Raja Chris Email Address

Member of the Board of Directors

Annaly Capital Management is a mortgage real estate investment trusts. The company borrows money, primarily via short term repurchase agreements, and reinvests the proceeds in asset-backed securities.

Over the past 15+ years, I have come to learn a great deal about building a sound IT infrastructure and about developing an IT team that delivers excellent IT operational support across an entire global organization. This experience has been gleaned from a series of challenging external client engagements and internal technology transformation initiatives spanning a broad array of industries. During this time, I have had the privilege to work alongside, develop, and lead many talented infrastructure and network engineers, architects, IT operations and support specialists. Together, we have developed many innovative and truly transformative technology solutions that include:Server Virtualization (VMware, XenServer, and Hyper-V)Application VirtualizationDesktop Virtualization (VDI) I Desktop TransformationGlobal Messaging (Lync, Exchange 2010)Electronic Communication Surveillance (Autonomy, and DLP, Enterprise Vault)Wireless & Remote Communications ServicesPlatform as a Service (PaaS)Desktop as a Service (DaaS)Storage Area Network (SAN)Internal/External CloudMy approach is straight forward: -Identify the true needs of business and develop a focused IT infrastructure strategy to meet those business needs while providing the scalability to satisfy future growth requirements.-Build and develop top-notch talent that’s focused on designing, deploying, and managing infrastructure solutions at a high level.-Create a business model that reduces costs and enables the technical team to deliver on defined SLAs, KPIs, and regulatory compliance standards.Specialties: IT strategy development and execution, technology transformation, fiscal efficiency, applications development lifecycle, project management, business process reengineering, operations automation, global IT operations, mergers / acquisition / divestiture execution, and high / continuous availability systems engineering, business communications, C-level communications, mentoring, technology transformation, enterprise license agreement, global messaging, headcount reduction.