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New York City, NY
Posted:
November 04, 2020

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KARIM ADJMI

*** **** **** ******, *** York, NY 10036

Email: adhjiv@r.postjobfree.com Cell: 646-***-**** Specialization: complex program delivery, data & analytics strategy, enterprise data management, data architecture, and cloud application advisory. Industry expertise: Communications, Media & Technology, including Publishing (Pearson, Savvas, K12), Financial Services and Business Services. Business/Technology expertise: Program/Project Management (SoW, Stakeholder Management, Scope Management, Project Scheduling, Risk and Issue Management, Vision/Charter creation, Budget/Resource management, Process Definition, Change Management/Training, Waterfall and Agile methodologies, Distributed Delivery, SDLC), Release Management, Data

& Analytics Strategy & Roadmap, Maturity Level Assessment (DCAM+, DMM, IDES, IDS), Data Management, Masterdata Management, Data Architecture, Cloud Data Implementation, Data Visualization Big Data, Technology agnostic.

EXPERIENCE

Accenture June 2011 - Present

Senior Manager, Management Consulting January 2016 - Present Level 6 Senior Manager (Director equivalent), focused on advising, leading large teams, and working on high impact activities within the systems development lifecycle, and providing advisory work for the Leadership and IT functions

(C-levels). Responsibilities and expertise include:

• Identify and assess complex problems, and create solutions that align with organizational objectives and prioritization.

• Manage large teams (onshore and offshore) and/or work efforts at a client or within Accenture (Plan, Resource Plan, Delivery, etc.) Providing direct support to clients by leading project collaboration, weekly status meetings, reporting, schedule tracking, prioritization, risk management, budget development, tracking deliverables and general day to day communications with stakeholders and leadership.

• Launch, execute and deliver cross functional projects: working with stakeholders to identify necessary resources, assign tasks, maintain budget with a focus on delivering quality results.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and team members to identify, mitigate and/or resolve any risks or issues.

• Interact with senior management levels within client organization and Accenture, involving negotiating or creating “buy in” regarding significant matters.

• Deliver advisory services to the CxO levels (CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO, CDO, CHRO, etc.).

• Professional development leadership and management style: Providing transparent feedback, communication and collaboration with peers and employees.

• Passion for creating innovative and differentiated offerings, staying relevant and in sync with market demand.

• Relevant experiences in Addendum (page 3 below). 2

Manager, Management Consulting June 2011 – December 2015 Consulting Manager, responsible for delivering complex projects for Accenture's Clients on time, within budget and maintaining a high standard of quality deliverables. Challenges included: the competitive environment/market for the client, a strategy / scope not fully developed, a Distributed Delivery model, multiple sites, tight timeline, complex environment, Agile methodology, etc.

Responsibilities included:

• Identifying and assessing complex problems for area(s) of responsibility

• Creating solutions in situations in which analysis requires in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives

• Involvement in setting strategic direction to establish near-term goals for area(s) of responsibility

• Interacting with senior management levels at a client and/or within Accenture, involving negotiating or influencing on significant matters

• Managing large teams (onshore and offshore) and/or work efforts at a client or within Accenture (Plan, Resource Plan, Delivery, etc.)

• Leading my team members at Accenture, mentoring and helping them to grow in their daily activities

• Evaluating team members, providing guidance and formal feedback / rating about performance on a regular basis.

CAPGEMINI

Manager, Management Consulting January 2011 – May 2011 Senior Consultant, Management Consulting September 2008 – December 2010 ACCENTURE

Consultant, Management Consulting December 2005 – August 2008 EDUCATION

Institut Mines-Telecom Business School (Top French Business and Engineering School)

- M.Sc. Management (Specialization in Management Information System) University of Evry Val d'Essonne (France)

- MBA Marketing and Communication

CERTIFICATIONS

• Digital Delivery Lead - Foundation Certification - Accenture - 2020

• Data Driven Consulting Bronze Professional Certificate - Accenture - 2020

• Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals – 2020

• Kellogg Executive Education Northwestern University 101 and 201: Leading with Analytics - 2020

• Big Data Cloud Service 2017 Sales Specialist - Oracle - 2019

• Big Data Cloud Service 2017 Solution Engineer Specialist - Oracle – 2019 3

ADDENDUM: Relevant Experiences

14 years of experience successfully leading complex programs / projects (Fortune 500 Clients) across geographies

(US, Europe and Asia) in the areas of Data, Big Data and Analytics Strategy, Digital Strategy and Transformation, Business Transformation (Finance, Supply Chain, Production), Cloud Migration, Divestiture, IT Strategy, Program Mobilization, Program Transition, Program Execution / Delivery. Strategy Project management

Large Financial Services Company – Program Manager / Delivery Lead Advised the client (including C-levels) in assessing the current state and defining a future state roadmap to establish an enterprise-wide modern data foundation (Cloud) providing faster access to trust-worthy data to inform real-time insights and decision making.

