1)
What makes me excited –
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Vision for Cloud, Mobility and Data science.
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Un conventional business line
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Intense technology drive
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Product Influence for global market
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Experiment with methodology and technologies.
2)
How I see myself contributing to the
industry –
a)
Identifying technology trends:
Focus on long-term Technology Roadmap aligned with organization ’s vision.
Identify the key technology trends that will have impact on organizations
business, that offer new opportunities to the organization. Work with business
and delivery heads to assess the relevance to the current and future service
offerings
b)
Incubate new technology competencies:
Through technology office, define and execute strategies to develop competencies
in the emerging technologies. Provide direction to Talent Management team to
acquire and nurture strong technical talent.
c)
Build strong Technology oriented culture
in the organization: As a CTO, build and promote strong
technology culture in the organization.
d)
Provide strategic direction to the
technical communities: Mentor and provide direction to specific
technology groups such as Performance engineering, Security, Architecture, etc.
e)
Provide support to delivery units:
Through various technology competencies, provide support to delivery units to
solve complex technology problems.
f)
Interact with customer counterparts and
prospects: Showcase organization ’s Technology Vision. Be the
Technology Visionary, well-respected by the customer.
g)
Speak in External Events, Write Technology
articles: Focus on creating a strong Technology Brand.
3)
Differentiator which I bring along –
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Veteran in Large organizations as well as
Start-ups, founded & build 3 tech start-ups
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Been on the driver’s seat for more than 10 yrs
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Entrepreneur and Achiever(Heart, body,
soul)
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Life is 7 times failing and 8 times rising.
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Realized early that only three things can change
life – Dream (to create), Love (what you do), Sufferings (when you walk less
travelled path)
Top 10 list on me:
1. Veteran: Eighteen years of career
experience surviving many shocks including Y2K hype, internet bubble and the great
recession (laid off from work twice).
2. Achiever (Heart, Body and Soul): Over
ten years experiencing lots of success but also great deal of failures as well.
Biggest learning is how to keep persistence in low and difficult times.
3. Roaming Feet: Got wonderful opportunity
to travel to eleven countries for both work and fun. Look forward to experience
many more.
4. What I Understand of myself: Have taken
considerable amount of time in understanding my mission, which is making a
significant difference in the environment where I contribute.
5. Toughest question to Answer: What is
your best achievement?
6. Work – Life (Do I really know how to
handle?): Love golf, audiophile, loves cross country drives and family time [Work
like a demon, Party like a devil and Sleep like an angle]
7. Always grateful: To a wonderful bunch
of colleagues, great mentors, tough clients, awesome management team and
support of a large family fraternity.
8. What I do best: Technology, product, go
to market, sales, talk, motivate, create, drive, result.
9. What I can’t do (learning a lot, still
lagging): Diplomacy, ideation.
10. Journey ahead: Self assessment tells
me of a long road ahead. It took me more than a decade to achieve the “private
victory” of 7 habits (proactive, first thing first, begin with the end in
mind). Now focusing on achieving “public victory”
