Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the first edition of TechSphere!!! Techsphere is not a technology newsletter, it won’t contain our technology strategy , our change agenda, our performance on objectives etc .It is going to be full of tit-bits around us in ITG, some key achievements, celebrations, birthdays, Rewards, a poem or two, a quiz to pick your brain etc . Hope you find it fun and interesting. This is your magazine !!! Please feel free to give any feedback anytime to me, Dawna or Neha. We would love to hear from you . You may also write your articles in this, and we will include them as appropriate. As committed in the townhall, We will publish this once a month (around 10th) till the end of 2009 and then take your feedback on whether we should continue this.. Happy reading !!!! Best Regards, Yash Pal ( Paul ) Syngal

New Leaders

Rajdeep Mahida Group Manager Non GRS Product

Rajdeep has a work experience of more than 14 years in IT Service Delivery and IT Consulting. He has domain experience in Property and Casualty Insurance (General Insurance) and on Mutual Funds. He completed Masters in Computer Applications in 1994 after graduating in 1991 with Physics as major. Certified as Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP), INS from AICPCU (American Institute Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters) and AMFI (Association of Mutual Funds in India)

He has spent close to 3 years at Fidelity and was responsible for managing projects for Asia Pacific geographies. Helped setup of Fidelity Dalian (China) software delivery centre. He has Sound knowledge of ISO, CMM and P-CMM processes and was instrumental in getting these certification for CSC in India and has handled large “distributed” teams spread across various locations.

Sanjay Bhatnagar ITG Benefits Technology Leader Sanjay joins us from Fidelity International Limited (FIL), where he was heading the Global Delivery for Institutional Pension Business. As part of his 20+ years of illustrious career, Sanjay has managed P&L Responsibilities, successfully ran Global IT Delivery Centers across various geographical locations, managed large client accounts in Sales & Marketing and headed the Global Learning Delivery for one of the largest Learning Organizations in the world. He is an avid traveler and likes to hit the highway given half a chance. He likes to build movies collection - both Hindi and English and in his free time when he is not driving you can catch him watching movies. He is married for 21 years now and has two daughters 16 & 12.

Manish Mehra ITG Consulting Leader and Group Manager GRS Product Manish has a diverse career graph spanning around 18 years of rich cross functional experience in the areas of IT Service Delivery, IT Consulting, Client Servicing, Quality Consulting and Resource Management.He graduated in 1991 and has a Bachelors degree in Physics. In addition he holds a Masters degree in Computers. Manish joins us from Fidelity and has previously worked in companies like Headstrong, XANSA (earlier known as IIS Infotech), Softek and client profile include some of the big names in financial industry like BoA, PNC, Fannie Mae, SSB, Nomura etc. He has sound knowledge of ISO and CMM frameworks. Was part of SEPG group in previous organizations and has been an ATM (Assessment Team Member) in Headstrong’s journey in achieving SW-CMM Level 5. IIS Infotech was first IT company in India to receive ISO certification. During his spare time he loves to explore new places and play sports (Golf is the new addiction. Cricket and football or soccer are the

Associate News

Management Services Group (MSG) A new group has been formed enhancing the responsibilities of (formerly) Resource Management Group.The resource management group was formed in March 2008 to initiate and implement the processes for resource movements across teams/practices, streamline resource need generation and fulfillment, track forecasting, utilizations & team allocations and streamlining third party contractor’s governess. This group has come a long way in one year and now along with their current responsibilities they will also be responsible for

• Business Analysis • Metrics and Reports Seating planning & optimization • Corporate Presentations at ITG level .

This group is being renamed as the "Management Services Group (MSG)" and will be headed by Pankaj Gupta based at Gurgaon Cyber Park Office and reporting into Yash Pal (Paul) Syngal.

GRS Release Name : R1.3.3

This release was focused to develop the translation work for Tier-1. The team had to deliver 74 work items spanning across survey management, data collection and data auditing, In addition to the above list additional 9 work items (SM-3, DC-5, DX-1) were also delivered due to addition in the scope. The team delivered the entire scope items along with the additional scope within the release time. The team not only delivered the Tier-1 translations & GUI work items but also delivered Tier-2 translation as well. The R1.3.3 was released on 10 Jan’09 as per plan

Associate News

LMS Transition

Mumbai offshore team has been supporting Docent and SumTotal applications since last 4 years. We started with 2 clients and were supporting 8 clients in shared pool with the team of 8 Associates prior to the transition. HCL were supporting 3 clients and were also responsible for development for all clients. A transition plan was worked out to transfer the vendor work to offshore. Within short span of three months transition wascompleted. During transition many process documents were created for the support and development activities which were missing. The challenge during the transition was to get this knowledge transfer along with the current client support activities, which included on call support to the clients.

