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As Senior Vice President of Cisco Global Solutions Engineering (Global SE), Tim Carnes leads a team of over 6,000 engineers worldwide. This community of SEs builds the bridge between understanding customer needs and translating Cisco’s technology into innovative solutions that deliver business value. The team also rationalizes and prioritizes customer and partner insights to influence Cisco’s technology strategy.
Tim brings deep industry experience to his role, combining strategic vision, technology expertise, and business acumen to lead and inspire cross-functional teams. He implements global initiatives that empower a culture of excellence through technical advisories and development programs that drive innovation across technology, sales, and leadership domains. Tim is also an executive sponsor for Cisco customers and partners. As a sponsor, he contributes a unique perspective on market dynamics, champions technology initiatives, and provides support and guidance to foster success for their strategies.
Tim previously led the Americas Systems Engineering organization and the Engineering and Architecture teams for Cisco’s Global Service Provider organization. Prior to that, he held multiple leadership positions across diverse market segments within the company, including Commercial, Service Provider, Enterprise, Public Sector, and Partner Ecosystem. Tim also served in sales engineering roles at US Robotics and 3Com before joining Cisco. He began his career in advanced technologies as an engineer in the aerospace industry with General Electric Aerospace and Lockheed Martin.
Tim holds a Master of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University. He is a Boston native and currently lives in the area with his family.
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Cisco enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers. Cisco helps seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the unconnected. An integral part of their DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships, working together to identify their customers' needs and provide solutions that fuel their success. They have preserved this keen focus on solving business challenges since their founding. Len Bosack and wife Sandy Lerner, both working for Stanford University, wanted to email each other from their respective offices, but technological shortcomings did not allow such communication. A technology had to be invented to deal with disparate local area protocols, and as a result of solving their challenge, the multiprotocol router was born.