Christopher Richardson

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Volunteer Experience

  • Cisco Graphic

    Leader/Mentor

    Cisco

    - Present 9 years 4 months

    Science and Technology

    Created and developed the “Culture of Service Initiative” Program (2017) to reinvigorate and update Cisco’s approach to their volunteering programs and community services initiatives, so they better aligned with the Cisco innovative approach to building and developing best in class technology solutions and, services for our clients.
    • Successfully developed and led a new volunteering initiative to organize community service events, i.e., Habitat for Humanity, Harvest Hope Foodbank, etc.) to…

    Created and developed the “Culture of Service Initiative” Program (2017) to reinvigorate and update Cisco’s approach to their volunteering programs and community services initiatives, so they better aligned with the Cisco innovative approach to building and developing best in class technology solutions and, services for our clients.
    • Successfully developed and led a new volunteering initiative to organize community service events, i.e., Habitat for Humanity, Harvest Hope Foodbank, etc.) to allow people in our Business Unit a channel to give back to the community.
    • Designated as Culture of Service Leader for Web Operation, Diversity Initiative Lead for Web Operation.
    • Successfully raised $200K for this program.

    PACT program
    (Progress & Accelerated Change through Technology, is a program to seed, grow and change young people into leaders.)

    • Currently working on the leadership team to run sponsorship amongst other activities in preparation for the 2019 two-week onsite PACT workshop in Haiti where SMEs from leading Technology organizations like Cisco, conduct technical workshops to grow young leaders (between the ages of 9-14) in a technology.
    • The vision of the PACT program in 10 years is to develop 10,000 young leaders, in 10 different countries in 10 different technologies

    Rock Steady Boxing Volunteer

    The mission of Rock Steady Boxing is to maximize the mental, emotional, and physical potential of people with Parkinson’s disease throughout their lives. The program helps them to adapt, eliminating the commonly occurring negative self-talk or self-image accompanying a degenerative, presently incurable illness. Instead we emphasize the enhancements possible to their quality of life and ability to perform and enjoy activities of daily living.

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    Ambassador

    GrowthQ

    - Present 7 months

    Science and Technology

Courses

  • CCNP Routing and Switching - The Cisco Learning Network

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  • Carnegie Mellon Big Data and Systems Analytics Foundations Course

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  • Cisco Certified Design Professional - The Cisco Learning Network

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  • Stanford Graduate School of Business – Corporate Innovation

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Projects

  • USC IIT Capstone Project - Create IT Discovery Day

    This project was a valuable chance for me to take a project leadership role and lead my team in creating and facilitating a day of discovery for youth that results in enhancing the IT pipeline.

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  • IT-oLogy

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    IT-oLogy is a non-profit collaboration of businesses, academic institutions, and organizations dedicated to growing the IT talent pipeline and advancing the IT profession.

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Honors & Awards

  • FY18 Sales Champion

    Cisco Systems

    Cisco Achievement Award for the Top 10% of the Global Salesforce of 20,000.

  • 2012 IBM Enterprise Computing Greg Zaubi Memorial Scholarship Scholarship Winner

    IBM Destination Z

    The IBM Destination z community is pleased to announce the winners of the fifth annual IBM Destination z Enterprise Computing Scholarship, run in the fall semester of 2012. To be considered for this scholarship, students must have demonstrated excellence in their enterprise computing coursework, with plans for continued growth on the mainframe platform in their academic and professional careers. This year’s field of applicants was extremely talented, making the judges' decisions…

    The IBM Destination z community is pleased to announce the winners of the fifth annual IBM Destination z Enterprise Computing Scholarship, run in the fall semester of 2012. To be considered for this scholarship, students must have demonstrated excellence in their enterprise computing coursework, with plans for continued growth on the mainframe platform in their academic and professional careers. This year’s field of applicants was extremely talented, making the judges' decisions difficult.

    http://www.destinationz.org/Academia/Destination-z-Enterprise-Computing-Scholarship.aspx

  • IBM Enterprise Computing Scholarship Winner

    IBM

    http://www.hrsm.sc.edu/news/default.html#ibm

  • Chamber of Commerce Pillar Awards Student Achievement Finalist

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Languages

  • intermediate spanish

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Organizations

  • Boeing Employee Community Involvement Volunteers

    Participant

    - Present

  • IT Career Foundations Program Training Catalog Leadership Team

    IT Infrastructure Board Member

    - Present

  • Boeing South Carolina REACH Leadership Team

    Professional Networking Support

    - Present

  • Boeing IT Diversity and Inclusion Council

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    - Present

  • Association of IT Professionals

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  • National Society of Black Engineers

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  • Project Management Institute (PMI) South Carolina and National Chapter

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