Tarak Modi
Principal
Springfield, Virginia
Tarak is a highly experienced, results-oriented, business leader, skilled enterprise architect, and published thought leader who has demonstrated the ability to lead diverse teams of professionals in achieving mission critical results in a variety of highly competitive industries, cutting-edge markets, and fast-paced environments.
ABOUT TARAK
A broad professional background and an excellent education provide a solid foundation to solving challenging business problems with innovative enterprise solutions that leverage and align IT capabilities with evolving business needs. A recognized industry thought leader having authored two books (Living in the Innovation Age and Professional Java Web Services) and an extensive portfolio of 80+ articles on IT Transformation and Modernization in commercial publications. Seeking a strategic and challenging technology senior leadership role in a dynamic organization where my diverse skills can be optimally utilized to add value.
Key Accomplishments:
- Attained CMMI Capability Level 4 by leading and establishing a comprehensive corporate wide audit program for all projects over $500K of annualized value
- Saved $7.6M as part of a Six Sigma project that consolidated over 60 client demonstration centers into seven executive and innovation centers
- Increased corporate proposal win rates by 200% as a technology SME on proposals worth $500M annually.
- Architected and led a team to design a custom web portal solution that was a finalist in the Government-to-citizen category contest held by the Center for Digital Government
- Achieved yearly benefits of over $200K with a Microsoft Partnership and two Gold level competencies
PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
- CALIBRE Systems: Vice President & CTO – Served as the technology steward for CALIBRE worldwide to spur and promote the innovative use of IT to create sustained, long-term competitive advantage and add value for our customers by solving their program, management, and technical challenges with IT-based solutions
- G&B Solutions, Inc.: Principal Architect – Provided innovation, technology- and architecture-related thought leadership, strategic direction, and long-term vision. Areas of concentration included Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Transformative IT Technologies including Cloud Computing, SOA, and Social Medial/Web 2.0
- Unisys Corporation: Served as a key technical steward ensuring Business and IT alignment; led the development of a globally scalable bid and delivery organization; and led the creation technology-related showcase content for Global Executive Innovation Centers - a Six Sigma project to improve Worldwide marketing effectiveness and efficiency by consolidating over 60 client facing centers into just 7 resulting an annual cost savings of $7.6M
EDUCATION, LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, & MEMBERSHIPS
Georgia State University
MBA, Computer Information Systems
The University of Alabama Huntsville
MS, Computer Engineering
L.D. College of Engineering
BE, Electrical Engineering (Instrumentation and Control)
Microsoft
BE, Electrical Engineering (Instrumentation and Control)
Scaled Agile, Inc.
SAFe® 5 Agilist Certification
Amazon
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
EC-Council
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
ISACA
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
Certified Information Security Auditor (CISA)
OGC
Certified ITIL v3 Foundations
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Functional/Operational
- Modernization Technologies
- Cyber Security & Risk Management
- Project/Program Management
- System Design
- Software Development
