Abhijeet Nikte

About Abhijeet Nikte

Core Competencies – Technology leader with 24 years of experience leading multimillion-dollar cross platform initiatives from inception to customer delivery using Lean/Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Delivers a strong mix of leadership and technical competency with a collaborative problem-solving attitude. Roles have included Associate Program Director, Program/Project Manager, Release Train Engineer, Agile Coach/Scrum Master, Development Manager, Project Lead, Technical Lead, Developer, and DBA. Areas of Expertise – Experienced in Application Lifecycle Management and Software Development Life Cycle Experienced in working with external vendors including expectation management, escalations, and accountability Experienced in usage and administration of JIRA, Confluence, VersionOne, Rally, RTC, Planview Builds cross-functional teams – onsite and offshore Practices and promotes decision making based on data and facts Advocates relentless continuous improvement through automation, repeatable processes and process improvements Encourages experimentation, practical innovation and doing things the right way as opposed to just getting them done Creates review processes for increased accountability and improved quality of delivery Spreads contagious enthusiasm while demonstrating care and respect for individuals Outstanding communication skills interacting with peers and all leadership levels

Experience

1. Associate Program Director (through Randstad)

   The Hanover Insurance Group

   Feb 2018 — Present · Worcester, MA

   Successfully led and implemented multimillion, complex projects – o New Motorcycle Line of Business (in progress) o MI PIP Program o New Watercraft Line of Business o New MA Auto Product o Other smaller projects Program Leader of the Personal Lines MI PIP compliance initiative overseeing the work of 16 teams across the Hanover organization and vendor partners – $3.25M budget over a fixed nine-month timeline o Led weekly steering committee meetings consolidating updates and dependencies from all the teams and representing any critical risks – internal as well as external o Successfully implemented infrastructure/hardware/telephony projects - IVR (Interactive Voice Response) and CBA (Call Back Assist) functionality o Closely monitored and communicated dependencies with other teams Managed multiple geographically dispersed, cross functional scrum teams Managed contractor Project Managers Managed large releases and dependencies across the organization for larger multi-team releases Successfully led 2021 IP estimating session for Personal Lines TAPSales proposals (worth ~$9M) Provided lean/agile thought leadership and mentoring at the PL program level Coached and trained scrum teams in self-organization and self-management PL JIRA site-administrator/trainer including set up of new work intake process and Operational Excellence teams Greatly simplified Operational Excellence report generation Active contributing member of several committees – LeanKit Adoption (including migration from JIRA), Release Management Process Streamlining, Agile Guild, and Planview Demonstrated track record living the Hanover CARE values

Education

• University of Phoenix

  MBA, Technology Management

  2004 — 2008

• Maharaja Sayajirao University (Faculty of Tech and Engg)

  B.E, Industrial Engineering

  1992 — 1996

• Scrum Alliance

  CSM

  2010 — 2010

Skills

• Software Implementation
• Team Building
• Vendor Management
• Waterfall
• Change Management
• Scrum
• Process Improvement
• Oracle
• Business Process Improvement
• Sql
• Visio
• Pl/Sql
• Data Warehousing
• Management
• Agile Project Management
• Team Leadership
• Saas
• Leadership
• Outsourcing
• Analysis
• Sdlc
• Etl
• Business Process
• Project Planning
• Software Project Management
• Object Oriented Design
• Software Development
• Program Management
• IT Management
• Jira
• Integration
• Software Documentation
• Xml
• Release Management
• Project Management
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Agile Methodologies
• Microsoft Project
• Databases
• Requirements Analysis