Neelesh Ajmani, MBA, PMP, SAPM, TOGAF, ITIL V3 Expert

+1 508-494-4179

neelesh.ajmani@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/neeleshajmani
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SUMMARY
Results driven Senior Enterprise Systems, Strategy and Architecture Consultant with extensive experience in multiple industries, solving critical business issues with the state-of-the-art
technology solutions. Domain expertise in Digital Transformation, Secured Business Operations, Strategic Planning, Organizational Design, Agile Program Management, Enterprise Architecture, Operational Excellence, Information Management with Services, and Life Cycle Management. Multiple industries expertise: High-Tech, Energy, Healthcare, Semiconductor, Publishing, Software, Banking, Automotive, Public Sector, and Supreme Court of India.
Thought Leadership

Qualifications

Align Program/Portfolio with Business Strategies

Build and Manage Trusted Relationships

Executable Digital Transformation Framework

Change Management

Secured Business Operations Body of Knowledge Large ERP Implementations

Enterprise / Master Data Management / Analytics

Systems Integrations

Gartner White Paper: Achieving High Fidelity Data Business Intelligence

through Enterprise Data Management
Operational Excellence

Identity and Access Management, SoX,

HIPPA, PCI-DSS, NIST, ISO27002

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cisco Systems, Inc.
2001 - 2016
Consultant hired to strengthen Internet Commerce Platform; progressively moved upward to
establish Identity and Access Management program and its adoption
Consequently identified by senior management to join Cisco Advisory Services
Cisco Consulting/Advisory Services, Boston, MA, Sr. Manager
2009 - 2016
Strategic organization created to change Ciscos image from a network company to a business
solution provider. Consultants provided technology agnostic consulting to Cisco customers with
the focus on solving business problems.
As a Sr. Manager, Principal Consultant added value to the following client engagements:
Cisco Client Mayo Clinic, Lead Enterprise Architect
Led the Enterprise Architecture and established Architecture Management Office for
formulating the technology strategy plan, establishing a network foundation, and deploying capabilities to secure patient care operations and extend reach globally to
200 million plus patients and partners.

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Neelesh Ajmani, MBA, PMP, SAPM, TOGAF, ITIL V3 Expert

+1 508-494-4179

neelesh.ajmani@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/neeleshajmani
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Results - Generated ~$5M for consulting services and $100M+ in products revenue,
along with meeting customer program goals and achieving customer trust.
Cisco Client Shell Oil & Gas, Engagement Manager
Established a Release Management Organization (for Network Services Life Cycle Management) with a cross-company governance committee (with the service provider, AT&T) to
manage network devices and associated services in the areas of Collaboration, Security,
Voice, and Network Management.
Followed Agile program management to manage this complex initiative with too many unknowns. After successfully completing this work, transitioned to a newly hired Release
Manager.
Results: Generated $2.5M services revenue and built trusted advisory relationships.
Cisco Client AT&T, Engagement Manager
Led an engagement using agile program management to help them develop Network Services Life Cycle Management Software and Architecture Governance capabilities to offer
services to its global Fortune 100 customers.
Collaborated with their IT SMEs locally in the Netherlands and London, UK and with Cisco
Network engineers to develop API strategy and to deliver Enterprise Architecture based
Strategy and Plan with first year actionable roadmap to build Services Lifecycle Management System.
Cisco Client Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Lead Enterprise Architect
Led an engagement as a lead Enterprise Architect for developing Connect, Collaborate, and
Communicate (CCC) based Collaboration enterprise strategy, architecture and roadmap
planning, with the business goal to double their revenue and triple their stock price in the
next five years.
Results - Gained customer trust and achieved results.
Cisco Client Broadrige Financial Services, Engagement Manager
Led an engagement to develop enterprise strategy for transforming software business to
Cloud based IT transformation. Developed this strategy based on enterprise architecture by
aligning their business objectives from product/service offerings to its customer with IT cloud
transformation.
Delivered as a proof-of-concept Infra-as-a-Service transformation model, including charge
back and service management process and system capabilities.
For the Infra-as-a-Service solution, helped them create MDM solution for all the Applications
and their key CPU, Storage, and Networking Infrastructure.
Cisco Client EMC, Inc., Engagement Manager and Lead Enterprise Architect
Conducted a holistic business-driven Identity and Access Management architecture and operational assessment. Delivered enterprise strategy, architecture, and multi-generational
roadmap with an actionable roadmap for the first year.
Collaborated with their CTO (VP of IT Architecture) to establish an Enterprise Data and Information Management practice.
Delivered guidelines and white papers for building enterprise data architecture and for enterprise data and information capabilities/services.
Consolidated Global Enterprise Customers by developing Enterprise Customer Architecture,
process to maintain improved data quality and relevant capabilities/services.
Delivered thought leadership paper on Achieving High Fidelity Data through Enterprise Data Management at Garter Symposium in June 2011.

