ANANTH MANASEH NADAR

Senior Professional, offering 20 years of experience, leading a team of highly qualified engineers, managing infrastructure of no.1 ranked external client facing portal. Accomplished Infrastructure Manager with progressive industrial background and decisive leadership style.

PROFILE SUMMARY

• Versatile and hands-on Infrastructure Manager who leads teams to design and implement successful IT programs/ projects that align business and IT objectives and deliver rapid results
• Trusted, motivated and adaptable Information Technology leader and strategic solutions provider with in-depth knowledge of IT strategy & innovation techniques
• Top-performing leader with record of implementing successful operations and IT services initiatives that increased efficiencies, reduced expenses, and increased customer and associate satisfaction Played an important role in implementing CICD in the organization, automating Application & Infrastructure deployment.
• Energetic, driven, and accomplished Technology Operations Manager with a track record of success in managing complex IT modernization and system integration projects Mitigated risks, managed requirements, and worked with project stakeholders while managing expectations at the department and project levels
• An excellent communicator with honed relationship, leadership, planning, coordination and analytical skills with capability to view the larger picture, taking business-critical decisions from the front to attain business/ operational excellence; an expert in enhancing profitability and developing strategic operational initiatives
• Offers strategic planning abilities, background in change management and forward-thinking mindset.
• Ready for challenges and focused on meeting future demands.

• Consistently earned above average ratings in most of the performance evaluations in JP Morgan Tenure.
• Diligently managed the production release planning & executions.
• Implemented automations, which significantly reduced the deployment window for 30+ applications, from several hours to minutes.
• Played an important role in implementing CICD pipeline.
• Implemented Application Monitoring in Geneos for 25+ applications. Provided a better visibility of the Infrastructure by creating Web dashboards.
• Spearheaded and successfully executed Technology Lifecycle Management projects.
• Took initiative to remediate Infrastructure risks across the applications liaising with major stakeholders.
• SSL Certificate Management - Implemented Generic Certificates for all applications which reduced license cost and improved manageability.
• Reduced the downtime in test environments from 18% to 7% in 1 year and 3% within 2 years, which was a significant cost saving effort.
• Achieved signification cost optimization by consolidating applications in shared infrastructures, removal backups in lower environment, decommissioning non-required infrastructure and so on.
• Implemented Containerization as a strategic approach towards infrastructure cost saving.
• Established and built a new Engineering Team under my leadership from scratch.
• Handled Multiple teams, with multiple infrastructures platforms, throughout JP Morgan tenure.