Bob Allegretti

Current

Cloud Computing Solutions Developer at Cisco

Past

IOS Integration Test Architect at Cisco
Technical Lead at Cisco Systems
Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco

Technical Marketing Engineer/Solutions Architect at Cisco
Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco
Customer Support Engineer at Cisco
Senior Software Engineer at NetEdge
Senior Associate Programmer at Post Software International Inc
Software Engineer at Tangram Systems Inc
Software Engineer at Wandel and Goltermann Inc
Software Engineer at Data General Corporation

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Education

State University of New York College at Brockport

Connections

91 connections

Industry

Internet

Bob Allegretti’s Summary

Over 25 years in data networking industry offering diverse technical skills in software engineering, network design, automated network solutions test, marketing and customer support.

Over 14 years internetworking experience at Cisco Systems including 2 years in Customer Advocacy, 7 years Technical Marketing and System Architecture, 6 years defining and automating solutions test. Recognized expertise in large-scale Enterprise network design with detailed knowledge in Quality-of-Service (QoS) and IP Security solutions.

10 years experience as software engineer, implementing networking protocols, low-level device drivers, application programming interfaces (APIs) and client/server applications. Expert level understanding of software development and product development process (life-cycle). Well trained in Yourdon Structured Analysis and Design for Real-time Systems.

Bob Allegretti’s Specialties:

IP Network Design
IP Network Implementation
IP Network Trouble-shooting
Software Engineering
Test Automation

Bob Allegretti’s Experience

Cloud Computing Solutions Developer

Cisco

(Public Company; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

October 2009 — Present (6 months)

Solutions Architect and Technical Lead for 5 person engineering team developing and testing Cloud Computing solutions integrating network, compute and storage technologies. Activities include architecture specification, detailed project planning, solutions design, implementation and test. Integration of numerous multi-vendor platforms and product lines including:
• Cisco Nexus switching and routing platforms,
• Cisco Catalyst switching, firewall and ACE load-balancing service modules,
• Cisco UCS server platforms,
• Cisco MDS fiber channel switching platforms,
• EMC V-MAX SAN storage array, and
• NetApp 6080 NAS storage system.
• VMware ESX/ESXi

Solution offers secure virtual multi-tenant environment over single physical infrastructure. Services include:
• data center switching and routing,
• firewall and server load balancing,
• end-to-end quality-of-service and high availability,
• virtual networking, virtual compute and virtual storage
• disaster recovery
IOS Integration Test Architect

Cisco

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

January 2008 — October 2009 (1 year 10 months)

Developed and executed strategy introducing newly conceived Integration Test phase into IOS development process. Defined IOS Integration Test architectures, requirements, methodologies, project plan and processes for 8 member test team. Technology areas covered span across all relevant Cisco offering in the Enterprise and Service Provider environments.

First delivery covers technology relevant to architectural components in the wide area (WAN) and campus network to support voice, video and data applications for high availability, deterministic traffic flow and policy enforcement. Ongoing architectural planning and definitions include network component areas such as Internet Edge, Data Center and Remote Branch Office.

Activities include:
• Definition of Enterprise Network Architectural Model
• Analysis and specification of generalized enterprise end-user and business requirements
• Development of ongoing relationships with critical enterprise and service providers accounts
Technical Lead

Cisco Systems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

April 2003 — December 2007 (4 years 9 months)

Led 3 member team to deliver large-scale solutions test and automation system. Solutions involved numerous technology areas including: VoIP, QoS, IPSec, MPLS, L3VPN, L2VPN and cable. Notable areas of work:

Completed design and implementation of network solution test tool evaluating user perceived application performance by analyzing various service level metrics. Designed and documented algorithm for creating Enterprise oriented traffic mix. Designed metrics to quantify and evaluate service level agreements (SLA).

Designed automation software system to execute solutions testing for IPSec, MPLS and VRF-aware IPSec features. Test system scales to hundreds of VPN and IPSec tunnels (limited by cost only)
Technical Marketing Engineer

Cisco

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

March 2001 — April 2003 (2 years 2 months)

Start-up member and lead technical contributor in Enterprise Solutions Engineering focusing on QoS and VPN (IPSec) technologies and solutions development. Most notable accomplishments:

• Lead technical member on team that conceived and built 500 device WAN aggregation test bed simulating up to 240 branches. Developed testing specifications based on requirements representative of large scale enterprise customers. Followed project to completion building test bed, trouble-shooting technology issues and documenting complex testing results for field use and consumption.

