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Michael Koons

Vice President, Global Systems Engineering and Technology

World Wide Sales

Mr. Michael Koons is the Vice President of Global Systems Engineering and Technology for the World Wide Sales organization at Cisco. He is responsible for ensuring the Systems Engineering (SE) community is actively leveraging technology to drive business outcomes for Cisco's customer and partners. Mike is also responsible for the field engineering and technology strategy for all technical architectures within Cisco.

Since 1996 Mike has enjoyed multiple leadership roles in Cisco while supporting many different market segments in the field sales group. His 25+ years of networking and telecommunication experience includes active involvement in several industry groups including USTA, ATIS and others. He has served on the ATIS Technology Council as the representative for Cisco focusing on common industry issues such as Network Optimization, Cloud Applications for Service Providers and CDN Federations. Mike has also served on the Colorado Governor's Technology Board.

Mike and his family currently reside in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Articles

August 16, 2017

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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Agile, Failing Fast and Our Early Work with VR in Technical Learning

I know a lot of bad words that begin with the letter “F,” but failure is NOT one of them. For sure, there do exist inexcusable failures in an organization: failure to meet your sales targets, production targets, operational expense targets, etc. It is easy for us to become so caught up in our search…

August 8, 2017

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DEVELOPER

DevNet Express = Cisco DevNet + Cisco SE + You

If you have been to any of our recent Cisco Live events around the globe, you have undoubtedly experienced the engagement and energy that surrounds Cisco DevNet. Whether you are spending time in the DevNet Zone, workshops, break-out sessions or hands-on labs, you can’t help but leave a little smarte…

March 21, 2017

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NETWORKING

Embrace Innovation Where Applications Meet Infrastructure

Cisco’s continued innovative approach is guided by Systems Engineers taking action on their experiences at the forefront of business change. This is a group of people who are passionate about technology and leading market transitions. Two years ago, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Charles Duffy, and…