Janie L. Gurley, Data Governance & Success Practice Director, CIMdata
Janie Gurley, Data Governance & Success Practice Director at CIMdata, has over 26 years of professional experience demonstrating broad experience in understanding and supporting strategic business execution with broad-based expertise in product development solutions within manufacturing. As a senior consultant at CIMdata, Ms. Gurley is responsible for leading CIMdata’s Data Governance Practice, as well as the management and execution of CIMdata’s services delivered to PLM solution providers, including the coordination and execution of CIMdata’s global Community and associated solution provider strategic management consulting activities.
Prior to joining CIMdata, Ms. Gurley, as a Strategic Business Analyst and Program Manager, worked on projects in numerous industries, including aerospace, steel, steam engineering product solutions, engineered flow solutions (pumps, valves, and seals), mechanical and industrial engineering (oil and gas, power, chemical, water, pharmaceuticals and bio-based consumer goods), in-store and retail bakery ingredients/food production, coffee and brewers, fiberglass yarn, and casino slot games. Ms. Gurley comes from Capgemini as Senior Consultant/Manager where she was part of the North America PLM consulting team and was responsible for helping Fortune 500 clients and consulting team support strategic processes and software solution implementations.
Ms. Gurley holds a MS in Management and BS in Business Administration from Southern Wesleyan University, Columbia, South Carolina, as well as being certified for Scrum Master, Pragmatic Marketing, Business Analysis, and CIMdata PLM certification Program for PLM Technologists.