Kyle Baxter

Leading a high-performing product and specialist team to drive innovation, strategy, and execution for cutting-edge network automation solutions.

Defining and driving creative solutions to develop cutting-edge solutions that empower organizations to optimize their network infrastructure efficiently.

Leading a team building common cloud services for AI, Analytics, Admin/Self-Care Portal and Device Management to provide for customers on Avaya public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises products.

Endpoints product manager in Cisco's collaboration business unit focusing on growing the enterprise wireless device portfolio.

Serving as a Product Manager in Cisco's cloud collaboration business unit. Leading new product offerings in Cisco's cloud collaboration services which is providing a true UCaaS for customers. This will drive the business needs of customers by optimizing data center usage, reducing operational costs, and improving the end user experience. Working daily with Cisco partners/customers to understand their needs for Cisco product roadmaps and to solve existing issues in the customer's current collaboration offer.

Scrum master for 2 teams developing 78XX and 88XX IP phones. Helped lead the Agile transition for the organization by leading Agile training, coaching team members, facilitating the Agile ceremonies, pushing for customer demo's, collaborating with PO's to create a deep backlog, and running team assessments.

Part of an automation team developing automated testing infrastructure and test cases using Python for the DX series of devices which run Android. Promoted automated testing practices like TDD by leading training for the other engineers, creating testing framework and help libraries, and creating a test lab with a large bank of phones.

Team lead for group developing the network and application management suite for HCS in a virtualized environment. Developed automated install and upgrade scripts in Python for the suite of products to reduce customer install time from 3 weeks with professional services to 3 hours with minimal Linux knowledge. Interfaced closely with marketing, architecture, EFT, AS, and TAC teams to understand customer needs and solve any field issues.

Developed tools for Cisco IOS to assist with new feature creation. Improved the communication within IOS tools with multi-threading algorithms and communication protocols in C. Developed a continuous build and test process for the development team to get quick feedback on new code changes.