Cisco Work Values

Daily Duties at Cisco:

• Defined architecture for Cisco’s CGR smart grid routers by collaborating with marketing and product management • Designed embedded systems including x86, ARM processors, DDR2, DDR3, GPS, WiFi, RF, 3G and various other wireless interfaces radios • Defined architecture and specification for plug in modules to allow for feature expansion on Cisco’s CGR routers • Designed products for complex Smart Grid compliance and safety requirements • Technical Project lead on in house and JDM projects • Defined requirements for and established lab for smart grid product development • Lead product design and bring up • Led and supervised geographically distributed cross functional teams involved in circuit board design, including CAD, signal integrity, thermal simulation, mechanical design, power and compliance engineering • Completed all aspects of board design, including signal integrity, timing analysis, power distribution, schematic entry, defined circuit board topology and layout constraints • Led, supervised, coordinated, and trained all cross functional and geographically distributed teams involved in circuit board design, including CAD, signal integrity, thermal simulation, mechanical design, power and compliance engineering • Drove product development from first lab prototypes to customer shippable units • Created, tracked, and met aggressive product design schedules with high internal and external visibility • Defined logic, register implementations and signaling required for initialization, control and monitoring of all components on the board (used Xilinx and Altera FPGAs and PLDs) • Defined clock trees, interrupt architecture, PCI and PCI-e architectures, power sequencing and control logic • Designed products for ease of bring-up and testability • Designed market-leading network security products incorporating leading edge MIPS and x86 processors • Debugged complex board and logic issues often working closely with cross functional SW and FPGA teams to implement complex debug triggers • Specified requirements fo

What they like about Cisco:

Organizations with strong, centralized leadership are particularly attractive to you. You require a work environment with leadership that aggressively seeks to expand and grow the business and does so in a visible and decisive manner. In general you prefer to work in an environment in which there is a strong link between leadership, its actions, and a strong set of company-wide values.

Tags

Embedded Systems, x86, ARM, PCIe, Cavium, Crypto, DDR2, USB, SPI, SPI4.2, DDR3

Skills

Cross functional team leadership, x86 processors, ARM processors, SI, Concept and Allegro, Embedded Systems Architecture and Design

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Cisco: