Jaroslav is an Operations executive with a strong R&D background and years of professional services experience. Focus on innovation and operational excellence, aim for best practices in project and knowledge management. Jaroslav manages Cisco’ engineering team of Cognitive Threat Analytics. Before Cisco, Jaroslav was VP, R&D and Operations at GoodData. Before GoodData, Jaroslav worked as a spend management consultant at Ariba, serving its Fortune 100 customers across Europe. Before Ariba, Jaroslav worked at various R&D positions at IBM, Reuters and LCS International.Specialties: Ariba Spend Management Solutions (sourcing, procurement, contract management, analysis), UML and RUP, J2EE and distributed computing, relational and deductive databases, semantic web, multi-modal and speech recognition standards and technologies