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Employees Bring Cisco Tech to Late Night on Jimmy Kimmel Live
It’s Oscar’s night. Your technology is getting ready to debut in less than three minutes on Jimmy Kimmel Live (emphasis on the “live” part). You’re not sure if the celebrity interview you’ve planned at the Governor’s Ball is going to happen. Then, the show launches, Cisco’s Wall of America is a hit,…
Stretch Assignments Take Employee Beyond the Day-to-Day
Bipasha Chakrabarti has been a part of Cisco’s Public Relations team in India for almost five years now, and in that time she has loved getting to explore other facets of the company that have helped to grow and develop her career. Recently Bipasha was an Expand Your Boundaries Award Winner for Q3 –…
Team Donates Blood To Support Their Cisco Family
Folks at Cisco don’t “hijack” blood donation trucks unless there’s a very good reason. If helping a colleague cope with the loss of her father and honoring his last wishes isn’t a good reason, then we don’t know what is. One of the members of the Digital Strategy Enablement (DSE) team recently lost…
We Are Family – Cisco Sisters
“We are family! I’ve got all my sisters and me!” ~ Sister Sledge. Now that we’ve gotten a disco tune earworm in your brain, let’s talk about how two sisters, Janine and Jina Daniel, are making the Cisco family part of THEIR family. Janine is a Fresno State graduate, and even when she was still in s…
Cisco Engineer Turns Fear into Fearless
If you think running a 5K race is challenge enough, try throwing a few daunting obstacles on the course. Cisco Network Consulting Engineer Deidra Brown has faced that challenge, and has overcome it. A few years ago, Deidra wouldn’t have even considered a physical challenge. She had struggled with we…
3 Ways to Think Globally
Nicki Vereschagin just finished her second summer internship at Cisco on the Cloud Partner Marketing team. Before heading back to USC she wanted to leave some advice behind. What follows are tips on how others can learn to think on a global scale. As an intern on the Cisco Cloud Marketing team for…
Five Years at Cisco – Thanks to My Mentor
Five years. I still remember the day it all started. My world changed instantly. Those magical words, “Congratulations on the offer. Welcome to the wonderful world of Cisco!” still echo and it didn’t take long for me to realize that I was living the dream. It is my 5th “Ciscoversary.” And boy,…
Cisco China Embraces Cisco’s Giving Back Philosophy
Cisco has always followed a philosophy of giving back to the community, and in recent years, Cisco China has participated in various community and volunteer programs including: Hands on Shanghai (HOS), River of Hearts (ROH), One Heart Gift Bag, Hiking for One Egg, etc. Giving makes a difference, and…
Is dCloud “dBest” Team at Cisco?
If you’ve never heard about Cisco’s dCloud team, you’re about to. After this, you might think they’re Cisco’s best-kept secret, and the coolest team around. “We are using bleeding edge technology,” says Program Manager Steve Dickson (better known as dCloud Steve). “No one else is doing it like we’re…
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