Colin Hardman

Colin Hardman is an experienced infrastructure engineer and architect currently working at Ciena since August 2021. Prior to this role, Colin served as a Senior IT/DevOps Engineer at Liquid Robotics from July 2020 to August 2021 and as a Senior IT Systems/Solutions Engineer at Synamedia from September 2019 to April 2020. Colin's extensive career includes a long tenure at Cisco, where responsibilities included serving as Engineering IT Leader, with a focus on Global Data Center Operations Service Management, and leading the Acquisition Integrations Team. Additional roles at Cisco involved being a Senior System Administrator and Team Leader in the Engineering IT Data Center. Colin's early career included positions at SGI, ranging from Systems Administrator to Senior Engineering Technician. Colin holds a degree from Heald College.