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Amin is a second year grad student in the MS Software Management program, a former Software Design Engineer from Microsoft and a current Software Engineer at Adify, a Silicon Valley startup. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, software and traveling. He would love to start a software company someday.
Vineet is a second year part-time software management student, currently working @NetApp also nominated as the best place to work in North America recently. His area of expertise is Oracle ERP solutions. Other professional areas of interest are SaaS markets both technologically and business wise. @CMU he wants to grow his knowledge to manage software products and businesses. He is interested in work on start up ideas. On the personal side he loves to spend time with his family and travel.
Rene is a recent alum, a manager of operations and program manager in Cisco's software development organization, the mother of two daughters and a performing arts fan.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Introducing Vineet Nair



Hi, my name is Vineet and I am a first year part time Software management grad student at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley. My journey at Carnegie Mellon has been quite eventful so far. So I thought of sharing my musings on this blog. Before I start I want to extend a warm welcome to the readers and want to encourage you to leave your thoughts and ideas.

Let me start with an introduction. I am an explorer by nature and like to learn new things and create synergies with like minded people. In Hindi there is a Pepsi punch line ‘Yeh dil maange more’ which translates to - the heart craves for more. This is what epitomizes me, and the reason I am here at Carnegie Mellon.

I think by now you would have guessed that I am of Indian origin. I was born in a Navy hospital in a south Indian state - Kerala. I grew up travelling across India with my family due to the transferrable nature of my father’s profession. My earliest memories are of exploring new places and meeting new people every few years. When I was growing up the trend was that if you are a good student then you try to become a doctor or an engineer. So being loyal to the trend I graduated as an Engineer and joined the software industry. I graduated from Army Institute of technology, Pune and spent my initial years working in and around Pune. I specialize in packaged applications for ERP. I have the spent majority of my career working for Oracle applications in companies like Cap Gemini, Accenture, Oracle Consulting and NetApp. These companies are very established and process driven, all the same I have worked in start up environments in my past where things can be totally unstructured and one person wears different hats. Most recently such an experience occurred at accenture when we were starting a new account for a US telecom giant and I was the first person the Account manager had recruited. It was a roller coaster ride and within 1-2 months we had expanded the team to about 100 people and were deep into knowledge transition of their existing systems. I find it exciting to work in such environments. At Carnegie Mellon we are constantly exposed to such entrepreneural setup due to the learning by doing teaching methodology. The energy of my classmates is really contagious and Carnegie Mellon really offers me a sandbox where I could try new things without any fear of failure, as we are all here to learn.

I consider hobbies as something you persue in your free time. Being a father of a 1 year old son, a full time professional and a part time student I really do not have any free time to persue any hobby. I love to spend time with my son. I try to be a good mentor but I learn so much from him that sometimes I wonder who the real mentor is J

I love to study the trends happening in the packaged applications. The hottest ones being consolidation and cloud. I think Mark Beinoff at salesforce has created a new market for SaaS application. The ERP industry is going to change drastically over the years due to this trend. I also find the mobile computing a very exciting trend to follow. It is exciting to explore the zillions of iphone applications providing location based services, social networking, etc. to name a few.

I am glad I did not use the word brief before my introduction J. Feel free to leave your comments and thoughts after reading my first blog at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley.

posted by Vineet Nair @ 10:20 AM  1 comments

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