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TARAK MODI, M.S., M.B.A.
, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CEH, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSP, ITIL, MCP, TOGAF
571.255.0231 • tarak@tekNirvana.com • http://TekNirvana.com
A DYNAMIC AND INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY LEADER

A highly experienced, results-oriented, business leader, skilled enterprise architect, and
published thought leader who over a 23-year career has demonstrated the ability to lead
cross-functional teams of professionals in achieving mission critical results in a variety of
highly competitive industries, cutting-edge markets, and fast-paced environments. 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.
Education
 M.B.A., Georgia State University, December 2000, GPA 4.0/4.0.
 M.S. Computer Engineering, University of Alabama, August 1997, GPA 4.0/4.0.
 B.E. Electrical Engineering, Digital Control and Instrumentation, L.D. College of
Engineering, India, December 1994, GPA 4.0/4.0
Professional Training
 Gartner CIO Academy, May 2011
 Software Architecture Professional, SEI/Carnegie Mellon University, January 2009
 ATAM Leader and Evaluator, SEI/Carnegie Mellon University, August 2007
Industry Certifications
 Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Architecting Azure Solutions, Nov 11, 2018
 Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), January 31, 2018.
 AWS Certified Solutions Architect (AWS CSA), Associate, January 26, 2018
 Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), July 7, 2017
 Certified Scrum Master (CSM), March 4, 2014.
 Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), November 22, 2013.
 Certified Information Security Auditor (CISA), January 28, 2010.
 Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), December 2, 2010.
 Certified ITIL v3 Foundations, August 22, 2008.
 Certified TOGAF Practitioner/Architect, June 13, 2008.
 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), January 2007.
 Project Management Professional (PMP), August 5, 2005.
 Certified Network Professional (CompTIA Network+), 2001.
 Certified Java Programmer, 1998.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS & SKILLS

 Instilled a DevOps & Agile culture to reduce application build and deployment from 4-5
person days to 2-3 hours and from 2-3 releases a year to a release every 2-3 weeks.
 Modernized over 70 PCI compliant applications processing transactions of $50
billion/year.
 Consolidated and Virtualized 65 geographically dispersed data centers at the DOD.
 Implemented a FISMA/NIST compliant IT security/ISSO program for over 45 major IT
systems at a prominent Federal Civilian agency
 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.
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 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 .
Enterprise Architecture Process Methodologies Software Development
 Business/IT Alignment  Process Frameworks  SDLC – Waterfall & Agile
 IT Strategy & Transformation (ITIL, CMMI, ISO 9K)  Open Source
 Enterprise Modernization  Security and Compliance  Mobile Platforms
 Cloud Computing (FISMA, NIST SP 800  User-centered Design
 EA Frameworks (Zachman, series, DIACAP)  DevOps
TOGAF, FSAM, DODAF)  Architecture Evaluation  Cloud Computing
 Modeling (UML) (SEI ATAM)  Data Analytics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TekNirvana October 2012 – Present
Founder, President & Chief Technology Officer
Provide overall Strategy, Technology, and Innovation thought leadership. Provide
program/project management, technology, and architecture leadership on business
development initiatives, proposals, and customer-facing IT and technology based projects.
Served as the Technical/Solution lead on proposals worth over $250M and have helped our
partners and clients win multi-million $ contracts at HHS, DOS, NASA, and other agencies. A
few key success vignettes include:
 Technical leadership related to DevOps and Agile Development on a $100M contract at a
major Federal agency.
 Centralized, Consolidated, and Virtualized 65 geographically dispersed data centers into
one data center located in Chicago
 Program management, technical leadership, and ongoing Business Analysis support for a
$45M contract including over 20 systems/applications.
 Comprehensive IT assessment with tangible recommendations to evaluate readiness in
leveraging the cloud for productivity, mobile and remote workforce support, and COOP/DR
 Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) program implementation and support on 45
major FISMA reportable systems and 45 minor systems
 IT Modernization of over 70 applications processing transactions of $50 billion/year with
peak transaction loads of over 2000 transactions per second. Maintaining PCI compliance
was a key driver for the project
 Assist in the FDA 510K approval for a Telemedicine product/solution.
CALIBRE – Alexandria, VA April 2010–September 2012

