Vow, 7 Years

In my initial years of carrier I was working for a webhosting company and was majorly responsible for website development, maintenance and client communication. It was a nice job and I was happy with the job but not satisfied. I was not satisfied because there were very few things to do in terms of experimentation new things and very few opportunities to grow.

After working there for 2 years I joined another company, this company was promoter of a textile B2B portal http://www.fibre2fashion.com/. I joined in the capacity of senior software engineer. Being a Portal there were ample opportunities to explore and lot of new things to experiment and implement, I grabbed and exploited the opportunities to the fullest of my potential.Some of the statistic & numbers I remember

1. I very well remember there were 25 guys working for the portal and the head count of IT Team working behind the portal was of 7.
   


2. In 7 years of my carrier with this company I have seen a turnover of 65 professional in my functional area and the total head count growing to 150 from the initial count of 25.
   


3. I have seen movement of excellent talent during this tenure at every point of time.
   


4. I’ve seen association of “A” class companies with the portal and still counting them.
   


5. I’ve seen ISO 9001:2000 audit and faced the same at least 5 times, out of which 4 times I have been the Management Representative for the same
   


6. I’ve seen a sea level change in the IT Infrastructure from one server to 15 online servers
   


7. I’ve seen and witness and was instrumental in rooting aesthetic changes and adding new functionalities to the portal.
   


8. I’ve witnessed alexa.com Ranking moving from 50000+ to 8000+
   


9. I’ve seen page views for fibre2fashion.com rising from 500000+ in March 03 to 15000000+ in March 09 i.e. more than 30 times in 6 years
   
   Whenever I look back and think I realize that 7 years has passed away so fast (as if I have just blinked my eyes) and there are lot many things yet to be done.
   
   Though after a careful examination of what I wanted to be and what I am doing I found a total disparity, I always wanted to join armed forces (Indian Navy to be specific). It is not patriotism that encouraged but a sense of disciplined life, clear chain of commands and distinctiveness in itself.
   
   I don’t regret and I’m happy and enjoying whatever I’m doing because I tried to implement a disciplined life within myself and my surrounding, I tried to implement clear chain of commands and hierarchy in the current organization and tried to do things distinctively smarter and efficiently.
   
   I changed my success mantra a little bit and rephrased it to the below one”
   
   “Success consist of doing common things uncommonly well”
   
   

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