Background in computer science, mathematics, and information systems

I had just finished my Bachelors’ in Commerce and was weighing different options of future study that would serve my career best. This was twelve years back and I was one of the fortunate many who were aware of the outsourcing story in India. US Multinationals were off shoring more and more large software projects to India. There was a tremendous shortage of computer skills in the world and India, which foresaw this stepped in to fill the gap The Indian software industry, had zoomed from a mere $ 20 million in 1978 to $ 4 billion in 1998-99, of which $ 2. 6 billion was exported.India had achieved this feat by leveraging its most valuable resource, that of highly skilled manpower. These facts stared at all young aspirants who were looking at a bright future career and I decided to make the most of this opportunity by entering the Information Technology sphere to enhance my skills and improve myself. The thirst is not over as yet and I am applying for Masters’ today after relevant exposure and experience. Right from High School. I had a way with numbers and this made me get an A in Mathematics in my High School, and very good grades in my Accounts, Costing and Statistics in BCom.This aptitude and confidence in my quantitative skills made me choose the field of Computers where I knew a person’s logical thinking was the key to success. I got my Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Sciences from Comp-U-Serve, a professional organization. I cleared my Microsoft Certified Professional exams and also did a course at Harvard University in Advance networking and secured an A I also joined a Master’s program in Computer Applications and the following are the courses that I studied during my training at Vivekananda. 1. IT Tools and Applications. 2 Business Systems. 3 Programming and Problem Solving through C Language .4 Computer Organisation. 5 Structured System Analysis & Design. I started my career as a Systems Administrator and Training Faculty with a Computer Training Institute called Wintech Computers where I learnt a lot about real world computing in Java and Networking. My next learning curve took me to General Electric which gave me a totally different perspective. I was appointed as a Client Services Analyst for one of the world’s first off-shoring trials of Network Operations to India, where I had to study Information Systems and Network Operations in the United States and off shore the whole process to my peers in India.Later, I joined a start up IT consulting firm in the United States, Mascon Global Consulting. I have been with this firm for the past 6 years and have helped clients like Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Verizon and McGraw Hill with implementing various IT solutions Novartis gave me exposure to how information Systems could be used for purposes of research, of innovation in drugs and rules and regulations in the manufacture of drugs. At Verizon I got a chance to work and Implement path breaking prot ocols like ‘Voice Over IP’ which was a very strategic product as all of Verizon’s future voice products will be based on this platform.I played an instrumental role in creating a prototype for VOIP which was based on SIP technology. My work also led me to create a framework for testing Verizon’s VOIP Client for real world scenarios by adding jitter, delay and packet loss using NIST NET Software and being able to compare it with other clients such as Google, MSN and Yahoo etc. The proposed prototype for VOIP was very well accepted and is currently in use at Verizon. Technical excellence explains why India was identified by 82 per cent of American companies as their top destination for software outsourcing, according to a World Bank survey.My education and work experience have intensified my thirst for Masters’ in Information Systems. Second version I had just finished my Bachelors’ in Commerce and was weighing different options of future study that would serve my career best. This was twelve years back and I was one of the fortunate many who were aware of the outsourcing story in India. US Multinationals were off shoring more and more large software projects to India.There was a tremendous shortage of computer skills in the world and India, which foresaw this stepped in to fill the gap India was leveraging its most valuable resource, that of highly skilled manpower These facts stared at all young aspirants who were looking at a bright future career and I decided to make the most of this opportunity by entering the Information Technology sphere to enhance my skills and improve myself. The thirst is not over as yet and I am applying for Masters’ today after relevant exposure and experience. Right from High School., I had a way with numbers and this made me get an A in Mathematics in my High School, and very good grades in my Accounts, Costing and Statistics in B. COM. This aptitude and confidence in my quantitative skills made me choose the field of Computers where I knew a person’s logical thinking was the key to success. I got my Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Sciences from Comp-U-Serve, a professional organization. I cleared my Microsoft Certified Professional exams and also did a course at Harvard University in Advance networking and secured an A.I started my career as a Systems Administrator and Training Faculty with a Computer Training Institute called Wintech Computers where I learnt a lot about real world computing in Java and Networking. My next learning curve took me to General Electric which gave me a totally different perspective. I was appointed as a Client Services Analyst for one of the world’s first off-shoring trials of Network Operations to India, where I had to study Information Systems and Network Operations in the United States and off shore the whole process to my peers in India.My experience in the course of my first interaction with GE Plastics was uniq ue Later, I joined a start up IT consulting firm in the United States, Mascon Global Consulting. I have been with this firm for the past 6 years and have helped clients like Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Verizon and McGraw Hill with implementing various IT solutions Novartis gave me exposure to how information Systems could be used for purposes of research, of innovation in drugs and rules and regulations in the manufacture of drugs.At Verizon I got a chance to work and Implement path breaking protocols like ‘Voice Over IP’ which was a very strategic product as all of Verizon’s future voice products would be based on this platform. I played an instrumental role in creating a prototype for VOIP which was based on SIP technology. My work also led me to create a framework for testing Verizon’s VOIP Client for real world scenarios by adding jitter, delay and packet loss using NIST NET Software and being able to compare it with other clients such as Google, MSN and Yahoo etc.The proposed prototype for VOIP was very well accepted and is currently in use at Verizon. Technical excellence explains why India was identified by 82 per cent of American companies as their top destination for software outsourcing, according to a World Bank survey. My education and work experience have shown me that there is much more to excellence and have intensified my thirst for Masters’ in Information Systems.