Aamer Akhter
Global Product Leader, SASE Product Management at VMware
Executive Leader & Distinguished Engineer, Inventor, Technologist; Networking/IoT/Security
My passion lies in driving customer and product success by identifying transformative solutions and serving as a strategic partner. A technically savvy professional with a unique understanding of business practices with the capability of translating complex technical and business requirements into client-driven initiatives. 

I am a highly effective, accomplished, innovative, and goal-oriented product professional with extensive experience in guiding product and solutions development efforts to achieve maximum operational impacts with minimum resource expenditures. As an analytical professional, I have proven my ability to identify key trends, performance indicators, and operational gaps to enhance bottom-line factors. My talent for providing transformational leadership to cross-functional teams in the execution of quality projects has served as a consistent catalyst to my success. I am known as a collaborative communicator capable of building solid relationships with strategic partners to drive cohesive practices across multiple organizational levels.
VMware
https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmware
Leading group of product line managers in cloud-delivered security (SASE). New business and product exploration in WAN networking. Working with CTOs, across business units, partners and customers to develop new products in areas such as mid-mile optimization, zero trust security, and multi-cloud connectivity. Work includes market and customer validation, financial modeling, risk analysis, technical feasibility, prototyping and market launch. Building joint products with Tier-1/2/3 service providers, public cloud providers, and interconnect providers.
•	Launched SASE cloud hosted zero-trust remote access service & SWG with anti-malware & URL Filtering
•	Leading development of hosted SASE stack covering SWG, IDS/IPS, Zero-Trust
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Global Product Leader, SASE Product Management
CED (Council for Entrepreneurial Development)
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cednc
Contributing member and mentor to startup organizations across North Carolina. Guide business plan development, prioritization of market segments and go-to-market strategies. Consultation in pitch development, technology evaluation, and market analysis. 

My achievements: 

Key contributor in generating a grant award for an entrepreneur by creating an effective market segment and product priority plan.
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Venture Mentor
Cisco
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Director, Product Management Industry IoT
LiveAction Next Generation Network Management Software
https://www.linkedin.com/company/liveaction
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Technical Advisor to CEO and CTO
Cisco Systems
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Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
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Distinguished Engineer
Cisco Systems
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RTP, North Carolina
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Technical Marketing Engineer (Integrated Audio/Video/Network System)
Cisco Systems
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RTP, North Carolina
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Technical Marketing Engineer (IOS and WAN Optimization System)
Cisco Systems
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Technical Lead
Cisco Systems
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Network Consulting Engineer
Cisco Systems
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Network Consulting Engineer
Cisco Systems
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Customer Support Engineer
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Electrical Engineering
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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This publication is about enabling MediaNet and MediaTrace over WIFI networks. When applied the claim "WIFI is as good as wired network" becomes a reality, enabling per flow quality of service monitoring over wireless networks. The techniques are presented herein for obtaining per hop and per path performance information from Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) protocol packets, initially designed and designated for provisioning and management only.
METHOD FOR PER HOP AND PER PATH WIRELESS MEDIA MONITORING
IP.com: http://ip.com/IPCOM/000226507
http://ip.com/IPCOM/000226507
This tell all flow encyclopedia explains in detail how flow technologies are impacting businesses and improving the way IT organizations around the world are able to more easily manage voluminous amounts of information easier, faster and with more knowledge into the transactions utilizing the network infrastructure. Using nearly 150 color illustrations, the book covers what has been accomplished to date with flow technologies such as NetFlow, sFlow and IPFIX. It does this by including examples from different vendors and clearly outlines where this message export is going in the next 5 years.
Unleashing the Power of NetFlow and IPFIX
Plixer International, Inc.
A live panel at NANOG56 that focused on network performance of activities needed to keep a network up and running, reliably and efficienty. E.g. E.g. sync. distribution in 3G and 4G/LTE mobile backhaul networks, impairment detection, and fault isolation & notification. All under the aegis of the Metanoia, Inc. "Provider Network Health Assessment" industry initiative.

We had some great inputs from operators (Ning So, Zaid Ali), system vendors (Seth Higgins, Aamer Akhter), software providers (Gordon Bolt), and standards leaders (Benoit Claise). The panelists discussed answers to 4 key questions, and tackled audience queries on how to improve network performance to help application performance, and service delivery.
Additional excellent information is covered in the panelist slides, and the videl.
Network-Centric Performance Management: So Near & Yet So Far!
NANOG56 (North American Network Operators Group), Dallas, TX
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A unique, one-of-a-kind, industry activity, under our Network Health Assessment industry initiative, that included an on-line international panel focused on end-to-end performance management & monitoring. We covered application-performance and its relationship with network performance, and the interplay of the OTT operator and the infrastructure & network operators. 

We had a stellar cast of industry experts from over a dozen+ companies (note Linked In only let's one list 10 authors!) participating in Roundtables and interactions leading up to this panel and in the actual panel, which had registrants from 29+ nations, 75+ companies, and all 6 inhabited continents! Results from our Roundtables can be found here http://bit.ly/Nm2DGV. 

