Nikhil Mathew Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Hands on Technical Project Manager with expertise in delivering Machine Learning and Data Analytics projects. Capable of hiring, mentoring and building a team to deliver on technically challenging projects. Actively working with customers to define new opportunities as well as helping them with implementation and adoption strategies.1. As a part of the Senior leadership team, define the organization priorities and initiatives, definition of done and key performance indicators for the organization.2. Run multiple data science and business intelligence-based projects for one of the largest software development companies in managed services model. Develop architecture for key portfolios considering long term scalability, performance and cost constraints.3. Manage team members by defining their growth path, conducting one on ones and performance assessment.4. Manage client expectations to balance technology and business needs, manage risks and escalations and ensure timely delivery.5. Align to Agile delivery model to ensure business value is delivered to client on a daily basis.6. Understand requirements for the underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead dev, test and operations effort to meet aggressive timelines.7. Drive the AI priority to create a new line of business for the organization by defining a learning path and defining areas for inception of new leads.8. Brainstorm with data scientists at one of the largest software development companies to define ML problem statements, streamline execution and provide corresponding business value.9. Hiring manager in recruitment team for engineering graduates and ML position across the company.10. Involved with Pre-Sales activities to drive creation of proof of concepts, creation of RFPs and delivering client showcase projects in new business/technology domain in a limited duration.

Mumbai Area, India

Adopt latest technologies aligned with the business and evangelize innovative business solutions across the organization. Improve delivery quality and pace of projects by identifying improvement areas and incorporating latest industry best practices. Technical consultant for customers to craft the right solution aligned with their business needs.Key Achievements:1. Worked on organization skill building by facilitating a common training ground for all employees through a Weekly Learning Talk, aimed to introduce recent changes in technologies. It elevated to a platform used to share organization priorities and other key technical updates .2. Drove cloud adoption for a pan India NGO to improve operating efficiency. Worked with the team identify key metrics and delivered a cloud based reporting solution.3. Led a team to deliver an end to end Machine Learning system (Face Recognition) capable of identifying 100 employees with 74% accuracy in real time. The system greets the user by name as soon as the person enters.4. Led a team to deliver a real time speech to text system that was appreciated across the organization.5. Collaborated with a product team at a Fortune 100 company on an open source project. It was widely appreciated and highlighted at their worldwide partner event.6. Envisioned and delivered an ERP system for the organization from ground up along with near real time attendance tracking for employees. The ERP system is used till date.7. Engineered an Azure Billing and Management Dashboard for Azure resource cost saving and management that helped cut costs for a division at a Fortune 100 client by 30%.8. Mentored, defined growth path, conducted performance assessment along with regular employee engagement activities for the team.9. Hiring manager for pan India recruitment activities in the company.

Mumbai Area, India

Manage a team of 5-6 team members and deliver multiple projects. Plan, assist with design and efficiently deliver projects with automated delivery for all projects. Plan growth, provide growth channel for team members. Drive and suggest organization initiatives.Key Achievements:- Received spot award for delivering a complex project which involved creating a REST API to be consumed by multiple systems that supports marketing dashboards.- Migrated a 1.5 TB database to SQL 2014. Improved overall architecture by segregating the reporting layer from the mart. Received organization wide appreciation for the same.- Trained and elevated multiple team members based on performance. Held discussion and provide ratings for appraisal cycle. Provided channel and platform to deliver ideas for organization growth- Architected and designed a BI solution for management of multi-subsidiary accounts.- Participated in multiple recruitment drives across the country.- Upgraded the syllabus and evaluation criteria for coding bootcamp (on-boarding plan for new recruits). The plan was used for multiple batches.- Delivered proof of concept project to migrate an end to end BI solution to Azure Cloud. This involved migrating both database as well as reports. The project served as case study for all cloud migrations in the organization- Upgraded organization development standards to be up-to-date and included best practices for the cloud.

Mumbai Area, India

Architect solutions and contribute to agile projects. Manage a group of 2-3 individuals to deliver on project and organization initiatives.Key Achievements:- Architected a frontend solution from scratch catering to client requirement patterns that could easily scale and adopt to the changing needs. Received appreciation from client as well as organization- Delivered a set of common controls and enhanced an in-house charting library during the course of the project. The components had high re-usability across multiple projects- Completed Microsoft Certified BI Expert set of certifications- Earned Microsoft certified solutions developer in multiple technologies: Cloud, Web Development, Windows App Development- Managed 2 DevOps projects while actively contributing to a user story in a project- Worked with client organization security consultants to identify threats and complete assessment. - Delivered Windows Apps for a Marketing team to be used by Leadership team (country head, subsidiary head to all up) in the organization- All projects were delivered using Agile development practices- Nomination (2nd place) for Champion of the Quarter for exceptional delivery and contribution to organization growth

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: ROBOCON Team, Robotics Head for IRIS 2011

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