She has previously worked at Cisco as an education solutions architect, a technical marketing engineer in retail for the PCI Security solution, and a technical marketing engineer in financial services on the Digital Image Management solution. Prior to Cisco, she spent 11 years in software development and testing at Citrix Systems, Orbital Data, and Packeteer to validate WAN optimization products. She holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California Berkeley.