Cathie Hilston

Senior Instructional Designer & Deployment Manger

Cathie is one of our longest-tenured team members having started here in January 2012 when we were still known as Expand Interactive. At the time she worked in Flash (RIP) but has since expanded her skills to include JavaScript, code, and script writing. With her background in Professional Writing & Editing the final change to script writing suited her well. Today she spends half her time in content and the other half helping our clients get deployed with our ExpandShare software.

Cathie has lived a fascinating life. Her mom was born in Okinawa, Japan and her dad was in the Air Force, so they met when he was stationed in Okinawa during the Korean War. She moved around a lot when she was younger, but eventually eventually ended up in Ohio (luckily for us). She’s simultaneously a why person trying to understand who we are, while always thinking about the big picture and the consequences of our actions, but her grandson keeps her grounded. She has an impressive collection of Stephen King books not to mention many books in general. She dabbles in playing the bongo drums, conga drum, tin whistle and acoustic guitar. Like many of us here she loves the outdoors, but what she loves most is being a grandma. We’re lucky to have her and her unique mind!