Nidhi Chopra

Program Manager | IT Strategy | Digital & Technology Transformations | Process Optimizations

Role
Program Manager Pmo Leader Change Management Lead Devops Lead Release Manager at Tata Consultancy Services
Location
Gurugram, HR, IN
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Nidhi Chopra

18+ years of Program Management and IT Strategy expertise in delivery of strategic and transformation programs with budget responsibilities of over $5M and globally dispersed cross-functional teams.Demonstrated success in Technology Strategy, Business Transformation, Enterprise Systems, IT Operations, building dynamic and high performing teams, fostering cohesive team environments, business/customer relations and developing strategic vendor partnerships.Extensive and diversified experience spanning across Delivery Management, Domain consulting, Full-Stack Software development and IT Operations, enabling businesses to adopt digital and innovative IT business models.Area of Specialization:Program/Project Management (PMP Certified)PMO ManagementC-Level PartneringProgram Financials - Cost and Budget ManagementDiverse business exposure across Retail, HealthCare, Transport, Media, Insurance, LMS Business & Technology TransformationGlobal Delivery ManagementAgile and Waterfall development, SAFe frameworkRelease/Change ManagementMicroservices Driven ArchitectureDevOps - Azure Boards, CI/CD, JIRA

Experience

  1. Program Manager Pmo Leader Change Management Lead Devops Lead Release Manager

    Tata Consultancy Services

    Aug 2015 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

    Partnered with cross functional teams (Ecommerce, Pharmacy, 3rd-party ecosystem players) to lead $3.5M Point-to-Point encryption (P2PE) and Tokenization initiative for US largest drugstore, securing 60M yearly retail transactions; Instrumental in establishing brand leadership with adoption of disruptive payment paradigms to prevent sensitive data breaches and reduce cyber-liability costs•Established project management office for Retail portfolio-wide strategic IT programs and projects; Transformed Project Management into a strategic competency through standardization of framework, governance, processes, tools and templates•Streamlined IT Demand Management practice through mature governance model and business strategy analysis, securing $10 M large-scale initiatives, to meet company’s strategic and financial objectives•Envisioned and established effective Change Management governance council, ensuring less disruption and higher-quality services with 100% on-time-deployment and success compliance•Architected Release Framework with unified release calendar, metric-based governance and management of phase gates, orchestrating series of Minor and Major Releases; Successfully improved release cadence and adoption, enabling continuous delivery supporting agile business changes•Led DevOps transformation journey to achieve operational excellence and automation with agile development methodology, integrating tool chains - JIRA, Bamboo, GIT, Stash, Gradle, Artifactory, Chef, Sonarqube

Education

  • Birla Vidya Niketan school

    High School, Computer Science

    1999

  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Master of Business Administration - MBA, Digital Marketing and Business Analytics

    2018 — 2019

  • Delhi College of Engineering

    Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering

Skills

  • Requirements Analysis
  • Business Analysis
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Java
  • Software Project Management
  • Java Enterprise Edition
  • Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)

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