Month of September flew by bringing us to the last quarter of this year. This was yet another power-packed month, full of activities and initiatives.

I visited HMNA’s New Jersey and New York offices and it was a heart warming experience. This not only offered an opportunity to meet the management team at US and have a face to face interaction with them, but also was a step forward in providing a global view of the bigger organization picture.

Sudhir Kumar is also in US from Ist week of September. He visited our clients eRT at New Jersey and Gen Prob at California. His visit was fruitful and helped us in bringing new business from eRT.

We begin the last quarter of this year with renewed enthusiasm and hope. I call for the same support and energy that has been our hallmark so far.

As always, your feedback and suggestions are invited and will help us develop, guide and nurture our initiatives and activities going forward.

Happy Reading...

Sanjay Singh

   
     
 
   
 
 
 
"Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people"		  
 
Brought to U by Trinadh S.
  
 
 
   
 
 
  Events...    
  Happenings!!!
 

 

Praveen joined us as Manager – HR & Business Development with around 12 years of experience in HR, Business Development and Administration. He will be reporting to Sanjay Singh, General Manager.

Best of Luck, Praveen! Welcome to HMGS!

 

 
 

 

Muthuraj Kumar, Lead – HR with TGS for 2 years, left Helios and Matheson to pursue his career elsewhere. We at HMGS would like to take this opportunity to recognize his valuable contributions to the team during these years here and take this opportunity to wish him the best in all his future endeavors.

 

  
 
Compiled By Priya
   
  Projects...    
   
  Professional Services
Client:- eRT (eResearch Technology)
A project was completed for the client called “GENPROBE” The team was involved for the first time to do screen design for the project. On its successful delivery and client satisfaction and appreciation, the team has been given another project “GENEXION” for screen design and Configuration. The team is currently involved in Coding and Verification.

 
 
QA Activities: Presently QA team is working on modifying the QTP Scripts for Atlas TMS for the change request of Atlas SSN. Which is removal of SSN field from all the screen. Also QA team is involved in converting the existing test cases of Atals TMS to new format suggested by new support team. On 26-Sep-2007 Kicked Off new project Mellon. Started invovling in preparing initial documentation.
   
 
Compiled by Santosh & Vasudevan
   
 
 
   
 
 
     
Take Ownership of Your Job: Passion Pays
When you are passionate about what you do, you do better and you enjoy it more.

 
Thank God it's Monday.

Do you look forward to Monday morning? Are you raring to go back to work? Or are you a TGIF (Thank God it's Friday) kind of person who can't wait to get away from the job for a couple of days? You spend at least 8 hours a day at the job. That is almost 25% of your week. If you are a TGIF person you are missing something really important in your work life - passion.

Being passionate about your job is more than the old adage "do what you love". It's looking forward to going to work. It's time flying by when you're there. It's working past quitting time, not because you're swamped with work, but because you were so intent you didn't notice the time.

When you are passionate about what you do for a living you enjoy it more. You also do it better.

You are more committed to the success of the operation if you believe in it passionately.

Putting your passion to work

The trick is not just to feel passionately about your job, but to act passionately too. Use you passion to move projects ahead, to find innovative solutions to perplexing problems, to work through the interpersonal conflicts.

If you act passionately, you won't sit passively through another boring meeting. You can't. You will share that passion with the others in the meeting. Your energy can lift all of them. Even if it doesn't, you will feel better knowing you are doing something to advance the cause in which you believe passionately.

Passionate people get more done. They don't spend time worrying about what they have to do next. They don't scheme about how to get out of doing something. And they don't have to waste time dreaming about a vacation they want to take to get away from the job.

People who are passionate about their work do a better job. Since they care so much about the work, they don't settle for anything less than their best. They don't ever "just go through the motions." They pour all their thought and energy into doing the job well.

It's just a job, isn't it?

