PLAMEN NEDELTCHEV, Ph.D.

San Jose, CA ad1i09@r.postjobfree.com 408-***-**** Linkedin.com/in/plamen-nedeltchev-1687266 CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Innovative Distinguished Engineer with experience architecting, designing, implementing, and supporting engineering and innovating software, platforms, and technology solutions while improving existing systems and solving critical problems. Well- versed in providing strategic and expert enterprise technical/thought leadership, as well as executing technical roadmap for delivering products and unlocking new engineering capabilities. Expert in Networking, Network Security and management, Digital IT, AI in Operations and Infrastructure (AIOps), Internet of Things, Interplanetary Networks and Disruption Tolerant Networks, and Next generation Networking. Multilingual in English, Bulgarian, Russian, Armenian, and Turkish. Core Competencies

Network Infrastructure,

Operations, Management, Security,

and Performance management.

Next generation networking

simplicity, ease of use and zero

touch technologies

Internet of Things (IoT). IT and OT

integration.

Architecture, design, and hands on

Technical Roadmap and Strategy

Solution Architecture and Building

Technical Roadmap and Strategy

AIOps, ML/DL/AI in Infrastructure

and Operations. Digitization of IT

Cross domain infrastructure

operations observability and

monitoring, insights, and auto-

recovery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CISCO SYSTEMS, INC., San Jose, CA 2004 – Present Distinguished Engineer – IT Engineering (2010 – Present) Build and innovate new systems, while improving existing systems and identifying new opportunities to apply knowledge and solve critical problems. Manage the digitization of I&O - Network and network security, simplicity and zero touch activation, IoT, Next generation networking, hybrid and borderless networking, knowledge discovery and artificial intelligence in Infrastructure and operations, Digital IT, model-driven operations and excellence in IT experience. Provided technical and thought leadership in architecting and delivering products and capabilities.

Contributed to generating over $1.2B by supporting Cisco transition from a technology to service organization that involved developing a new teleworking technology and delivering the first service called Cisco Virtual Office to Cisco IT.

Automated the deployment of devices and services by creating zero touch technology (ZTD) that was initially applied to home networking, IP telephony, and branch networking, and achieving the highest number of ZTD patents in Cisco.

Supported the transition from back office to a front office organization by providing technical and thought leadership across several key enterprise areas, as well as driving innovation and engineering decision-making.

Architected Cisco IT Extended Enterprise Networks with responsibility for the architecture of the next generation Cisco IT network, called Extended Enterprise Network (E2N).

Authored over 60 articles in digital IT, next generation networking, network management, security, IoT, big data, AIOps, VPN, cryptography, performance management, and interplanetary networks.

Authored more than 60 US, international patents, defensive publications, and white papers for Cisco.

Received pioneering awards for core innovation in 2003 for Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network and 2011 for MediaNet and MediaTrace and Performance Management, along with recognition as Distinguished Engineer of the year at Cisco IT in 2015.

Taught Networking, Performance Management, Remote Access/Teleworking, Borderless Networking, Network Management, Digital IT, AI in Infrastructure and Operations, IoT in IT and ML/DL/AI In IT as a Distinguished Speaker at Cisco Live.

Successfully architected the first AIOPs solution of Cisco in the infrastructure and operations based on cross-domain observability, insights, and actions management. Launched and deployed for major partner and customer. PLAMEN NEDELTCHEV Page 2 ad1i09@r.postjobfree.com 408-***-**** Sr. Member of Technical Staff (2000 – 2004)

Improved and re-architected existing components and subsystems, while developing new features to support the future growth of products, in terms of functionality, simplicity, scalability, and availability.

Produced advanced remote access solutions and VPN services for over 150K employees and vendors of Cisco by architecting, designing, implementing, and supporting Cisco remote access solutions.

Wrote all architectures, design documents, and filed remote access patents across 70K teleworkers while leading the architectural design, implementation, and support transformation of remote access technologies.

Authored all Cisco IT remote access architectures and designs, along with the CCCIE book “Troubleshooting Remote Access Networks” and articles in Networking, Network Security, Performance management and error correction and encryption.

Authored more than 30 US, international patents, defensive publications, and white papers for Cisco.

Championed Telecommunications Management Forum (TMF) on zero touch deployment (ZTD) from 2007 to 2010 ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Distinguished Engineer STS International, San Jose, CA Guided a Cisco network implementation and design that involved designing the next generation remote access, teleworker, VPN, and branch architectures.

Received pioneering award for core innovation for DMVPN and Enterprise Class Teleworker. Distinguished Engineer Sprint Paranet, San Jose, CA - Kansas City, KS Ranked 3 years in a row as best support engineer in Cisco IT for providing excellence service and support for Cisco internal users for ISDN, Frame Relay, DSL, VPN, dial-up, and Ricochet services. Supported the implementation, adoption, and utilization of Remote Access Cisco. EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications Bulgarian Academy of Science

Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science

Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"

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