With a sense of anticipation and not knowing how deep the well is I jump in...
10:15 reached Merck gate 39 - reception room 1076
got call from Ajit saying its spilling over to 10:45am. So go and sit it off in the Car and meditate... seems to calm me and help me focus more.
11am Ajit comes to the reception and takes me in, Shows me around the maze of buildings. There seems to be about 100 buildings all connected and about 10 Entry points into parking... wow.
12:10 meeting with Sangeeta the Merck Project MGR who gives me a brief about the project.
Got info about their various business groups
Our project is Model D project. => Corner stone ==> US Customer Connect (USCC).
May release - Rel 18 - Siebel 8.07 --Avvaya 7.x
Services the functional areas of :
MVCC (Vaccination)
NSC (National) - (inbound call)
NVG outbound
OMC Order management Center
DTC Distribution - Consumer.(inbound call)
Lots of acronyms been thrown around.
go the cafeteria 12:45 to 1:15 then I am shown to the room where there are about 10 Indian guys from Cognizant. Remember a few names.. let me see ..Rajshekar (Andhra Pradesh) and Rajan ( Tamil from Karnataka) helps me with info about accommodation, Bacho (Andhra Pradesh), Krish (chennai). Sudendo(bengal seems to be the newest here) staying @ penbrook Mohan (maharastra), Dharmesh (mumbai) another guy who is busy talking on the phone from Karnataka.
4:45 plan on going and visiting Narayan Reddy in NJ after visiting Temple in Bridge water, on Saturday. So talk to him the logistics of it.
5:pm Ajit helped fill out the I-9 form. very much needed for Homeland security with in 3 days of joining the company...
Drop ajit off at his house and he invites me for Tea. End up talking to him about
stocks and and playing the market. meet his family A boy and a cute 2 yr old babe girl.
Happy family, Came to US when I was in Indianapolis, he was project Manager there for the Congnizant team. I moved to Vancouver after that. Been with the same company he has his own house. .....
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