Nikhil Mody

PMP, SA, CSM

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Executive Summary

Nikhil boasts over 18 years of extensive IT experience, having traversed various countries and roles, predominantly excelling as a Program/Project and Delivery Manager. With a versatile skill set, Nikhil has spent over a decade proficiently managing projects, both offshore and onshore, steering them from conception to fruition. His portfolio encompasses substantial contributions to large-scale implementations, where he meticulously orchestrated endeavors from planning Managed services to providing ongoing support. Backed by a robust technical acumen and seasoned project management expertise, Nikhil adeptly collaborates with stakeholders across all echelons, spanning from leadership to analysts and developers. Noteworthy among his accomplishments are his pivotal roles in numerous migration endeavors, facilitating clients' transitions to cutting-edge technologies. Nikhil's competencies extend to architecture, application design and development, as well as production support, release, and performance optimization. His repertoire includes implementing Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) methodologies, alongside crafting various diagrams such as Use Case, Sequence, Class, and collaboration diagrams. Furthermore, Nikhil's involvement spans the entire spectrum of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), encompassing requirements gathering, design and architecture, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.

Professional Experience

Captech, VA June 2019 – Current

Sr Project Manager, Altria

Managing and leading the effort for a LIMS Optimization program call OneLab

Working with multiple teams using agile delivery for a successful go live. This included Altria Scientists, Apex system and the development partner Dassault Systems

Was responsible for end-to-end delivery working with key stake holders and leading governance meetings with the board.

Worked closely with the product owner to ensure scope was clearly laid out and defined.

Stood up a team of Captech resources for Testing, governance, and Cutover activities.

Closely worked with development teams and their scrum master to ensure sprint goals and objectives were met. Working with the OCM leads to ensuring there was a communication strategy in place for the go live.

Weekly reports were provided to leadership and stakeholders since this was a high visibility program.

Sr Project Manager, Marriott

Led and managed the MAGLEV program as an RTE working with multiple vendors and stakeholders.

Led the OPERA PMS deployment and ensured properties were ready for go live using Agile methodology and delivering in multiple releases.

Worked with the dev team to update their EDI vendors for financial transactions.

Was managing the Datalake which Marriott was rolling out using AWS.

Leading programs and communicating status to leadership

Managing and driving defect resolution along with having risk analysis performed and ensuring mitigation plans were in place.

Working and writing RFP’s and RFI’s and collaborating with executives to present to client.

Mentoring and Coaching resources and ensuring team motivation was kept.

Ensuring all team including vendors were aligned and on target towards our end goal along with managing/driving multiple releases.

Weekly reporting was provided to leadership and was communicated to the

As an Agile Transformation Lead, guided their Agile journey, from introduction of Agile concepts to multi-train portfolio level adoption.

Included knowledge sharing, coaching, training, and Azure DevOps support. During the duration, the program grew from 8 teams to 5 trains, comprised of over 50 teams, with members across multiple disciplines and vendors. holders. Worked with business to maintain and plan releases for issues/bug fixes. Ensured all milestones were met along with monitoring status of program stays green.

Worked on programs from inception till delivery and managed many aspects throughout delivery along with leading Agile ceremonies which included Sprint Planning, Stand ups, Grooming and Refinement.

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Freddie Mac, VA Sep 2018-June 2019

Sr Program Manager

Responsibilities

Working with the clients ensuring delivery success in the PMO department from inception till go live implementing Agile methodology.

Managing their LQA/LPA which are SaaS applications of their Loan Advisor Suite along with all their downstream applications and supporting them throughout multiple releases.

Ensured successful delivery using Agile methodology along with leading scrum ceremonies working with multiple teams.

Managing budgets from 3-5 Mil.

Working with multiple vendors to ensure proper integration of their applications.

Mentoring and guiding resources and promoting collaboration across multiple teams and guiding them to maintain delivery using best practices for Agile.

Serving roles as a Sr Scrum Master and RTE to maintain velocity based on sprint planning.

Attending and facilitating all agile meetings including scrums, retrospectives, grooming, refinement, and lessons learned.

Perfect Sense, VA Feb 2017-Sept 2018

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Working with our client ensuring delivery success in PMO department

Ensuring smooth migration from existing environment new platforms

Working with multiple teams within the client to monitor progress and maintain daily reports.

