From Network Engineer to Product Marketing: A Career Path for Communicators

From Network Engineer to Product Marketing: A Career Path for Communicators

June 17, 2026 · 47 min

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The episode discusses the transition from network engineering to product marketing, highlighting the importance of communication skills.

What happens when a network engineer realizes their biggest strength isn’t just technology, it’s communication? In this episode of The Art of Network Engineering, Andy Lapteff sits down with Patrick McCabe to discuss the transition from network engineering into product marketing and other vendor-side technical roles. Pat shares stories from: carrier-scale networking,tier 3 operational support,IPTV deployments at AT&T,systems engineering,sales,and eventually product marketing leadership.To...

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