Nikhil Sharma

Experience

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  IPsoft

  Jan 2008 - Dec 2010

  Internet Operations Web Administrator

  Web Application Administrator■ Led a team responsible for deployment, administrating, troubleshooting and managing financial and departmental applications hosted on WebSphere, Weblogic, JBoss and Tomcat on AIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows systems along with managing WebSeal, Siteminder, Apache2.0 and HTTP server for multiple clients in 24x7 support environment following ITIL processes.

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  McKinsey & Company

  Dec 2010 - now

  ■ Proven track record of successfully leading and delivering complex cloud platform projects.■ Proficient in gathering feedback and analyzing customer requirements, evaluating it to understand the implications and significance to drive product enhancements.■ Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment.■ Skilled in defining product strategy and roadmap for cloud platforms, collaborating with cross-functional teams.■ Strong communication and leadership skills, with a results-oriented mindset and a focus on driving product excellence and customer satisfaction. Show less ■ Product Manager for Firm’s Authentication & MFA services leading a SecDevOps IAM team to federate 3K+ products across three environments.■ Development of the architecture and design for the global implementation plans of IAM resulting in cost reductions and acting as a foundational block for Cloud migration. Enhancing and maintaining the next generation identity and access strategy to enable our cloud-first internal transformation.■ Evaluation of Firm’s MFA solution and implementation of Firm’s MFA product and measuring results of product’s capabilities and end-user experience against best-in-class industry standards.■ Thought leader who strategized short-term and long-term roadmap of Identity and Access landscape in alignment with Firm’s vision and stakeholders’ expectations.■ Played influential role in the security, technology, and business community to help drive the adoption of modern IAM solutions in collaboration with groups and chapters across the Firm. Show less ■ Complex decommission of Webseal, which was deeply integrated with many different technologies, and the subsequent migration of over 600 products to Okta requiring broad technical knowledge and leadership skills enabling product teams to retire the underlying legacy architecture and modernize authentication and authorization to further help teams with cloud migrations and tech debt reduction.■ Successfully executing firm-wide implementation of encryption at rest on 1K+ applications for secure access and communication across firm’s network.■ Strategized and provided guidance for transformation of legacy shared infrastructure to SecDevOps based product architecture.■ Demonstrated excellent communication, presentation, and organizational skills to contribute to firmwide transition from waterfall to agile by coaching agile methodologies and practices to project teams.■ Active role in building the backlog of squad learning, experimentation, validated feature development, and debt reduction■ Led end-to-end product engineering and lifecycle management including integration with Firm’s tech ecosystem. Show less ■ Responsible for providing expertise on decisions and priorities regarding the Firm’s systems environments. Led product lifecycle management and provided expertise on decisions and priorities regarding the Firm’s systems such as SSO, Directory Server/LDAP, IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Manager, Application hosting on WebSphere and LAMP infrastructure.■ Facilitated the establishment and implementation of standards and guidelines that steered the design of technology solutions including development and implementation with integration of multiple platforms, operating systems, and applications across the enterprise.■ Developed and documented system design and configurations to enable and empower support teams and end-users to get a streamlined self-serve experience in navigating and managing product functionalities.■ Other responsibilities include participating in managing a portfolio of related tools and services and working with different development teams in providing systems solutions. Show less ■ Key project manager responsible handling client meetings and escalations, providing root cause analysis and mentoring colleagues on various middleware technologies and processes such as Tivoli Access Manager/WebSEAL, Tivoli Directory Server, IBM WebSphere, Autosys, DataStage, Tibco etc. ■ 2nd & 3rd level operational responsibilities with active involvement in setting up various Inter/Intra team processes and escalation models. Collaborate and coordinate multiple teams and stake holders during high impact issues and after-the-fact retrospective and RCA. ■ Leading high impact incident, change and problem management with effective and timely communication of status and resolution. Show less

  • Principal Product Manager - Cloud Foundation

    May 2023 - now

  • Senior Product Manager - Identity & Access Management

    Jun 2022 - Apr 2024

  • Senior Technology Architect

    Sept 2017 - May 2022

  • Senior Systems Engineer - Technology & Digital

    Apr 2013 - Aug 2017

  • IT Analyst

    Dec 2010 - Mar 2013