A brief history of AdyaMan

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Greetings Earthling.... I come in peace....

I'm basically(other variants - PERLically, C++ically etc.) from Belgaum, Karnataka in India. Most of my childhood and education was spent in Belgaum. I had flashes of inspiration now and then and as a result of one of these flashes , decided to do my Bachelors in Engineering... I would like to say I worked hard on it to get into a good college .. but ... fact is i didnt :-) ..

Engineering was mostly one big blur which stretched for four years .. four years of unshackled fun and games (the computer variety) with intermittent studying binges. I did manage to learn something .. .and it was mostly because I ignored what was being taught in the class and what had to be read for the exams :).

And then there was WORK .... @ Rangsons, Mysore where I worked for almost a year. This was the time I really enjoyed professionally and technically, learnt a great deal of techie stuff and got hooked on to networking (again the computer variety) . I also seem to have started enjoying teaching there, never knew I had it in me !!.

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TCS (The Chennakeshav Story) began in Jan 2004, when I came down(or up?) to Pune all the way from Mysore. My first real interaction began with the picnic to Mulshi dam(n) and ever since the Pune TCS junta has had to bear my long mails. There were times when I even had to bribe some of them to read my mails. Whew! so much so for my writ(h)ing.
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Am currently with the Operationl Metrics Reporting a.k.a. O.M.R. a.k.a. Oye Maar project primarily into datawarehousing and working on Microsoft Analysis Services, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, Informatica, Visual Basic, C#, Unix , PERL and umm.... lets see MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Outlook, notepad(err.... looks like I have to stop here) .... I've always savored the challenges here and it was a very very important phase in my life .... Met a horde of people and got to learn of lot of good, new, interesting, amazing things (ahem .... not necessarily in that order ;-))
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Well whaddya know ... .My life's story in less than a thousand words. There you have it.

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you must be a sucker for punishment to have read till here and still wanting more ... :)
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I read incessantly , usually non academic stuff, except for things like data warehousing algorithms which i really like :-). I mostly read humour and travelogues these days, the libraries have an amazing collection of books which keeps me busy and when I am not reading.... I am surgically attached to my iPod.... else, I usually am playing games( right now NFS SE-II and Recoil .... and at times with people ;-) ..

Now u know me.

Albeit for the time being, the universe is nagging me to work, so i better get right on that.

Cheers!
AdyaMan

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