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Kyle Thornton is a business leader at Cisco for a Corporate Social Responsibility field organization spanning 94 countries across Europe, CIS, Middle East, Africa and select countries in Latin America. These teams focus on developing public private partnership initiatives centered on human capacity development and education.Extremely proficient at leading geographically distributed teams spanning Asia, EMEAR and Americas.Principle among these CSR initiatives included the Cisco Networking Academy, an education initiative which makes ICT education and networking skills available to over 1,000,000 students annually. Participating students can gain the skills they need to excel in a job market that is increasingly driven by technology. In partnership with over 9,000 established educational institutions in over 170 countries around the globe Cisco generates shared value for society and its business.

Organization business leader within Cisco CSR responsible for software platform architecture, complete agile development lifecycle, data center and the end customer platform experience for the Cisco Networking Academy Program (www.NetAcad.com). As a large scale federated platform application www.NetAcad.com supports over 2M distinct users globally, delivering educational content in 21 languages, over 1M certification aligned assessments monthly requested by users from 180 countries.

P&L Accountability for leading organization with over $15M in annual revenue accountable for teams delivering strategic build operate and transfer technology engagements. Engagements ranged from fixed price, time and materials toward on-going managed service engagements. Accountable for managing utilization targets, operating and project profit margins spanning multiple concurrent client engagements. Industry exposure includes public sector K-20 education, retail and distribution, and telecommunications comprised with teams of teams many large as 200 employees and contractors.

Full-filled various roles including card product platform development, system and functional test leadership, and platform architecture for American Express Card Products on the TRIUMPH revolve card platform. Leader on engagement comprising over 400 individuals globally distributed between United States, United Kingdom and the Philippines.