Daily Archives: Thursday, July 26, 2012

Diary of an acquisition: the employee view

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 07/26/2012 Uncategorized

I’m thinking to start a few series of post to make a short story of how i lived cisco’s Iron port acquisition. the problem here is I would not be able to tell everything I would like, I still have some obligation towards my old company, but i hope that some of the feeling would comes out somehow. It was an hard trip, funny, interesting, sad, exciting and so on… but at the end I have to say I’m glad I lived it I’m glad I’m out of it. 😛 so I will try to recollect my memories and try to put some senses to this tripp trying…

Kid’s Embarrassing question

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 07/26/2012 News From The World

I know I know I’m an grown up consultant, I know things of the world but there are some questions that still drive me crazy. The nightmare is when your kids can ask you question you have really hard time to explain: the toughest? “Dad, what’s money?” seems an easy question right? and anyone would be able to answer in a few words right? “…money are the things that are used to buy things…” er is all we know about money? what is really an euro, and a dollar? and what is the exchange rate? and why the hell this exchange rate is so variable? When I…

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Antonio Ieranò Evangelist, Manager, BDM, Advisor, Writer, Speaker, Coach HOME: Via Gabriele D'Annunzio, 29, 27010 Vistarino (Pavia) Italy. Mobile phone: +39 347 9293757 E-mail: antonio.ierano@ierano.it; Twitter: @ antonioierano @thepuchiherald Web: http://ierano.it I am an IT professional Manager, BDM, marketing specialist, and tech evangelist with over 16 years of experience serving as a community liaison, subject matter expert, and high-profile trainer for key technologies and solutions. My experience includes acting as the public face of Cisco security technologies; leading pan-European technical teams in development of new Cisco security products; and serving as a key public speaker and trainer on behalf of new high-tech products. My expertise spans IT development and implementation, marketing strategy, legal issues, and budget / financial management. Specialties and Executive Expertise IT Strategy, Technical Audits, Enterprise Architecture & Applications, Technical Sales Liaison, Solution Architecture, Network Design, Architecture, & Security, Vulnerability Assessment & Management, Systems Engineering, TCP / IP, Data Privacy, Cloud Computing, Marketing Strategy, Budget Management, Consultative Sales, Social Media Marketing, High-Impact Presentations, Security and Technical Advisor: I have a strong experience and knowledge in the technology and security areas, I can provide the needed expertise to better direct technical needs, giving indication for cost effective, solid and efficient solutions. Project Management: with a solid background with project delivered with success in different areas I can provide a key support to drive customer projects to success. With a Microsoft Solution Framework background and PMI solid knowledge mixed with communication skills at any level i can lead the project group and it's stakeholders to achieve the desired goals. Business Developement and Marketing: With a deep knowledge of the extended EMEA technology market needs a focus on worldwide security I can drive business developement to a solid and reliable growth being able to relate with all the stakeholders, from production to sales and channel and, of course, customers.