#WeAreCisco Customer Experience
Taking Bold Risks: Inspired by Cisco’s CFO Kelly Kramer
As an early-in-career woman working in a male-dominated industry, I certainly found myself wondering what it was like to be an executive at a Fortune 100 company. And, more specifically, I wondered what it was like to be a female C-suite leader in today’s world. The fact that Cisco has six (yes, SIX…
Learning to Navigate My Career
When it comes time to decide what you want your career to be, it can be overwhelming. Not to mention, many struggle with defining what they’d like from “the real world” while others seem to have everything already charted out from A-Z. I was one of the A-Z students. At least, I thought I was. When…
My Magical, Unicorn Life in Cisco’s Customer Experience Team
I believe in serendipity. It happens. My journey to Cisco is an interesting one. Prior to working here, I’d been a software consultant most of my career. I helped customers accelerate adoption and business value from their software implementations through developing & executing change managem…
There’s Only Life and How You Choose to Live it
A lot has happened to me in the last three years—got engaged, got diagnosed with leukemia, got married, built a house, leukemia went into remission, wrote a book about millennials, had our first child—and Cisco has been part of my life through all of it. My first leader at Cisco was a large, easygoi…
A Success Story: My Journey to Cisco’s Customer Experience Team
One of the greatest things about working at Cisco is that you are encouraged to be true to yourself. If you are even relatively new to reading the stories on the Life at Cisco blog, you have likely already bumped into one or two of the stories that speak to this. I love this benefit, but also – I th…
Cisco Intern to Full-Time: What I Wish I Knew Then
When starting any new job (but especially a new internship) there are non-stop questions flying through your mind. What’s it like to be a Cisco Intern? What should I look forward to or prepare for? What’s the best part of interning at Cisco? It would be awesome to get a little advice bef…
Cisco’s Secret to Success: Our Culture
As a young teen, when my family moved to the United States from Thailand, I struggled to fit in. The kids in high school shied away from me because I looked and sounded different. The isolation I felt then is a feeling I never want anyone to experience. As I learned to embrace my identity over th…
Cisco’s Customer Experience is Rubik’s Cube Inspired!
It’s funny how an 80’s icon can still mean so much to us today, and yet – still barely be a thought until it’s right in front of you. I wandered into Gayle’s Wine Bar in Llangollen, North Wales with my husband Neil and some local friends where a guy was leaning against the bar playing with a Rubik’…
Learning and Growing with Cisco Security
When you think of Cisco you may not think of Security, Software, or even Cloud and Collaboration – but you should! We are so much more than just routing and switching these days as the world around us evolves, and we continue to push the boundaries as the company who created the infrastructure for t…
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