JUNAID ISRAR
DIRECTOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Ottawa,ON
Summary
Highly motivated and enthusiastic professional with proven experience in technology strategies and product development and design. Ability to work autonomously and as a team player, with demonstrated strengths in leadership and high-pressure situations. A unique combination of twenty five years’ first-hand industry experience and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, augmented by dynamic vision and integrity to overreach operational capabilities.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Director Engineering
CISCO
01.2019 - Current
- Technology roadmap definition and execution: Segment Routing MPLS/v6, MPLS Traffic Engineering, Ethernet VPNs, L2VPN, Routing/Forwarding Infrastructure, BNG, OpenConfig and IETF Yang models, Telemetry.
- Cross functional leadership: Outstanding success in delivering aggressive and multi-geography projects per timeline and quality commitment
- Team Management: Bring different teams along well, and facilitate technical workshops and help senior team leaders to drive technology direction
- People Management: Provide constant support and guidance to all team members to help them grow and develop their careers.
- Customer Management: Build deep relationships with customers to understand their use cases and "why" they need what they need and manage expectations.
- Strategic role in training, collaboration and technology advancement
- Fast decision making, taking risk, pushing limits in schedule and customer satisfaction
- Ability to steer thru conflicts and disagreements tactfully.
- Think outside the box and come up with win-win solutions.
- Metrics based project and quality management to help inspire team to build on incremental wins.
Senior Software Manager
CISCO SYSTEMS
Ottawa, Ontario
03.2008 - 01.2019
- Planned and managed several projects, teams and customer engagements across multiple OSs and technology areas.
- Lead the team through Agile development/test transformation.
- Hired several top talent engineers in both development and test organizations.
- Oversaw planning, application development, verification and risks involved in software projects.
- Resolved issues immediately ensuring project deliverables were delivered on time and with high quality.
Senior Software Engineer
Cisco
Ottawa, ON
03.2000 - 02.2008
- Developed multiple MPLS TE/RSVP SW features for IOS XR systems
- Played a critical role in major customer win for Cisco CRS system by proposing and executing on a customer competitive bakeoff event in the UK and helping Cisco win.
Education
Ph.D. - Electrical And Computer Engineering
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON 01.2008 - 05.2012
Associate of Science - Engineering, Systems and Computer Engineering
Carleton University
Ottawa 09.1996 - 04.1999
Skills
Customer Engagement
undefinedAccomplishments
- Lead Segment Routing IPV6 1st delivery in industry by Cisco
- Winner of Cisco Engineering Pioneer Award
- Identified among top 1% of Cisco Leadership with future potential.
- Lead and delivered numerous customer features with very high quality and reliability.
- Authored 3 US patents and contributed to IETF RFCs
Timeline
Director Engineering
CISCO
01.2019 - Current
Senior Software Manager
CISCO SYSTEMS
03.2008 - 01.2019
Ph.D. - Electrical And Computer Engineering
University of Ottawa
01.2008 - 05.2012
Senior Software Engineer
Cisco
03.2000 - 02.2008
Associate of Science - Engineering, Systems and Computer Engineering
Carleton University
09.1996 - 04.1999
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