Jawed At Agra Fort

IRMA PRM 20 Get Together at Mumbai

Institute of Rural Management Anand

PRM 20 Get together at Mumbai in April 2012

Recently, we organised a get together of the Alumni of the 20th Batch (PRM-20) of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) at Mumbai.  The idea of a get together got started accidentally on email and then we took it forward and could finally make everyone come on Saturday, 7th April 2012.

Jawed Ahmed Devendra Sharma Mohit Bahuguna Rajneesh Gaur Kolluru Harikumar PRM 20 Students of IRMA

The meeting was attended by the following alumni of IRMA,  Devendra Sharma, Jawed Ahmed, Kolluru Hari Kumar, Mohit Bahuguna, Rajneesh Gaur. We met at a place called Pritam Dhaaba in Dadar East. We assembled at 6 in the evening and were there till around half past nine. It was good reliving the glorious days of the past.

PRM 20 IRMA Anand Get Together at Mumbai Kolluru Harikumar, Rajneesh Gaur, Mohit Bahuguna

Mohit Bahuguna is currently working with Bajaj Allianz. Kolluru Harikumar works for Essar Steel.

Institute of Rural Management Anand, PRM 20 Get Together

Devendra Sharma, PRM 20, IRMA Alumni, currently working with HSBC, Mumbai(April 2012)

20th Batch IRMA Alumni Jawed(Kancor Group) and Kolluru Hari kumar(Essar Steel)

IRMA Alumni Mohit Bahuguna (Bajaj Allianz) and Rajneesh Gaur ( HSBC)

The evening came to an end at 9:30 PM. But by that time we had made beginning and we really look forward to getting together again. We eagerly wait for the next alumni meeting of PRM-20 (20th Batch) of Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA)

Jawed Ahmed: Winner of Top 100 CISO 2011 Awards

Jawed Ahmed, Head of Information Technology at the Power Transmission Business of Sterlite Technologies has been selected as the TOP100 CISO 2011 in India.

Its a vindication of the excellent work done by IT team at Sterlite Technologies. The achievement is commendable in the sense that there are very few large manufacturing organisations in India which have such an organised and structured IT Security Program. Sterlite Technologies has achieved this without the use of any directory/security tools like Active Directory or LDAP(May 2011). The policy is implemented and maintained painstakingly by going to the individual desktops across multiple locations.

The awards have been instituted by InfoSecurity Magazine. Jawed Ahmed has been selected out of 3000 Information Security professionals across the country. The jury included eminent persons from Industry as well as Academia.

The particular security project which has been appreciated and recognised is regarding the central control of high-end firewalls through use of scripts without the use of ready-made solutions. This facilitates application of uniform security policy across multiple locations at the same time.

Sterlite Technologies has been at the forefront of IT Security innovation for a long time now. The IT security framework that is implemented at Sterlite Technologies is based on ISO 27K1 and is stringently enforced.

The TOP 100 CISO awards for Sterlite Technologies is an unique achievement because unlike other winners who are either into banking or IT services Sterlite Technologies is a manufacturing organisation.

Jawed Ahmed: Head IT, Sterlite Technologies

Jawed Ahmed: Shining

Tuktuk: Restless

Tuktuk: Closeup

Very rarely she stays still long enough to click a sharp photograph. She'd just finished eating papaya so she sat still giving me this opportunity.

Sterlite Technologies: IT Enables Business

Sterlite Technologies: IT Enables Business

Sterlite Technologies has always been at the cutting edge of technology. One of its businesses, which manufactures Optical Fibres and Optical Fibre Cables is one of the most advanced and backward integrated in India. However operations is not the only area where Sterlite Technologies has latest technology. Specifically, Information Technology (IT) is one area where latest technology and innovative application are reaping rich dividends for Sterlite Technologies.

Sterlite Technology's core systems are running on SAP ECC 6.0. But the fibre production system is managed by an inhouse developed system which stores data locally and then pushes the data onto SAP in a batch mode. By customising this part Sterlite gets two major advantages. First, the system becomes independent of the rigid restrictions imposed by SAP and SAP runs in its pristine standard format without extensive customisation. Second, the system agility is improved and its much more easily configurable and can change fast compared to SAP. Today, the planning, production, physical control of robots and the despatch automation through Barcodes, all of these processes are enabled by IT to go the next level.

Its both a matter of pride and satisfaction that none of the competition have such advanced levels of IT integration with the processes.

Here I have illustrated only one such instance. IT enablement runs throughout the organisation. Be it Customers, Investors, Statutory Compliance(all external), Business Planning, Reporting, Analytics(High end data representation) or simple communication systems like emailing.

In all off these areas Sterlite Technologies has achieved a very high level of integration with the inherent business process. All the things which were not possible earlier are now taking place through the smart use of IT systems. Its IT enabling Business in the true sense !

Jawed@hotel rama

Jawed: travelling to Aurangabad

I am on my way to Aurangabad. Would be there for two days(7th and 8th). A development program has been organised and am going to participate in it. Jinius Shah too is travelling with me.


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