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Elaine Lopes

Business Operations Manager

Customer Experience

Elaine Lopes, CCIE #4478, had more than 20 years of experience in networking, 14 of them with Cisco networks, before starting her product management career. She is CCIE certified in Routing & Switching and Service Provider, and also holds the PMI's PMP certification.

As Expert Exam Program Manager, she worked on many CCIE certifications through their design, development, implementation and maintenance phases, using her process improvement, innovation and data analytics skills. Elaine is currently the Exam Program Manager for CCDE and CCAr and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and she’s passionate about how lives can change for the better through education and certification.

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January 23, 2020

LIFE AT CISCO

Zero to Hero

Twenty years ago, I was an underdog professional. A 30-something-year-old Latina woman (one of the few female electronic technicians at the time) who hadn’t graduated from an Ivy League university and had failed her first certification exams. But I didn’t let my ‘not-so-stellar’ background prevent m…