Before Moving on...

It was tough decision to move on from dream company to pursue personal goals. Typically, everyone  writes their last day email; however, I had seen so many such emails and going my colleagues one by one; there was no desire to send an email to unknown DLs. Hence writing my notes here to capture my thoughts.

However, I am satisfied before moving that I accomplished what I set goals 2 years back when I landed to US with all ifs/buts. I will jot down only positive outcomes.

• First development project though career wise not that fruitful, but happy to fit in big shoes of matured process and to be able to introduce few innovations in Reporting. In end,
• Increased client satisfaction rating (Engagement Feedback improved with no open actions from when joined the project). 
• Was able to handle multiple demands and expectations from client and offshore team. 
• Was able to get new reporting applications to increase from 3 marts to 8 applications for active development
• Opened up opportunities for Cognos development. 
• Offshore team had raised concern about no onshore reviews happening, testing/estimation issue and lack of onshore opportunities for Cognos. I am glad that with continuous team efforts, all these aspects were addressed and we went into "managed service" mode to increase flexibility for rotation and at the same time create win win situation for Client. It was fun learning to create estimation sheet for Cognos for various factors.
• Last 6-7 months I took up Support project BI Delivery lead role as challenge without following common culture, still project can become successful and stable. Happy to see 
• Define how we can operate to meet clients need. 
• Added Cognos and QlikView app support as well as Admin support successfully
• Identified gaps and worked to fill on them every day at both client as well as Team end. End result is every one was happy to get their "data" and new project.
• Successful transition for freshers to take up responsibilities to meet project goals.  
• When joined, I was given one zip of document; by the time of leaving, have all knowledge documents, status templates, highlights, optimized run for month end runs; Cognos Environment stability; inputs to project team to create more development opportunity to use system correctly. It was good to have all rights to build solutions and I cherish moments working with ST colleagues as well as Infosys team mates. I enjoyed teaching tricks while learning new one. There was always a solution created instead of complaining for more work or issues.. that was the best part of engagement

• On Leaving,
• Team sent Big Thank you email as departing notes. That was one of the most cherished moment in this tenure and made me feel that yes I did something good. Working as teammate rather than treating them as resource became number one priority as I matured. I am grateful to team for giving opportunities to practice ways of working and finding out work around.
• Met with Offshore GPM with whom had long discussion about plan about my career growth that didn't happen. It proved everything still goes with perception rather than who does ground work.
• Proved that Inspired by Intellect and Driven by Values is only on paper when manager tries to negotiate to take back resignations. If someone works and delivers should be counted if some corporate wants to retain talent; not based on talking. I had all data points to tackle questions professionally. However, it was good to see them realize mistake for not engaging Employees and questionable approach of always fault finding instead of adopting approach of creating solution.
• From last project, one of offshore person (who left company) and who was quite hostile to me in beginning; it was great achievement to get thank you. Those are my true earnings while being at Infosys.
• I got call from my Pune SPM (Rajesh Bhujbal) to say farewell. I am grateful for such considerations. Hope, same attitude is engraved in who becomes manager. 
• In my first project at Infosys, I am grateful for Piyush, Ashish Chabbra, Arun P, Ajeet Mohanty, Sumit Singh, Abrar, Akshay Mehta, Tushar Balerao, Denny to name a few who helped me understanding corporate culture and broke myth that being intellectual is not enough; but you need to "play" according to game to survive in competition. I learnt it and hence seeking my own path :)
• I had made lots of friends and did night outs before (9.15 hours policy).  Thanks Infosys for that. Some policies made tough decision for me to move out; however, some in the end provided enough reason for me to move out. 

Looking forward to continue on journey to learn new lessons technically and non technically.

Hope to get better and better and more focused to help more...

Signing Off to start new adventure...