Senior IT Infrastructure and Information Security Executive with 20+ years of combined Industry and consulting experience across Fortune 100/500 companies in global enterprise, SMB & service provider environments. Accomplished technology and business adviser with client engagements spanning Consumer Electrical & Electronics, Technology, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and life sciences, Manufacturing , Financial Services and Service Providers Extensive experience in leading and managing global organizations to become more innovative, agile, effective, and service oriented through adoption of emerging technologies, tools and processes.Skilled at enterprise-wide solution development and leading large global teams, fiscal cost rationalization and transformation projects. Significant experience: - Global Strategic Data Center Infrastructure Transformation - Global enterprise security planning, architecture and compliance assessments - Consolidation and Optimization of Global Network Carrier and Collaboration services - Global Data Center consolidation / Virtualization - Cloud strategy including IaaS and SaaS - Infrastructure tools strategy and architecture - Network architecture, implementations, migrations and optimizations - Technology assessments with focus on converged networking and security infrastructure - Program and Project Management - RFP and Vendor Evaluation Process Business development experience and creating new revenue streams for building professional services practice while successfully driving solution “firsts” Contribution to Thought Leadership by writing white papers on emerging and next generation networking technologies such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) as well as DR and IT Infrastructure Tools Executive MBA in International Business and MBA in Marketing, B.Tech. Electronics as well as a number of top-level industry-recognized credentials, such as the CCIE (Routing/Switching), CISSP, and PMP. Member of ISACA and ISC2 organizations.

Senior Director, Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Services @ From March 2015 to Present (10 months) CIO Advisory - IT Infrastructure Practice @ As key member of PwC's Strategic technologies advisory services under the Technology, Information Communications, Entertainment & Media (TICE) vertical, IT Infrastructure and Operations capabilities span Business and technology transformations, IT Strategy, Shared Services & Outsourcing Advisory, Business Systems Integration/Enterprise Architecture, Technology Infrastructure Solutions, Business Continuity and Project & Portfolio Management. Significant contribution to business development by working on client proposals, presentations to C-level officers, RFP responses resulting in multi-million dollar revenues as well as service delivery growth. Thought leadership contributions on emerging technologies such as SDN, Cloud models, NGN & Converged Infrastructure From November 2012 to March 2015 (2 years 5 months) Miami/Fort Lauderdale AreaTeam Lead - Cisco Solutions and Engineering @ Cisco practice lead for networking infrastructure and security technologies while managing cross-functional teams including engineering and project management resources. Managed major IT vendors for business development and influencing the direction of latest technology advancements across Datacenter, networking and Security products and architectures. Planning, Design and Implementation of large scale enterprise-grade Datacenter networking infrastructure including Core, Campus, Edge, LAN/WAN and Branch office networks. Also, extensive work on network security assessment, architecture and migrations for diverse clients across financial, healthcare and commercial industry verticals. From January 2007 to November 2012 (5 years 11 months) Sr. Network Architect @ Senior CISCO Architect for Voice Interoperability Project. Radio over IP Systems Engineering •Proof of Concept Verification and building Alpha & Beta test lab. •Architecture of IP-VPN security technologies such as IPSec, GRE, Easy VPN, DMVPN, GDOI. •Design of IP Multicast over VPN Tunneling technologies. Perform end to end systems testing using disparate Voice mediums such as Desktop clients; SIP/H.323 based IP/TDM Phones, Nextel cellular, PTT Radio devices From November 2006 to January 2007 (3 months) Enterprise Network Leader, Information Systems and Solutions Latin America @ •Senior level network architect responsible for leading and managing network communications for Sony's South American region, including LAN, wireless network and WAN •Primary responsibilities include architecting, designing, and implementing large-scale data and VoIP network solutions based on MPLS VPN architecture •Coordination and managing AT&T as well as other global/regional service providers on a daily basis. •Regional team-lead for Sony Global Network Architecture core group. •Preparing network operating standards, security policies, designing and implementing network management architecture for enterprise. Also, have led several enterprise network audits and SOX compliance initiatives. From November 2003 to November 2006 (3 years 1 month) Miami/Fort Lauderdale AreaSenior Network Engineer @ Senior Network & Security Design, Implementation and Technical Support Engineer Global Enterprise grade Network Architecture, Implementation and troubleshooting including IT infrastructure and Information Security technologies and platforms. • Frame-relay to IPSec VPN Migration of over 700+ nodes. • Designed and Implemented global IPSec/GRE VPN solution to replace frame-relay network. • Coordination with various Emerson divisions all over US, Canada, South America, UK and Asia-Pacific region for their networking requirements. Technical escalation support at Tier-3 level with helpdesk team for resolving customer issues concerning routing, switching, Firewall, DNS and Proxy Servers From May 2000 to November 2003 (3 years 7 months) Greater Philadelphia Area

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Business, CGPA 3.94 @ University of Miami - School of Business From 2005 to 2006 Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing @ Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University From 1997 to 2000 B.E., Electronics @ University of Pune From 1992 to 1996 Kendriya Vidyalaya From 1980 to 1992 Hemant Ahire is skilled in: Data Center, Cloud Computing, Network Architecture, Disaster Recovery, IT Strategy, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Network Security, Management, Leadership, Cloud Computing IaaS, IT Management, Cisco Technologies, Business Process Improvement, Security, Virtualization