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Casie Shimansky

Content Strategist | Provider of Pixie Dust

Employee Storytelling

Casie [kay-cee; KC] Shimansky is a Content Strategist for Cisco's award-winning Employee/r Brand Team. She is also the managing editor of the We Are 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 $100,000 for the cause, with Casie raising over $60,000 alone over the years.

She calls Orlando, FL home 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

October 13, 2015

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WE ARE CISCO

6 Reasons Interning at Cisco is the Best Idea Ever

3 min read

Recently after his experience as a Cisco Intern, Naman Bhatt shared with his LinkedIn audience what it was like to work for “one of the best companies in the world.”  We loved his story so much we thought our readers on the Life at Cisco Blog would too!   Before my summer internship at Cisco, I […]

October 15, 2015

WE ARE CISCO

Cisco Mentors Fuel the Future of New Hires

3 min read

Before becoming CEO of Cisco, Chuck Robbins was Head of Sales. Even then he saw employees as the key to...

September 29, 2015

WE ARE CISCO

Stretch Assignments Take Employee Beyond the Day-to-Day

2 min read

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 – and […]

September 8, 2015

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WE ARE CISCO

Reflections From Summer Cisco Interns

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Cisco Interns aren’t your average interns! Whether they found us by way of LinkedIn or a university info session –...

September 2, 2015

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WE ARE CISCO

A Year Abroad – An Intern’s Transition

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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 to make a good impression, she […]

August 13, 2015

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WE ARE CISCO

Cisco Intern: From Homeless to Helping Others

4 min read

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 […]