Jason Angelus
Senior Engineering Leader
I’m an accomplished Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience in solutions engineering, process improvements, productivity savings and leading high-performing, innovative development teams. I leverage my international exposure of 20+ years living abroad combined with deep sales experience, business acumen and technical expertise to grow a customer base and maximise end-user value. I’m an inspiring leader with a proven ability to direct the creation of cutting-edge technology solutions. Above all, my global experience ensures that I unlock the value of distributed teams and create a strong team culture to help inspire joy and passion at work to achieve world class outcomes.
International Experience
Languages: English (native), Italian, German
My Three Pillars
These three guiding principles help ensure the teams I lead are engaged and the work we do is impactful.
Build
I’m focused on building high performing team culture by guiding the organization with purpose, building trust and establishing a strong identity.
Innovate
I gather and develop great people and connect them to compelling projects in order to drive creativity and investment in the future.
Operate
I balance the energy of futre investment with a practical, measurable commitment to operational excellence today.
EXPERIENCE
A summary of my professional experience, more detail can be found on my CV here.
2015 - Today
Director / Sr. Director, Sales Engineering, Platforms and Services
Cisco, Zurich, Switzerland
I currently run Cisco’s world class platforms and cloud services that support our global sales teams. This includes the industry leading dCloud service, in which any Cisco or partner seller can access the entire Cisco portfolio and run real, live products from our cloud platform. In addition, I lead some of the finest pre-sales engineers who create and deliver solutions that support our proof of concept labs, proof of value motions and related services to scale.
2007 - 2015
Sr. Manager, Systems Engineering
Cisco, Zurich, Switzerland
In this role I led the dCloud team at Cisco that designs, develops and operates a globally scalable platform as a service (PaaS) offering intended to support Cisco sellers, partner sellers and Cisco customers with a variety of cloud-based lab, training, demonstration and on-site proof-of-concept content. The software engineering organizations included UI, API and Automation core teams as well as engineering groups across all Cisco technology areas.
2003 - 2007
Product Manager, EMEAR
Cisco, Rome, Italy
During this period of time I lead various parts of the collaboration portfolio for the EMEAR geography at Cisco. This included our enterprise calling products and contact centre suite. In this role I translated sales and customer requirements and represented them back to product development in the US.
1999 - 2003
Systems Engineer
Cisco, Rome, Italy
As a sales engineer at Cisco I supported account teams selling collaboration and contact centre solutions throughout EMEAR. This role was key in influencing my career later with relevant on the ground sales experience and direct customer engagements.
Education
Formal Higher Education Background
1996
Portland State University
Continuing Education
Masters Courses in Computer Science and Advanced Mathematics
Michigan State University
Bachelor of Arts - Marketing
MSU School of Business
1991
IMpact
OVER THE PAST 5 YEARS
$500M
BUDGET MANAGED
$5B+
SALES IMPACT / YEAR
200+
LEAD LARGE TEAMS
3
ADVISORY BOARDS
Skills HIghlights
SW Development
Budget Management
Leadership
Marketing & Communications
Sales
Culture
Full Stack Deployment
Product Development