Please register using the link above, to receive updates and be part of the ongoing conversation!
End-to-End Performance Management & Monitoring for Operational Efficiency!
Metanoia, Inc., Silicon Valley, CA
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Cisco has a very large teleworker community that spans the globe. The use of video for enhancing and accelerating communication is key for this community. Ease of use, quality of experience, scalable maintenance, and cost effective support are key in a 25,000 site deployment. This technical session will cover the experience in deploying video for Cisco's teleworker and small branch communities with Telepresence, IP video telepony, WebEx, and Tandberg video conferencing.
Cisco IT Connected Virtual Office (CVO) Video Architecture
Cisco Live 2012 San Diego
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Cisco Enterprise will have approximately 32,000 video endpoints by end of FY12. Mobility, integration, interoperability, and collaboration will be the key focus areas. Emphasis will be around faster availability, low TCO, flexibility, and scalability of 
operations. Resource prioritization will be based on the 
value of interaction rather than device type Optimized and intelligent media-enabled network and services will be the platform for growth.
Deploying Video Without Straining IT Resources
Interop 2011 Las Vegas
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This document describes a methodology specific to the benchmarking of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) forwarding devices, limited to the most common MPLS packet forwarding scenarios and delay measurements for each, considering IP flows.  It builds upon the tenets set forth in RFC 2544, RFC 1242, and other IETF Benchmarking Methodology Working Group (BMWG) efforts.  This document seeks to extend these efforts to the MPLS paradigm.  This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC 5695: MPLS Forwarding Benchmarking Methodology for IP Flows
IETF (Informational)
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5695
Cisco's Pioneer Technology Awards recognizes Cisco engineering teams that spearhead the development of innovative products and core technologies. Medianet project was selected in 2011 for the Pioneer award.

Pioneer Award Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyCeNe6hHs4
cisco systems
Pioneer Award
Given to top 8% of speakers by attendee scoring. 

2012 & 2014 BRKEVT-2804 (Monitoring and Troubleshooting Network Impairments in Video Deployments)
2014 LTREVT-2300 (Video Applications and Network Design Lab)
2014 BRKCDN-1113 (Enhanced Management of Video with Media Monitoring)
Cisco Systems
Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker
McKinsey & Company
Market Assesment Program
Brocade
Brocade Certified vRouter Engineer
University of Washington
Data Science Fast Track Program
Cisco
4543
CCIE Service Provider
Cisco
4543
CCIE Routing and Switching
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnnyg411
Detroit Metropolitan Area
John Graham
VMware, VP US Enterprise Sales Engineering
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vipin-k-b874ab31
San Francisco Bay Area
Vipin K.
Engineering | Products
https://www.linkedin.com/in/archieka
Sunnyvale, CA
Archana Mishra
Head of Global Talent Acquisition (Tech) - PayPal
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karthik-venkataraman-37b9b4199
Palo Alto, CA
Karthik Venkataraman
Software Engineer @ VMware
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San Jose, CA
Suchita Deshmukh
Software Engineer at Cisco
https://in.linkedin.com/in/baitanik-talukder-4a5b3bb6
Bengaluru
Baitanik Talukder
Software Engineer 3 @Cisco I Ex: Nokia,PwC India| Micro Service,Docker,Kubernertes, Cloud
https://www.linkedin.com/in/santoshnkhedkar
San Jose, CA
Santosh Narayankhedkar
Software Engineer at Meta
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ukorrapaty
Greater Boston
Umakanth "Uma" Korrapaty
DevOps Specialist  |  Technical Manager
https://in.linkedin.com/in/ankur-vachhani-522ab653
Pune
Ankur Vachhani
Lead Engineer at John Deere India Pvt. Ltd. (JDTCI)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-kuchynka-73229911b
Richardson, TX
Kenneth Kuchynka
VP of Software Support Services at Tidal Software
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimparker
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Jim Parker
Product Line Manager at CommScope
https://www.linkedin.com/in/duasunny
San Francisco Bay Area
Sunny Dua
Product Management Leader | AppDynamics | Stanford GSB | Startup Advisor | Angel Investor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebasmith
Austin, TX
Caleb A. Smith
Sr Product Manager at PIMCO working on event engagement and data platforms, CSPO and Pragmatic Marketing Certified
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arungarg
Cupertino, CA
Arun Garg
Director, Product Management, NetApp | Big Data Advisory Council | Leader in Cloud Product and Solutions Management, Marketing and Business Development
https://www.linkedin.com/in/abaranwal
Mountain View, CA
Amit Baranwal
Product Lead at Meta (Facebook) | Connecting People
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcleonard
Reno, NV
Michael Leonard
Product Marketing for SD-WAN / SASE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcrapoport
San Francisco Bay Area
Marc Rapoport
Senior Product Management Leader ► Cloud, SDN & Networking Expert | Service Provider & Telecom Industry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamschaff
Hockessin, DE
Adam Schaff
Product Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rathanuday
San Francisco, CA
Rathnakumar Udayakumar
Product Lead at Clara Analytics | Co-Founder Pawsh | AI and Cloud | Entrepreneur | Blogger | Youtuber | Podcast Host | Data Professional | Tech Angel Investor
Qiang Huang
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Aamer was on my team several years as a Director of product management and it had been a great pleasure working with him.  He is very talented, curious minded, innovative, a extremely hardworking execution machine and a true team player.   Aamer has a combination of skill sets of super-deep domain knowledge, deep customer insight, analytical thinking, strong execution, and cross-functional collaboration, all of which makes him very effective as a product management leader.  Aamer is a great communicator, this can be articulating a complex technical idea or presenting to customers.   Aamer has  a can-do attitude and always dependable to find ways to get things done. Aamer would be a great asset in any team and he has my highest recommendation.  Randy Birdsall
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        I knew I was working with a big strategic thinker from the first time I sat down with Aamer at the whiteboard and he laid out his vision for the future of Cisco's IoT software business. He continued to prove my first impressions correct as we collaborated over the course of two years. What made Aamer stand out was his strong technical acumen, attention to detail and a commitment to do what made sense for the both the customer and the business based on real data. He is adept at ramping quickly as needs change, which enabled him to work across the business solving problems within his purview and beyond. I'd consider myself lucky to work alongside him again.
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