Swaminathan Gnanasambandam

Senior IT Leader for more than 15 years of experience enthralled by results and actions. Have fascination towards strategic planning &execution,detail oriented,continuous process improvement, Precision forecasting and budgeting, with a concentrated emphasis on delivering value-added cost effective business solutions.

Experience in consulting,program & people management, project management and project engineering,Vendor management with the unique blend of hands-on in legacy & modern AI & ML/Cloud technologies along with respective certification (PMP,OCI,GCP certified) . Domain expertise in telecom, Power, Petrochemical, Logistics and Banking.

• Responsible for the IT organization and services of a global double-digit growth medical device business. Stabilized the environment with leading-edge technologies, integrated IT environments of two acquisitions, defined strategies for ERP business functions, moved enterprise applications successfully to the cloud, and established IT Governance.
• Created an infrastructure ready for emergencies, like the Coronavirus mandate to work from home, which prevented any business productivity loss.
• Built relationships with business leaders to understand how IT could help achieve resource efficiencies and cost reduction goals.
• Reduced capital investments using leading-edge technologies providing improved service to the business.
• Managed vendors on the cost of their maintenance renewals saving operational expenses based on optimized contracts, deliverables, and negotiated reductions.
• Created Strategic Architecture to improve decision making process for infrastructure.
• Created a three-year roadmap to improve cybersecurity and optimize costs.
• Developed IT professionals through skills assessment, gap training, mentoring, feedback, and promotions for key talent.
• Measurably improved business transaction performance utilizing cloud technologies, network optimization and managed services while remaining under budget.
• Improved business efficiency by updating approaches with new technologies and processes.
• Successfully reconfigured enterprise infrastructure environment, organization, strategies, processes, and procedures.
• Liaison for external service and hardware providers to manage costs and service levels to improve transaction performance.
• Established process and templates to provide infrastructure capital and ongoing financial implications for project estimates / ROI.
• M&A
• Business expansion standardization

• PMI Chapter
• Institution of Engineers

PMI: Project Management Professional

ITIL: Information Technology Infrastructure Library Foundations- V3

GCP-ML & Datascience professional

OCI-Oracle Cloud Architect

OCI-Autonomous & Exadata Specialist

OCP-Oracle Certified Profressional