| Mon Aug 1 02:03:04 2005
Added records for Harsha Vyas. Tue May 24 18:36:26 IST 2005 Added records for Bhanurekha, Hariharasudhan, Sundar Narayanan. Updates for Karra, KR Balaji, V Karthik, SV, Raja, Krishnan, Dharam, Sundar, V. Ka Tue Jul 13 16:59:02 2004 Added records for Aravindan, Subbu. Update from V.Ka, Raja, Gacchi. Fri Mar 19 12:28:37 2004 Update from Rajiv. Fri Feb 27 16:32:23 2004 Added records for Archana, Sudhamani. Update from Upendar. |
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| Aniruddh got a B.Com from Vivekanada College and on graduation in 1997, joined Arthur Andersen. He did articleship for his CA there and eventually became a Chartered Accountant in 2000. Around that time Andersen India merged with Ernst & Young (as a result of the Enron collapse) and Aniruddh ended up with EY and he still works for them (as Senior Consultant). Aniruddh got married in November 2002 to Arthi Venkataraman (PS95) and lives near Nageshwara Rao park, Mylapore. |
| Aravindan joined IIT Madras in 1995, graduating with a bachelors in civil engineering in 1999. He now works as Project Manager with Infosys and is based out of Madras. In December 2002 Aravindan got married to Sujatha, who is also with Infy. |
| Archana did her B.Sc in Math from SIET and then joined Wipro in 97. While there, she did her M.S. (Software Eng.) from BITS. Archana got married to Anand in October 2001. She is still with Wipro, working onsite with a client in Seattle. |
| KRB went to BITS and completed a 5 year dual-degree course (M.Sc Physics + B.E in Instru) in 1999. With the help of a stunning GRE score of 2360, Balaji made it to the EE dept. of Penn State Univ. But Balaji sighted a future in IT; soon after he left the boring old-world power systems research and moved to SUNY Binghamtom to pursue a M.S. in C.S. Braving the tech slow down, Balaji stuck it out there and found himself a job with Bloomberg Inc. in New York City. Reliable sixth hand information confirms that Balaji is having a ball and making the most of what's left of his bachelor life. |
| Mon Jun 13 2005: Bajji got married on 30th May in Madras, to Tara from Bangalore. |
| BRK did her B. Com from "The Ethiraj College for Women" during 1994-97. She simultaneoulsy did her A. C. S (Association of Company Secretaries), completed her final in the year 1998 and qualified in the year 1999. After completing training at SIP Industries Limited & SIPTech, BRK worked for Fidelity group of Companies, Cee (I) TV Entertainment and Selathaar Industry P Ltd as Company Secretary and also Assistant Manager Finance. From 2003, BRK has had her own practise as Company Secretary, and is now a full time practitioner. |
| Dharam got a B.Sc. from Vivekananda College. Soon he transitioned into IT and now works for SRA systems, Madras. He still lives near the kutchery road police station. In April 2005 Dharam got married to his colleague at SRA systems. |
| Gayathrinath, a.k.a. Gacchi, studied engineering at Vishweshwaraya college of engineering in Karnataka. After a 2 year stint with a small networking startup, he now works for Foundry Networks in Silicon valley. |
| Giridhar wrote SAT and got himself admitted to Swarthmore, one of the top liberal arts colleges in the U.S. After graduating, he worked for a financial consulting firm (a spinoff from McKenzie) in New York City, for about 5 years. In Fall 2003, Giridhar will be joining The Wharton School (of business; widely regarded as #1 in the US), Philadelphia, to pursue an MBA. |
| Guhan studied Mechanical Engineer at SVCE and went abroad for Masters. He worked for a year in a company making brake liners and returned to India in 2001. He then did an MBA at S P Jain and has been working with IBM Global Services, Madras. |
| Hari did his B.Sc. in Vivekananda College. After a few pit stops in different places, he is currently gainfully employed with CTS in Madras. In April 2005 he got married to his long time neighbour and admirer :) |
| Jagan did his BE in Chennai and MS in Electrical Eng. at the University of Texas at Dallas (May '02). He is currently back in Madras and is employed gainfully as 'Research Analyst of emerging technologies' at Frost and Sullivan |
| Sreekanth went to Model Engineering College, Kerala. Although he claims it was more of a school than a college. After graduation he worked for Infosys in Bangalore for a couple of years and then went to IIM Lucknow (systems). He graduated in summer 2002 and joined HLL's IT division (he also did his summers there). He currently shuttles between HLL's corporate offices in Bombay and its IT partners' centres in Bangalore. In late 2003 Sreekanth got married to Nithya (doing her MBA right now). |
| Jayanth joined the Chemical Engineering program at IITM and graduated at the top of his class. He went on to pursue a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon, which he succesfully completed in April 2003. Following that, he joined Shell's R&D facility in The Netherlands, where he continues his research in Operations Research (or something like that). He lives in The Hague. |
| Karra, along with Raghav, joined CECRI and graduated with a degree in Chemical and Electrochemical Engineering. He then spent 3 years at the University of Utah, first in the Chemical engineering dept. and later in the School of Computing, before graduating in the summer of 2001. He then returned to India and currently works for HCL Technologies in their Cisco Offshore Development Centre, Madras. Karra will be joining the 2 year PGP course at IIM Kozhikode in June 2005. |
