
Advice From a Woman in STEM: Meet Erica Cooper, Technical Leader at Cisco Systems
03/03/20 • 38 min
Erica Cooper is a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems based in the Washington DC metropolitan area, where she provides technical solutions for various government and non-government customers. The technologies that she focuses on are DataCenter, SDN, Cloud, Virtualization, and Security. She graduated from Keller Graduate School of Management (MS. Telecommunications and Business) and she also has a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering. She holds several industry certifications including the following:
CCIE Data Center
CCNP Routing and Switching
VCP- NV Network Virtualization
In her spare time she enjoys traveling with family, watching and participating in sports and listening to EDM/House music. She is a phenomenal woman in STEM who believes that telling our stories is vitally important to the future of the STEM.
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Erica Cooper is a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems based in the Washington DC metropolitan area, where she provides technical solutions for various government and non-government customers. The technologies that she focuses on are DataCenter, SDN, Cloud, Virtualization, and Security. She graduated from Keller Graduate School of Management (MS. Telecommunications and Business) and she also has a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering. She holds several industry certifications including the following:
CCIE Data Center
CCNP Routing and Switching
VCP- NV Network Virtualization
In her spare time she enjoys traveling with family, watching and participating in sports and listening to EDM/House music. She is a phenomenal woman in STEM who believes that telling our stories is vitally important to the future of the STEM.
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STEMming in Stilettos Youtube Channel: https://youtu.be/xAc25J7UH9A
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