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DRIVING WORLD CLASS TECHNICAL TEAMS AND BUILDING

Gagan Hurria, MBA PMP CSM CCDH EXCELLENT PRODUCTS BY PROVIDING EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP Cell:408-***-**** Email: adcu8y@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gagan007 Senior Engineering and Technology Program/Project and Product Manager, Agile Coach, Scrum master, trusted consultant, strategic advisor with rare combination of hands-on technology skills and business leadership specializing in Big Data/Hadoop, Cloud, Analytics, Data Science, CRM, Networking, Infrastructure, Firmware, Hardware, Machine learning and AI building exceptional products/software and transforming large fortune 500 companies. Adept in leading, mentoring and managing large high-performing teams with great track record of shipping high quality software on time and in budget. Provided strategic leadership and expertise in companies like Apple, Logitech, Symantec, Adobe, Visa, Dell, HP, Network Appliance, PG&E, Accenture and others. Core Business and Technical Competencies/Knowledge areas: Machine learning, Data science, Big Data, Hadoop, AI, Firmware, Hardware

Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack, DevOps, SRE

Networking, Infrastructure, Data center buildouts PMO, Metrics and Reporting, CRM, Salesforce Management Consulting, Change and Release

Management, Agile transformation

Agile, Scrum, Continuous Development and

Deployment, Agile Coach

Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Migrations Strategic Consulting and Partnerships Enterprise Architecture, Business Intelligence Technology Roadmaps, Agile transformation Apache Hbase, Presto, Phoenix, Spark, Hive Linux, Unix, MySQL Oracle, Informatica, Teradata, NoSQL, CI and CD Cognos, Tableau, Jira, Confluence Cloud Architecture, C++, Python Global Data centers, Payments and ecommerce Firmware, Hardware Application Development-iOS and Android Distributed systems, Scalability, Performance New Product Introduction Logitech 2020-Till Date

Technical Program Manager-Firmware and Software- Music Business Group

• Leading Software and Firmware Technical program management for Logitech (Ultimate Ears) line of speakers including NPI (New Product introduction) from vision to launch.

• Technical Program Manager for firmware for Ultimate Ears line of speakers leading multiple Ultimate speakers brand new products (Hyperboom recently launched) as well as maintenance of existing products.

• Leading state of the art mobile App development for both iOS and Android supporting all Ultimate ears line of speakers.

• Working with hardware vendors in Asia, working from inception, vision phase to build out, branding and launch.

• Leading programs with cross functional teams like Design, UX, App development, Firmware, Product, Branding, Software, Firmware, EE, AE, Customer Support and external vendors.

• Leading brainstorming sessions for New Production innovations, improving quality of firmware and software applications and improving customer satisfaction.

Symantec 2018-2020

Technical Program Manager/Agile Transformation Leader

• Led Agile Transformation for Insights, Pricing & Analytics for Consumer Business Unit(CBU) providing world class data science, analytics and reporting solutions to stakeholders across Symantec.

• Transformed Symantec CBU IPA team from waterfall to Agile by training teams on agile best practices, changing their mindset and coaching them to become self-sufficient high performance agile teams.

• Led Digital transformation for CBU IPA team with multiple cross functional initiatives including data discovery, single view of the customer and predictive analytics using Big Data/Hadoop/Spark etc.

• Led building of new Bookings and Billings platform.

• Led multiple programs involving distributed scalable systems.

• Managed migrations of systems and processes to Cloud.

• Organized and facilitated Scrum ceremonies (Release Planning, daily stand up, Sprint Planning, Demos/Reviews and Retrospectives).

• Built a new Unified ecommerce platform with life lock and Symantec products bundled together.

• Owned the execution, delivery, and change management framework for new software products including new Payments and ecommerce platform.

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• Led Executive reporting programs as well as MBR (Monthly Business Review) for top C level executives showing consumer growth, products sold and other KPIs.

• Built data and platform, support CRM/CSIS/Sales/Marketing/Finance/Executive reporting. Apple 2018-2018

Apple Maps SRE- Engineering Program Manager

• Managed cross-functional infrastructure and software projects which comprises of working with Engineering managers, Data Center Managers, Development Managers and SRE teams etc. for Apple Maps.

• Managed Core Maps Application programs delivering improvements in Apple maps.

• Managed rollout of new data centers, capacity planning of existing data centers, network upgrades, rolling out software load balancers, storage refreshes, tech refreshes for Apple Maps initiatives across the world.

• Led Maps Infra SRE/DevOps team on various development and production support initiatives including automation, fleet management, strategic initiatives for data centers.

• Managed an important network upgrade for migration of data centers and all hosts from 1G to 10G.

• Organized and facilitated Scrum ceremonies (Release Planning, daily stand up, Sprint Planning, Demos/Reviews and Retrospectives).

Adobe 2017-2018

Engineering Program Manager

• Managed cross functional programs with multiple Engineering teams in Information and Data services(IDS) team providing feeds for all strategic initiatives across Adobe working with external and internal stakeholders using Hadoop/Spark/Cloud(AWS/Azure) and Micro-services.

• Led strategic programs to provide new data feeds/elements to Personalization team(Sophia) from Hadoop and other sources for providing unique personalized experience to the customers. Marin Software 2016-2017

Director Technical Program Management(Engineering)

● Provided leadership in re-platforming effort for building a brand-new Data Platform for Marin software based on Hadoop platform including Apache Presto, Hbase, Phoenix, Spark etc. with team members in different countries and time zones, increasing productivity and efficiency dramatically with focus on cross team collaboration.

● Created a Cloud Migration strategy and did POC’s on various cloud platforms including GCP, AWS and Azure.

● Tracked progress, resolved dependencies, evaluated risks and communicated status to upper management and project stakeholders.

● Organized and facilitated Scrum ceremonies (Release Planning, daily stand up, Sprint Planning, Demos/Reviews and Retrospectives).

Visa 2014-2016

Senior Portfolio/Program Manager

(Big Data, Hadoop, Analytics and Cloud)

● Senior Engineering and Technical Program Manager for Big Data, Hadoop, ecommerce, Data science, AI, Business Intelligence and Analytics Initiatives of Visa Data Platform team and responsible for a portfolio of programs spanning millions of dollars of annual operating budget working with internal and external customers with systems handling more than 10 petabytes of data and more than 1 billion transactions per day.

● Led transformation of programs from waterfall to agile leading to faster development cycles and substantial savings.

● Organized and facilitated Scrum ceremonies (Release Planning, daily stand up, Sprint Planning, Demos/Reviews and Retrospectives) across multiple cross functional teams in a matrix organization. Dell 2011-2013

Senior Program Manager

(Big Data, Hadoop, Analytics and Cloud)

● Scrum Master and Program Manager for multiple programs with channeling requirements, coaching fellow colleagues on scrum, planned and helped in conflict management.

● Worked with Pre-Sales team for presentations to C-Level Executives and new clientele leading to multi-million dollar deals for Dell in Business Intelligence space. Earlier Experience: Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley 2005-2010 Program and Project Management, BI, Data warehousing and Analytics, Strategy and Management Consulting, Enterprise Architecture in various fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley with HP, Netapp, PG&E, Covad, AMAT Education: MBA in E-Business, Bachelors in Computer Science PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:

Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer & PMP in Good Standing and CSM (Certified Scrum Master)

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