Nikhil Tej D

Program Management and Business Analysis professional with 6+ years driving execution across 5+ government departments. Diagnoses root causes to unblock stalled work. Orchestrated 15+ initiatives worth ₹20+ Cr with ~90% on time completion, reaching 25,000+ beneficiaries.

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Management certified (IIT Kanpur). Trained in business analysis and data driven decision making.

Engineering Assistant - Government of Andhra Pradesh - Sri Sathya Sai District

(2019-10)

• Program Delivery: Ran concurrent projects across 5+ departments (PR&RD, SSA, RWS, Irrigation, APSHCL), taking each from requirements and estimates through sanctions, procurement, milestone based payments and handover.
• Coordination layer: Bridges contractors, vendors, ground staff, citizens and senior administrators across 5+ departments by tracking milestones, risks & dependencies, negotiating terms & resources and unblocking stalled work through early escalation & the right formal approvals.
• Bottleneck Resolution: e.g., Identified a resource bottleneck constraining two concurrent school infrastructure projects. Escalated beyond immediate authority to divisional level and secured a formal Government Order authorizing cross project resource transfer via an inter committee MoU, preventing ~₹2 lakh in wastage and restoring both projects to schedule.
• Stakeholder Management: e.g., A housing scheme (AWAS Phase 1, 125 beneficiaries, ₹2.5 Cr budget) derailed after a political promise fell through, with the payment deadline closing and dependent projects at risk. Worked each stakeholder group individually to restart construction, delivering complete on time.
• Crisis Management: e.g., A bridge washed out in major flood. I organized an emergency path restoration to restore access for ~250 houses within 24 hours. Days later, when 6 civilians got stranded in rising floodwaters, escalated through Collector & MLA to secure IAF helicopter rescue. All extracted safely
• Digital Adoption & Change Management: e.g., Rolled out Mana Mitra (WhatsApp governance) to ~10,000 citizens across 3 secretariats. Outreach reached ~82%, but platform adoption sat at just ~12%. Designed and negotiated a targeted intervention (reduced offline access, trained staff self service support) that lifted adoption to ~31%.
• Team leadership: e.g., Led 15+ ground staff through recurring multi department surveys (census, electoral roll revision, asset geo tagging) to fixed deadlines, reporting results to senior administrators.
• Cost Control: e.g., Held projects to approved estimates where government schedule rates ran below market, negotiating with contractors and sourcing local labour to cut travel and food costs.

B-Tech - Mechanical Engineering - JNTUA College of Engineering, Pulivendula (2014-08 - 2018-05)