Vishal Nijhawan

About Vishal Nijhawan

PMP®, Scrum Master®, Scrum Product Owner® and ITIL® V3 certified IT Professional with rich experience in diverse areas s.a. Program/Project Management, Product Management, Consulting, Technical Solution Delivery, Customer Engagement, Business Planning, Relationship Management & Account Business Development. AZ-220 (Azure IoT Specialty), DP-900 (Azure Data Fundamentals), AI-900 (Azure AI-ML Fundamentals), AZ-900 (Azure Fundamentals) certified professional. Solution & Result-oriented leader who specializes in managing successful deliveries of Software products and solutions; and building strong long-term relationships with customers. Vishal loves to take the project(s)/program from Kick-off, Requirements Gathering phase to Launch & beyond, establishing great relationships along the way with customers, and integrating insights from them to roll-out great solutions. He has expertise in creating Product Roadmaps, Release Planning, Estimation, Scoping, Budgeting, Managing Risks etc. Vishal has sound knowledge & experience in SDLC, Waterfall and Agile (Scrum Framework) methodologies and has a winning track record of successful and profitable deliveries of IT initiatives. His experience in Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Analysis, Feature Prioritization, Release Planning, Change Management, Managing Backlog Enhancements and skills in Product Development & Validation, Solution and Program/Project Delivery, Solution Deployment, Customer Relationship and Engagement should be of interest to a rapidly growing organization. Vishal is well-versed with IoT ecosystem (Architecture, Sensors, Actuators, Edge Computing, Device Management, IoT Gateway, Comm. Technologies – RFID; Bluetooth; BLE; ZigBee; LoRa; LoRaWAN; NB-IoT, Protocols – MQTT; AMQP, HTTPS, REST, Cloud). He is Azure IoT Specialty certified with excellent knowledge of Azure IoT Platform (Azure IoT Edge, IoT Hub, Device Provisioning Service, Stream Analytics, Time Series Insights, IoT Central), Cognitive Services - Vision, Speech, Text, Azure ML Designer, Azure ML Studio. Vishal has managed projects and clients across US, EMEA, Asia, ANZ and India and also handled multiple Customer accounts for cross-selling and up-selling-Strategic thinker with strong relationship building, team building & stakeholder management skills-Experience of GSM, LTE EPC, IMS/Volte architecture, IN, PCRF, OCS, Charging, BSS/OSS applications, Device Management, Telecom Protocols, Azure Fundamentals, Azure & Google IoT platforms, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Machine Language Designer, Azure ML Studio

Experience

1. Head - Professional Services - Nokia Next Generation in Solutions

   Capgemini Engineering

   Nov 2021 — Present · Gurugram, IN

Education

• Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram Universitry of Science & Technology (erstwhile C. R. State Govt. College of Engineering, Murthal, Sonipat)

  B.E., Electrical and Electronics

  1995 — 1999

• Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

  Masters of Technology, Information Technology

  2001

• Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, IT, Marketing & Product Management

  2013 — 2014

• ESCP Business School

  Certificate Course, Complexities and Prospects in European Business Environment

  2013 — 2013

• Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

  M.Tech., Information Technology

  2001 — 2003