Name ANANTH MANASEH NADAR

Contact Numbers Mobile : +91 9920 423760

Email ananth.m.nadar@gmail.com

Professional Summary

Strong technical and leadership qualifications with an impressive track record of more than 16 years of hands-
on experience in Technology Operations Management, Middleware/Database engineering and 24X7 technical
support strategies.

Technology/Tools Expertise : Red Hat Linux 5.5, Tomcat 7.0.x, Weblogic 10.3.6, Apache Web server 2.2.x,
Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2008, SSL, Siteminder, Splunk, Geneos, F5, Load Balancers, PSaas, Akamai,
Filemover, Coherence etc.

Certified ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management.

Work Experience

Organization Designation Duration

JP Morgan Chase Vice President Technology Operations Jan 2015 Till date
Manager
JP Morgan Chase Asst. Vice President Technology Feb 2012 Dec 2014
Operations Manager
Asst. Vice President - Database
Management Lead Oct 2007 Feb 2012
Fidelity Business Services Pvt. Ltd Senior Database Administrator Mar-2005 to Oct 2007
Satyam Computer Services Ltd. SQL Server Database Administrator Oct-2003 to Mar 2005
Client: Microsoft Corporation, Hyd
Lynx Softek Pvt. Ltd. (Compulynx Ltd.) Senior Analyst / SQL Server DBA Sept-2001 to Sep-2003

Metasys Software Pvt. Ltd. Programmer Sept-2000 to Sept 2001

NIIT Ltd. Database/ Network Administrator Jan-1999 to Jan 2000

Professional Experience
JP Morgan Services India Pvt Ltd Oct 2007 - Till date

Technology Operations Manager - Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) suite of Applications
- Feb 2012 Till date

Primary Responsibility:
Leading a client focused Application Development Infrastructure team that manages the AD
infrastructure.
Role encompasses team to maintain High Availability of the environments, release deployment
(Application & Database), Planning and executing SR/DR events and manage critical enterprise
releases in PROD environments.
Provide 2nd/3rd level Infrastructure support services for Prod environments on a 24x7 oncall basis.
Act as a Change Manager to identify, review, approve and implement global changes in the
Production environment.
Completely own the middleware component for all supported applications and manage
delivery of container builds in technologies like Tomcat, Weblogic and Apache etc.

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 Liaise with various Technology Infrastructure teams like UNIX, Network, and Database etc to ensure
High Availability of the environments.
Refresh environments for AD teams to support future release.
Certificate management: Includes monitoring certificate expiry, renewing certificates etc.
Good understanding of Change/Incident management processes
Ensure information controls, Risk Controls, back-up and recovery strategies are in place across all
environments
Responsible for daily operations by setting priorities and assigning and adjusting workloads.
Identify performance goals for team and conduct performance reviews. Manage Performance
improvement plans for low-performing resources.

Accomplishments:
Consistently earned above average ratings on performance evaluations in JP Morgan tenure.
Completely managed the Prod release planning and execution without any incidents due to
implementation..
Provided excellent technical leadership in recovery planning for business continuity, crisis/
emergency management, contingency and disaster recovery for applications under CIB.
Managed Datacenter movement of Prod servers very efficiently, which was a major accomplishment.
Managed a project to migrate from Legacy Oracle Streams to Goldengate and completed it
successfully.
Came up with Automation Initiatives for Release Deployments, Container Builds and Log Rotations.
Setup a new engineering team for Production Support. Took care of everything right from recruitment
to on boarding formalities.
Took initiative to manage the Infrastructure Risks across the applications liaising with the AD
teams.
Implemented Generic certificates in all applications which reduced license cost and improved
manageability.
Migrated all file-transfers from legacy NDM/SFTP to Filemove as per firms roadmap.
Onboarding of Unix/Database IDs into the Break-Glass systems as per firms IT risk policy.
Managed to bring 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 environments, decommissioning non-required infrastructure etc.

Database Administration Lead - Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) - Oct 2007 Feb 2012

Manage 24x7 Production SQL Server environments with large critical databases in more than 400 servers.

Accomplishments:
Consistently earned above average ratings on performance evaluations.
Setup a new 24x7 DBA team for Production Support. Took care of everything right from recruitment
to on boarding formalities.
Work with Application Dev team, Project Managers and other technical teams to discuss TSDs for
new projects provide better solutions and making sure Database Standards are followed at the initial
stage itself.
Working with Service Delivery Managers for applications and discuss Service Improvement plans
within the database environment.
Participating in Change Approval Board meetings and discuss weekly IT changes and provide
approvals.
Assigning projects to appropriate team members, based on bandwidth, technical expertise, capability,
turnaround time etc.

