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Casie Shimansky

Copywriter | Content Editor | Provider of Pixie Dust

Talent Brand

Casie [kay-cee; KC] Shimansky is a copywriter and content editor for Cisco's award-winning Talent Brand Team. She is also the managing editor of the Life at Cisco blog, and previously an award-winning social media manager for the team.

By day, she is a passionate storyteller yielding her superpowers in social media, writing, and photography to showcase all of life’s adventures and helping others to share their experiences. By night and weekend, she's using those powers to #GiveBack.

Casie is a dedicated advocate for children’s cancer research through the St. Baldrick's Foundation where she has been a lead photographer, Team Captain, and Shavee since 2011. Team Live Out Loud has gone on to raise over $80,000 for the cause, with Casie raising over $50,000 alone over the years.

She can often be found roaming throughout the theme parks of Orlando, FL and is fueled by pizza, positivity, the color purple, and her two German Shorthaired Pointers, Kimbee and Kenobi. Casie and her husband work hard on training their two pups with agility and obedience.

Casie and Kimbee are a Certified Pet Therapy team at local Orlando facilities.

Articles

September 2, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

A Year Abroad – An Intern’s Transition

How does a culture-shocked, jet-lagged intern from England transform in a year’s time? Just by arriving in Silicon Valley Digital Marketing Intern Alice Mo was able to check off a bucket list item. But starting at Cisco earned another check. Her first day, she was filled with nerves. Wanting t…

August 13, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

Cisco Intern: From Homeless to Helping Others

Tia Pope loves being a Cisco IT Engineering Intern, not only for the opportunity it gives her, but for the opportunity she has to share her story with young girls just like her to help excite them about technical fields. And boy, does she have a story! Tia was raised in a single-parent family with s…