#LoveWhereYouWork

Working allows me to provide for my family, and like for most of us, working isn’t a choice. But where I work and how I engage is my choice.  Cisco chose me and I chose Cisco. I started my career with college summer internships as a programmer for the biggest and most well-known computer company. I…

A little more than three months after I came back from maternity leave, our nanny starting having severe morning sickness, and it became clear we needed to find an alternative daycare solution for our son.  I had been at Cisco for nine years, and knew that we had two different daycare centers in San…

On July 16, 1997 my life changed. Arriving six weeks early, and changing our entire focus in life, Alice Elizabeth entered the world and my wife, Iris, and I were overjoyed. For the next 16 years this was to be the only time she was ever early for anything. 😉 One thing I never suspected on t…

When someone uses the word “pageant” – your brain probably goes first to images of big hair and ball gowns. The last thing that you think of is “techie.” But let me change your perceptions! I work for Cisco as a Business Analyst, and I’m a proud techie, as well as the current Miss Silicon Valley. On…

You really know what it means to #LoveWhereYouWork when you are faced with a life-threatening illness, and your team says, “Take care of your family, we’ve got this!” You see, that’s #WeAreCisco! I came to Cisco five years ago truly believing in our vision that we wanted to change the world. I had b…

I knew our rescued Dalmatian mix Proteus was something special. What I didn’t realize was the special moments we would be creating as we used our Cisco volunteering hours together after he became a therapy dog. Proteus is the Son of Poseidon, as you may know, from Greek Methodology, and the name def…

You often hear that one of the top reasons Cisco employees love coming to work is our people. The people are, to our core, the heartbeat of Cisco. From the individual personalities that fill the wide open, brightly lit offices to those authentic co-workers who never pass up an opportunity to stop in…

A few months ago, a fellow Cisco employee set the ball rolling on a wild, fun, Star Wars adventure. He asked in an all-company meeting, the Cisco Beat, if we could celebrate Star Wars Day #Maythe4th as a company. I love to bring a bit of goofiness into work, and it’s always exciting when we get to d…

A Cisco account manager and a Cisco engineer walk into a bar… sounds like the start to a good punchline, no? In this case, it was not a joke. It was the beginning of a journey – This adventure started when a pact was made to climb the highest mountain in Africa after some pizza and a beer or t…