Stephanie Carhee

Stephanie L. Carhee has worked at Cisco Systems for nearly five years. Prior to moving to the IP Communications Enterprise Services Marketing team, Stephanie was an IP Telephony Implementation team lead within the Strategic Program Management Group in Cisco IT Voice Services. Her primary role was to lead the campus-wide migration to the Cisco IP Communications Solution. In May 2001, Stephanie led the conversion of the Cisco campus in San Jose, California, which involved 20,000 users and devices and was the largest deployment of IP Telephony in industry history. She led a cross-functional team that included top project managers, design engineers, support team, CCIEs, technical marketing engineers, systems engineers, and IP Telephony partners during the conversion.

Stephanie is an experienced, dynamic speaker and an acknowledged subject matter expert in the processes and procedures surrounding the deployment of an IP Telephony solution. Stephanie's best practices have been featured in Cisco publications, such as iQ and Packet magazines. She has delivered hundreds of customer briefings around the country, including presentations at Networkers 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Today, Stephanie is leveraging her knowledge within the Cisco Customer Advocacy organization, where she is frequently asked to consult on customer engagements and various presales activities with top Cisco customers to duplicate the success realized by Cisco.

As a senior project manager with more than 10 years of project management experience, Stephanie's experience covers the management, development, and implementation of projects in the IT network engineering area, including operations, system administration, advanced technologies, marketing, and sales. Stephanie holds a bachelor of arts degree in business management and communications. Stephanie can be reached online at scarhee@cisco.com.