First job with Bitwise

Lucky to have got this break right after the Dot-com bubble.

Applied software knowledge to real world assignments -statistical reports, application documentation.

First career move with Xansa

First hand experience interacting with a client – the design sign-off boss was British.

Solved a tonne of production tickets, wrote quite a few application programs.

Worked in a multi-nationality environment –
Danish, British, Swedish, Israeli, Cypriot work colleagues.

Executed projects in Enterprise modernization i.e. convert applications from legacy languages to newer languages.

Learnt and became the subject matter expert on healthcare claims processing.

Delivered more than 100 small and medium projects (up to 1500MDs).

Did my MBA from Chicago Booth (ranked top 5 in the world) while still working 10 hours every day.

Learnt Property Tax domain.

Practiced Agile in a cloud first enterprise grade ground up development.

Delivered 3000+ MDs of project.

Never make the SAME mistake more than once.

Hallmarks of a well designed code and documentation.

First exposure to user centric design - an application's ultimate goal is to make life easier for the end user.

Dealing with clients – what to tell them and maybe what NOT to tell.

Handling multiple projects in various stages of SDLC simultaneously.

The art of Project resourcing.

Became adept at “dreaming up” entire project requirements with estimated costs with a 2-line business outcome statement.

Contract matters for half a dozen folks.

Things to watch for during transition from development to go live to maintenance phase for a large project.