Gagan Dawar Email & Phone Number

Dubai, Ae

Delhi, India

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Agile Coach to one of the largest retail conglomerate of UAE for building a data platform.- Setup a digital factory following agile scaling operating model (inspired by Spotify) comprises of 10 cross-functional teams and dedicated skilled chapters- Built an agile chapter (COE) of 10 responsible for focusing on continuous improvements and implementing agile practices across the digital factory- Engaged in coaching conversation with leadership in promoting agile mindset- Coached Product Owners to realize product vision, strategy and road-map- Provided 25+ hours of training on agile frameworks and best practices- Created agile assessment and completed 2 project assessment successfully- Designed 5 lean processes such as Onboarding, Offboarding & Demand Management by introducing automation and workflows- Curated and ran Agile Trainee program for freshers - Created 6 live custom Jira dashboards for leadership and teamsIntroduced multiple agile tools, templates and metrics for better collaboration and monitoring

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Working with the largest Retail Conglomerate of UAE.Agile coach to the Data and Analytics division of the company. The program focuses on developing state of the art Data Lake to support different Business Units of the company. - Transforming Data & Analytics department to be agile. - Coaching and Mentoring scrum masters and teams for a better understanding of the agile methodology. - Introduced tools and techniques for effective agile transformation. - Jira Expert - managing Jira at the enterprise level. - Taking Jira session for new teams. - Managing the entire account from stakeholder to resource & budget management.

Dubai

Working for one of the largest travel companies in Middle East. Managing a big data project.• Managing a team of 21 for building one of the largest ‘Data Lake’ in Middle East.• Implementing agile processes to the project from scratch.• Administering Jira at enterprise level.• Taking agile sessions for the team and higher management.• Facilitating scrum meetings - daily stand-up, backlog grooming, sprint planning and more.• Facilitating scrum of scrums.• Managing budget and resources allocation (ramp-up/ramp-down).• Reporting progress in weekly status and project review meetings to leadership team.

Working for the Retail Data Analytics division of one of the leading banks in Malaysia. Scrum Master to automated Campaign Data Mart (updated daily) where customer level raw data is pulled from multiple sources and processed in a uniform manner to deliver a data mart to be used by the bank’s campaign marketing team to reach out to potential customers.• Facilitating team meetings (daily stand-up, backlog grooming, sprint and release planning) to allow for predictable performance from the team.• Reporting progress to all stakeholders on a weekly basis through burn down charts.• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across teams operating from different countries.• Coaching team and management on how to use Agile/Scrum practices• Managing issues and sprints in Jira.

Gurgaon, India

Worked for Digital Transformation division of one of the leading banks in UK.Managed successful completion of 15 Retail & Business banking features for bank’s mobile and web app over a range of software utilizing Objective C, Java, HTML, CSS and JavaScript components with budgets ranging from £10k- £150k.• Facilitated scrum ceremonies such as grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.• Liaised with Product Owner for managing product backlog and prioritizing resolution of defects/bugs. • Enacted change and continuous improvement, thereby increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 20%.• Prepared sprint plan, resource plan and effort &cost estimates for new projects.• Engaged Third Party vendors for phases such as SIT, UAT and performance testing.• Collaborated with cross functional teams (UX, BA, QA, build) for project initiation.• Liaised with Release Team for making the project Go-Live.

Mumbai Area, India

• Built an app for a famous Marathon event in 45 days. It won the “Best Sports App of the Year” in Europe, 2011• Led a team of 6 developers for another Marathon app (2012) that provided live event updates to the users• Published more than 5 apps on Google Play • Recommended and Implemented an idea for Marketing the app within TCS, resulting in huge success• Designed POC for an App and presented to the management for approval

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing & It

Activities and Societies: Student Council Member. L'Attitude 13'05 - The Great Lakes Annual Fest. Karma Yoga - Leadership Experiential.

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics And Communications Engineering

Non Medical