If you feel that work is just a job, you are wasting 40 or more hours a week of your life. You are shortchanging your employer who gets less than your best effort. You are shortchanging yourself by wasting time on routine or even drudgery instead of spending that time doing what you enjoy. You could, and should, spend those 40 hours instead doing something that makes you feel good.

Not convinced?

If you have ever had a job that you felt passionately about, you know what I mean. If you have never worked at a job like that, you may wonder just how valid these statements are. If that's the case, think about something away from work that you are passionate about. Maybe it's a hobby or a sport, an activity with a special group of friends or that quiet activity where you recharge your energies.

Ever miss dinner because you were shooting hoops and didn't notice how late it had gotten? Do you know the intensity and concentration you feel when you are working on your radio-controlled models? Have you ever wondered where the day went when you were antique hunting with your best friend? Those are the passions we enjoy in our time away from work. You get the same charge when you work at a job you are passionate about. Try it and see if you don't agree.
 
     
 
By Prakash S
 
         
 
 
   
 
 
  Muthurajkumar  
 

 

  

 

  
   
I was born and brought up in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu. I am the only son to my parents.

I studied at St Joseph Matriculation Higher Secondary School and Coimbatore Institute of Technology where I did my M.Sc Software Engineering.

I am currently pursuing MBA(HR & Finance) with ICFAI.

I have around 3.5 yrs of experience in US and domestic recruitments.

My hobbies are playing, driving and watching TV.

Priya and Bhagya interviewed Dorababu and the findings are below…
  
     
How do your colleagues define you the best ?
Funny, cool, friendly, easy-going 

Your pastime.
Chatting online; watching TV

Favorite sports.
Cricket, Volleyball, Kabaddi

Favorite Food.
Fish Fry and any dish made of Paneer

One dream holiday destination you would like to visit, why?
Australia – I want to visit all the cricket grounds there and if possible watch an India Vs Australia cricket match either in Melbourne or Brisbane

Your First Love
Happened when I was in 5th Standard, her name was Abhirami

Favorite color.
Black

Dream date and where would you like to go on date with that person
Nayantara, a South Indian actress. I would like to take her to Europe

You hate
I hate people who back bite; hate people who have no team spirit

Most embarrassing moment.
This happened when I was in my 2nd or 3rd Standard. I took money from my father’s purse without his knowledge and bought ice-cream with that money which I was enjoying with my friends. My father came to know of this, and hit me in front of my friends in the marketplace.

Your idol.
Sanjay Dugar and Sourav Ganguly

How did u choose this profession?
I tried to get into the technical field, but didn’t get any opportunity for 6 months. Then an IT recruiter’s position came my way. I started working, I liked the job and that’s how I stuck to it..

Your type of music
Any kind of music.

What is your greatest strength and weakness?
My strengths – Confidence level; smile; making anyone happy
My weaknesses – I get tense even if there’s something small that goes wrong

What qualities do you admire most in people?
Confidence and kindness. 		 
         
     
Brought to you by Priya & Bhagyashree
 
         
 
 
   
 
 
     
 
Mukesh Ambani becomes world's richest Indian and fourth richest in the world

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has overtaken NRI steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal to become the richest Indian in the world, thanks to the unprecedented boom in the domestic stock market.

Ambani's net worth has soared past $50 billion, making him the first Indian and only the fourth person in the world to have a wealth higher than this amount.

The RIL chief is now believed to be next only to software czar Bill Gates of the US, Mexican business baron Carlos Slim Helu and Warren Buffett, regarded as the world's greatest investor.

  
 
 
 
Narayana Murthy on India, IT and entrepreneurship

N R Narayana Murthy, chief mentor and chairman of India's IT major Infosys Technologies, is one of the world's most admired entrepreneurs. Hence when he came to Mumbai to speak on entrepreneurship, one could not help attending the event. Here are a few gems from the IT czar's mind:

• Never before in the last 1,000 years did India receive so much attention as it has been receiving in the last 10 years.

• Never before in the last 50 years post independence, urban India has hogged as much limelight as it is doing now.

