Alan Hase is Vice President of Engineering and Chief Development Officer at Big Switch. Alan has more than 20 years of experience in the networking industry and leading global engineering teams which have delivered industry leading innovation in high end routing, security, fabric and wireless technologies. Alan joined Big Switch from Extreme Networks where he was responsible for product strategy for its secure campus switching, intelligent mobility and campus orchestration products. Prior to Extreme Networks, Alan was the Vice President of Avaya’s Intelligent Edge engineering and product management teams. Alan spent 15 years at Cisco where he held various leadership roles. Alan joined Cisco in 1996 to lead its High-End Router software engineering team. In 2001, Alan became a Director of Engineering, responsible for Cisco’s IPsec VPN product development and strategic direction. In 2006, Alan became the Vice President of Engineering for its Wireless Networking Business Unit where he led a global engineering team that delivered innovative, industry leading, award winning products and technologies. Alan has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Missouri and an M.B.A from Santa Clara University.