JIMMY PURI

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmypuri/

adg702@r.postjobfree.com +1-832-***-****

Houston, TX

SUMMARY

Jimmy is a Project Manager with over 17 years of experience working in Program Management and IT consulting. She has been managing large scale projects on Digital Technology at the Enterprise level for O&G company in North America for last couple of years. She has created, incubated, and led communities globally to help Cloud adoption and collaboration for the enterprise. She has firsthand experience on Agile methodologies and Project management practices. As a Consultant, she has led numerous conversations on Digital Transformation with stakeholders at all levels. She has been responsible for end to end life cycle, delivery, client engagement, communication to senior management and partner with cross- functional teams. She has felicitated workshops with business to drive operational excellence by reviewing and analyzing current processes, conducting requirements felicitation, analysis, design, and creation of implementation and integration strategies.

Jimmy, brings diverse experience across multiple domains with fortune-100 companies, listing a few – O&G at Chevron, Cloud Consulting at PWC, Internet Services at Google Inc., and Telecom at Bharti Airtel. She brings years of experience in leading and managing large global teams spread geographically.

Recently she has partnered with clients in the O&G sector to build digital roadmaps and execution plans considering data driven KPIs. She contributed to the cloud strategy, digital road map, and operating plan for the Enterprise level project for Global Security at Chevron. She also traveled to TCO with the Chevron team and was trusted to oversee digital technology-specific requirements and design execution models. She engaged in the RFP response process, vendor selection, and PoC. She Oversaw estimates, team structuring (Onshore/Offshore), and innovative solutions. She used Agile practices and DevOps which helped business transform by tools to positively impact Cost, Quality, Efficiency, and Time to market

At Google, she prepared the adoption plan for GSuite and GCP for Emerging markets. She was responsible for the complete P/L Account as a Project Director. She established a Digital literacy community for Google and moderated one of the biggest community of learners and leaders encouraging the adoption of digital technology. She has on boarded, enabled and trained more than 100K educators and learners on digital platforms. She also inspired techies, software engineers and created a community (GEG and GDG), a group of enthusiastic leaders by leading numerous meetup events to enable community on Cloud adoption.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

Cloud Practitioner

Certified Agile Practitioner (ACP)

Project Management Professional (PMP)

EXIN- ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library)

Certified Peer Coach Facilitator by Puget Sound Centre

AREA OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

Master’s in computer applications (3yr. Full-time Degree - MCA), June 2001

Executive Masters Diploma in Business Administration (1 yr.- Executive MBA), April 2008

Bachelor of Science (3 yr. Full-time Bachelor’s Degree - BSc.), June 1998

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DEOL DATA Feb 2020-Till Date

PM/Scrum Master, Enterprise-Wide (Digital Transformation)

Working as a freelancer for Deol Data (Consulting and IT services organization). Due to this pandemic, she is helping the Deol Data team deliver to their clients accelerate digital transformation, leveraging the data they already have. She manages the offshore team, ensures time delivery and communicates the risks to senior stakeholders. She is managing sprints, retrospectives and monitors the backlog. She works closely with Product owner and priorities the stories for the team and leads daily standup. She is also involved in performing POCS for implementing Cloud migrations.

Chevron Global Security Aug 2017 – Oct 2018

Project - Security Systems Consolidation IPass

Environment: Azure Cloud Migration, AI Cognitive Service, Integration with Lenel On Guard (IAMS), Integration with the third-party SAAS solution on IAMS

Led Identity Management project for Global Security at Chevron, she has exceptional knowledge of Global Security core systems as well as integrated vendor systems. Worked as a Sr Consultant for this project under the Digital Transformation initiative, aimed at automation of processes, building resilient security solution, detecting fraud, avoiding scams, and strengthening Physical Security of Chevron Offices/refineries. The Project led the migration of user access data from on-premises legacy system to the new enterprise system on the Cloud, integration with third-party SAAS solution and introduced cognitive services of Azure like face detection and recognition for secure login and authentication, Azure BotChat for virtual badge request and RPA for automation of approval.

Responsibilities

Manage complete life cycle of the project from inception till handover to operations

Planning and supervise the project to ensure milestones are delivered

Lead agile ceremonies, sprints, retrospectives and monitor stories during daily standups

Lead team of developers and testing team spread across geography

Oversee the transitioning to a cloud-first strategy to strengthen operational resiliency and agility

Define migration strategy with a focus on technology OPEX optimization

Contributed to the design of solution architecture based on the client’s requirements and scope

Conducted sessions to understand the business need, gaps, and lead the effort on process mining

Analyzed data gathered and designed end to end solution / alternative methods of proceeding

Lead communication with stakeholders at all levels including C level executives

Involved in the RFP response process, PoC, estimates, and team structuring

Implemented Azure DevOps and Continuous development and Continuous integration approach

