Dan Kent

Dan is the Director of Systems Engineering for Cisco Systems’ Federal Organization. He leads a team of engineers supporting the Dept of Defense, Civilian Agencies, and the Intelligence Community which focus on the design and deployment of integrated, enterprise communication platforms and network solutions. Mr. Kent’s primary role in this position is to support Federal customers by matching their mission and agency needs to scaleable, secure solutions. Mr. Kent is also responsible for ensuring government unique requirements are understood and met within Cisco product lines. He brings the market leading experience and technology strategies of Cisco System’s to the technology requirements of the Federal customers.

Mr. Kent has worked in the communications field of the Federal market over 20 years. This allows him to utilize his experience to share best business practices for the Federal marketplace. Mr. Kent’s prior positions include ten years at Nortel Networks as the Director of Federal Engineering and as a senior consulting engineer for Network Solutions, Inc., where he supported several government agencies. In these roles, Mr. Kent participated in the complete life cycle of communications systems. He is very knowledgeable on various Federal Certification requirements including JITC, TIC, FISMA, FIPS and Common Criteria while having a proven track record ensuring Commercial products meet these requirements.