Nagaraj Parappagoudar

SF bay area, CA

(510) 329-6701

nagrajpg@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/nagarajpg/

Technology Solutions leader specialized in global business management with

passion for creating innovative solutions for sustained competitive advantage

leveraging disruptive technologies.

  · Global management and hands-on leadership experience in multinational corporate

environments as well as startups.

  · Experienced in leading diverse global teams to produce innovative world-class products and

solutions in advanced technology areas of Cloud and Managed Services, data center,

automation and orchestration, big data and analytics.

  · Known for excellent communication, strong interpersonal and leadership skills with ability to

excel even under uncertain and changing conditions; expert in building cross-functional

partnerships across multiple internal and external stakeholder groups in order to achieve

desired business outcomes.

Expertise

  · Solutions Architecture

  · Big Data and Analytics

  · Cloud Computing and

Virtualization

  · International Management

  · Operations Management and Process

Improvement

  · Software Defined Networking

(SDN)

  · Network Management

  · Agile Software Development

  · Global Business Strategy

  · Information Technology Service

Management (ITSM)

  · Service Provider solutions

  · Business Intelligence (BI)

Experience

Cisco Systems, Inc. | San Jose, CA, USA

Senior Solutions Architect

2005 – 2014

(2008 – 2014)

Provided thought leadership and hand-on leadership in developing and realizing solution architectures,

achieving business process improvement and excellence in program/project execution.

  · Led diverse global teams in end to end architecture development and realization of innovative and

industry leading Cloud and Managed Services Platform for Service Provider Networks with onand

off-premise deployment options. Specifically addressed solution areas of Business Intelligence,

Reporting, Performance Management, Network Analytics and Smart Service User Experience

leveraging advanced technologies in areas of network, storage, compute, virtualization, big

data and analytics. The platform has enabled service offerings resulting in significant business

impact with 40% CAGR.

  · Introduced process thinking and business process optimization to drive business innovation,

reduced operations costs by creating and leveraging structured framework for addressing

operational challenges in dynamically changing IT environments.

  · Influenced business strategy decision to merge Service Delivery Platforms of SPs and enterprises,

which led to significant cost savings of more than 60%.

  · Led Solution architecture development for mobility solution pack covering Mobile Packet Core (MPC),

3G/4G/LTE, WiMAX, SP Wi-Fi networks and data center solution pack covering Cisco UCS, Nexus

& MDS switches.

  · Developed critical cross-functional partnerships with stakeholder teams and successfully addressed

platform operational challenges.

Network Consulting Engineer (NMS/OSS Architect)

(2005-2008)

Provided leadership in new technology practice development and NMS/OSS solutions development

involving large scale system integration.

  · Successfully led Service Control practice by leading pre-sales, creating reference solutions,

beachhead customer engagements on new service control technology solutions, developing training

collateral and conducting field engineer training to scale the business. Received knowledge capture

award and eye for new business award.

  · Managed global program for Service Level Agreement (SLA) management of IP/MPLS core

networks by building cross-functional partnerships and achieved Go To Market (GTM) milestone

ahead of schedule.

  · Led Network Management Systems/ Operations Support Systems (NMS/OSS) solution

development projects involving large-scale system integration and successfully deployed solutions

for worldwide very large service provider customers. Received cisco achievement program awards.

Nayna Networks | San Jose, CA, USA

2004 to 2005

Technical Leader

Reporting to VP of engineering, successfully managed engineering team developing Nayna Element

Management System (EMS), architected and developed Nayna Web EMS.

  · Managed development of Nayna Element Management System (EMS) that was implemented using

java, J2EE, JBoss, My SQL database.

  · Architected and developed embedded Web Element Manager implemented using embedded c, html

and java script to manage Passive Optical Network (PON) network elements. Received Nayna Key

contributor award.

Avnisoft Corporation | San Jose, CA, USA

1999 - 2004

Technical Leader

Provided software product development leadership in developing high performance distributed

enterprise software and web application software for various clients that included Cisco, Cambira,

Auspex Systems, Spirent, Centerboard and Sygate. Project roles: Software Architect, Module leader,

Senior Software Developer and mentor.

