TGIF. An off season thanks giving session.
Friday was worth thanking God for every bit. A quite nice day. Worth blogging (Yeah, I don't need any excuse to blog :P).
Last week had a tremulous beginning. It had me losing my temper for something or other every alternate day. Needless to say, I gave tough time to my people. But what ends well, is well. Work wise Urja, Vijay, Sony, Kapil, Rajeev, Kapil & involved team mates played important role in ensuring that objectives be driven home finally on Friday. Thanks to each one of you. You brought us the reason to smile and be happy by Friday evening.
We celebrated Urja's bday on Friday, a day prior to the original day. Reason? If we had waited for Monday instead of Friday, I would have missed out on the new cake flavor (Fruit Forest, courtesy Merwans) :D. Bday celebration were attended by Dr Sarat Chandra Sir, Director, C-DAC Hyderabad. Thank you Zia Sir for inviting him on our behalf. Sorry, no photos to share as of yet. Will share when Ranjit makes them available.
C-DAC Mumbai had organized farewell gathering at Ramada for S Ramakrishnan, Former Director General, C-DAC. Many relate well with "Ramki" tag than "S Ramakrishnan" name. But like Dr Phatak & Dr F C Kohli said in appreciation of Ramakrishnan Sir that it's an embodiment of two great names of Gods. It is wrong to make an acronym out of it. Decided yesterday evening that never ever will I use the acronym for Ramakrishnan Sir. Meanwhile, I also need to say this. Aparna accomplished her role of compering the entire event with wonderful grace and professionalism. Great work, Aparna.
SENG team came in close contacts with Ramakrishnan Sir in last two years of working with NSDG. When Hardware & Software procurement for project was in complete mess, Ramakrishnan Sir came in to resolve matters. He spent 5 days in our office making sure things start moving first and then, to right directions. Procurement (H/W, S/W and people) has remained shaky throughout 9 years of my observations. Not just one project but... what an awful nightmare has it been all these years. The team completed development of the most important components on slowest machines with 256 and 512 MB RAM. We got RAM upgraded only after these critical development were complete. Story doesn't end here. Development Servers came in when our development was complete. So now we had all solution ready on Development Server nicely waiting for deployment goodies to be available. Deployment hardware and software came in 6 months later than the original slotted time. I remember him taking local authorities to task and saying that "the team is ready with solution right on target but now there is no deployment hardware & deployment software to deliver it on. Please support these people. This team has brought lot of respect to the organization. Don't let this team down". Yeah, I remember saying this one line "This team has brought respect to the organization" earlier also but never said the remaining ones. I don't like to be disrespectful. But if I don't say the remaining untold things now, I will be dishonest and untruthful to Ramakrishnan Sir and to my team too. I am realizing this as I am writing this blog down. My team had put in all their blood and sweat in their work and Ramakrishnan Sir drove things to their destination when everyone else was running for their personal covers. To think of it, in this year we have been awarded with five more additional funded projects by DIT, our parent body. None of it were possible if it wasn't for this amazing team and Ramakrishnan Sir. DIT has been very appreciative both in words and action for Software Engineering team. Thank you, everyone. Godspeed.
Thank you Ramakrishnan Sir. I agree with ED Sir. You surely have been a great leader and good mentor. While everyone kept saying "we will miss you" to him, I still haven't said "bye" to him. I don't think I will ever say bye to him :)
Last week had a tremulous beginning. It had me losing my temper for something or other every alternate day. Needless to say, I gave tough time to my people. But what ends well, is well. Work wise Urja, Vijay, Sony, Kapil, Rajeev, Kapil & involved team mates played important role in ensuring that objectives be driven home finally on Friday. Thanks to each one of you. You brought us the reason to smile and be happy by Friday evening.
We celebrated Urja's bday on Friday, a day prior to the original day. Reason? If we had waited for Monday instead of Friday, I would have missed out on the new cake flavor (Fruit Forest, courtesy Merwans) :D. Bday celebration were attended by Dr Sarat Chandra Sir, Director, C-DAC Hyderabad. Thank you Zia Sir for inviting him on our behalf. Sorry, no photos to share as of yet. Will share when Ranjit makes them available.
C-DAC Mumbai had organized farewell gathering at Ramada for S Ramakrishnan, Former Director General, C-DAC. Many relate well with "Ramki" tag than "S Ramakrishnan" name. But like Dr Phatak & Dr F C Kohli said in appreciation of Ramakrishnan Sir that it's an embodiment of two great names of Gods. It is wrong to make an acronym out of it. Decided yesterday evening that never ever will I use the acronym for Ramakrishnan Sir. Meanwhile, I also need to say this. Aparna accomplished her role of compering the entire event with wonderful grace and professionalism. Great work, Aparna.
SENG team came in close contacts with Ramakrishnan Sir in last two years of working with NSDG. When Hardware & Software procurement for project was in complete mess, Ramakrishnan Sir came in to resolve matters. He spent 5 days in our office making sure things start moving first and then, to right directions. Procurement (H/W, S/W and people) has remained shaky throughout 9 years of my observations. Not just one project but... what an awful nightmare has it been all these years. The team completed development of the most important components on slowest machines with 256 and 512 MB RAM. We got RAM upgraded only after these critical development were complete. Story doesn't end here. Development Servers came in when our development was complete. So now we had all solution ready on Development Server nicely waiting for deployment goodies to be available. Deployment hardware and software came in 6 months later than the original slotted time. I remember him taking local authorities to task and saying that "the team is ready with solution right on target but now there is no deployment hardware & deployment software to deliver it on. Please support these people. This team has brought lot of respect to the organization. Don't let this team down". Yeah, I remember saying this one line "This team has brought respect to the organization" earlier also but never said the remaining ones. I don't like to be disrespectful. But if I don't say the remaining untold things now, I will be dishonest and untruthful to Ramakrishnan Sir and to my team too. I am realizing this as I am writing this blog down. My team had put in all their blood and sweat in their work and Ramakrishnan Sir drove things to their destination when everyone else was running for their personal covers. To think of it, in this year we have been awarded with five more additional funded projects by DIT, our parent body. None of it were possible if it wasn't for this amazing team and Ramakrishnan Sir. DIT has been very appreciative both in words and action for Software Engineering team. Thank you, everyone. Godspeed.
Thank you Ramakrishnan Sir. I agree with ED Sir. You surely have been a great leader and good mentor. While everyone kept saying "we will miss you" to him, I still haven't said "bye" to him. I don't think I will ever say bye to him :)