John Parello
jparello@gmail.com
Summary: Experienced engineering leader,
team builder, and advisor with a proven ability to create new products, lead
them to market, and present them successfully.
Principal
Engineer, Corporate Strategy, Emerging Technologies,
Strategist and CTO for engineering at Cisco’s Innovation
Centers and Labs. Overseeing technical strategy and innovation delivery for
over 200 portfolio projects annually. Leading agile business and technical
teams across 12 global centers, collaborating with startups, enterprise
customers, and channel partners on co-innovation and incubation. Presenting
Cisco’s Innovation and AI strategy at 2-4 executive briefings quarterly.
· Architected
an AI IDE, a scalable hierarchical system for integrating and calling
domain-specific agents across distributed locations. It enhances LLM accuracy through dynamic
interaction and information retrieval (RAG). It incorporates a centralized Hub
controller with a Pub/Sub message broker, for tracing, authorization, and
auditing (OpenTelemetry and RBAC) to ensure security,
compliance, and auditability.
Prior Products/Responsibilities:
Senior
Technical Leader
Cisco
Digital Building Lead (2015-2016)
· Technical
Leader in Core Software Group, taking network-powered lighting from incubation
to market.
· Recruited
and led an India-based team to develop CoAP proxy features for a new PoE
switching line.
· Scaled
product release by collaborating with 10 partners through an open information
model at IETF and Fairhair Alliance.
Cisco
CREATE Innovation Lead (2013-2015)
· Architect
and research lead for Cisco CREATE Light as a Service, a 1.5M GBP UK
government-funded project. Led a London team of 4 developers to collaborate
with researchers and startups on LED lighting and LiFi
proof of concepts.
· Advisor on
Cisco ASSURE Research project for securing Enterprise IoT deployments.
· Organized a
joint flood planning project with Cisco Innovation Center Brazil, Cisco CREATE
London, and Stevens Institute of Technology.
Joulex Inc, Technology Advisory Board Member (2012-2013)
·
Technical Advisory Board member representing Cisco's
interests in an energy management startup, leading to its successful
acquisition by Cisco.
Cisco
EnergyWise (2008-2013)
· Architect,
inventor, and engineering lead for Cisco EnergyWise, integrating IP-based
energy management and AI control into core switching lines.
· Created
architecture specs, prototypes, designs, and led development through release as
technical leader and manager.
· Championed the
technology with internal/external launches, CEO briefings, demos, and
standards.
· Established
a partner program and DevRel community with 100+ members, mentoring companies
on technology and direction.
· Presented
to partners, customers, and participated in video marketing.
· Founded
energy management working groups in standards organizations (IETF, ODVA) to
advance new technology.
Senior Software Engineer
Prototype
Wired/Wireless Controller and Compilers (2005-2008)
· Created a
prototype Linux based active SDN controller
· Created an
Object-Oriented specification language and compiler for advanced ASICs
development and OS binding which is the development platform for Cisco's access
switching and ASIC specifications
Cisco
Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) (2003-2005)
· Senior
Developer for the wireless appliance, designed and delivered self-healing
features for detecting and compensating downed radios in wireless networks.
· Supported
and consulted on large wireless customer deployments.
Cisco IP
Telephony Environment Monitor 1.3 (ITEM) (2001-2003)
·
Technical Lead, designed, patented, and delivered a
core fault correlation engine, and created a Java reuse and test harness.
Cisco1105
Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) (1999-2001)
Campus/Common
Management Foundation (CMF)
Manager of
Development
·
Supervisor and lead designer for a Full Stack
Observability network management product. Led 11 developers producing software
in Java, C++ and Smalltalk. The product managed network and application Fault
Tolerance, Performance, and Service Level Agreements with root cause analysis.
·
Hired as 9th employee and assumed
responsibility for all software development. Company sold for $412M in stock to
Visual Networks.
·
Responsible for the software product line and
engineering organization.
·
Presented and marketed the product at trade shows, for
venture capital prospectuses, and partner investigation.
Associate
of Information Technology
Member of the Dealing Systems team, responsible for
developing and supporting cash management and corporate treasury systems
managing and predicting $50 billion in cash transactions daily.
Owner&
Founding Partner
Founded
a consulting company specializing in fixed-fee conversion and upgrade of
Java-based systems.
Programmer
Analyst
Lead team member of the Planning and Architecture group,
responsible for designing and developing framework applications using CORBA in
Smalltalk for mainframe OODBMS systems. Created an AI platform to determine
payroll compensation from legal contract rules.
Application
Programmer
While a student, connected NYU to its first IBM Token
Ring LAN and created a system to register 3,000 students per semester.
Stanford
University, Guest Lecturer – “Intelligent
Energy Systems”
Adjunct
Professor: Advanced and Introduction to Programming in C++ at both
graduate and undergraduate level
Steven's
Institute of Technology
Degree: Master of Science,
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Focus: AI and Expert Systems
New York
University, College of Arts and Science
Degree: Bachelor of Arts, CAS
(Courant Institute of Mathematics), Computer Science, w/ Scholarship
PRESENTATIONS /
PUBLICATIONS
Cisco Hall
of Fame Speaker (5-time Distinguished Speaker)
Books:
“IP-Enabled Energy Management” – Robert
Aldrich & John Parello, Wiley, 2010, ISBN 9780-470-60725-1
Publications:
“IEEE Internet Computing: EMAN Energy-Management Activities”- April 2013
Edition
“Cisco
EnergyWise Validated Design Guide” - Cisco Documentation
“Cisco EnergyWise
Summary and Concepts” - Cisco White Paper
“IETF EMAN
Working Group Charter”, RFC7326,RFC7461, IETF
Lectures:
Cisco Live
Customer Conferences
“Cisco Innovation Labs, Creating a
Strategy & Culture for Innovation”
2022
“Internet of Things for the Enterprise” 2013-2019
“Cisco EnergyWise: The Network as the Platform for
Energy Management” 2009 - 2012
IEEE
“2011 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop: Cisco
EnergyWise and Smart Loads”
Silicon
Valley Innovation Center 2019-Present
Guest Speaker for global C-suite execs visiting top Silicon Valley
companies
Innovation Leader
(INNOLEAD) 2019-Present
Guest Speaker at yearly InnoLead IMPACT
conference
Videos:
“Digital
Ceiling” – Cisco Champions Technical Briefing
“Cisco
Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2011” – Cisco Filing Video Report
“Network
Energy Efficiency: The New Frontier” - Cisco TechWiseTV
Episode 42
“Your Network has the Power” – CiscoTechWiseTV Episode 64
“Cisco Branch WAN Update”
“Cisco
EnergyWise Early Lab Demo”
“Cisco
EnergyWise Q&A”
Advisory / Scripting:
“Keynote by Cisco CEO John Chambers CiscoLive 2009 Barcelona” - Technical Leader and
Advisor
“Fundamentals of EnergyWise” – Technical
Advisor and Script editor
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energy data in a network environment,
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