  · Architected, designed and developed high quality distributed enterprise software and web

applications in the area of Network Management, Intelligent B2B exchange, Storage Management,

Security Management and Test Management

  ·

Implemented using CORBA, c/c++, java, java swing, JDBC,RMI, XML, XPATH, JAXB, sockets,

file i/o, HTML/CGI, Perl, Java Script, SNMP, Unix, Oracle and MS SQL Server

Additional Experience

Systems Manager, Wipro Systems, Inc. | Bangalore, India

Led design and development of distributed enterprise software and web applications, trained and mentored

new hire software engineers in topics such as programming in java.

Education

MBA Trans-Global Management, Saint Mary’s College of California, Graduate Business

Masters in Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Bombay, India

Masters Thesis: Devanagari character recognition using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)/Machine

Learning

Bachelor of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Karnatak University, India

Professional Certifications: ITIL V3, Cloudera Certified for Apache Hadoop (CDH4).

Awards: Awarded dean’s scholarship for SMCMBA Global Executive MBA program (2013).

skills: Open stack, aws, no sql, cassandr a, mongo db, java, scala, obi ee, pentaho, actuate, BIRT,OBIEE,pr edicti ve anal yitics,r egressi on anal ysis, oracle RAC, pri vate cl oud, public cloud, IP, MPLS, SLA , ITSM, BI, Busi ness Intelligince, reporting, Software defi ned networ ki ng,SDN,networ k functi on virtualization, NFV, open vSwi tch, kvm, Xen, cisco nexus,Cisco UCS, RDBMS, MySQL, Apache tomcat, Web Ser vices, RESTful Web Ser vices, SOAP, XML, JSON , AJAX, Angul ar JS,dojo,JDBC, RMI , snmp,yang,uni x, solaris,li nux,redhat,aws,networ k architec tur e,Mi ddl ewar e, JMS, deployment archit ec tur e, ser vice provi der sol uti ons , Ser vice Provi der Oper ations, Assur ance ser vices, System Integrati on, cloud computi ng,apache storm, splunk, Performance management , fault management, ITSM,assur ance ser vices,Cisco ACI ,Cisco One Pk, 3G/4G/LTE, SP Wi-Fi, Wi-MAX, Apache spar k,apache flume, apache kafka,elas tic search, apache hadoop, hdfs, hi ve, HBase, YARN, MapReduce 2,c++, multi -threadi ng,HTML, Java scri pt, Oper ati ons Manag ement , Pr ocess

Improvement, ITIL, Cl oudera certifi ed, machine l ear ning,perl,Eclipse IDE, Netbeans IDE,ant, maven, shell, PL/SQL,s tor ed pr ocedures , multi-dimensi onal modeling, subversion, agile, scr um, hybrid cl oud, open day light, Virtualization, VMWare vCenter, Hyper visor, conti nuous del iver y, Infovis ta Performance Manag ement , BMC, ser vice deli very pl at form, SDP, catal og, portal, Liferay, provisi oni ng, onboar ding, assurance, Remedy,UML, Softwar e as a ser vice, SaaS, Platform as a Ser vice, PaaS, r egression anal ysi s, s tatistical modeling, e-TOM, telecom i ndustr y, forecasti ng, security, executi ve, data center, layer 2, vl an, vxl an, Engi neering Management, Leadershi p, ITIL v3 certifi ed, Clouder a Certified for Apache Hadoop,CDH4, Data Anal ysis, Machine Learni ng, Sol uti ons Architecture, Pr ogram Management, Proj ect Management , SP Soluti ons, SP Operati ons, Networ k Management, Virtualization, Cloud computi ng, Big Data, Anal ytics, SDN, NMS/OSS, Ser vice Deli ver y Platforms , Cross functi onal part nershi p, Product Manag ement, Pr oduct Devel opment, Security

management, s tor age manag ement, LUN manag ement ,MS SQL,ac ti viti,BPMN,AAA Radius , TACACS+,Firewall, IDS, load bal ancer,apache mod_pr oxy_balancer, apache camel, IT disaster recover y,geo r edundancy,VMWar e HA, IT infras truc tur e (networ k, ser vers,s tor age, appli cati ons) monitoring