Susie Wee has a new job with a very long title: vice president and chief technology and experience officer of collaboration and communication. After 15 years at Hewlett-Packard (HP), Wee arrived at Cisco Systems last spring to help clients make strategic use of new communications technologies—and enjoy the process.
Her work to date has led to this role. Wee earned her electrical engineering and computer science degrees at MIT, where she worked on the predecessor to HDTV. She then moved to California to work for HP. As R&D manager for HP Laboratories’ streaming media systems group, she devised algorithms that adapted data-heavy video streams to lower resolution. Her work allowed HP to develop a handheld device that could display video much faster. She also served as chief technology officer of client cloud services, an important new platform. “It’s all about the emergence of the client cloud and how the cloud touches the end users,” she says. The cascade of new devices, such as tablets, means a new generation of apps, more visual presentations, and more pervasive computing, she says.
Wee made the jump to Cisco for a new opportunity to concentrate on collaboration. “We are really focused on improving how people collaborate and communicate within the enterprise,” she says. “We need to look at the data side—tools, user interface, e-mail, shared white boards, and social media—and how you put people and data together. How do you really create an immersive communications environment where people can work effectively?”
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