Dear All,
After two year of exciting and memorable stint with you all, I am bidding adieu today to my organization to pursue other career opportunities. As I move on, I would like to take a moment to remember and cherish our times together. It's been great interacting and knowing each one of you.
Even though I will miss you all here I am looking forward to this new challenge and to start a new phase of my career.
This is not a goodbye, only "hasta luego" or "see you later". Do stay in touch.
My personal contacts are:
Email (shireeshmishra@gmail.com)
Can also be added to Linkedin, Facebook, Orkut network... :)
Hey mates....there is something more in the basket for each one of you. Read it through and feel the connection J
- James Coupel – I was bowled out by your business acumen and end-to-end thought process which had the requisite level of clarity and assertiveness. One thing I had observed that James is radically different while he is in the office atmosphere or out at party or in a pub.
- Gary Joesbury – A great Manager who knows how to manage expectations and communication across various levels of organization. Thanks a lot Gary, for trusting me and providing me a wonderful opportunity to work with the UK team and manage the work-stack solely. I was really nervous when I first landed in the BT office, but then the support and guidance I received from Gary and Nick was tremendous, that made me to stand up to everyone’s expectations.
- Paul Walker – An amiable and witty person with great sense of humor and attitude towards work
- Nick Hall – I really respect Nick for his unique ways of helping and grooming the team during the initial days of this project engagement. A dedicated worker who rarely used to pick my phone calls while I was based in London as I used to bug him a lot with all sorts of small and big queries. I really enjoyed the DVD collection of your son, they were nice J
- Joe Hayes – Though haven’t interacted much with Joes but seems to be a very busy guy; very difficult to catch him over call/messenger etc. etc.; have heard that he has good contact with BT Senior Management, especially when it come to getting booking in BTC for conference rooms etc.
- Richard Martin – awe-inspiring personality, great deal of technical skills and very down to earth, social/helping person, Hats-off to you dear….!! J
- Kam Gareja (Smita, Kiran, Meha) – Beers is the greatest necessity in his life, greatest motivator, biggest energizer. Would suggest BT to provide him gallons of Beers as Annual performance Bonus. Given said that Kam is really dedicated employee as well who goes the extra mile to get his work done, I have seen many a times when he used to work till late or even over the weekend, has cancelled many of his leaves/holidays for work.
Also, his family is really sweet especially his daughters who keeps on teasing him for anything and everything. They really gave me a homely treatment and I have saved those memories in my ‘pleasant memories’ folder. Mate, there is one more humble request from you to take custody of my bag and keep it at your place for a few more months, I am gonna arrange something for sure (if that can be managed easily.. thanks) - Phil Dawson – A nice individual, very fanatical and true professional; I still remember the bright sunny morning of July 2007 when I along with Deepika and Sushant went to BT’s Birmingham Office and was greeted by Phil. We used to be late most often, asked all sort of questions, weren’t that impressive during the initial days but Phil always managed to be co-operative, clam and helpful. I still have the ‘I love Birmingham’ mug in front of me given by Phil as a good-bye gift. It was a splendid experience.
- Simon Elwood – A great, sensible and pragmatic personality. We used to sit opposite to each other at BT’s Holborn office. I still have some faded memories of those time when in the late evening, I used to be the boss of Holborn Office, fifth floor after Simon used to leave and He used to tell me “Shireesh, you are the boss now.. JJJ”.
- Steve Strazzante – Very dedicated professional, used to work late evening, even over weekends and has exceptional technical skills to reach great heights. We used to interact/discuss at times around BTB data and various data sources. Further, Steve, thanks a lot for helping me out various times, once when we were supposed to courier one of the BT laptop to Birmingham office.
- Hayley Morrison - Miss.‘H’ (Hetch) JJJ, I still remember Nick Hall’s party at ‘The Old Nick, London’ when we interacted quite a bit. You are a lovely lady with all the wits and humor, always ready to help everyone.
- Jim Downes – A very polite and silent person though very friendly in his own ways. I remember the time when I accomplished a few quick ‘telephone matching’ tasks for you and you were really impressed, and the time when we together went to meet Chris and Dawn from ML where you introduced me as a data expert and BTB Analytics work-stack lead, it was really like a great compliment for me at that point in time.
- Carol Reeve – Sweet, young JJJ lady with a beautiful smile always on her face. She really sounded truly young at her heart in the first interaction itself and I was really impressed by her overall personality.
- Andy Sangster – A nice and witty person who always leaves positive vibes around everyone whom he interacts with. I still cherish while memorizing that February 2008 Morning at Croydon during the break-time of the training session when Andy himself walked towards me to get himself introduced. That was the first face-to-face interaction though we had chatted even before on conference calls.
- John De’Giovanni – John, we really miss your all the small and big favors you did for us and our team. I think you must be getting annoyed at times due to the high dependency of mine on you for various operational issues in BT such as Identity card activation, ordering head-phone system, order progressing, sign-in in BT office before I got my ID card, Accomodation etc etc. I remember the long discussion we had during the drinks party organized by Nick Hall at 'The Old Nick' :):). Truly a wonderful person to work with.
- Kavita – The ‘NEW JOHN’ ……. I think it was a nice proposition to get you in place of John.. he he.. J JJJJ, very lively young lady with immense sense of humor. I am really envious as you have stolen my desk (at BT’s Holborn office) JJ, I guess it still has my name sticker pasted on the drawers.
- Louise Scott – Hey Louise, you are such a darling, always wearing a smile, a committed professional, a little low at excel/access and technical things but indeed very enthusiastic while learning new skills. So dear, are Phil and Kam still looking for Mr.Perfect for you? or they have given up….? I remember, Nishant, Sachin and Shireesh as a few names in their list.. he he he JJJ
- Adrian Churchill – Reminds me of any scientist, funny, committed professional.
- Nigel Murphy – A nice, soft spoken personality and always greets everyone with a smile on his face. Never seen him in tension even though there were lots of issues in the Seibel migration project.
- Bob Allen – Mr. Gatekeeper for all EDW access requests. Really hard to reach over phone or email but when you meet him in person he altogether a different personality. I remember a call when Bob called me and said “Mate, we need to fix this issue and would appreciate your assistance” this was related to some base build issues (SCARS I guess). Before this call, there was a kind of terror in my mind for Bob and I really used to get scared of him… JJJ he he JJ
- Kelly Brennan – A wonderful Project Manager and very enthusiastic person; She knows how to get work done and how to keep things moving. Thanks for your support during the ‘Welcome to Service’ Data Automation Project. It was a splendid experience working with you. All the very best for the new assignment of managing analytics workstack... :)
Please keep in touch and don't dare to forget me... (he he he - :) smile)
Cheers All,
Shireesh
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