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John McCormack is senior vice president of product development for Websense Inc. He is responsible for Websense's software engineering and product development strategy.
McCormack brings a strong history of building innovative products to Websense. Most recently McCormack was vice president of engineering for Symantec's Client Security group responsible for Symantec AntiVirus products and the acquired Sygate Technologies product line. McCormack joined Symantec through the acquisition of Sygate where he was senior vice president of product development. His efforts led Sygate's entry into the Network Access Control market and delivered products to achieve the leadership position in Gartner's Magic Quadrant.
Prior to Sygate McCormack served as general manager of the Secure Managed Networks Business Unit of Cisco where he led a global implementation team of more than 300 engineers marketing and development experts responsible for a broad range of security and network management hardware and software products. During his eight-year career at Cisco McCormack's organization delivered many innovations including significant components of Cisco's Network Admission Control (NAC) initiative and the delivery of the company's Wireless LAN security services. Before joining Cisco McCormack spent nine years as a development executive at Tandem Computers where he was responsible for the development of networking and operating system software.
McCormack earned a master's degree in engineering management from George Washington University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of New Hampshire. He also holds three U.S. patents in network information acquisition and presentation. | 