Nagarajan's CV
Nagarajan M
NAGARAJAN MAHESWARAN
Profile summary
Accomplished Programme and Delivery Leader with 10 years of progressive experience in digital transformation, program governance, and multi-vendor delivery. Track record of directing enterprise portfolios, implementing Agile frameworks, and delivering regulated payment ecosystems and cloud migrations with measurable efficiency gains. Dedicated to rigorous risk management, delivery governance, and strategic artificial intelligence integration.
Career highlights
Programme Delivery Governance: Directed an independent advisory practice establishing programme delivery governance, risk management frameworks, and artificial intelligence integration for early-stage teams.
Delivery Management: Directed a 50-plus person, multi-million-dollar delivery organisation across a microservices-based digital transformation programme, owning delivery outcomes across payment, invoice, document generation, and data workstreams.
Portfolio Governance: Managed an 18-million-dollar portfolio across 6 to 8 concurrent parallel statements of work while improving on-time delivery from 67 percent to over 90 percent in 18 months.
Cloud Migration: Executed Azure cloud migrations including Office 365 and Azure AD, maintaining 99.9 percent uptime and zero data loss across all enterprise transitions.
Key skills
Professional experience
Directs an independent advisory practice established to provide programme delivery governance, risk management frameworks, and artificial intelligence integration for early-stage teams.
- Advised early-stage teams on delivery governance, RAID frameworks, change control, and payment-integration risk framing.
- Architected and shipped production AI systems solo, including an education platform with cost-optimised model routing achieving 45% inference savings.
- Built an SMB marketplace featuring card-acquiring flows and agentic n8n workflows that convert meeting notes and project briefs into structured JIRA tickets and WBS plans.
- Applied artificial intelligence daily to personal delivery workflows for RAID synthesis and reporting, cutting personal reporting effort by 75%.
Managed a 50-plus person, multi-million-dollar delivery organisation across a microservices-based digital transformation programme. Directed delivery outcomes across payment, invoice, document generation, and data workstreams. Handled cross-component triage, incident management, billing operations, and rollout support across vendor teams spanning multiple regions.
- Delivered a full payments ecosystem compliant with regulatory standards across card-network authorisation and real-time rails, achieving zero billing failures and zero service disruption.
- Achieved a 35% on-time delivery improvement and a 30% velocity uplift with zero audit findings across 8 concurrent Agile workstreams.
- Negotiated and structured a 45-plus application vendor transition on schedule without velocity loss while eliminating an annual dependency.
Directed delivery operations and multi-million dollar portfolios, managing complex scopes across enterprise accounts. Oversaw cross-functional teams and external vendors to execute strategic cloud, infrastructure, and data migration initiatives.
- Established Agile delivery governance from zero across CRM, cloud migration, Azure infrastructure, and data migration, managing an $18M+ portfolio across 6 to 8 concurrent parallel SOWs.
- Managed P&L portfolio and vendor contract negotiation with an annual budget between $15M and $18M, driving cost discipline through vendor renegotiation, resource optimization, and workstream prioritization.
- Executed Azure cloud migrations including Office 365 and Azure AD, maintaining 99.9% uptime and zero data loss across all enterprise transitions while achieving a 60% operational cost reduction on a cloud marketplace platform.
Education
Information Technology