Nitin Rai

About Nitin Rai

Accomplished Program/Product Manager with over 22 years of experience in software development, project management, and team leadership.• Successfully lead/ managed large scale multimillion dollar digital transformation and modernization programs both in application development and data & AI space for key global customers.• Successfully completed 1-year Senior Management Program from IIM-Kozhikode with focus on Strategic Management, business models, finance, managing cross functional teams, digital transformation, etc. CORE COMPETENCIES• Program Management: Proficient in leading large-scale programs with a team size of up to 180, ensuring quality delivery within scope, cost, and schedule.• Strategic Leadership: Adept at steering programs aligned with organizational goals, managing executive communications, and driving team and customer satisfaction.• Risk Management: Skilled in identifying and mitigating risks, ensuring program integrity and coherence with corporate standards.• Stakeholder Engagement: Effective in collaborating with cross-functional teams, managing resources, and fostering strong client relationships.• Partner Management: Extensively worked with partners in different forms of engagement with them, right from their empanelment. • Value Innovation champion: Guided teams in successfully implementing various Kaizen continuous improvement ideas involving process improvements, automation, improving data quality etc. Six Sigma Green Belt trained with successful implementation of low hanging fruits on project following DMAIC approach.• QPM and quality Management Activities: Statistical analysis of metrices and KPIs from project execution to determine execution health and key areas of improvement.

Experience

1. Prin Project Mgr Delivery

   Microsoft

   Mar 2025 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

Education

• Barkatullah Vishwavidyalaya

  BSc., Microbiology

  1997 — 2000

• Barkatullah Vishwavidyalaya

  MBA, IT Mgmt, Intl. Business

  2000 — 2002

• Institute of Professional Education and Research (IPER), Bhopal

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, International Business

• Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

  Senior Management Program (SMP), Business Administration and Management, General

Skills

• Analysis
• Business Objects
• Pl/Sql
• Sql
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Software Project Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Business Analysis
• Integration
• Erp
• Sdlc
• Software Development
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Databases
• Testing