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The Valor Games: Personal Limits are Meant to be Broken
Over my 16 year career as a Soldier in the US Army I was driven by competition on a daily basis, and was also active in a variety of sports from basketball and softball to running. Competition drives me to be better than I was the day before. In 2003, however, I was injured in Iraq during a fire fig…
The Impossible is Possible at Cisco: Realizing My Mom’s Dreams for Me
After working as an editor at an online business magazine, I was immediately drawn to the powerful, heartfelt stories on Life at Cisco. I’ve always wanted to know what it was like to be an employee sharing their amazing work, volunteering efforts, and smiley team photos on this blog. Today I’m thril…
How Soccer Connects Cisco Austria
Soccer or Football? It’s confusing, I know! And sometimes, you just don’t know which one to use! When I’m talking about my favorite sport in English, however, most of the time I end up calling it “soccer” because there is only one soccer and you can’t confuse it with something else. So, that’s what…
Work Together, Play Together, Excel Together
What do a wild bunch of Cisconians with a passion for the written word, a wicked sense of humor, and a singular focus on customer experience all have in common? For starters, you get ten Cisco employees who are part of the Security Business Group Technical Publications team in Bangalore India. The S…
I am Human. We are Cisco.
Whether on a train talking to the stranger who sat next to me, or at a party with my closest family and friends, one of my favorite questions to answer is this: “So, what do you do?” This question opens the doors for me to talk about one of my biggest passions – working at Cisco! I could write an en…
Cisco Empowers Employees to be Themselves at Out! Raleigh
When I started at Cisco over three years ago with the Security & Trust Org’s (STO) Global Certification Team (GCT), I made the decision to be open about the fact that I’m gay. Not in an in-your-face, wear-it-on-your-sleeve kind of way, but rather in an authentic about who I am as a person kind o…
Getting Around Cisco Copenhagen by Way of Bike
Sometimes you don’t need big data to tell you that getting from point A to point B will be faster by way of bicycle than by way of car. Living in Denmark (and especially in Copenhagen) the bike is often the chosen mode of transportation due to traffic within the city. And, I’ve found that there is s…
Simple Acts and Big Impacts
You may think that remembering someone’s name is a small feat. But when you are an executive at a very large company like Cisco – that can be rather difficult. Irving Tan, however, mastered this skill. He never forgot my name, even as infrequent as I saw him, which just goes to prove what kind of le…
Being a Woman in Tech and Cisco SE.
Recently I attended a training for my career development. I’m a VCSE specialist in MANO for Service Provider at Cisco, and this was an opportunity to get some pre-sales training with a Service Provider focus. I got there early, and had a few moments to get settled and look around. 90% of my fellow t…