Neeran Saraf Neeran is a senior IT consultant with over twenty-five years of experience in the development and implementation of enterprise-wide IT strategies, architecture and systems. She is a certified enterprise architect and for the past ten years worked with various size organizations assessing their technology needs and developing a technology strategy that is aligned with their business objectives and needs.
Ms. Saraf consults in the private and public sectors, associations and non-profit organizations (local and international). She has researched, designed, implemented, and managed IT projects in education, finance, microfinance, telecommunications, public health, and professional and workforce development. Achievements in the design of business applications such as registration systems, assessment, monitoring and evaluation systems, and knowledge management and collaboration systems have been recognized and awarded by industry and professional associations.
Her strategic IT planning is supported by decades of experience working with executive teams and management, at headquarters and subsidiaries or field offices, in defining system requirements and relevance among diverse groups, and in the implementation of existing and emerging information technologies to deliver efficient solutions. Neeran has a solid hands-on experience with various technologies, systems design, data modeling, network architecture, and database systems.
Ms. Saraf serves on a number of technology associations and other boards. She has presented in various conferences about topics including Monitoring and Evaluation, Knowledge Management and creating a knowledge organization.
Ms. Saraf holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering from Imperial College, University of London and a master’s degree in computer science from George Mason University. She is in the process of obtaining a masters degree in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management from Kent State University. She holds a U.S. patent for the architecture of a Shared Registration system for registering domain names (patent number 7299299).