Purvaja Soochit
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Purvaja is a dynamic project manager with 6+ years of professional experience, including four years as a senior consultant with Deloitte and two years as a principal in a small consulting firm. She has a track record of managing programs from concept to completion, building cross-functional teams, and designing educational strategies. Purvaja creates strong relationships, manages and coaches individuals to success, makes critical decisions during challenges, and communicates exceptionally well.
Project Highlights
Expertise
Work Experience
Principal
Monday Squared
- Sourced and sold consulting engagements to Fortune 500 clients.
- Completed pro bono work to help small businesses strategize and find alternative income sources during COVID-19 restrictions.
- Assisted clients with project and program management for enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives.
- Helped clients build effective teams and adopt Agile practices.
- Managed multicultural and distributed teams, including performance reviews and coaching.
Senior Consultant
Deloitte
- Led a digital transformation strategy and roadmap for a local client.
- Created a business intelligence integration blueprint for a merger and the data migration strategy.
- Developed a reporting target state for the digital transformation of an oil rig.
- Stood up and customized SAP Fiori analytical apps for all business units.
- Developed a 5-year roadmap for an enterprise-wide content management program.
- Coached new hires during Deloitte's national training weeks for three years and mentored new and senior hires on various topics.
Community Advisor
University of Calgary
- Managed a floor of international students and monitored the residence building for disturbances.
- Responded to distress calls and completed nightly shifts to ensure that the residence was secure.
- Organized monthly events and programs for 100 students to create a sense of community.
Technology Assistant
University of Calgary Executive MBA Program
- Provided technical support to the Executive MBA student and leadership cohort and assistance to professors during classes.
- Assisted students and teachers with software installations and technical issues.
- Facilitated conference calls and virtual meeting setups in classes.
Personal Lines Underwriting Intern
Wawanesa Insurance
- Reviewed client insurance applications and checked them for completeness.
- Completed insurance compliance checks for client applications.
- Assisted underwriters with determining risk levels for client applications.
Project History
Program Manager for Mine Construction in Chile
Led and managed a portfolio of digital projects for a mine construction in Chile: built highly efficient distributed teams across multiple time zones; delivered custom, innovative mining software; and integrated operations dashboards.
KEY ACTIVITIES
Team Leadership: Built and managed talented teams of business analysts, programmers, developers, and other specialists. Supervised up to 20 personnel, coordinating between in-house and client teams and
keeping stakeholders informed of progress and milestones.
Process Mapping: Led multiple workshops to help the clients with end-to-end mapping of all the digital services needed and their dependencies.
Supply Chain: Worked with the procurement team for contract negotiations and led the hiring of all contractors for the project.
Business Integration: Managed the integration of systems between our project and the enterprise digital transformation initiative being implemented at all sites.
KPI Dashboards: Led a team of software developers and business analysts across time zones to build more than a dozen custom dashboards for the remote integrated operating center.
Team Building: Introduced an informal, weekly, 1-hour social event for team members at every level in Chile and Canada to get to know the fast-growing team.
Enterprise Content Management Pilot
Managed and cultivated a client relationship and sold the next project phase (rollout), for around $4 million.
Enterprise Program Standup
Completed the program standup and integrated roadmap development for 12+ projects delivering enterprise-wide productivity, collaboration, and connectivity solutions.
Enterprise Analytics Service
Implemented a self-serve analytics capability for multiple business units.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Actuarial Science
University of Calgary - Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Certifications
SAFe 4 Agilist
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Trello, Slack
Industry Expertise
Mining
Paradigms
Agile Project Management, Agile
Other
IT Project Management, IT Management, Microsoft Teams, Projects, Customer Service, Customer Success, Sales, Procurement, Negotiation, IT Program Management, Agile Program Management, Integrated Program Management , Program Management, Project Management, Offshore Team Management, Teamwork, Leadership, Team Building, Culture Management, French-English Translation, Workshops, Workshop Facilitation, Training Workshops, Learning, Coaching, Teams, Microsoft, Complex Program Management, Global Team Management, Languages, Risk Management, Scrum Master, IT Consulting, Proposals, Training, Request for Proposal (RFP), Statistics, Modeling, Technology Consulting, Event Management, Property Insurance, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Vendor Management, Project Management Office (PMO), Discovery, User Journey Maps
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