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San Jose Alumni Career Services: Times, They Are A-Changin’! Achieving Success During the Economic Transition
| Date | 11/5/2009 |
| Time | 6:30 p.m. Reception, 7:30 p.m. Program |
| Location | Hotel Valencia Santana Row, San Jose, CA |
| Description | As the economy begins to rebound, join John McCool ’82, Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Data Center, Switching and Services Group (DSSG) and Ron Collett ’82, President and CEO of Numetrics, to learn about the best practices for navigating business and career through this time of economic transition. Bringing perspectives from both large and small companies, John and Ron will explain what market trends are expected to improve, what challenges will remain, as well as what they look for in new hires. Times, They Are A-Changin’! Achieving Success During the Economic Transition An Alumni Career Services Program Thursday, November 5, 2009 6:30 p.m. Registration and Cocktail Reception 7:30 p.m. Program Hotel Valencia Santana Row 355 Santana Row San Jose, CA 95128 www.hotelvalencia-santanarow.com $15 per person Includes reception and soft drinks. Cash bar. Complimentary self-parking is available at the hotel. ____________________________________________________________ About the speakers Ronald E. Collett ‘82 President & CEO of Numetrics, has spent over 25 years in the electronics industry, where he has held positions in executive management, engineering, marketing and sales. He founded Collett International, Inc. in 1992, a research and consulting company specializing in design technology strategy for semiconductor and electronic design automation (EDA) companies. He also spent several years at the Dataquest division of the Gartner Group, a technology research and consulting firm, where he oversaw the firm`s activities in the areas EDA, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Mr. Collett is recognized as the first to identify and call the semiconductor industry`s attention to the now well-known "design productivity gap". He has published over 100 articles on the design of integrated circuits (ICs) and electronic systems in publications including Electronic Engineering Times, Fabless Forum, Electronic System Design, Nikkei Asia Electronics, Nikkei Electronics and Nikkei Micro Devices. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University and a degree in law from Santa Clara University, and he is member of the California Bar. ----------------------------------------------------------- John McCool ’82 is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Data Center, Switching and Services Group (DSSG). In this role he is responsible for managing the strategy, engineering, and marketing direction of Cisco’s comprehensive family of enterprise Ethernet switching solutions, including the Cisco Catalyst series for the campus and the Cisco Nexus and MDS switching series for the data center. He is also in charge of the optical product line and of Cisco’s expansion into application networking, virtualization, and integrated security services. All of these technology areas have been foundational in his leadership of Cisco’s virtualization and Data Center 3.0 strategies. Among his other leadership roles in Cisco, McCool is a member of the Enterprise Business Council, the Quality Experience Council, and a cochair of Cisco EcoBoard and the Enterprise Architecture Board. At the Enterprise Architecture Board, McCool oversees Cisco’s initiatives to promote system solutions for the campus, branch, and data center. Prior to his current role at Cisco, McCool led the Campus Switching Systems Technology Group, which encompassed the Cisco Catalyst 4000 and 6000 Series as well as optical transceivers. McCool came to Cisco through the acquisition of Granite, where he was instrumental in growing Cisco’s Gigabit Ethernet technologies and the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series to multibillion-dollar run rates. Over the years he expanded his responsibilities to lead the Internet Switching Business Unit responsible for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series, Cisco’s most successful and innovative LAN switching platform. Prior to joining Cisco, McCool led network product development teams at SynOptics, NeXT Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices. He has been active in creating industry standards, playing a key role in the development of dual speed 10/100BASE-T technology as part of the IEEE802.3u standard and making significant contributions to the ANSI X3T9.5 FDDI standard. He holds several patents related to network technologies. McCool holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University and a master’s degree in computer engineering from Santa Clara University. |
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