Working with multiple PM’s to maintain project and program in green status.

Managing issues/risks at a project level and program level.

Working with SA’s, BA’s and dev team to help them attain deliverable dates and creating roadmaps delivering Brightspot which was our SaaS product.

Ensuring and monitoring financials to keep track and not go over allocated budget.

Federal Reserve Bank, VA Feb 2016-Feb 2017

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Working with our client ensuring delivery success in the SaaS space

Ensuring smooth migration from existing environment to AWS Cloud

Working with multiple teams within the client to monitor progress and maintain daily reports.

Working with multiple PM’s to maintain project and program in green status.

Managing issues/risks at a project level and program level.

Working with SA’s to help them attain deliverable dates and create roadmaps.

Ensuring and monitoring financials to keep track and not go over allocated budget.

FTI Consulting, DC Sep 2013-Nov 2015

Director

Responsibilities:

Overlooking the infrastructure segment as well as data hosting space which is required by the Health Solution Practice.

Worked on multiple large clients, some being United Health Care and Amerisource Bergen. Implemented process improvements to their current systems reducing client costs by 15%. This included automating their manual claim system and creating an application for automation.

Ensuring overage costs do not occur due to excessive data hosting and maintaining a process of archival to avoid penalties.

Designing, building and releasing new risk assessment tools which we are providing to our clients based on their needs.

Mentoring and coaching junior staff.

Working and handling multiple projects ensuring no delays are occurred to our clients and deadlines are met.

Working with multiple 3rd party vendors and proposing necessary process changes where drastic cost reduction is possible.

Analyze current processes and work on improvement opportunities leading multiple teams.

Analyze stakeholders, meet with business users and data owners to define information delivery goals

Analyze and perform Gap Analysis to ensure HIPAA standards are met.

Assisted in identifying, pursuing, and realizing business growth opportunities.

Accenture, IL Mar 2010-Sep 2013

Release Manager at CalHEERS(HIX)

Responsibilities:

Ensuring all deadlines were met and system was ready for go live as per planned.

Working with 3rd party vendors and syncing all applications were ready for deployment as per planned.

Assisting the development team where needed and working with them to help them understand business needs.

Leading and organizing meetings across various teams and team leads to ensure success.

Monitoring and maintaining project plans to avoid delays

Driving the defect resolution team on shore and off shore to ensure a smooth go live.

Technical Architect at Exelon

Technical Architect/Project Manager at Blue Cross Blue Shield

Program Manager at Express Scripts

This role will work closely with ESI Senior Director to manage and execute assigned Project Plans. Responsibilities: include tracking deliverables, creating and publishing program status reports, and issue management, maintain risk/issue log. Monitoring deadlines are met with weekly reports to the Senior Directors. Skills: Project Mgmt.; Operations; strong communication skills and executive presence.

Responsibilities:

Maintaining and tracking the over day 1 program

Keeping track of Action Items/ Issue Risk Log

Have weekly status reports out to the Client Directors and senior leadership.

Project Manager at Dow Chemicals

Fidelity Investment, NJ Nov 2008-Sep 2009

Java Developer

Idea Wireless, India Jan 2007-Aug 2008

Java Developer

Technical Skills

Project Tools: Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Office, MS Share point, Salesforce, Microsoft Visio, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Version One, Rally and IBM Maximo

Languages: Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, Servlet, JSP, JSTL, HTML, JavaScript, JavaBean, JNDI, EJB, JMS, XML, Swing, JSF, Ajax

Application Server: Sun Glassfish Enterprise Server, IBM WebSphere 6.0, Weblogic, JBOSS

Software: Toad, Net Beans, Visual Source Safe, Eclipse, Jenkins

Databases: MS Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, 11i, Mongo DB, Snowflake

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Unix

Education

PMP, SAFe Agilist, SAFe Scrum Master (2021)

AWS Certified Cloud Professional (2020)

Technical Degree in Java, Advanced Java, and C++, NIIT, India (2009)

Bachelor of Science, Bhavan’s College, India (2000)

Certified Microsoft Certified Software Developer (MCSD), India (1998)

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