Lilia Gutnik

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8 years of product management experience at large companies and small start-ups, creating and
shipping meaningful products, and building teams where we make each other laugh.
Work Experience
Paxata, 2014 present, Redwood City, CA
Spec'd, managed, and shipped two significant applications on the Paxata data preparation
platform, along with regular monthly release of features and bug fixes for the core platform.
Established new sustainable processes for customer support, release planning, and bug triage
across three small engineering teams.
Data Library - Persistent columnar data store for business analysts to bring in and manage large
datasets from a variety of sources for collaboration and re-use in data preparation projects.
Includes: Apache Parquet, relational databases, XML and JSON parsing, Salesforce, publishing to
Hive/Impala, Kerberos-enabled HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System)
Automation Hub - Management console and scheduling interface enabling data owners and
business analysts to set up recurring data ingestion and data transformation tasks without
scripting.
Includes: Apache Spark, batch processing, mixed workload management
Socrata 2012 2013, Seattle, WA
Designed and managed development of the first application for Socrata's open data platform into
an independent business unit. Established engineering cycles for planning, feature management,
and release.
GovStat - Interactive visualization dashboard to communicate data-driven local government
goals to their constituents. Drag-and-drop authoring environment for data owners to create the
dashboard without coding.
Microsoft, summer 2006, 2007- 2012, Redmond, WA
Live Labs - Lead 75 person project team to ship Pivot, a data visualization application
Bing Monetization - Increased revenue by 6% for search text ads with new features and style
changes, conducted experiments for A/B testing, managed display ads for travel properties,
liaison for partners
Windows Server Group Policy - defined and shipped command line interface and .NET APIs in
PowerShell as part of Windows Server 2008 R2 to millions of customers, created customer
engagement community with 30 enterprise and mid-market customers
Windows Home Server - Designed photo sharing feature for v1 of Windows Home Server
Product Management Experience
Designing and shipping products
Defined and socialized scenarios and personas for new and existing products
Iterated on design and prototypes with UX, development, and test teams
Wrote feature specs and product design documents
Planned implementation and testing cycles
Conducted experiments for A/B testing on massive online service
Managed releases at various release cadences (weekly, monthly, every 3 years)
Deployed to cloud, on-premise, Software-as-a-Service, downloadable application, physical CD
Designed for 508 compliance, browser compatibility, localization in UTF-8 languages,
scalability, security
Selling products
Researched competitors and market to influence product roadmap and enable sales teams
Evangelized product at industry and user conferences, presented to industry analysts
Built collateral and customer communication (blogs, videos, whitepapers, help
documentation)

Helping teams work together

Created and sustained internal bug tracking process
Managed release process through planning, implementation, testing and deploy
Lead retrospectives and made measurable changes
Acted as liaison to customer success, operations, and other engineering teams
Working with customers
Interviewed current and potential customers to understand their stories and use cases
Ran usability studies with wireframes and prototypes
Lead beta programs with customers and gathered feedback
Managed and resolved customer support tickets
Conducted in-person training and consulting
Created active customer communities
Education
UC Berkeley College of Engineering, 2002- 2007, Berkeley, CA
Master of Science (Computer Science) Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology Certificate
Bachelor of Science (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Miscellaneous
Front-of-house manager for a formal theater and an outdoor rock concert venue throughout
college
Undergraduate research intern at Intel Research Berkeley
Recorded how-to videos (10,000+ views) and increased blog to top 2% of technical Microsoft
blogs
Public Speaking
Tableau Conference, Odd Salon, The Moth, Grace Hopper Conference, various Microsoft
Conferences
Interests
Telling stories, traveling, learning new languages, folklore, tennis, stand-up comedy, the NBA,
hiking, yoga
Volunteering
Code 2040, Geek Girl Con, Ignite, Expand Your Horizons