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Tim Silk

Systems Engineer Manager

US Federal Sales

Tim Silk leads Cisco’s US Public Sector Data Center Architect team. A veteran of government IT, he has supported Civilian, Intelligence, and DoD agencies as a Routing and Switching CCIE, data center specialist, and in engineering leadership positions for the past 17 years.

Tim lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Chris, and their six children. He is an active volunteer for Hire Heroes USA (https://www.hireheroesusa.org) and in local community theatre as a web administrator, actor, and singer.

Articles

January 11, 2018

LIFE AT CISCO

Bring Your Passion to Work

Put yourself in someone else’s shoes. Say what they say, do what they do. Think how they think, feel how they feel. It may give you a new perspective, or it may change you. I had the opportunity to do just that, twice in 2017. I became someone else. In August, I transformed myself into Julian Marsh,…

September 19, 2017

GOVERNMENT

Federal IT Modernization to Protect and Serve

Executive Order 13794, The Establishment of the American Technology Council, set forth an initiative to modernize the federal government’s information technology infrastructure and systems. Issued May 1, 2017, the order’s first task for the ATC was to define its strategy to modernize IT. The Report…

August 30, 2017

GOVERNMENT

Digital Transformation in the US Public Sector – Think Intuitive

Today’s federal IT shops face a growing need to serve users and constituents, one that can be hard to stay ahead of. The amount of data to gather, process, and consume is overwhelming, and increases each day. Agencies have to modernize the infrastructure to support and secure data in order to stay a…