Kudos to Mr Ashish!!!

He sets a paradigm for todays engineers …It’s always a great feeling to read the success stories and there is a lot of learning too….

Here is his story.....

At 27, he leads a team of 25 people including MBAs though he himself doesn't have a postgraduate appellation to his name yet, and manages an offshore research centre for a telecom client of the company's. Ashish Mehta, B.Tech (Civil) from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay is one of the brightest brains at Gurgaon's knowledge process outsourcing firm Evalueserve.
Mehta has got two promotions since he landed his maiden job at Evalueserve in June 2004 and was given the leadership and best team award for July-December 2007 for Business Research Division 3. Mehta's engineer father was as an executive engineer - a transferable job - with the Rajasthan government.
This meant that the young boy attended 11 schools across the desert state. Mehta joined IIT-Bombay because his sibling was there and he could keep an eye on him.
But after some time in college, it was the other way round, he quips. Civil Engineering wasn't Mehta's choice, he says.
But according to his all-India rank in the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination, he had the option of either this or Aerospace Engineering. "Aerospace Engineering didn't have much scope in India," he says.
And he says he didn't have any dream branch in mind.Therefore, he settled for Civil Engineering.
After four years of digging concrete and swelling soil, Mehta was "determined" that he didn't want to work in the core sector. Why? "Because there's not much innovation happening in the sector in India.
I was looking at a managerial, a consulting role. Among all the companies coming to the campus, Evalueserve was the best - in terms of compensation, leadership and the job profile they offered," says Mehta, now Group Manager, Business Research Division.
Evaluserve shortlisted about 45 of the 250 students who applied for the six positions on offer, Mehta recalls. Mehta was among the 15 who faced COO Ashish Gupta in the second round of interviews that stretched to midnight.
"The questions were tough. It was a stress interview.
He (COO) had a bottle of mineral water and he asked what the probability was that this water had a molecule that was present in a dinosaur. For two minutes I was clueless.
I thought I wouldn't make it. I said, 'Can you elaborate?' That gave me some time to think.
I said, 'Let's assume, there were so many dinosaurs. We have 70 per cent water in our body; take that for animals as well.
And you know two-thirds of earth is covered with water. The amount of water has remained the same.
Divide the amount of water in the dinosaurs' bodies with the total amount of water on earth. That gives you the probability.
'" The interview result came at 1 or 1.30 am and Mehta broke the good news to his parents at 2 am. The work in his division includes browsing through Reuters, Bloomberg and DialogPRO databases, raking information from companies' websites, analysing facts and figures, and interviewing people.
This includes travel as well. "In business research, 60-70 per cent of the work is through the desk or secondary research (company sites, internet, online databases)," says Mehta.
A foreign multinational telecom company tasked them with studying the IT solutions requirements of Indian BPO companies. We interviewed people in those companies.
We took a sales workshop for the client on how they should go about it (seeking business here)," Ashish elaborates. Being a team leader, Mehta not only assigns the work, designs questionnaires and helps members overcome roadblocks, he also signs their previous day's time reports and takes three or four of them out to tea every day.
This is a way for team bonding, cross-pollination of ideas and pre-empting speed breakers. "It's very, very important, one, to understand if any personal issue is affecting an employee's work.
Two, to try and find solutions to a structured problem. Otherwise, we'll function like machines.
" One of the luxuries -- if you count the health benefits, petrol (and money) saved - in Mehta's job is that he walks to work and back. He resides with his software engineer wife, a 10-minute walk from his Unitech Cyber Park office in Sector 39.

Congarts on ur accolades!