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Served as part of senior leadership and the company’s technology steward worldwide to spur
and promote the innovative use of IT to create a sustained, long-term competitive
advantage.
 Led the planning and coordination of an IT vision, strategy, goals, budget, and initiatives
in support of the company’s long term objectives. Implemented CALIBRE's first ever IT
Strategic Plan within my first year at the company.
 Worked in conjunction with company business units to provide Technology and IT
leadership on customer facing projects, contract re-competes, and new business
development within the DoD, Federal Civil, and commercial market segments.
 Successfully led CALIBRE to achieve two Microsoft Gold level competencies (Data and
Server Platform) as a Microsoft Certified Partner, which provided close to $200K of
tangible benefits each year.
 Provided technology and process leadership that was instrumental in CALIBRE achieving
its CMMI Maturity Level 2 rating across its operations domains. Established a
comprehensive corporate-wide audit program that resulted in Process and Product
Quality Assurance (PPQA) being rated at CMMI Capability Level 4.
 Instituted and led quarterly Town Hall meetings to enable CALIBRE’s IT community of
130+ professionals to collaboratively share capabilities and improvements across the
company. These Town Halls were recognized by the corporate management as a key
initiative to fostering innovation within CALIBRE. In FY 2011, CALIBRE’s IT Community

accounted for approximately 20% of the workforce and 25% of revenue.
 Served as CALIBRES’s thought leader and IT spokesperson to promote the CALIBRE
brand via speaking engagements, panel participation, authoring white papers, and
publishing books and articles focused on innovation and solving business challenges with
technology-based solutions.
G&B Solutions – Reston, VA July 2009–April 2010

Principal Architect
A new role designed specifically to provide innovation, technology- and architecture-related
thought leadership, strategic direction, and long-term vision towards business development
through new services, customers, and markets.
 Established brand awareness via speaking engagements, panel participation, authoring
white papers, and publishing articles focused on solving business challenges with
technology-based solutions
 Participated and led proposal/bid response and business development activities as an
enterprise solution/technology SME. Areas of concentration included Cyber Security,
Enterprise Architecture, and Transformative IT Technologies including Cloud Computing,
SOA, and Social Media/Web 2.0.
 Served as an Enterprise Architecture SME on federal agency projects aimed at achieving
mission related objectives using transformational technologies such as SOA,
Virtualization, and Cloud Computing.
Unisys Corporation February 2005–March 2009
Director of Technology and Architecture, August 2006–March 2009

Specifically appointed to lead the technology aspects of realigning the myriad of vertical
business areas to five key horizontal focus areas to gain efficiencies and optimize costs.
 Served as a key technical steward ensuring Business and IT alignment and led the
development of a globally scalable bid and delivery organization
 Provided technical leadership and led the development of technology-related showcase
content for Unisys global Executive Innovation/Demonstration Centers as part of a Six
Sigma project to improve marketing effectiveness and efficiency by consolidating over 60
client facing centers into seven centers leading to an annual cost savings of $7.6M.
 Established and led a 20-person offshore team to support portfolio and business
development activities.
Executive Architect, February 2005–December 2008

Unisys executive leadership created this new role to help improve sagging corporate win
rates and declining profitability.
 Provided technical leadership as the chief architect on $500M worth of proposals a year
improving overall corporate win-rates by 200%.
 Conceptualized, designed, and implemented a self-paced course on SOA to base-line the
skills of over 650 architects globally.
 Improved project profitability by standardizing the service delivery process and instituting
the use of Enterprise Architecture (Zachman, TOGAF), Service Delivery Frameworks
(ITIL), and a highly automated and traceable proposal development process based on the
IBM/Rational Tool set, CMMI and PMI best practices, and the Shipley proposal
development methodology.
The North Highland Company – Atlanta, GA February 2001–February 2005

