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2 SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS Rs 50 Lakh Donation to Mission Kakatiya by our Chairman Sri K V Vishnu Raju garu A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY NSS Events A university level Mega NSS Camp was conducted for 7 days i.e. from 9.1.2015 to 15.1.2015 (7 days) with 300 volunteers from different degree colleges of West Godavari District. During the 7 day camp, various activities had been conducted to carve the students into progressive citizens of the nation. Socio Economic Survey was conducted in the surrounding villages every morning. Chlorination of rural wells was another social activity taken up by the volunteers during the camp. In the nearby habitations, the NSS volunteers distributed saplings for plantation. And during the camp period based on which a report is submitted to the University. MLA of Undi assembly Constituency Sri V. Sivarama Raju gave the certificates for the service rendered in the form of comprehensive survey of the constituency. District Collector also appreciated the students On 31.03.2015 Sri K V Vishnu Raju garu, Chairman, BV Raju Institute of Technology (SVES) along with Sri Aditya Vissam, Joint Secretary, SVES met the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Telangana Sri K Chandra Sekhar Rao and donated Rs 50 Lakh towards Mission Kakatiya in the presence of Hon'ble Minster for Irrigation Sri T. Harish Rao. THE PEGA CONNECT BVRIT - Narsapur - ONE of the five Premier Institutions in the WORLD that is awarded with Virtusa Pega University Connect Lab Virtusa Corporation, Platinum Partner with P e g a S y s t e m s , announces the Head St a r t P r o g r a m f o r engineering colleges t o i m p r o v e t h e readiness of students in BPM Technology with the aegis of Pega S y s t e m s b e f o r e e n t e r i n g i n t o Corporate. B. V. Raju Institute of Technology - Narsapur has become one of the five Premier Institutions in the world which is awarded with Virtusa Pega University Connect Lab. Sri K. V. Vishnu Raju, honorable Chairman, Sri Vishnu Educational Society, mentioned that along with the other Centers of Excellence & Industry Connect Labs, the Virtusa – Pega University Connect Lab will take a major role to enable the students for the industry challenges on Business Process Management. Sri Ravichandran Rajagopal, honorable Vice Chairman, Sri Vishnu Educational Society, emphasized on getting many more Industry Connect Labs to provide readiness to the students to meet industry expectations. The Virtusa Pega University Connect Lab was inaugurated by Sri Sreekanth Lapala Vice President -Virtusa Corporation on 13th of March 2015. He explained how all over the globe the Pega experts (numbered around 6000), and our students would be joining this elite group. It is one of the best starts for any career in IT industry because the demand for PEGA expert is going to be very high throughout the next decade. They may also get the onsite job opportunities much earlier than other students working in usual domains. Skill Development The NSS unit of BVRICE conducted a Skill Development Programme for 100 student volunteers from 25.1.2015 to 31.1.2015. Students from 6 surrounding colleges attended the programme. Ms. Suneetha, Tanuku, was the trainer of Flower Making and Embroidery. Mr. Eswar, Black Belt holder from Vijayawada trained the students in Martial arts for Self Defense. All the students learned martial arts for two days enthusiastically.
ISSUE 09 OCT 2015 LEADER SPEAK 3 Rendezvous with Ms.Anupama Arvind Kumar of Capgemini How would you describe your journey so far? It has had its ups and downs. But by far I think it's been a very interesting journey. I started as a developer in the Telecom Vertical. I worked with TCS for over 9 years on various projects and domains including Telecom and Manufacturing. I have done various roles such as developer, tester, quality lead and security lead before moving on to managerial or leadership roles. After TCS, I joined Capgemini and I have been here for close to 10 years now. These 10 years have been in the financial services sector where I have had the opportunity to manage the projects for some well known Banking clients. Currently I am a Delivery Executive for the biggest BFSI account for Capgemini. With each change in role, there have been challenges and of course a lot of learning too, in the past 20 years. We understand that you occupied diverse positions in IT sector. What is your opinion on women diversity in IT and other fronts? Women Diversity in most IT companies hovers around the 25 to 30% range. The diversity percentage is higher at the lower levels and becomes a single digit at the Senior or Executive management level. For many women, the priorities change after marriage or once they have kids. Many quit due to lack of a good support system at home. Rarely, they try to come back after a long break. Some of the women who pass the marriage or maternity phase and continue working don't look at it as a career. In Capgemini we are focused on improving the diversity and we run a number of initiatives under the banner WinspirE. Some of those are mentoring programs, women specific management and leadership training, gender sensitization workshops, support for pregnant women and new mothers, crèche facilities and many more. What challenges did you face while changing domains? I haven't actually had such challenges. At the beginning of the career, one doesn't have much choice wrt to the domain or the project (was the case atleast when I started). One usually gets allocated based on their technical skill. I was a C++ developer and was allocated to a maintenance project with Telecom client, Lucent Technologies. I worked in this sector for about 5 years. During this time, I got a couple of opportunities to go onsite for a few months to bring the project work to India. On the personal front, I had my first child. After coming back from maternity leave, I chose to do a quality lead role. I was in this role for about a year during which time I had the opportunity to participate in external ISO and CMMI audits. Then I played the security coordinator role for a few months by which time I was itching to get back to Delivery. That's when I got an opportunity to play the module lead role for a project with P&G client. That is how I moved from Telecom to Manufacturing line. Within 6 months, I became the Project Manager and then started handling multiple projects for Manufacturing sector. With that I gained confidence on my managerial capability and didn't think twice to switch to Financial services sector and handle the account for GE Money. This journey with multiple sectors has helped me to pick up some domain knowledge across the sectors. You mentioned that you were passionate about project management. What is it that fascinated you in that field? As women, we are used to multi-tasking and managerial activities. There