| Karthik left PS after X standard and completed his schooling in Hindu Senior. He did his BE in comp. sco. at Malnad college of Engineering, Hassan, Karnataka. On completing that he joined CMC India Ltd as a S/W engineer. After nearly 3 years there, he quit and joined the graduate program at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan; he expects to complete his Masters by April 2004. |
| VKa joined IITM and took a B.Tech degree in mettalurgy. He followed it up with an M.S. in material sciences from the Ohio State University. At that point he decided against further specialisation by turning down admission to Cal. Tech's Ph.D. programme, and works for a motor-ish company near Detroit. |
| Tue May 24 2005: V. Ka got married in february 2005. |
| KK was one of the many PS94-ers to go to SVCE (CS). After graduating, he took up a job with CTS in Madras. After a few years there, he joined IIM Lucknow, where he specialised in Systems. On completion of the course, he re-joined CTS after "they made an offer that just could not be refused". In late 2002, KK married Deepa, also of PS94 (commerce), making it the first of its kind. |
| Krishnan was one of 5 PS94-ers to make it to BITS in 1994. He opted for the 5 year dual degree (group B) programme and graduated with a M.Sc. in Bio-Sciences and a B.E. in Chemcial Engineering. He then accepted an offer from Citicorp to work on some of their financial software packages. He has been quite loyal to the company through many buy-outs, name changes, reorgs etc. and has been rewarded with extended on-site visits to Citibank's HQ in New York City. |
| Tue May 24 2005: Kiccha got engaged in febrary this year. The wedding is scheduled for august of this year. He continues to work in the same place, although his employer is now Polaris, after citicorp and Polaris 'merged' |
| Vinod completed his MBBS from Kilpauk Medical College, Madras, then did a year of diploma of national board (orthopaedics). He is currently pursuing his surgical training and working in Middlesborough, North Yorkshire, UK, to qualify for the MRCS. All you lazy software engineers with creaky joints, better have Vinod's contact info on hand. He is all set to become a orthopaedic surgeon! |
| Another of the PS94-BITSians, Lalitha Got a MSc in Math and BE in CS. She got married and moved to San Jose, California (not necessarily in that order, though :) |
| Naga did his BSc (computer science) at Sri Sankara Arts and Science Collect, Kanchipuram; followed it uo with a MCA and D.G.Vaishnav college, Madras. Currently employed with BSB Tech in Chennai |
| Sundar Narayanan did his bachelors degree at Ruia college, Bombay, and followed it up with a B.L. degree as well. He is currently based in Madras and works for a law firm. He continues to live in his Pattammal street house. |
| Para enrolled in Loyolla's viscom programme. After a longish stint with Sapient (in Delhi and Bangalore), he quit protesting the frequent US trips he was forced to make. He currently works for a "small e-learning outfit" in Hyderabad as graphic designer. (not sure if that is his designation :) |
| BP went to SRM Engineering College and graduated in CS. He took up a job with Cal Soft Pvt. Ltd. and after 2 years with them, moved to CTS. He currently works for CTS and based in Madras as Assistant Manager. |
| After school, Raghav went to CECRI, Karaikudi, and graduated with a degree in Chemical and Electrochemical Engineering. After that he joined Cognizant Technology Solutions and has been working with them since (along with 6 other PS94-ers - Prabha, Ken, SS, Prem Kumar, Hari Harasudhan and Karthik. K.) |
| Raja went to IITM, Dept of Chemical Engineering. On completion of the course, he went to the University of Davis and graduated with a M.S. He then returned to India to work for I2 in Bangalore. After 2 years with them, Raja joined IIM Calcutta in June 2002. In ~june 2004 he graduated and started with Kanbay consulting in Pune. He is currently with Lazard, an Investment Bank in Bombay. |
| Aparna joined MGR Engineering college and graduated with a degree in Instrumentation Engineering. After that she went to Drexel University during the fall of 1998 before transferring to the University of Texas, Austin. She graduated with a Master's in bio-med sometime in 2000 and now works with Motive Communications, Austin. |
| Arun spent a year in the US as an exchange student. During his stay he was inspired to look at law as a career and on his return to India he enrolled in the 5 year law course at the Madras Law College. This unique experience apparently sucked all the inspiration out of him, for he started looking outside the Law profession for a job. After a couple of pit stops (including one at an ad-design agency) Arun now works for some company in Bangalore, where he is able to put his considerable creative skills to good use. |
| V. Sreeram, a.k.a. Silky, did his BE (EEE) from Shanmuga college of Engineeering. From 1998 - 2001 he worked as Development Engineer inLucas TVS, Padi. In 2001, Silky went to the US to pursue a M.S. at the Arizona State University, USA in the field of Power Engineering. In august 2003, he started working on his Ph.D. (Insulators). |
