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किरण - Kiran Ghag
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Hello friend, I was born on 7th May 1980 in India. I am 6' in height, wheat in complexion, dark black eyes and black (& few white) hair. Not a bad face...so you can call me Tall-Dark-n Handsome dude!!
"Jack of all trades" can be a real definition of mine. I do any given work "dil se". Thats why I can do almost anything. People often have tough time to know me. Even more if they try to hide themselves from me. Surprisingly enough, but I have experienced myself as a mirror which shows what you are or what others might think about me. I mean, if you think I am fun to be with, I can be a source of true laughter. But if you think I am un-approachable, nothing can make us talk. If you are good, you will find me good, but if you are bad, I can be worse.
I believe a bit in sun signs and numerology. My sun sign characteristics are a mix of Taurus and Gemini. I borrow the Stubbornnes from the bull sign and at the same time Gemini gives me the flexibility, love for computers and communication. It takes more time for people to know me full, especially those who judge by face. They often find me boring at the begining. I am more of a DIY type. I have a good sense of humor. I love computers like anything. I'm quite okay at photography. I like to listen soft music. Book reading is one of my favourite past time. I like to go out travelling new places. I also like to observe the way things works as it always adds to your knowledge base. I like to solve crosswords. I like to enjoy a friendcircle at the same time remain a lot reserved. I like to take care and show due concern to people I like. I like to be cared.
Learning new and interesting things, always make me feel nice. That is the precise reason I can enjoy watching how astronuts fly and also how automatic air pressure machine at the local petrol pump works.
Things I love are superfast and superslow computers, cameras, guitars, books and elctronical gizmos. Thing I hate is Money and untrue people.
There are many things that I wish to do but couldn't do till date. Some of them are playing guitar and keyboard, being a singer, being a television or radio host, editor, bike travelling, body building, being a cricketeer and so on....
I am one of the lucky fews to handle big variety of Intel hardware and software. This includes Commodore 64, IBM PC, XT, AT, 286/386/486, Pentium I/II/III/IV/Xeon. Software includes ancient MS-DOS, Netware, Linux, Solaris till todays advanced operating systems. Though not worked much on Mac and RISC based machine, I am confident and eager to use them.
I first came accross computers when my brother had to study Computer Programming. He was then in 7th Std, I was in 4th then. For him my Grandpa had brought a Marathi book called "Computer MhaNaje Kaay?" (What is Computer?). I read it full at once but couldn't understand much. After reading more I gave up.
Late when I had to take it the same subject when I joined 9th Std. Here I learned GW-BASIC programming for 2yrs. I learnt ( and also taught) WordStar4, Lotus 1-2-3 and DbaseIII+. Interestingly, I also came across LOGO here. It was really fun for the kids who used it. In these two years we had to use 8086/8088/V20 based PCs without HDD. The teacher used to give us a floppy booted system with GW-BASIC. We had to retype fresh code everytime as we didn't had permission to save it.
Next I joined Govt. Polytechnic for my Diploma. This was the blooming period for me. I learnt most of the things during this period. Main topics I studied here include
While in the third year, my father brought me a superfast PentiumMMX 166Mhz machine. I still run the same in my Lab. I got my exposure to computer maintenence at the Lab in our Diploma college. I got full access to it once I grew familiar with the Lab Asst. I looked after nearly 30+ computers including 2 Novell 1+8 LANs. The machines were from a wide variety with 80286/386/486, Pentium, Cyrix and AMDs.
After Diploma was completed, I joined Compaq-Digital as a trainee (This is a fun story altogether) engineer. I worked here for 2 months. This was a great period coz I could meet new people everyday with atleast 3 problems shooted out in style.
Later I completed BE Computers at Fr. Conceicao College of Engg, Bandra, Mumbai. It was also a good experience. Saw many morons using computers and providing fun to others. In the final year they bought DSL net connection. Thought the speed was low, spent much time there in the cafe.
In this period I decided to join the business and started assembling and servicing computer systems for people. Provided service both On-Call and On-contract basis. Nowdays do it only for friends due to schedule restrictions.
My favourite S/W type is NOSs and diagnostic utils. WindowsNT and Linux ranks on top.
After completing BE, I joined Patni Computer Systems as Software Engineer. This was certainly not the kind of career I wanted. But did it for some more time. One year spent there has been full of meeting new people and learning different technologies. That has been the only plus point of staying there apart from money.
Before leaving Patni as Sr. Systems Engineer. My last projects were with EMC Coporation, MA, USA. For EMC, I worked as level 1 support for the EMC CLARiiON CX and FC series Storage Area Network arrays. This was very interesting. I was trained at Hopkinton, MA by EMC Corporation in 2005 and that was a nice short journey to USA, remembered for many reasons. After Level 1 support, EMC again invited me to USA in 2006 for process training on their Root Cause Analysis process for CLARiiONs. And finally I moved to EMC's CLARiiON Level 3 sustaining support.