Developed use cases for Automation

Understood project risks, reported project health to senior management, and helped create a roadmap

Managed project plan, scope, risk, and impediments throughout the life cycle of the project

Project: Digital Dashboard

Role: Consultant, Digital Transformation

Worked for the project team to build and operate a new enterprise Data Warehouse on cloud and Business Intelligence framework. Served as a liaison between business and technical aspects of projects. Consulted with individual teams to gather status, establish a dashboard to track project progress

Responsibilities

Conduct workshops to define strategy, felicitate requirements

Ensure stakeholder alignment, building understanding around existing processes, drawing consensus,

Overseeing team requirements, creating an execution plan thus, owning the overall responsibility of project delivery with multi-geography teams

Define high level and mid-level plans

Supervise team and managed resources – leaves and task assignment

Project: Automation of GCF (RPA)

Role Consultant, Digital Transformation

Environment: UiPath (RPA), MS Azure

The project aimed at automation and optimizing of simple processes of Procurement, Finance, and HR department across Global Corporate Services at Chevron by Robotic process automation.

Responsibilities

Work with key SME, GCF teams, and partners to build understating of the processes

Deep dive into the processes to scope in the automation of repetitive and labor heavy processes

Conduct workshops and mutual value discovery sessions to engage key stakeholders

Engage teams daily, monitor onshore and offshore delivery teams working on building Bots

Liaise with individual teams to gather status, establish a dashboard to track project progress, and communicate risks and impediments to Sr management

Work closely with Automation COE (Centre of Excellence) at Chevron

Felicitate Business cases and conduct a feasibility study and generate value models for automation

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) April 2017- August 2017

Role: Consultant

Project: Google Migration - G Suite

PWC US advisory, partnered with Google Enterprise Cloud for the client- Heartland, Financial for a Cloud solution with an Artificial intelligence framework. PWC as a partner ensured seamless migration of legacy systems on Google Cloud Platform with a user base spread across 17 countries. Joined the team on the critical delivery stage, where teams were struggling to manage increasing changes by the business. As a Consultant minimized scope creep, created change management, and communication plan.

Responsible for strategizing Migration, leading business process mapping, designing business cases, budgeting, implementation, collaboration, communicating with business stakeholders (incl. Consultants and third-party vendors), and cross-functional team

Key Deliverables:

Created a Change management plan to address additional requirements and gaps thus resuming back to the feasible project plan

Helped the team define project tasks and manage risks

Lead daily standup meetings and sprints to strategize, plan and deploy the migration of users on Google suite

Designed the project plan, timelines for cross-functional teams and negotiated with them to address scope and timelines

Ensured timely delivery and maintained RAID register for senior management

Google Emerging Markets June 2013-Aug 2016

Role: Project Director

Part of Google Alliance team, led by Google Country Head for G-suite adoption in Emerging markets

Key Deliverables:

Worked on an Adoption plan for Google products in the South-Asian market

Responsible for the complete P/L Account as a Project Director

Accountable for program management of multiple initiatives leading to cloud computing of stakeholders

Liaison with the government for Emerging Market Growth program – felicitated Product G Suite

Conducted POC on G-suite (with one of the provinces) by delivering implementation, later which expanded with a scope of nationwide implementation (10 +states)

Trained 100K educators online and face to face

Designed and executed meetups to evangelize technology

Airtel Bharti Mar 2010- Dec 2012

Role: IT Manager

Responsible for bringing Technology as a differentiator bringing Efficiency and Effectiveness in Operations.

Key Deliverables:

Led a team of developers on building a Cloud solution -HRIMS, Oracle for Finance for 200+ sites for operational efficiency

Monitored IBM, third party vendor, responsible for providing Cloud HRIMS platform, well-integrated with Data Management system on-premises

Provided technology and domain expertise in support of the development of a large portfolio of users

Ensured timely submission of the product website to Airtel IT for approval

Microsoft PIL Program - Educomp Solutions Mar 2005- Mar 2010

Role: Project Manager

As a PM, led initiatives to empower fraternity with tools and ideation that enhance learning environment primarily using Microsoft Office suite.

Key Deliverables:

Understanding the new requirements and propose new solutions

Conceptualize and implement programs to promote innovation with technology

Applied Technology July 2001- Feb 2005 Software Developer

oData Quality

oAugmented Reality

oOil & Gas

oPower trading

oBusiness Analysis

oRequirements Management

oTeam management

oAgile

Program Management

Business Process Mapping

DevOps/ Automation

Business Analysis

Requirements Management

Pre-Sale

Agile, Scrum Master

Team management

Stakeholder Management

People Management

Client Management

Adoption

Communication

Business Intelligence

Cognitive Services

Data Quality

Thought leadership

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