Nik Smith

Brett Hall, CCIE R&S, Collaboration #20774, is a Customer Solutions Architect supporting Cisco's product and service offerings for enterprise customers across the U.S. Army and defense agencies. He has more than 20 years' IT experience and has worked

with Cisco to support federal government initiatives for more than 13 years. He also works with Cisco business units to define product and service strategies and helps lead a global team of Cisco architects. To support customer requirements, Brett works with presales teams to engineer solutions that lead to customer adoption. Brett also drives solution development to help support future needs of his customers.

Nik Smith, Technical Leader for Collaboration at Cisco, supports Cisco Unified Collaboration (UC) products and service offerings for the public sector, enterprise, and defense agencies. His 24 years of networking experience cover technologies ranging from RF communications and telecommunications to UC. For 14 years, he has supported some of the world's largest Cisco UC deployments. During this time, he has led several large implementation teams involved in migrating from TDM to VoIP, along with network support and modernization. He now leads a team of UC engineers supporting the public sector, Department of Defense and providing guidance and mentoring to ensure that Cisco delivers best-in-class, highly secure UC capabilities.