My profile:
Profile in Brief:
An Electronics Engineer,62 years, with:
• Long Information Technology back ground,
• Development and training in Embedded system development solutions
• Associated with Knowledge Management related activity, Design and validation of Techni
cal inputs, besides directly taking class room sessions.
• Counseling and mentoring young people
• Contributes to Times of India - Property Times suppliment – Tech - Articles
• Other areas of interest are Process improvement - through problem tracking. Business Process
Re-engineering
• Hardware – Software Product design solutions.
• Trainer / Evaluator /Consultant Hiring solutions Tech-HR / facilities Manager / Embedded System designer
• Founder Member of a small team which established an Off Shore Development Center for an NRI friend, in Hyderabad and was associated with it for nearly four years.
• Experience in implementation of Total Quality Management implementation.
* Process Re-engineering in Engineering : Management / Business processes including
Education,
- Author of several books
- Contribute to magazines and
- News paper.
The Profile in Detail:
• I hold a degree in Electronics & Telecommunication engineering from Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (1972).
• I hold a PG Diploma in Product Management from Annamalai University in (1992). - Distance education.
• Picked Six selected papers from Management topics from MBA Program of IGNOU enjoyed every bit of it and passed with good score in the examinations .
Whenever I take a new assignment in unfamiliar domains, I takeup some
formal learning. Always it came handy.
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The complete Employment detail: (Chronological order) Several Projects not mentioned, as it would fill several pages and not relevant to the current technological scnario..
I worked for Indian Space Research Organisation Trivandrum – TERLS – Started as Computer Console Operations, for rocket launch support – Moved on to Maintenance of Electro-mechanical peripheral devices of the computer system – Subsequently to the Development various of data acquisition sub-systems around MINSK 22 (Russian systems) - all in a period a little over 5 years. Promoted five positions during this period.
Moved to SHAR CENTRE, SRIHARIKOTTA, of Indian Space Research for 2.5 years in SHAR COMPUTER FACILITY on Data Communication, Computer Maintenance and operations management for Rocket launch support and related Data acquisition.
Joined Ministry of Planning, Government of India – Computer Center - through Union Public Service commission - for the Operations & Maintenance of Computer systems, Installations and Operations responsibility for a period of 4 year Plus. This is a Centralized facility for meeting the computing needs of various government Organisations.
Served Department of Electronics, National Informatics Center, during the IX ASIAD Games at New Delhi for Six months. Was Responsible for installation and maintenance of Information network for the games. Quit the job at the end of an exciting assignment to join CMC Ltd at their Regional wing at Delhi for the maintenance of Varied types Mini-Computers for its client’s, till I am moved over to CMC’s Corporate R&D.
CMC Ltd corporate R&D, worked for 14 years in various assignments using microprocessor based systems and applications,
The fore-runner of indigenous technology, developed computer based solutions in every infrastructure sectors such as power, railways, Crime detection, data communication and such. I had opportunities to lay my hand on several aspects of Computing solutions:
(1) Prototyping of dedicated computing systems, (2) Design and development, (3) Techno marketing, (4) Training System engineers (trainees) (5) Product quality standards, (6) Quality systems
(7) Systems Management, (8) Large multi-location project management, are important among them.
I have a flair for Business Process Re-engineering which I used extensively in every task I was associated with.
• Dedicated Computer systems used in Data acquisition (RTUS for SCADA applications),
• Message switching systems – for Tele typed messages.
• Unreserved ticketing solutions based on MC68000 processor for Indian Railways, Design to Delivery to customer including Marketing support, Field Engineer Training.
Project Management - Software projects,
Product Quality & (Contract) Manufacturing Management and
T Q M implementation (Including Preparation of Training inputs, conducting class room sessions).
Resource / Utilities Management,
After 14 Years in PSU, moved-out to establish for a NRI friend, a Start-up Off Shore
Development center:
Accepted an assignment as General Manager – in 1997, to work on Digital connectivity solutions such as IEEE 1394, Networking Solutions – Box products such as routers and
Load balancers . Myself with an ex-colleague created an outfit for our NRI friends in USA, (Rendezvous on Chip, at Secunderabad). I was associated with this organisation for 3.5 years.
Technology Training as a career:
While working in R O C , I created a Technology finishing school which I conceived and personally supervised . This was known as System software school & Technology Development center. Started as a cost center, became a profit center in a short time.
Here candidates were picked based on their ability and willingness to learn.
The school has a paradigms different from formal Engineering schools. Here the trainees are not taught. They are guided to learn. They work under high pressure and carryout extensive assignments. They are invariably assigned a protect to develop, Sharin g their learnings with fellow trainees is mandatory. (This improves their confidence and ability to communicate).