Led a team of Data Architects, Cloud Architects and Visualization/ML Architects to define the target state architecture, migration and roadmap planning, cost benefit analysis and Cloud Data Platform selection. Large Tech Company – Data Management Advisor

Advised, led and worked on high impact activities within the systems development lifecycle, and provides advisory work for the IT function itself (including C-levels) to manage, organize, govern Master Data and define a roadmap. Large CMT Company - Advisor

Provided advisory and led the Blueprint and Data Governance model definition to propose and implement an Analytics roadmap (Initial scope Finance). This project was part of a broader business transformation program and aimed at establishing an enterprise-wide analytics capability to help improve the financial and operational performance of the Client globally.

Then, the Client launched an initiative to create and implement a Company Data Warehouse (CDW) and EPM tool consolidating worldwide data from several sources for global reporting. IT Project management

Large Life Insurance Company – Program Manager / Digital Delivery Lead Led the implementation (Agile Methodology) of the target state architecture for a new Azure-based strategic data

& analytics platform (Cloud, Data Lake, Databricks, PowerBI) which maximized native PaaS offerings while supplementing with Best of Breed products to fill any capability gaps (including all delivery phases from the requirement gatherings to cutover activities through design, build, testing activities and ingestion/data conversion). Large Publishing Company - Data Strategic Lead

Advised the client (including C-levels) in setting strategic direction to establish short and near-term goals for Data related topics around Master Data Management, Data Quality, Data Integration and Data Conversion Successfully led a team throughout the lifecycle of a project focusing on the Data Migration work for an ERP implementation including a Masterdata Management tool (approach, analysis, design, build, test, implementation, validation and reconciliation).

Large Publishing Company – Program Manager / Delivery Lead Led several BUs roll out (ERP) in a complex environment (several contractors, tight deadlines, multi-cultural teams, several locations, multiple releases), including all the delivery phases from the design to the cutover, through development, data conversion (15 objects, 10 source systems, 12 million records) and testing activities. 4

Full Project lifecycle

Large Publishing Company – Program Manager / Delivery Lead Led several BUs roll out (ERP) in a complex environment (several contractors, tight deadlines, multi-cultural teams, several locations, multiple releases), including all the delivery phases from the design to the cutover, through development, data conversion, and testing activities. Delivered end to end business process and technology enablement in 5 process capabilities: Record to Report, Order to Cash, Project Accounting, Source to Pay and Plan to Produce. Value - The delivered ERP solution along with the core satellite applications ecosystem, helped the Client to efficiently perform their finance and operations solution to assist with their core competency of servicing their clientele in certifications and education.

Key Implementation Stats

• 160K Customer Accounts / sites

• 2.3K Suppliers

• 12K Products

• 2K Purchase Orders

• 80K Corporate / Tax assets

• 165 GL Balances

• 5M Project Expenditure Balances across 9K Project Budgets and 125K Project Revenue

• 8K Test Centers administering academia / professional certifications and processing Revenue and Payment transactions

• 40+ Oracle EBS Application modules

• Adopting over 25+ RICE elements (new and enhanced) from global footprint (125+ RICE elements)

• Data Conversion: 15 objects, 10 source systems, 12 million records Technology – MDM, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce.com, Custom applications Large Publishing Company – Program Manager / Delivery Lead Separation of the HR function for the Learning Service Business as part of the Company divestiture with their K12 Learning Services.

• Led the HR/IT separation cross-workstream (SMO) (Interdependency tracking)

• Worked closely with the CEO and CIO in a daily basis

• Assessed as-is HRIS integration landscape

• Led discovery discussions between HRIS & related systems and gather interface requirements

• Drove HRIS Integration workplan milestone tracking

• Coordinated HRIS IT solution integration and migration planning

• Drove Business and IT workstreams with HRIS cut-over planning and war room support

• Provided expertise to develop and execute HR strategies, programs and services across one or more parts of the employee lifecycle

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Large Financial Services Company – Program Manager / Delivery Lead Led a large program to define and implement the strategy to provide the data collection, storage and restitution capabilities required for regulatory and management control reporting in a complex environment (several prime contractors, no integrator, tight deadlines). Technology – SAP, SAP Bank Analyzer, SAP BW and Custom applications. Change Management

Large Power Plant and CPG Companies – Change Manager (SAP BI)

• Responsible for defining and creating the training supports (leaflet, Training content, Training exercises)

• Responsible for training the trainers of trainees



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