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I am about to go bald. 18” inches of long, crazy purple hair that my colleagues always comment on and know me by will be gone. Seem crazy to you? It gets even crazier.  It’ll all be happening just two days after I’m married. Why the heck would I do that? I’m glad you asked. 🙂 You may have re…

“Did you enjoy your safari?” This is what people ask me when I say I went to Africa. My answer? “I didn’t go on safari, but what I did was wonderful all the same!” I didn’t know much about Africa before my first trip in 2014.  My daughter Kori and I went with our local church on the first of what wo…

I am always ready for adventure! Aren’t you? Working for Cisco’s AppDynamics on the Customer Success Team provides me with a sense of continued adventure, and I knew that I wanted to add a bit of unique excitement when I used my annual volunteer hours. (Cisco gives us FIVE days to give back each yea…

Imagine a storm washing away your ability to communicate by phone, email, or text. Picture it knocking out your electricity and cutting off your supply of food and clean water. If you need help, you have no way to ask for it. If you have loved ones, you have no way to confirm they are safe. That is…

Each blog post on Life at Cisco usually tells the story from one employee, but this is a story that needed two viewpoints, so it’s written as a conversation – similar to ones we have every day.  Carmen: Every job requires that you wear a lot of hats. Usually, we put on our social media manager hats…

Before I discovered electrical engineering, I wanted to be a teacher. I have always loved learning, so naturally I want to help others learn. For me, the most exciting part is the first time I have a light-bulb moment and real understanding of a concept begins. Consequently, seeing that same initial…

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…

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…

Note: The leadership team of Cisco’s Connected Asian Affinity Network (CAAN) would like to thank its executive sponsors and supporters for supporting this international give back the initiative. This program would not have been possible without them. At Cisco, we cultivate change agents. We empower…