Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos

• Mobility Technical Solutions Architect on the Enterprise Networking UK&I team at Cisco by day. WLAN Pi open source project development team member by night.
• I work with all UK&I based customers (and some even outside of this region) and Cisco Partners on a daily basis. From pre-sales, design, enablement, through technical guidance and support.
• Being a member of technical architecture and pre-sales team, I am keen to retain and keep developing my hands-on skills. Not just a PowerPoint engineer.
• Internal Cisco, customer and Cisco Partner Wi-Fi enablement including meetings, trainings, webinars.
• Experience of working with customers of all sizes, from startups, through enterprises, hedge funds, to large and complex venue high-density deployments with ten thousands of connected clients.
• Delivered, configured and ran proof of concept networks and customer trials of any size from 2 access points to nearly 200 access points.
• With the Cisco Live Network Operations Team, we have deployed, operated and optimised Wi-Fi network infrastructure for the event since 2017. That's several hundreds of switches, up to 1000 access points to deliver an exceptional wireless network experience to more than 15,000 attendees and colleagues. Involved in keynote high-density deployment.
• Spoke at the Wireless LAN Professionals Conference and Wi-Fi Design Day, and delivered technical hands-on Deep Dive sessions.
• With the open-source WLAN Pi team, since 2019, we have developed several generations of a Linux-based Wi-Fi tool called WLAN Pi. Designed by Wi-Fi engineers for Wi-Fi engineers. We are a very small team, various responsibilities from product management, hardware development, scripting, programming, testing, technical support and training. We delivered a number of sessions including 6-hour technical Deep Dives.
• 2x Cisco Sales Champion award holder
• 4x Cisco Achiever award holder
• Blogging and sharing what I've learnt at www.jiribrejcha.net

Jul 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Enabled Cisco's Systems Engineering team by helping them to position, sell and qualify Wi-Fi projects and opportunities
• Experience being a Cisco customer, worked for Cisco Partner, and Cisco
• Acquired Cisco Meraki Champion (CMNP) certification
• With the Cisco Live Network Operations Team, we have deployed, operated and optimised Wi-Fi network infrastructure for the event since 2017. That's several hundreds of switches, up to 1000 access points to deliver an exceptional wireless network experience to more than 15,000 attendees and colleagues. Involved in keynote high-density deployment.

Sep 2016 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Technical pre-sales advisor working with UK based Commercial and Media customers helping them get the most out of Cisco technology.
• Awarded Sales Champion FY17
• Worked on latency-sensitive customer projects across various segments from TV and radio broadcasting, publishing and live streaming.
• Passionate about Wireless and Mobility, Enterprise Networking, Cisco Meraki and SDN.
• Developed and retained hands-on skills by being member of Cisco Live 2017 Berlin wireless network infrastructure team.

Jul 2013 – Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Technical pre-sales advisor working with UK based print media and publishing customers helping them get the most out of Cisco technology.
• Developed Wi-Fi expertise on the team and became the go to person
• Technologies: Enterprise Networking, Wireless, Cisco Meraki, Data Center, IoT

Apr 2010 – Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

• Member of the Czech Systems Engineering Team
• Acquired CCNP certified and acquired various CCNA certifications
• Focused on IP infrastructure, Routing & Switching
• Deeply specialized in Cisco EnergyWise technology, its integration in different endpoints and IT energy management
• Successfully led the Smart PDU implementation project - from the initial phase to the final order of over 400 measured and remotely managed power sockets for the whole Cisco lab based in Prague
• Built the first Czech Cisco EnergyWise demonstration - integrating a card reader, Cisco switch, IP phone, IP camera, Smart PDU, remotely controlled lighting, laptop, energy management software and Schneider Building Management System
• Provided network discovery services for selected key customers (Government, Finance, Insurance, Transportation)
• Built labs, demonstration environments and test scenarios for customers
• Implemented and configured IP infrastructure for Cisco Expo 2010 and 2011 conferences in Prague
• Provided technical IT support to the local systems engineering team
• Technologies: Cisco Routing & Switching, Cisco EnergyWise, IP energy management, JouleX, Raritan and Cyberswitching Smart PDUs, EnergyWise protocol gateways, Cisco physical security portfolio, Netformx DesignXpert, Network Discovery, SNMP, Lifecycle management, Windows XP, Windows 7, Office 2007, Office 2010, virtualization, VMware, Cisco UCS