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 Understanding teams technical requirements and arranging for trainings either internal or from
external vendors.
Provide management cover during any technical incidents.
Provide regular reports to the senior management regarding Utilization of resources, Incidents
Resolved, Work requests Completed, Weekend DB Changes etc
Make sure all incidents and works requests are reviewed and resolved on time and SLAs are not
breached.
Working with various vendors for recruiting right talent.
Identify performance goals for team and conduct performance reviews. Manage Performance
improvement plans for low-performing resources.
Working as a Risk Champion within LOB infrastructure team and helping the IRMs to remediate any
risk related issues. Helped the IRMs in performing CSA Reviews for various applications within
LOB.
Provide the Role Access Profile for the DBA team and help the IRMs to get the same from all other
teams by coordinating with the respective managers.

Apart from the management role, I was also technically supporting various application databases (SQL Server/
Sybase and Oracle).
Major tasks include:
Building the servers in project phase.
Making sure High availability of the server.
Planning and participating in DR tests.
Working on RCA on any incidents on the servers.
Working closely with the AD teams, gather requirements and provide solutions.
Providing Oncall support.

Fidelity Business Services Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore Mar 2005 Oct 2007

SQL Server DBA (playing a functional role of team lead)

This project requires us (a team of 10 DBAs) to monitor and provide support for ~200 Fidelitys Internal SQL Servers.
Our job includes monitoring SQL Server activities, designing, creating SQL Server objects, troubleshooting errors,
Migration of Databases etc. We provide efficient services by maintaining SLA's (Service Level Agreement) for every
issue.

Responsibilities:
As a SQL Server DBA my responsibilities are to provide Database Support for Fidelitys Internal Servers situated at
Merrimack, Smithfield, Boston, Bangalore and Gurgaon.
Setting up monitoring for SQL Servers across the network.
Setting up Development, UAT and Production servers for various applications.
Interacting with customers for various requirement analysis and providing them appropriate database
solution.
Creating Users and Roles in DEV as well as PROD environments to ensure security of Data.
Designing Backup & Recovery plans for point in time recovery
Routine Level Maintenance Monitoring DBs space usage, rebuild index, checking the validity of db
objects and monitoring overall health of system.
Configuring Log-Shipping for point in time recovery.
Checking and Updating Statistics on regular basis.
Providing on-call support for supported applications.

Satyam Computer Services Ltd, Hyderabad Oct. 2003 to Mar 2005

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 SQL Server DBA
This project requires us (a team of 10 DBAs.) to monitor and provide support for ~500 Microsoft's internal SQL
Servers. We provide 24X7 support, whre our job includes monitoring SQL Server activities, designing, creating SQL
Server objects, troubleshooting errors etc. Basically our team takes care of any SQL Server issues in the above
mentioned servers. We provide efficient services by maintaining SLA's (Service Level Agreement) for every issue.

Responsibilities:
As a SQL Server DBA my responsibilities were to provide 24X7 Support for Microsofts internal SQL Servers.
Administration of nearly 500 Microsofts critical Servers.
Installation & Configuration of SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition.
Upgrading the System with latest Service Packs.
Creation of Logins, Roles and granting rights.
System Auditing with Error Logs and Event Logs.
Designing Backup & Recovery plans for point in time recovery.
Routine Level Maintenance Monitoring DBs space usage, rebuild index, checking the validity of db
objects and monitoring overall health of system.
SLA (Service Level Agreement) Provide highest level of services possible as per SLA.
Performance Tuning and Monitoring
Administrating High Availability solutions for data through different facility provided in SQL Server
2K
SQL Server Coding stored procedures, triggers, functions and creating DTS packages, jobs etc.
Checking the stored procedures for optimal performance.
Index creation and maintenance.
Configuring Log Shipping & Replication (Transactional).

Lynx Softek Pvt.Ltd (Compulynx Ltd. Nairobi, Kenya). Sep 2001 to Sep 2003

SQL Server DBA / Senior Programmer

Responsibilities:
Nakumatt Holdings has a chain of 12 supermarkets all over Kenya, which uses a High End complex Point of Sale
system developed in VB and MS SQL Server.
As a SQL Server Database Administrator my responsibilities were to design, develop databases for the Point of Sale
system being used by the various branches all over Kenya. The average size of each database in branches ranges from
10 15 GB, with an average of 30 users in each branch.

Installation of SQL Server Standard and Personal Edition.

Creation of Users and Assigning Rights.
Transferring Data using DTS from DBF file to SQL Server.
Creating automated jobs to Backup the Database every night.
Indexing of Tables periodically.
Shrinking the Log files and Data files periodically.
Writing Complex Stored Procedures and Triggers for reporting purposes.
Transferring Data using SQL Servers DTS utility through Visual Basic.
Used SQL Server Profiler to monitor the Commands being executed on the Server.
Used Index Tuning Wizard for accurate indexing of the tables having bulk transactions.
Linking Remote servers and using Snapshot Replication to replicate data.
Generated ad-hoc reports required by the manager by writing T-SQL Queries to show the sales,
Incentives given and Promotion details etc.

Education
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 Degree Institute & Year of Passing
Bachelor of Science(Statistics) University of Mumbai, 1998
3 yrs. Graduate in NIIT (GNIIT). NIIT Ltd., Mumbai, India, 2000
Microsoft Certified Professional(MCP): Microsoft Corporation.

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