were days where I used to pick up my kid from school, take my mother-in-law to a doctor and also manage client calls and proposals in parallel. While coding and testing used to give me a high in the beginning of my career, I saw that project management was coming out as an inherent strength. So I thought to cash on that. Technology was also continuously changing, so at some point of time you have to decide if you want to become a technical expert or a domain expert or if you want to be on the managerial side. That's when I chose project management. Managerial side involves managing large groups of people. How do you manage these large groups? I have a team of about 600 people working under me. Even if the team is huge, it is organized based on domains/technology/business units. So it's not like all 600 are reporting to me. I have 5 to 6 people reporting to me and about 8-10 people reporting to each of them and so on. It is a pyramid structure. As long as the foundation is right and the team is working cohesively towards project goals leading to client satisfaction, I think we would have the basics right. It is a lot to do with how you develop that culture and the team and percolate it down rather than looking at micro-managing specifics. We have project meetings, Floor-walks or Town-hall kind of meetings where we share information and also motivate the team by giving a spot award or monthly award to someone who does a good job. Apart from the formal way of working, there are a lot of informal things that we do. We have parties, outings, cultural and sports events. It could be a simple thing as having coffee or lunch together at work where you don't talk about work. So it goes beyond formal working to make sure we are well connected. Equality is the talk of the town. Are men and women treated equally in the higher levels of an organization? I, personally have not experienced any bias. When I look at a person who reports to me, the gender does not come into consideration. For me, it is just a manager reporting to me. Honestly, I think if you are competent, have the drive in you and the perseverance to reach the top, the gender does not matter. Well, there can be unconscious bias though. For example when a developer comes back from maternity leave, if there is an on-site opportunity then the project manager might decide to give it to a guy even if the lady is equally competent. The manager probably assumes that this lady has just come back from maternity leave and she cannot handle high stress or go on-site. Well, the lady might have all the support system and actually want to take up the onsite opportunity. Honestly unconscious bias happens everywhere not just at work. For instance, when I saw my younger son crying, I asked him why he was sitting and crying like a girl. I didn't mean that only girls can cry, but that's the wrong impression that it created. We conduct Gender sensitization workshops for men and women managers in Capgemini to address the unconscious bias. Capgemini is ranked among the world's top IT outsourcing and BPO service providers. What would you say is the reason behind this success? I would say the drive or the zeal to win in the champion's league coupled with a performance oriented culture that we have in our company is one of the key reasons. Our tag line “People matter, Results count” reflects the DNA of the company. What is your watchword? Passion and perseverance. The commitment to learn and excel is what I look for. I see many women who come for a job but to excel one needs to look at it as a career. There are times where priorities change for women. For many, career takes a back seat after marriage and for a lot more it takes a back seat after children. I also took a 6 month break after marriage and 5 months maternity leave for both my kids. Well, all that I can say to the girls is that don't compromise when you need time at home, but when you come back, come with passion to succeed. It is important to have a good support system if you want to have a successful career. What qualities do you think one should have to work at Capgemini? We look for permanent and continuous learners. The willingness to learn, to keep yourself updated with the latest trends in the technology space or the domain space, willingness to take calculated risk, ownership and pride in the work that you do are some of the things that we look for. The inherent quality of "I want to learn”, “I want to take risk”, “I want to excel”, “I did this work” is what we look for. What is the significance of students' project work at college in your recruitment process? Project work is one of the many things that we look for, during recruitment. Take a project that you are passionate about and can help you learn new things. Understanding and articulation of the big picture, problem statement or the requirement which has led to the creation of the project is important. If you pick projects related to the latest Buzzwords such as Big data, Social media, Internet of things…you have started your journey of being relevant to the industry. Regardless of the topic, a project brings a group of people together to work for a common goal and each one has a role to play in order to make it successful. This is not different from the corporate world. From the subjects' perspective, there is still a gap between corporate world and colleges. I personally did not apply anything much other than computer language and the analytical skills that I gained in college. Most Organizations have an induction program to bridge the gap between college and corporate world. I would say your project work is the first step in the corporate direction. What is your stand on Corporate Social Responsibility? Very much for it. Within Capgemini there is quite a lot of work that we do in this direction. We have programs such as Naandi, Nanhi Kali and WeKare which are aimed at educating the girl child and also for creating sustainable livelihood for families below the poverty line. Many employees across the world in Capgemini voluntarily contribute a portion of their salary for these programs. We also do our bit for building a greener planet – Plants nursery, bicycle to go from one campus to the other, turning off lights when leaving the seats… For differently abled people who join our company, we have elevators with Braille buttons, ramps and screen reader software to help them work. The IT sector has changed the face of Indian economy in the past few years and is the largest employer of our country. Do you see this trend continuing in the future? I think, it will continue for the next few years as there are some interesting things happening in the IT sector. May be after a few years when a lot of work is automated then there might be a down trend. Any suggestions to the students The only thing I suggest to all the students is, "Go for a career, and don't just look for a job."
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