| SS got a B.E. in C.S. from Bharat Engineering College. He took up a job with California Software Ltd. soon after graduation. He currently works for CTS and is based in Madras. |
| Rajiv cleared JEE with the second highest AIR in our school and opted for Mech. Eng. at IITM. He then went to UMCP to complete a Masters in Mech. Eng., which he did in the summer of 2000. Shortly thereafter he joined a startup working on network monitoring software tools and was initially based in Arizona. He then moved to the San Francisco Bay area, while continuing to work for the same company. On last contact, Rajiv was leading the comfy life of the bay area desi. |
| Tue May 24 2005: Rajiv 'returned' to India in May this year. He continues to work for Arcsight but is in more of an 'onsite' job and keeps visiting custoemrs in Asia-Pacific countries. This transition into a customer facing role has forced some interesting changes on his general style. For e.g. he had to wear a three piece suit in Taiwan not so long back. And he owns a smartphone now, and even uses it :) |
| Subbu did a masters in power systems from Anna university and then joined TCS, Madras, but has been onsite at Zurich for the past couple of years. |
| Sudha did her B.E. in Electronics and Communication from Hindustan College of Engineering and followed it up with a M.S (Software Systems) from BITS, Pilani. After working for Siilverline Tech., Chennai for 3 years, she moved to U.S. after marrying Srini. She now works for Mediware Information Systems and lives near San Jose, CA |
| Sundi got a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Vivekananda and then followed it up with a M.Sc. from IITM. He then decided to pursue a Ph.D. and went to the University of North Texas. A year after that he took a transfer to Georgia Institute of Technology and is working leisurely on his thesis. (Sundi's brother Srivatsan, the quiz wiz of PS93, got married in December 2002. He works for TCS, based in Madras and is currently in the US) |
| Tue May 24 2005: Sundy returned to India in late 2004 and worked for a while as a lecturer of chemistry in Guru Nanak college. At the end of the 2004-05 academic year he moved to Delhi to work for the Research wing of an NGO. |
| B.Suresh, a.k.a. Bus, got a MSc Physics and BE Instru from BITS. He followed that up with a M.S. in Industrial eng at SUNY Binghamton. He now works for SanMina Inc. in San Jose, California. Bus got married in mid-2002 to a classmate from BITS. |
| Upendar cracked JEE with the highest AIR of our batch and joined IITM (EE). After IIT he joined IIMB and upon graduation took up a job with Analog Devices at Bangalore. He is currently with Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd, Bangalore. Flash update (Mon Mar 8 14:38:12 2004): Upender got married on March 3, 2004 in Madras. |
| SV went to the Chem Eng dept at IIT B. He then went to the University of California, Davis and quickly completed a M.S. in chem eng. After graduation, he accepted a job as consultant with I2 inc. He is based in Dallas but is on the road much of time. His favourite client location being New York City. (Apparently, he was in NY during the WTC bombings). |
| Tue May 24 2005: Starting August 2004, SV has been in INSEAD, France for his MBA. |
| AS Vijay went to SVCE (CS). He then went on to get a Masters in CS from the University of Masacheussetts, Lowell. He currently works for a telecom firm, building switches/gateways for RAS/VoIP/SIP networks. |
| VSV went to the chem eng dept at IT-BHU, and graduated top of his class. He stunned his juniors, seniors, peers, and roadside onlookers by turning down admissions from top ranking schools like Univ. of Minnesotta (#1 for chem eng.) and went instead to Univ. of California, Santa Barbara. After a short while he moved to Purdue University where he continues to work on his Ph.D. VSV got married in June 2003. |
| After school, Vijaykumar, a.k.a. "Intelligents", went to IITB (civil) and then to SUNY Buffalo for an M.S. He graduated from Buffalo at the height of the dotcom boom and decided to make the most of it. After working for nearly 2 years in the bay area, Intelligents returned to Madras in late 2002. He now works for Syntel, a Madras based IT-services company. (He still lives in his Indrani Ammal street house). It is now widely accepted that Vijaykumar is one of two living beings who continue to keep "Shivku-speak" alive. The other being.... ELK. On an aside, it was a sad day indeed when we came to know our dear shivku does not entertain his students anymore with jems like "Don't call him 'Ken'. Am I right, Ken?" |
| Mon Jun 20 2005: Harsha finished his MBBS from Kasturba Medical College, Mainpal, and then did his British Licentiate exam. Following which he was, for a short while, in London at the St. Barts Hospital. He then wrote the USMLE's - this super long set of US medical licensing exams so he could move to the US and be with his girl friend Bhavna. He is currently an Internal Medicine resident at the James H. Quillen college of Medicine, a part of the East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN. He is applying to specialize in Oncology and Hematology (cancer) by the year end. |
| This document was generated by taking a raw XML file containing all the info and applying an XSL transformation on it. The raw XML document itself was generated from Karra's BBDB database using the bbdb-xml-print.el package. |