My favourite Managers

I have spent most of my professional life in Geometric Ltd. During this tenure, I have worked with some wonderful colleagues. As far as Managers are considered, I am fortunate that I have worked with some of the very special ones. I like these guys because they are Technical managers and more important than that, these guys are very good human beings.
By term “Technical Manager”, I meant that these guys have spent most of their career span in doing Technical things. I am not making any statement that only Technical Managers are my favourites, but I am more inclined towards Technology rather than the management side.
Coming back to my favourite Managers, Their names are:

Parimal Nagarnaik
Santosh Kotnis
Yogesh Bhintade
Sudarshan Shubakar
Rashpal Singh

Parimal Nagarnaik:

I don’t know whether Parimal remembers me by this time or not. Parimal was the first manager to whom I reported in my IT career. At the first sight, he looked a bit reserved and quite serious.
Parimal was heading an ODC for one of the toughest client in the Nordic region. When he took over this team, he religiously worked on streamlining the things and setting up the processes. He was a bit obsessive with the Processes in particular.

Parimal is a very good human being. He gives special attention to each of his sub-ordinates, listens to them very carefully and knows very well how to get the best out of his team. For me he looked like a person, kind of more emotional than Professional. He is more inclined towards Technology than the Management ladder. Currently, he heads GSDS dept in Geometric.

Santosh Kotnis:

Santosh was the most energetic Manager I have seen ever. When I met him for the first time, he looked very fit, confident and cheerful in nature. He was talking in US ascent. J (Probably he was returned from US recently)

Santosh’s strength is communication and interaction with the people. He connects with people within no time and builds a good rapport with them. He is a vivid reader and so am I. We used to talk always about the latest book we were reading. Santosh was very particular about his diet and was very health cautious. But I could not sense a single gram of his weight reduced in my 3 years of interaction with him. (This is just to provoke SantoshJ)

Santosh is a natural leader. And I wouldn’t be surprised if he becomes CEO of a company in near future.

Yogesh Bhintade:

When I met Yogesh for the first time, I just could not believe that he has more than 10 years of experience looking at his baby like face. J He took over the team during the turbulent time of recession and things were not the ideal one.
Like Parimal, Yoegsh is a Techie and as a resource you cannot fool these guys. They know almost every Technology and they will surely give a valuable idea when you are not able to proceed with any Software Design related issue.
Yogesh is also very obsessive with laying down the processes and sometimes will irritate you because of constant emphasis on the SDLC. He is a strong character and will definitely reach to top Management ladder within a few years from now.

Sudarshan Shubakar:

Sudarshan is my reporting Manager in the current company. Sudarshan is a bit serious character but is a great human being. He is so down to earth and will respect everyone’s opinion. He will accept their feedback if it is valid and delicately convince them to his opinion if it is invalid.
I have worked with Sudarshan since last 10 months and watched his working style closely. We are currently working on a mission critical project for a giant company in US. I have never seen him loosing his temper during this time.
Sudarshan knows how to get the best out of his resource. Has the ability to give the negative feedback in a very effective manner. He is a great ambassador for the community of Managers. J
Rashpal Singh:

Rashpal was not my manger as such, but was my mentor. We worked together quite for some time at a customer site in Singapore. Rashpal is a very efficient Technical person and has a great skill to convince the people, in particular the end user of the software.
During that period, I was a going through a personal crisis and was not happy with myself. I wanted to return and join my family back in India. But those were recession days and there was a big chance of getting fired after return. Rashpal discussed with me and this Sardar told me one thing In Hindi which I will remember for lifetime.

“Ägar life mein kuch accha hota hai to jyda khush mat hona aur kuch bura hota hai to jyada dukhi mat hona”, meaning In life, if something good happens with you, don’t be too happy and if Something bad happens with you, don’t be too sad.

I recovered myself after this conversation and completed my assignment within the stipulated time frame with very good quality and my efforts were really appreciated by the customer. This assignment was the turning point of my career, which gave me immense confidence and satisfaction.