Career Summary
Here is a quick summary of how my career has moved till now!
Current Employment - Seven Seas LLC, UAE (Jan 2006 - Present)
- Project 1: Retailing of Natural Products (Setting up a retail concept like the Body Shop)
- Project 2: Establishing & maintaining partnerships & generating sales for software solutions (Like intranet portals, project management solutions etc.)
- Project 3: Licensing & solutions sales for Microsoft products (This is the business that Microsoft makes all its dough from. Seven Seas makes 16% of its revenue from this business!)
Startup Business : Deft Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. (May 2003 - December 2005)
These were the highly intense years as a first-time entrepreneur dabbling in businesses purely for passion & out of a sense of adventure!
- Project 1: Selling Laboratory Equipment to top Research Institutes in North India
- Project 2: Surgical Gloves distribution to Hospitals (Margins were razor thin!!)
- Project 3: Herbal Extracts and Essential Oils exports
- Project 4: Herbal Formulations development & marketing
M.B.A. - ISB Hyderabad March 2002 - April 2003
- Majored in Marketing & Technology
- Learnt & enjoyed with illustrious classmates & world-best professors!!
First Employment - Wipro Technologies May 2000 - March 2002
Systems Engineer. These years were spent in a lab full of large base station controllers. I was part of the team which was responsible for the testing and bug fixing to the base station controllers of Lucents GSM network devices.
To put it precisely I was a test engineer (and then a test lead). My job was to test that the hardware and software is working the way it is supposed to. On a day to day basis it involved running through test cases and test scripts to ensure that every thing works as expected and if something fails, then report the same along with evidence.
It was interesting at first, but gradually it got repetitive and boring and I decided that there were better ways to spend my years. I took the GMAT, applied for 4 B-schools. I got admits from 2 and a wait list of 3rd. I joined Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
Bachelor of Engineering, IIT Roorkee (Erstwhile University of Roorkee) (1996 - 2000)
These were amazing years of my life. I entered University of Roorkee as an undergraduate student in the Pulp and Paper Engineer Department. However after the first year I got my branch changed to Electrical Engineering.
Life is ironic. I always remember that when we were young, my younger brother was always the one who could fix broken devices or malfunctioning radios or electrical connections etc. He was a more natural Electrical Engineer than I was. (He would also go on to become an electrical engineer and end up at the top of his graduating class from the REC Surat)
I graduated from Roorkee with almost a distinction grade (74.6% - 75% was distinction grade).
My greatest achievement in the university was winning the Gold medal for the BE project. That was the only time I wrote some code and planned a software along with my buddies KK-the josh machine (Kamal Kishor Joshi) & Pakora (Abhinav Kumar Singh).
Writing programs and coding was a genuinely frustrating experience for me. I could read about technologies and understand how systems works, but I just hated to write code.
Class 3rd - 12th DPS NOIDA (1986-1996)
Came into the bigger Noida School where my younger brother had already been studying for two years. The bottle green blazer and the gray trousers looked amazing in the winters.
Intelligent student at School. Teachers used to like me a lot. I used to get scholars badge every alternate year. However I missed our on a scholar gown since I could never get 3 scholar badges in a row. I believe that I was in a position of responsibility for around 50% of the time that I spent in DPS Noida...it was a cool experience to stay in the teachers good books and enjoy life to the hilt by breaking small rules here and there behind their back ;-). Initially a class monitor, then around high school I became a prefect and then house captain and then the Joint secretary of the Students council in the final year of school.
Standard 1-2 APJ NOIDA (1984 - 1986)
An average-bright student. My best friends from APJ were Vikalp Sharma and Adok Saraf. I learnt Gymnastics in APJ and can still do pretty good cart-wheels.
Current Employment - Seven Seas LLC, UAE (Jan 2006 - Present)
- Project 1: Retailing of Natural Products (Setting up a retail concept like the Body Shop)
- Project 2: Establishing & maintaining partnerships & generating sales for software solutions (Like intranet portals, project management solutions etc.)
- Project 3: Licensing & solutions sales for Microsoft products (This is the business that Microsoft makes all its dough from. Seven Seas makes 16% of its revenue from this business!)
Startup Business : Deft Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. (May 2003 - December 2005)
These were the highly intense years as a first-time entrepreneur dabbling in businesses purely for passion & out of a sense of adventure!
- Project 1: Selling Laboratory Equipment to top Research Institutes in North India
- Project 2: Surgical Gloves distribution to Hospitals (Margins were razor thin!!)
- Project 3: Herbal Extracts and Essential Oils exports
- Project 4: Herbal Formulations development & marketing
M.B.A. - ISB Hyderabad March 2002 - April 2003
- Majored in Marketing & Technology
- Learnt & enjoyed with illustrious classmates & world-best professors!!
First Employment - Wipro Technologies May 2000 - March 2002
Systems Engineer. These years were spent in a lab full of large base station controllers. I was part of the team which was responsible for the testing and bug fixing to the base station controllers of Lucents GSM network devices.
To put it precisely I was a test engineer (and then a test lead). My job was to test that the hardware and software is working the way it is supposed to. On a day to day basis it involved running through test cases and test scripts to ensure that every thing works as expected and if something fails, then report the same along with evidence.
It was interesting at first, but gradually it got repetitive and boring and I decided that there were better ways to spend my years. I took the GMAT, applied for 4 B-schools. I got admits from 2 and a wait list of 3rd. I joined Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
Bachelor of Engineering, IIT Roorkee (Erstwhile University of Roorkee) (1996 - 2000)
These were amazing years of my life. I entered University of Roorkee as an undergraduate student in the Pulp and Paper Engineer Department. However after the first year I got my branch changed to Electrical Engineering.
Life is ironic. I always remember that when we were young, my younger brother was always the one who could fix broken devices or malfunctioning radios or electrical connections etc. He was a more natural Electrical Engineer than I was. (He would also go on to become an electrical engineer and end up at the top of his graduating class from the REC Surat)
I graduated from Roorkee with almost a distinction grade (74.6% - 75% was distinction grade).
My greatest achievement in the university was winning the Gold medal for the BE project. That was the only time I wrote some code and planned a software along with my buddies KK-the josh machine (Kamal Kishor Joshi) & Pakora (Abhinav Kumar Singh).
Writing programs and coding was a genuinely frustrating experience for me. I could read about technologies and understand how systems works, but I just hated to write code.
Class 3rd - 12th DPS NOIDA (1986-1996)
Came into the bigger Noida School where my younger brother had already been studying for two years. The bottle green blazer and the gray trousers looked amazing in the winters.
Intelligent student at School. Teachers used to like me a lot. I used to get scholars badge every alternate year. However I missed our on a scholar gown since I could never get 3 scholar badges in a row. I believe that I was in a position of responsibility for around 50% of the time that I spent in DPS Noida...it was a cool experience to stay in the teachers good books and enjoy life to the hilt by breaking small rules here and there behind their back ;-). Initially a class monitor, then around high school I became a prefect and then house captain and then the Joint secretary of the Students council in the final year of school.
Standard 1-2 APJ NOIDA (1984 - 1986)
An average-bright student. My best friends from APJ were Vikalp Sharma and Adok Saraf. I learnt Gymnastics in APJ and can still do pretty good cart-wheels.
posted by Amit Pathak | 6:31 PM
2 Comments:
Third time lucky...as the saying goes. Hopefully now we won't have to wait till 2008 for your next post :).
Dude...I read your whole life history, but what about the biggest asset of your life - the smouldering hottie you're married to....Heard shez a real keeper?
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