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Paul Brubaker, who served as Defense deputy chief information officer in 2000 and most recently headed the Transportation Department's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, joined Cisco as director of the company's North American Public Sector, Internet Business Solutions Group on Jan 21.

Paul Brubaker, who served as Defense deputy chief information officer in 2000 and most recently headed the Transportation Department's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, joined Cisco as director of the company's North American Public Sector, Internet Business Solutions Group on Jan 21.

I hope Brubaker has some real good PowerPoint skills, because Cisco really loves PowerPoint presentations. I once went to an interview at Cisco HQ in San Jose where I sat through a 100-slide presentation, which I told had been cut back due to my known lack of patience with PowerPoints.