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Key personnel

Seasoned judgment, not additional headcount.

Clients engage tieBridge because they require experienced leadership — professionals who have managed large-scale technology programs from both the client and consulting sides, not delivery teams learning on the job.

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Osman Ahmad

President

MBA, University of Chicago

  • Utilities (water and electric)
  • IV&V
  • Independent Project Oversight
  • Asset Management / WACS-WAM
  • Technology Strategic Planning
  • Oracle CIS / CC&B
  • Vendor Management

Over 30 years of experience in electric and water utility transformational initiatives. Led the turnaround of six failed technology initiatives and Independent Verification and Validation teams for industry, public utilities, and government. Former utility CIO (DC Water) and former CFO of the world's largest rail transportation research center (TTCI). Authored five technical papers published in peer-reviewed journals.

Principal author of LIPA's Isaias Task Force 30-Day Report and program management lead of its 90-Day Report. Led oversight of LIPA and PSEG Long Island's $75 million System Separation Plan and Customer Information System initiatives. Technical lead for the remediation of LADWP's CC&B (CIS) turnaround program. Developed five-year IT strategic plans for WSSC Water and DC Water, and led the remediation of Cleveland Water's Oracle CC&B/CIS turnaround program.

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Manoj Srivastava

Sr. VP and CEO

PMP, CISSP, MBA (Santa Clara University)

  • IV&V
  • Oracle WACS/WAM
  • Application Security
  • Data Governance
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • IT Architecture
  • SDLC Management

Over 25 years of experience as a Senior Program Manager and CTO. Provides regulated utilities and enterprise businesses IV&V and assurance services to launch, scale, and optimize IT operations, and to ensure compliance with standards such as HIPAA, NERC CIP, and NIST CSF. Holds a BA from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur), an MBA from Santa Clara University, and an MS in Artificial Intelligence from Georgia Tech.

Performed IV&V for LIPA across Outage Management, SAP Works and Asset Management, ESRI/ArcGIS, CyberArk Privileged Access Management, and NIST CSF compliance. As CTO of Certipath, launched blockchain and IoT-enabled identity management solutions and directed enterprise cloud transition. Previously Chief Technology Officer at Aristotle International and Chief Software Architect at Thomson Financial.

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Shonali Wadhwani

Senior Program Manager / Senior Consultant

PMP, BA Applied Mathematics, Smith College

  • IV&V
  • System Assurance
  • Strategic Planning
  • Enterprise Document Management
  • Data Governance
  • Vendor Management

25+ years of technology analysis, project management, and software life-cycle experience, combining project management skills with strong functional and technical understanding to design and deliver solutions focused on business needs, system optimization, and process improvement.

Key member of the IT IV&V and Program Management Team for LIPA's IT metrics program, engaging in collaborative reviews of service-provider performance across system resiliency, customer communications, outage management, dispatching, and cybersecurity. Led a comprehensive IT assessment and Move Forward Plan for the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans, and managed multiple Enterprise Document Management program implementations for DC Water and Sewer Authority.