Now I am working at HSBC Bank's Global Technology Centre in Pune as a Senior Storage Administrator. I handle their UK datacentre Storage provisioning operations. Work duties here include Storage provisioning on EMC CLARiiON, Symmetrix 8370/DMX, Control Center, Connectrix fabric manager and host integration/troubleshooting.
She should be supportive, expressive, romantic, firm and good decision maker, matured, confident, good manager, optimal, patient, witty and ACTIVE!!!. She should try to look for the good points in me and encourage them.Most importantly, she should trust me and make me feel trusted in all cases. We should enjoy each other's company and feel always secured.
Hey! I know it is impossible to get all things under single conver, would you disagree? So I've stopped looking for one. But I still believe in, "Love is not about loving a perfect person, it is about loving an imperfect person perfectly".
I am a EMC Proven Professional (CLARiiON Solutions and Implementation Specialist) for EMC2 Corporation's CLARiiON mid range storage system. While working at Patni Computer Systems, I worked for EMC as their worldwide support personnel. I got chance to work on Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 for the same. This was great experience since I got to work on various operating systems for storage and host integration, fabric switches and actual storage troubleshooting. With this good exposure I decided to convert into the certification and that was the insipiration.
Even though I have worked on EMC hardware a lot, I would like to progress ahead as a multi-vendor storage professional. Storage Networking Industries Association provides a vendor neautral certification and this was also achieved on self study. Latest achievement is SNIA Certified Storage Architect'2006.
Experts-Exchange
is a free but highly rated, online "ask an expert" site for computer questions.
I am part of this site as an Expert since 2000. Here is
My online EE-Expert Profile giving complete breakup of my
question/answer history and related details.
Currently I am a Master level certified expert for Hardware section, while my
activity areas include a wide range, not limited to hardware, networking,
applications.
Passed following online exam at Brainbench...(My
Brainbench Transcript ID is 2706227)
| Name | Score | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Javascript | 2.81 | 2004-06-27 |
| Linux Administration (General) | 3.06 | 2004-06-26 |
| Computer Technical Support | 4.58 | 2003-04-09 |
| Linux Administration (General) | 2.93 | 2003-04-09 |
| HTML 3.2 | 3.48 | 2003-04-08 |
This version is fairly ASP driven. I chose ASP simply because at work I had coded in it for some time. And brinkster was giving ASP free. Previous hosts – Freeservers and Portland had started putting too many restrictions. ASP is dynamic and can interact with databases (not that it’s the only one capable of this).
Almost all the pages fetch the contents from database. This includes the top header containing section titles, photography, poem, fun, projects, tech-docs and traveling section. In fact the photography, poem and fun, all three pages are served by one page only.
Code is written in much re-usable format. Headers and footers are generated using a single page and this page is included before each main page, thus a consistent appearance is obtained. This will also help further because the changes can be made at only 1-2 pages and its not required to go and modify each and every page. Design and maintenance time would be reduced by much amount due to this.
Access was chosen for the primary reason of being supported by brinkster. But access also provides features such as relations and constraints.
This has been done to facilitate ease of modification for me, considering the amount of laziness in me. If I have to add a new photograph, I can just put the image in the server and fire a query to insert a row in the database. The image appears promptly on the page when it’s refreshed next. In the same way, to add a new section, I can update a database row and put the new page up. It’s that simple.
The site hosts many photographs and 2-D drawings. All photographs were scanned in a batch of 3-4 photos on one page. First, each of them was separated using the crop and rotate feature. Each image was resized to desired size. Additionally, each image was resized into a smaller size to create thumbnails.
Thumbnails are used because putting images all in one page directly causes the page to load veeeerrry slow. This is because the browser downloads the complete image and then resizes. It is very possible that the prospective visitor would abort the page loading midway. Thumbnails being tiny in size, are downloaded and displayed quickly. If a user wishes to take a closer look, he/she can always click to enlarge the image which would download the actual image.
Javascript is widely supported by browsers for client side scripting. There are a couple of forms on the site. Javascript is used to make sure that user has entered some data in the minimum required fields.
Internet Explorer 5 was used at the time of designing. The pages were also tested on Netscape Navigator and Lynx to make sure that it runs well across platforms.
Usage tracking has been implemented by two means.
There is a hit counter code embedded in each page. Even though it is present on each page, hits are not calculated per page access. The SessionID generated by the server is maintained in the session itself. On first access, this session variable is blank. The code now increments the counter in file and also stores the SessionID in the session variable. After that as long as the session variable is not empty, counter is not incremented.
As a net result, the counter is maintained for each user session, which can be treated as a near true indicator of user visits.
Another piece of code logs each access into database with following details
Also the Visitor ID is captured in case the user opts to sign the guestbook. This would enable administrator to co-relate the content accessed and the personal information provided by the user.
Note:Information provided by the user will only be used for statistical analysis to enhance the site and will not be shared with any other entity.
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