Nikhil Deshpande

Delivery Partner | Energy & Utilities | Driving Innovation & Customer Delight | Building High Impact Teams

Role
Engagement Delivery Partner at Cognizant
Location
Pune, MH, IN
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Nikhil Deshpande

Results-oriented IT Delivery Leader with 24 years of global customer experience driving transformation initiatives and delivering business outcomes for Energy & Utilities, Transportation & Logistics customers. Proven track record of delivering customer delight through Innovation, Continuous Improvements while building and sustaining high impact teams.Currently, leading & having end-to-end delivery & operational ownership of $100M+ portfolio delivering diverse services - Digital Transformation, Application Development / Support, Infrastructure Services, Testing Services to multiple Electric & Gas Utility customers in USCloud Transformation Initiatives for a Large North American Utility through Agile Delivery- Led a large & complex program to build an Integration & Data Platform on AWS for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) business process- Led a complex program to modernize a business critical Outage Dashboard developed on a legacy platform to modern architecture on AWSGlobal Customer Relationship experience for esteemed customers in Financial, Transportation & Logistics and Utilities domain from Singapore, North America & Europe regionsProven expertise in setting up India Offshore Development Centers (ODCs) and high performing teams grounds up while closely working with multiple internal and customer stakeholders with a strong focus on people engagement and innovationHands-on technology experience building & maintaining custom applications for Financial and Transportation customers in the past experience

Experience

  1. Engagement Delivery Partner

    Cognizant

    May 2022 — Present · Pune, IN

    Leading and having end-to-end Delivery & Operational accountability for a portfolio of $100M+ for a group of esteemed customers within Energy & Utilities Business Unit of North America- Delivering critical business transformation initiatives while providing Application Development, Application Maintenance & Support, Infrastructure Support and Testing services- Driving innovation, continuous improvement initiatives and building high performing teams

Education

  • Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

    Masters in Engg., Design Engineering

    2000 — 2001

  • Nagpur University

    Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering

Skills

  • Java Enterprise Edition
  • Leadership
  • Software Project Management
  • Project Management
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Management
  • Csm
  • Pre-Sales
  • Business Analysis
  • Global Delivery
  • Sdlc
  • Solution Architecture
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Program Management

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