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2006 -
Dstl, UK. A leading scientific
laboratory which deals with special Ministry of Defence project.
Another 'secretive' organisation with lot of ideas to implement both in
PeopleSoft and in general system work. Good team and great working
environment with Banking Style Screens.
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2005 -
Zynap, London. A talent
management company working towards senior strategic succession planning
software. Great modern office, with view to Thames and FT close
by. Still need more direction towards integration as they have
undertaken the mammoth task of merging PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle and any
other HR system. Liked their search engine Autonomy, I think...
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2004 -
MCI Worldcom, Reading UK -
Three hours drive to a really stylish building with swans and pond and
all works. Yes its the same bankrupt company with lot of cash in
the vault and not enough avenues to spend. Being a very large
multi-language multi-country multi-currency project, it was always fun
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2003 -
Ernst & Young, London - Great to
back into city and buzz and working for a Big5 again. The project
was all Global solution (US thinking!!!) integration with the local
countries. It was an eye opener that US people really live in a
cocoon and have no clue as to what the world outside USA is... But
overall working with some bright people who were focussed on
documentation. |
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2002 -
Department of Defence, Canberra -
Defence was the only site which I had not worked at during my long
stints in the city. The work was getting a common understanding
between three arms of defence army, navy and air. Trust me it was
not an easy job when egos are involved and 'we have been doing like this
way for last 100 odd years', how do you argue with that... |
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2002 -
Ministry of Defence, Swindon UK - First
few days at a site when people had to accompany me everywhere, including
waiting outside toilets. It started with a short Data Mapping work
and ended up with implementation of Human resources for MoD. The
place is full of partying people. |
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2001 -
PeopleSoft, Reading UK - Still
feel silly about 20 minutes preparation time was all I was given for
delivering a 5 day PeopleCode training. Just to break my
concentration Twin Towers were collapsed, but trust me the class did not
get any breaks and learning was usual till 5 pm. |
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2001 -
Allinity/Congruent UK- CPS's
extension to Europe was allinity, where its just good fun, and great
team. Office is built more on trust and people's self motivation
instead of hard stick and million rules. The openness of the
company and basic humanness is one of the rare trait which you see in
any medium sized places... |
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2001 -
AMP, Sydney - If you are ever
visited Sydney and saw the city skyline, you will be surprised to know
that lot of those buildings are owned by AMP, including Centrepoint.
Working for Judith, AMP manager, was good fun and to give you a few
examples, team masseur, boat cruises, jet ski, breakfast at some really
expensive places... Well the work was setting up the self service
for AMP employees and I think I still have the T-Shirt, a proof of
successful go-live. |
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2000 -
Australian Customs Service ,
Canberra and National Crime
Authority, Melbourne - Upgrading PeopleSoft was the project but I
was predominantly focussed on Self Service and the product was a hated
software to the point that Customs Staff in vengeance body searched lot
of PeopleSoft consultants coming into Australia. After self
service implementation the product was not only usable but people
actually used it without complaining. |
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2000 -
Ericsson, Melbourne - In the
consulting world most of the times the Consultant is deemed to be the
knowledge expert and client is there to benefit from the knowledge.
At Ericsson, John McKee was a client but man-o-man he was full of ideas
and ways to help his employee base. |
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1999 -
Australian Securities Investment
Commission(ASIC)
Sydney- The only people in sharemarket are scared of, are ASIO and ASIC.
Database Installation and Self service were the major component of my
work. Only place I have seen so far where the client project
manager plays politics with the consultants. BTW my Desk was at the top
of Westin Hotel, overlooking Martin Place and Sydney harbour. |
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1999 -
Australian Parliament House (APH)
Canberra- The most prestigious place in the country, the parliament,
where I have queued with senators and MPs for a cup of coffee. The
outrageous thing I did was the running late for a meeting I almost
brutally pushed out of the lift Mr. John Howard, Prime Minister.
The billion dollar house as people
affectionately call the parliament house, was a maze and huge structure
and the work was setting up the HR/Payroll for MPs, Senator, Employees,
public servants... APH was the first site wherein I encounter
Employee Self Service.
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1998 -
Australian National Audit Office (ANAO)
Canberra- My first PeopleSoft individual consulting client. The highlight of
the work at ANAO was integration of Lotus Notes with PeopleSoft for
activity based costing and project accounting.
The Australian National
Audit Office (ANAO) is a specialist public sector practice providing a
full range of audit services to the Parliament and Commonwealth public
sector agencies and statutory bodies. Our audit clients include some 300
government bodies. These include Budget dependent agencies involved in
the delivery of core services and commercially oriented entities.
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1998 -
Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)
Canberra - Encounter with Canberra started with CASA, where I was
designing crystal reports for the senior managers. |
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1998 -
Congruent Professional Service
(CPS) Sydney- A PeopleSoft
consulting firm which started with simple ideas and great people.
When I first visited their offices for an interview, it was a kind of
shock with drug injecting people at the entrance, squeaking lift, no
reception area, no meeting room either. But after I joined and few
others also became part of team and it expanded well. CPS moved into
City centre and also business flourished. |
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1998 -
University of New South Wales (UNSW),
Sydney was the UNI where I did my Masters in Information Science.
The few striking memories of that place is great swimming pool, full of
oriental/international students, too many assignments and submissions.
I feel that establishment can single handedly reduce the global
deforestation by reducing submissions |
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1998 -
Accenture (Andersen Consulting) in Sydney was my first
Consulting job. AC trained me in real people skills and client
server an other wonderful technology. They also made me sit
through sessions on how-to-dress, what-to-speak,.... Must admit it
was like IIT revisited, just the difference was suits and less
profanity... |
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1997 -
Botany Multicultural Training Centre (BMTC) in Sydney was
the place where I worked while studying at UNSW. This place was a
training center for people who are unemployed or need skills.
While working I acquired not only patience of teaching people but also
the much needed 'Thinking-thru-others-perspective' ... |
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1996 -
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) in Bombay was the
first real job, where petroleum refinery designing was the real job.
It also trained me in Bombay Culture, corporate operations, office
politics... But must say if you ever had the pleasure of meeting
any of the Ambanis, then you know what the real powerful man is... |
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1993 -
Jain Group in Jalgaon, India was the company I got into
via campus placement. Lasted there only one month not because of
bad work but because they were going to send me to Israel for some
specialised training. |
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1993 -
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Bombay (Mumbai) was
the place were I graduated from in Chemical Engineering. I must
say IIT education is one part but the "person-building" is the another
facet, which will make what I will be in years. Not to forget
apart from conventional education there was Hostel-6 (H6), an
institution in itself. H6 created hexalites who were ready to face
anything in the world... no kidding, have you eaten in hostel mess ever! |
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1988 - St. Mary's Convent School in Ujjain kept
me occupied for getting me my basic education. I think the most I
still remember is from the school where I think it was the best time of
life as well as formative years. |
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