I did my entire schooling from Cambridge Foundation School in New Delhi. Always wanted to complete my masters before getting on with a job and so undertook a Masters In Business Administration right after my engineering.

First big decision was during my management course. I was not sure if I wanted to get into management or to pursue my ambition of being a technologist. Glad I decided for latter and joined a technology company as a developer and then a programmer analyst. I worked in C++/VC++ and other microsoft technologies like COM/DCOM for first few years and enjoyed it thoroughly. My first big project where I think I really made a difference was to create a learning software for schools. We implemented a software that can create extremely interactive and visual learning courses for middle school students in a variety of subjects.

I had the oppportunity to join Wipro technologies, one of the largest IT companies in India but instead I decided to join Yash Technologies, a solutions provider company based out of Illinois in Jan 2000. It was a big decision but paid off. Yash Technologies Inc is an excellent company to work for and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to be in a consulting environment and still needs a great deal of job security.

I consulted for a variety of clients in various business domains while at Yash and gradually moved into managing people and technology. Working through other professional service organizations like BEA professional services etc gave a new perspective on dealing with clients and staying calm under high pressure situations. Some of the key technical projects I worked on are described here

As a consultant, I spent a good amount of time working for the online division of Cox Newspapers. We were responsible for migrating 50+ sites from applications like perl etc to a pure J2EE based enterprise system. I joined COXnet as Manager, Software Engineering on Feb 2005 and worked with a very professional technology team. It was a wonderful experience with many lessons learnt on people and process management. I managed a team of 25+ developers including 4 development managers and outsourced 24x7 helpdesk operations.

Presently I lead technology organization as 'Director Of Technology' for Studiocom, a WPP company, leading a team of 50+ professionals in a network model with 3 offices in US and offshore teams in Columbia and India. I work with very creative people and with extremely talented technologists in a services business model and it is an eye opener. What attracted to me this job was the diversity of applications we implement ranging from CMS systems, enterprise applications, CRM systems etc and very cool user experiences. I am fascinated with the idea of managing large teams and still being hands on with technology. In my personal opinion it is absolutely a must for technology managers to be able to architect systems on a white board and even roll up their sleeves and get down to helping developers with code. I think we can deliver better quality products faster when developers know they are being overseen by a person who can do what they can, only better.

This site of mine is meant to share ideas and perspective on management, technology, personal life and whatever goes on around us. I will be very actively updating management and technical sections with new articles and share my viewpoint.