Nilesh Raj Bsc, Phd, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Chandlers Ford

I was accountable for delivering Satellite, Cable and IP connected devices to Broadcasters• Successfully delivered numerous STB projects with highlight being several 100K STBs for 2014 FIFA World Cup and for which I received a Cisco recognition award• Completely committed to Stakeholder engagement, having led Kick Off meetings to ensure projects have full business strategic buy-in• Scoped roadmap features to align with customer requirements and internal business strategy • Worked with customers on requirements gathering and managed committed iterative scope releases in an Agile fashion to provide early visibility• Ensured customer satisfaction by following up on each incremental release• Led internal and external conference calls and used reporting tools to communicate Status, Issues, Risks, Milestones, Actions, etc to stakeholders• Introduced impact analysis methods to assess complex change requests• Worked with Account Management to provide quick turn-around for schedule and cost estimates• Worked with Account Management to deliver commercial Statements of Work• Managed and supported teams to transition across change processes and governance when NDS was purchased by Cisco- Effectively led a truly global multi-disciplined project delivery team and motivating through support and clear communications

West London

I was accountable for delivering Linux based STB projects to Satellite, Cable and IP Broadcasters• Directly managed team of developers and testers based across two sites in UK• Managed team of approx 25 internal and outsourced third party resources to successfully port Nagra’s middleware across a variety of STB hardware and chipsets• Led and managed offshore facilities that enabled laboratory based engineers to remotely fix bugs using Sling box on the customer live satellite feed thereby reducing costs for travel• Setup and managed a new offshore facility in customer region to enable Friendly User Testing by non experts, thereby testing more realistic Use Cases

Central London

I was accountable for delivering projects through Agile • Managed design, build and deployment of on-line Pay TV through PC interfaces• Implemented DRM licensing for subscribers

West London

IMG Media specialises in the delivery of New Media content, especially sports.• Managed streaming video to Vodafone mobile subscribers for Champions League, International Cricket and Wimbledon Tennis• Devised and managed Test plans to ensure that streaming video is delivered according to SLA’s by simulating all scenarios with content partners and customer • Worked with customers on Requirements and Statements of Work for delivering SMS, MMS, mobile internet and video through IMG’s Content Management System• Introduced new services processes to ensure operational issues comply with SLA’s• Increased business by leading procurement of a new CMS with additional functionality

Reading

• Gave presentations and demos to customers to help sell Bluefish smartcards and applications. This gained the company a number of customers in Asia• Developed customer services tool using Lotus Notes to log customer issues, and then assign and track

London

• Technical response to competitive RFP from Three for procurement of 3G smartcards The outcome was the award to Schlumberger of multi-million dollar global order• Project management of 3G smartcards to Three UK

Maidenhead

• Software development on smartcards for secure Internet payments • Hands on experience of installing High Performance Linux based Supercomputers at customer sites• Presented training courses on optimizing code to run on Supercomputers

Central London

Molecular Simulations on SuperComputers

Phd Theoretical Physics, Physics

PhD in Theoretical Physics

Applied Physics Bsc (Hons) Second Class Upper Division, Physics

BSc (Hons) in Physics