• Pioneered new testing methods. Developed and implemented several new test processes, traffic generation techniques and performance metrics used to evaluate product and network solution quality.

• Developed automation system. Led team to automate entire test procedure including device configuration, test execution and flow, results analysis and html-formatted display using TCL, shell scripts and internal tools.
Technical Marketing Engineer/Solutions Architect

Cisco

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

November 1999 — March 2001 (1 year 5 months)

Architect defining end-to-end multi-product requirements using QoS for Voice over IP (VoIP) in Enterprise Line of Business. Notable accomplishments:

• Patent Inventor/Applicant: Filed 2/28/2002
• Published Internal White paper
• Won Network Computing Editor's Choice in industry QoS bake-off
• Frequent presenter

Technical Responsibilities: specify product performance and scale requirements, analyze and test product performance, review large network designs, network optimization, world-wide field development and publication.

Marketing responsibilities: product requirements, articulate product/feature positioning, present at Executive Briefing Center, trade shows, compete at industry tests, world-wide field development and publication.
Technical Marketing Engineer

Cisco

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

March 1996 — November 1999 (3 years 9 months)

Primary Technical Marketing contact worldwide for Data Link Switching (DLSw) product. Consulted with major accounts (Fortune100) on network design and performance optimizations. Worked closely with Product Managers to produced lab tests and documented results in support of marketing messaging. Most notable accomplishments:
• Published Internetworking Design Guide
• Frequent presenter at Cisco Networker's and IBM SHARE conferences around the world
• Article "SLA's Defined" in "Enterprise Systems Journal" March 199
• Authored white paper .
• Won Editor's Choice in Data Communications Magazine

Responsibilities: analyze and test product performance, review large enterprise network designs, recommend network optimizations, optimize products for industry tests and attend, articulate product/feature positioning, present at Executive Briefing Center (EBC), world-wide field development and world-wide field publication, present at user conferences.
Customer Support Engineer

Cisco

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

May 1994 — March 1996 (1 year 11 months)

Early member in start-up of East Coast Technical Assistance Center in Raleigh, NC. Supported full line of router products and features. Later focused on IBM feature sets.

Cisco Certified Internetwork Engineer (CCIE) #1382 February 1995. Ran RTP CCIE lab for 6 months, designed, proctored and set up CCIE lab exams.
Senior Software Engineer

NetEdge

(Internet industry)

October 1993 — April 1994 (7 months)

Maintained point-to-point protocol (PPP) for EAS-8000 enterprise access router. Added multi-link load balancing and compression. Stabilized product reliability and increased performance.
Senior Associate Programmer

Post Software International Inc

(Computer Software industry)

September 1990 — October 1993 (3 years 2 months)

Built from ground up Communications Services Version 2. Product is a multi-platform DOS, OS/2, and Unix communications server for in-store host communications. Provided LU0 services for credit card transaction processing.
Software Engineer

Tangram Systems Inc

(Computer Software industry)

July 1989 — September 1990 (1 year 3 months)

Enhanced a variety of components for Tangram's flagship product Arbiter. Arbiter is a micro-to-mainframe client/server application integrating virtual disk, file transfer, and 3270 emulation functions for DOS workstations and IBM 370 class CPUs. Made modifications to Arbiter token ring driver for MS-DOS.
Software Engineer

Wandel and Goltermann Inc

(Computer Networking industry)

September 1987 — July 1989 (1 year 11 months)

Designed LLC protocol test package for DA-30 protocol analyzer. Designed protocol analysis language specifying 802.2 LLC primitives for network monitoring and emulation, real-time frame summary and a detailed parsing of captured frames.
Software Engineer

Data General Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1983 — September 1987 (4 years 4 months)

Primary contributor for DG SNA Logical Unit 6.2, and Physical Unit 2.1. Did full implementation of the IBM architected Half-Session (HS) component, Data Flow Control and Transmission Control layers.

Supported X.25 and BISYNC networking products. Responsibilities included phone support, training and on-site problem resolution for all X.25 and BISYNC related pre- sales and post-sales support.