• However, in this regard, one must admit that the progress has not been that great in rural India. Indian villages have not gone as far as we had wanted them to be.

• My wife Sudha spends a lot of time in rural India (Infosys Foundation trustee) and she tells me that television has a tremendous influence in shaping rural Indian minds. It is because of the television that there is a much greater awareness of how things should be.

• Accountability of government has increased hugely, thanks to some responsible journalists and television anchors.

• This is the time when we must consolidate our gains and build a solid future. It's a daunting challenge no doubt which the entrepreneurs of this country must brave.

 
   
 
Brought to you by Prakash S.
 
     
 
 
   
 
 
  Just Quizzing...  
 
How many human faces can you find?
  
 
 
     
 
Brought to you by Doda Veeresh Reddy
 
     
  Laugh out Loud…  
 
ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTION:-
 
 

Jack and Max are walking from religious service. Jack wonders whether it would be all right to smoke while praying.

Max replies, "Why don't you ask the Priest?"

So Jack goes up to the Priest and asks, "Father, may I smoke while I pray?"

The Priest replies, "No, my son, you may not! That's utter disrespect to our religion."

Jack goes back to his friend and tells him what the good Priest told him.

Max says, "I'm not surprised. You asked the wrong question. Let me try."

And so Max goes up to the Priest and asks, "Father, may I pray while I smoke?"

To which the Priest eagerly replies, "By all means, my son. By all means. You can always pray whenever you want to."

* Moral of the story is ... The reply you get depends on the question you ask.

* For example, if you want a vacation when still working on a project don't ask for the holiday; Ask: "Can I keep working on this project while I'm on vacation?"



 
 
Courtesy : Raveendranath
 
     
   
 
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
    Dinner with client in New Jersey
     
Brought to U by Vandana & Bhagya
     
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
     
Great Indians !!!

ARYABHATT
(476 CE) MASTER ASTRONOMER AND MATHEMATICIAN
     
 
 
     
Born in 476 CE in Kusumpur (Bihar), Aryabhatt's intellectual brilliance remapped the boundaries of mathematics and astronomy. In 499 CE, at the age of 23, he wrote a text on astronomy and an unparallel treatise on mathematics called "Aryabhatiyam." He formulated the process of calculating the motion of planets and the time of eclipses. Aryabhatt was the first to proclaim that the earth is round, it rotates on its axis, orbits the sun and is suspended in space - 1000 years before Copernicus published his heliocentric theory. He is also acknowledged for calculating p (Pi) to four decimal places: 3.1416 and the sine table in trigonometry. Centuries later, in 825 CE, the Arab mathematician, Mohammed Ibna Musa credited the value of Pi to the Indians, "This value has been given by the Hindus." And above all, his most spectacular contribution was the concept of zero without which modern computer technology would have been non-existent. Aryabhatt was a colossus in the field of mathematics.
     
     
BHASKARACHARYA II
(1114-1183 CE) GENIUS IN ALGEBRA

     
 
 
     
Born in the obscure village of Vijjadit (Jalgaon) in Maharastra, Bhaskaracharya's work in Algebra, Arithmetic and Geometry catapulted him to fame and immortality. His renowned mathematical works called "Lilavati" and "Bijaganita" are considered to be unparalled and a memorial to his profound intelligence. Its translation in several languages of the world bear testimony to its eminence. In his treatise "Siddhant Shiromani" he writes on planetary positions, eclipses, cosmography, mathematical techniques and astronomical equipment. In the "Surya Siddhant" he makes a note on the force of gravity: "Objects fall on earth due to a force of attraction by the earth. Therefore, the earth, planets, constellations, moon, and sun are held in orbit due to this attraction." Bhaskaracharya was the first to discover gravity, 500 years before Sir Isaac Newton. He was the champion among mathematicians of ancient and medieval India. His works fired the imagination of Persian and European scholars, who through research on his works earned fame and popularity.
 
 
     
 
Compiled by : Prabhu