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Neelesh Ajmani, MBA, PMP, SAPM, TOGAF, ITIL V3 Expert

+1 508-494-4179

neelesh.ajmani@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/neeleshajmani
_____________________________________________________________________________

Cisco Client British Petroleum, Engagement Manager

Led an engagement to deliver conceptual reference architecture to establish network and
next generation collaboration environment for new oil offshore fields. The main emphasis of
this engagement was reducing time to explore oil by enhancing collaboration capabilities
within the oil field as well as globally across other business divisions.
Led an effort and provided proposal for global WAN assessment to ensure it can support
new architecture and services for next generation collaboration environment for new oil offshore fields.

Cisco Program and Business Operations Manager

2004 - 2009
Helped in establishing Identity and Access Management Program and relevant services to
Cisco functions organizations.
Managed Product Development of a virtual Attribute Authority capabilities and relevant services. Created a SSOT for the Cisco entire workforce and for the Cisco Customers, Partners, and Vendors. Developed API Strategy working with the Enterprise Architect of my
team and other Cisco IT Architects to ensure securing customer billing information and
overall identity profile details.
Led Operations to transform IAM services into operations and to measure progress.

Cisco Internet Commerce, IS-Business Consultant

2001 - 2004
Worked as an IS-Business consultant to manage lifecycle of global Order Processing and
consolidate global quote-to-cash and procure-to-pay processes to transform from Oracle
10.7 to Oracle 11i.
Led initiative to consolidate all ERP level customer masters and integrate ERP customers on
Oracle 11.9 TCA architecture. Developed API strategy and architecture to integrate 32 ERP
customer masters into Oracle Trading Community Architecture.
Managed the project to reorganize US, Asia Pacific, and EMEA theaters business for Cisco
customers to help reduce Tax liabilities.
Led Internet Commerce portion of Logistics and Inventory Management program to add
more flexible shipping options for customers.

Xicor, Inc. Director of Applications

1999 - 2001
Reported to CIO of a mid-size semi-conductor company in the Silicon Valley, CA to manage
software applications business.
Collaborated with CIO, CMO, Sales VP, COO, CFO, and Engineering VP to align business
applications platforms with business strategy and goals.
Collaborated to select and implement Sales Force Automation Application. This helped
Xicor worldwide sales force to integrate tightly with Marketing Managers and Customer Service that eventually helped Xicor to improve its Customer Relationships.
Led the initiative to architect and create the data marts for generating the single-source-oftruth for generating near-real time Bookings Billing and Backlog canned and ado dynamic
reports using Oracle Discoverer.
Collaborated to reduce the financial close from 8 days to 5 days.
Developed 3 year technology consolidation strategy for simplifying applications platforms.
Led an initiative from Xicor IT to achieve successful transition to 2000.
Successfully, achieved the goal to reduce systems operations support cost by $1M in a fiscal year.

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Neelesh Ajmani, MBA, PMP, SAPM, TOGAF, ITIL V3 Expert

+1 508-494-4179

neelesh.ajmani@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/neeleshajmani
_____________________________________________________________________________

IS Business Consultant (NIC, India, Tata, Syntel, Inc.)

1989 - 1999
Managed the engagement for Sony Electronics to transition from legacy Financial, Order
Processing, and Inventory Management systems to Oracle 10.7 ERP modules.
Managed the program for Diesel Engine manufacturing Cummins Engine Company to integrate their order processing of their New and Re-manufactured products with the help of implementing multi-org Oracle 10.7 based Enterprise wide Quote-to-Cash Applications. Created the most complex state-of-the-art Systems Integration product and API strategy to integrate Warehouse Management, Partners Order Processing (Point-of-Sales), Oracle Quoteto-Cash, Oracle Financials GL and AP modules, and IBM Mainframe legacy Systems for
seamless end-to-end transaction processing.
Managed the program for R.R. Donnelley Company global software Distribution Company to
implement MRP Oracle based application in its Ireland, Fremont, SJ, and Provo UT plants.
Build MRP pegging to real-time calculate available inventory by looking into WIP inventory,
Purchase Orders, and On-hand inventory.
Each of the above initiatives involved establishing proper MDM system for Customers,
Products, and Financials (AR, AP, and GL).
Consulted at Indian Banks and helped in deploying Savings, Letter of Credit and issuing
Guarantee modules on Oracle technology.
Consulted at Supreme Court of India and automated Judges Library System that helped expedited the cases processing.
Consulted at Ministry of Industries, State Government, and County Government to help
them automate the relevant business processes for issuing import licenses to industrial registrations and land monitoring systems using Ashton DBASE III Plus. I pioneered the multiuser application development for NIC.
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Master in Business Administration from San Jose State University, CA, USA
Master in Computer Applications from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Undergraduate with Honors in Math from Delhi University, India
Executive Communications
TOGAF 9.1; ITIL V3 Expert; Advanced Program Management from Stanford University, CA,
USA
Green Belt Certified - Lean Six Sigma
Project Management Professional from PMI, USA
Certification in Data Warehousing from Santa Cruz University, CA, USA
Leadership for Managers (from Dale Carnegie)
Simplified Strategic Planning (for small to mid-size companies)
XML; Oracle; Essbase; DESIGNER 2000: System Modeling and Tools; DESIGNER 2000:
Generating and Building Applications; Oracle 11i Work Flows; Oracle 11.5.7 Order Management; Oracle Discoverer; ETL - Informatica

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