Johnnie Salim is Director of Product Line Management at Blue Planet, a division of Ciena.   He oversees Blue Planet Enterprise product line as well as solution product management for Blue Planet software suite.

Johnnie joined Ciena from Cisco Systems where he held various technical and leadership roles at Cisco Services organization in the areas of network management, operations consulting, and managed services.  He worked with major Enterprise customers and helped them in optimizing both the IT service management processes and network management systems.  Johnnie earned his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1992.