Principal/Senior Specialist
 Architected, designed, and implemented a custom-developed portal for the Georgia
Department of Human Resources significantly lowering customer service costs and raising
client satisfaction levels. It was the first web application in the state to support multiple
languages. The solution was a finalist in the Government-to-citizen category of the 2004
Digital Government Achievement contest held by the Center for Digital Government.
 Re-architected the Java-based Data Access Layer in a multi-million dollar marketing

project at a Fortune 100 beverage company.
 Served as the Enterprise Architect for a $2B division of a Fortune 10 company to establish
their technology strategy and realign their IT organization to achieve better agility.
 Led a SWAT team to diagnose and improve performance issues of a major e-commerce
application resulting in a performance improvement from over 60 seconds per transaction
to less than 5 seconds per transaction.
 Led numerous architecture reviews/assessments to validate the architecture/design,
identify violations of commonly accepted best practices, assist in technology selection/
justification, and troubleshoot performance and scalability related issues.
Online Insight – Atlanta, GA October 1999–January 2001

Lead Systems Architect
Re-architected the flagship product “Precision Choice” transforming it from a single process
monolithic application into a multi-tiered, highly distributed, and extremely loosely coupled
system. The software was based on Java (version 1.3) and utilized CORBA (version 2.3).
Clarus Corporation – Atlanta, GA June 1998–October 1999

Research Engineer/Software Architect
Architected and developed the product development framework at Clarus. This multi-tiered,
component-based framework was implemented using Microsoft DCOM and MTS and written
entirely in C++ and was geared at increasing development productivity.
Radiant Systems – Atlanta, GA June 1997–June 1998

Software Developer/Architect
Re-architected and developed (in C++) the credit card processing system in the Electronic
Payment Systems (EPS) department at Radiant Systems. The innovative new design was
highly multi-threaded and completely component-based. The end result was an improvement
in the performance by over 100% (i.e., credit card processing time from swipe to
approval/denial was reduced by half).
United Technologies – Atlanta, GA October 1995–June 1997

Software Engineering Consultant
Architected and implemented the painting subsystem on the Large Painting Robot (LPR) for
the F-22 stealth fighter plane at Lockheed Martin. The objective of the project was to
automate the hazardous process of painting (toxic fumes) the planes, and at the same time
improve the accuracy, reliability, efficiency and speed of painting by eliminating/reducing the
human factor.
PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
Books
Living in the Innovation Age, TekNirvana, December 2011
Professional Java Web Services, Wrox Press, January 2002
Articles and Podcasts

Over 80 articles published in numerous prestigious publications on a diverse range of topics
such as Project Management and Proposal Development, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
and Web Services, Enterprise Java (J2EE) and CORBA, and Microsoft .NET. Please visit
http://teknirvana.com/pub-ma_all.asp for a complete listing.
RECOMMENDATIONS
For professional testimonies of my expertise and work ethic, please visit
http://teknirvana.com/recommendations.asp
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TARAK MODI, M.S., M.B.A.

A DYNAMIC AND INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY LEADER

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS & SKILLS

CALIBRE – Alexandria, VA April 2010–September 2012

initiative to fostering innovation within CALIBRE. In FY 2011, CALIBRE’s IT Community

G&B Solutions – Reston, VA July 2009–April 2010

Unisys Corporation February 2005–March 2009

Director of Technology and Architecture, August 2006–March 2009

Executive Architect, February 2005–December 2008

The North Highland Company – Atlanta, GA February 2001–February 2005

 Re-architected the Java-based Data Access Layer in a multi-million dollar marketing

Online Insight – Atlanta, GA October 1999–January 2001

Clarus Corporation – Atlanta, GA June 1998–October 1999

Radiant Systems – Atlanta, GA June 1997–June 1998

United Technologies – Atlanta, GA October 1995–June 1997

Articles and Podcasts

Current Clearance Level – DoD Top Secret, Active.

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