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Kevin Wood

Business Architect

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Kevin Wood serves as a business architect for Cisco, leading solution development for major retailers. His focus is on designing architectures to meet the unique needs of organizations to help meet critical initiatives and align the roadmap with possible solutions.

Kevin has 19 years of experience in the IT field, including working for Volvo IT North America as an infrastructure architect. He joined Cisco in 2006 as a CSE with Cisco RMS supporting the Merle Lynch voice deployment, and since 2012, has worked as a solutions architect with many of Cisco’s major retail customers.

Kevin holds his Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from Radford University, and is currently working on a Master’s degree in Enterprise Architecture from Penn State. He lives in Greensboro, NC, with his family, and enjoys fishing, boating, and Halloween prop building (whenever his twin daughters will allow).

Articles

Understanding Today’s Security Landscape

In the digital age, the security landscape only continues to become more complex, and well into 2017, we continue to witness the escalation of security threats across almost every industry. Especially, we are seeing a marked increase in the sophistication of security threats as they hit the front pa…

Facing Up to Security Challenges in a Digital Economy

Hello! My name is Kevin Wood, and I am a retail business architect here at Cisco for both Retail and Hospitality. I have done a lot of work providing security to retailers – one of the most vulnerable industries in the world today. We all know that staying ahead of security threats is a dynamic and…