Konectiva Latam S.A.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/grupo-konectiva-latam-s.a.
●   Addressing Customer Needs/Problem Solving
Discovered opportunity to increase value of products by redesigning network architecture and reducing network converging times from minutes to seconds. Achieved first period in the company’s history with 100% customer satisfaction due to service uptime.

Spearheaded efforts to provide 24/7 customer support. Sold-in initiative then managed people, projects, and expectations in order to implement.  Resulted in a modernized network operating center that met enterprise-grade client’s needs.

●   Results/Recognition  
Drove customer acquisition by expanding wireless base stations nationwide, increasing customer available wireless bandwidth from ~200 Mbps to ~1.5 Gbps. Resulted in an increase in service plan offerings to customers.
Costa Rica
Principal Engineer
Master in Computer Information Systems
▪	Security applied to infrastructure and software engineering.
▪	Software-Defined networking and network virtualization.
▪	Moving target defense systems (MTD) for security.
▪	Embedded systems.
▪	Economics and finance applied to information systems.
▪	Agile methodologies.
Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance
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Universidad de Costa Rica
https://www.linkedin.com/school/universidad-de-costa-rica/
Bachiller
▪	Computer networks and infrastructure.
▪	Programming languages.
▪	Operating systems.
▪	Network services and protocols.
▪	Computer architecture.
▪	Databases.
▪	Wireless systems.
▪	Transmission modes and circuits.
Ing Telemática
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Universidad Latina de Costa Rica
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National Bachelor in High School. Bachelor
Bachiller
Colegio Metodista
- Used OpenFlow and Ryu controller to dynamically modify IP addresses of hosts in a subnet to distort attack reconnaissance. 
- This project was part of a Moving Target Defense course from the Master’s Degree in Computer Science at the University of Costa Rica.
IP Address Modifications as Moving Target Defense
Education
Admit.me
https://www.linkedin.com/company/admitme
● Mentorship: mentored a team of 5 URMS and women fellows through the 2021 MBA admissions process cycle. Achieved a 100% acceptance into several top MBA programs.
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Mentor
Mikrotik
1312RE056
Mikrotik MTCRE
Cisco
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Cisco CCNA R&S
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Cisco
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Cisco CCNP R&S
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/certifications/professional/ccnp/index.html
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Argentina
Adrián Fernández
Médico Cardiólogo, Hospital Universitario Fundación Favaloro
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Greater Sevilla Metropolitan Area
Adrián Fernández
Store Manager Scalpers
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Lot-et-Garonne
Adrian Fernandez
Responsable commercial import / export Espagnauto
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Campeche, Mexico
Adrian Fernandez
Master limited 7000 ton
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Philippines
Adrian Fernandez
Cognitir Alumni
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IT JOBS CR
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Tepper MBA Class of 2021
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Software Defined Networks (SDN)
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Tepper School of Business Alumni, Carnegie Mellon University
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Admit.me Fellows/Access
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Tepper Latin American Business Club
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The Virtualization & Cloud Computing Group
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SDN - Software Defined Networking
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OpenFlow
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Cisco Learning & Certifications Official Group
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