We staffed significantly, in our own company, with these trainees besides system software developers came to our small facility to pick the trainees for hiring.
The key inputs are: C Programming skills including common data structures, Embedded C Programming, Unix (Internals) Programming, networking and networking applications. (For valid reasons that the scope for scaling-up the activity was diminishing. I quit the company after 4.5 years to start my own outfit with a dream to establish a Technology Finishing School with a large infrastructure, equipment and sytems.
That was the reason behind the birth of SOPHISTS that was created at Secunderabad in 2001 with my NRI Kin. Developed quite a few software products like Citrix like solutions on Linux platform for an European client and embedded system solutions such as prototypes for multi-terminal ticketing solutions. We bought a variety of micro controllers for the studets to develop products and solutions Significant products the students developed were:
(a) Distributed ticketing / billing solution - called Suitcase solutions. A typical, ten nodes of computing devices and a server can comfortably sit in a suitcase.
(b) A network security appliance, The device that encrypt and transmit with its IP address should never hold a file. Anyone succeeds in break firewall should find nothing in it. Product was successfully demonstrated to a client.
(c) Citrix-like servers / clients under Linux for a Holland client.
(d) Developed a product under linuu, where one can choose and fire a print job from anywhere - a printer server and the clients machines need not have the printer-drivers.
9/11 took the toll of this start-up outfit, besides a few other reasons.
Was a consultant to M/s Robert Bosch India Limited Bangalore for Improving recruitment process to Hire, quality Embedded system professionals, at a fast pace.
This is typically a business process re-engineering task. Achieved the set goal in less than the prescribed time.
A small Service to Engineering graduates with poor economic background:
I came across economically poor and socially backward children who took to Engineering Education to reach the dream affluence. I realized many poor turned poorer as the education could not get them the employment through which they hoped to reach affluence.
Started a small lab at my residence.
Bought quite a few micro-controllers during my last US visit, for the students to experiment with.
Bought Equipments like Oscilloscope, Development kit and development environment.
In the following four years, in the free training facility, trained some 65 plus fresher Engineers (who could not find employment even after over three / four years after their Engineeringeducation) in my lab at my apartment, and all for free. By and large, 90% of the trainees (all who stayed with me for three months and carried out the assigned tasks) were absorbed by different enterprises.
The success could be attributed to my training methodology and past experience – running successfully, perhaps, India’s first Technology finishing school that I started as a part of Rendezvous on Chip which is merged into Freescale semiconductors of Morotola/!
Personal information:
Date of Birth January 01, 1948 (3-06-1949)
Contact information :
N Natarajan
Phone: (M) 9942873810
Tiruchirappalli
Email:
consultant_natarajan@yahoo.com
natarajan.naga@gmail,com
(1) Wife : Housewife
(2) Son, Daughter-in-law, Daughter, son-in-law, all are IT Professionals.
Hobbies:
(1) Writing books in Tamil, on the theme, Good living. That meant value based living.
This is a good hit as a Self-improvement book among school goers and adults alike. Educa tional institutions buy them for distributing these books as reward / recognistion.
(2) Some thirty five years ago, I experienced what generally people call it supernatural and unnatural. I started investigating that and endedup seeking to find the creator and understand unverse and our relation to it. I have nearly completed the work after revising it 26 timews, as many could not understand even a wee bit of what I tried to tell. Hope this will be pub lished shortly.
I am a satisfied man when I hear from the employers of my students (more than 650 in um ber that my students live based on Value systems which I make it a point to impart.
N NATARAJAN
Book published:
(1) Connections
(2) My dear Son
(3) Zen Stories
(4) Where is God?
First two books - n Print-edition is avalable in Shops in many major cities.
e-book version of the two books are available through Sangapalagai.com
Books awaiting a publisher:
(1) Middle Class (Their problems and solutions)
(2) Poor & Poverty (EzhaikaL);
(3) Seekers & their search (Spiritual people, their life & times) ThedalGal)
(4) Running (Running is the essence of life)(OttanGkaL)
(5) My Dear Son Part I (English)
(6) My Dear Son Part II (English)
(7) Science of Spirituality or Shake hands with your Creator.(Brahma).- English
(8) Embedded Systems Part I - for practicing professionals.
I write articles for
Tamil monthly
1. (aRika Ariviyal). Science Magazine.
2. Thannambikkai. Monthly magazine for higher secondary students.
Write for Tech-files of Times of India, (Times Property), for over seven years now.
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