Prashant Vashisht

Background

About Prashant Vashisht

- Seasoned technocrat in the datacom and telecom domain with more than 27 years of experience in building large multi-site teams for conceptualizing and delivering complex IP Routing and Switching systems/products/projects in a multi-site and cross functional environment. - Built rapidly productive teams several times from scratch which delivered IP/MPLS/Ethernet products from conception to actual deployment in multiple Tier-1 Service Provider Networks (including lifecycle support and sustenance) across the world. - Conversant with the work ethics of Indian Japanese Chinese European and North American (US Canada) work culture with a flair to develop strong professional bonds. - Worked with and leading cross functional teams across different geographies for delivering Routing and Switching products. Engineering owner of USD ~250M/yr product portfolio deployed in major carrier networks across world and having ~1 Million+ Network Devices deployed in the field. - Published a paper on Wireless scalability reliability and security in IEC (Internation Engineering Consortium). - Published an internet (IETF) draft on the migration strategy/issues for ISODE from TCP to X.25. - Innovation: Penchant to try things differently. Filed multiple patent disclosures. Awarded 5 patents by USPTO. Served on the Internal Patent Review Board. - Completed the General certification course on IP by WIPO. - Familiar with basic spoken Mandarin. Key Expertise: Building and driving highly cohesive productive and technical teams towards a common vision. OS: UNIX/SunOS/LINUX NetBSD OSE VxWorks Hardware: i86 based boards PPC405/MPC750/850/83xx based boards Network Protocols: IPv4/IPv6 Routing/MPLS (OSPF/ISIS/LDP/RSVP/SR) ATM OAM Carrier Ethernet/MEF. Testing Tools/Debuggers: Insure++ GDB syms/nm/objdump/valgrind TRACE32 BDI2000 Adtech Spirent Testcenter Ixia. SCM: ClearCase Perforce CVS GIT.