To deliver the project we were expected to add 7 new resources to the team. Hiring resources at short notice was a challenge, coincidently CDS collocation project was in process, due to which we could absorb some of the rolled off resources and hire few. As these new resources were going to join in phased manner the existing team members had to stretch their regular hours to meet the transition deadline. Finally, transition was completed on schedule, and the team is currently supporting 10 clients with 15 associates from offshore and performing all development activities. This transition resulted in rolling of 9 offshore, 2 onshore contractors and 1 onshore associate which resulted in saving of $660,000 annually.

GTO Success Story 2008/9 Hewitt Leadership decided to outsource its Internal IT Helpdesk (CSC) in early 2008 and 15th Jan’09 was fixed as the last date of transition. The total affected population in Nov’08 was 47 associates (excluding associates who managed to secure a job for themselves outside Hewitt). Sidharth Malik volunteered to lead a project to redeploy these associates and followed a massive drive of coordination between Resource Management, HR, Recruitment, Functional leaders etc. and everyone did their bit to ensure that these Internal IT helpdesk associates are accommodated within Open opportunities available in Hewitt as per their skill, experience, qualification and expertise. As a result out of 47 associates 37 associates were redeployed within Hewitt. Out of the 9 left - 4 got a job as on date and efforts are still on for the rest 5 to help them find a job.

The Associate Connection

Innovation Award

January, 2009Renu Negi Sharma – 61357

X-Tra Miler

December 2008Vivek Sharma – 74105Anandprabhu A – 66741Peermohammed Raja - 70625Ajay Bhosal - 83309Ragunath A – 73739Archanasampath Kumar – 80145Jaspreet Singh - 103679

January 2009Rajeev Chauhan - 83193Shiv Nagpal - 103400Monika Bansal – 78498Deepak Chaudhary – 92131Mohit Kumar Verma – 71594V Venkatachari – 0103026Pradnya Kanade – 58942Jatin Bhopale - 67403Suman Shyam M -75539Mukesh Verma - 92112

Champion Award

December, 2008Jaspreet Ahuja – 65661Shailendra Gupta – 0103482Paras Madan - 69590

January, 2009Prashanth Poojary – 0103509Deepti Mahalwal - 69215Narendra Yadav – 64501Gaurav Thakuria - 93528

The Associate Connection3 Tier Award 3 Tier Award5 year Award

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Atin Agarwal -45734Bala G- 45601

Deepak Bhasin- 45597

Kareena Jhangiani- 53269

S Arul Murugan- 45602

Shahul Shaji- 45775

Chandrasekaran S- 45773

Narasimhan R – 45769

Anita Pidikiti – 45190

Vasudevan V – 45726

Swaminathan T- 45774

KVDM Somayajulu – 46139

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5 Year completion Award3 Tier Award

Shivani Gulati - 68724Nidhi Benjwal - 68742Kaushik Khanna - 68743Akanksha Agrawal - 68749Kavitha A - 68752Hanumanlu CH - 68753Kenath Vasudevan - 68754Jyoti Nair - 68757Yash Sharma - 68842Ravi Kumar Agastya - 68846Anshula Nagpal - 68850Suneetha N - 68851Venu V - 68852Deepa Mehra - 69064Alok Singh - 69066Shalini Sawhney - 69126Swati Chadha - 69127Hemanta Sahoo - 69128Navneet Gupta - 69211Manisha Shah - 69212Deepti Mahalwal - 69215Manish Arya - 69217Vinod Kumar - 69218Divya Prakash Aneja – 69221

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83435Himanshu Singhal73511Namesh Sharma79324Gursharan Singh70852Siddharth Saraya61043Sachin Joshi

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51896Lalit Balodi63460Ranjan Ahuja

57576Megha Bhayje76217Neyhee Sharma

67596Sumesh Sharma80209Ravikumar P

0103577Geetika Saxena72328Gosikan Govindaraj

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0104263Ragesh Karammal0110152Rajdeep Mahida

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68754Kenath Vasudevan73314Kartar Bidhuri0103866Sumit Saini62273Deepalakshmi Suresh0103528Amita Mehta59489Dawna Chongtham

16 February68669Karthick Krishnan

73127Sujith Erikandath49290Ajit Kumar70630Balaji Srinivasan K0103536Kamalpreet Kaur67599Prarthana Shiva73506Saket Shah60736Sudhakar Kumar66634Anand Babu S0110170Manoj Kumar58263Kunal Bharti0109847Hemant Wani

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Desire

I want to go outside my boundsI want to go beyond my soundI want to reach at unreachable placeI want to fulfill my entire dream

Yet I’m aloneBut I‘ve my passionYet I’m tired But none my hope

I have to go I have to goCoz my heart never listens “NO” No compromise with any dreams

When everyone get what he actually wants And one who tried getting success in last Then I’m ready for each mistake Then I’m ready for each lose

I want to go outside my boundsI want to go beyond my sound

What if I not get succeeds?What if I not get proper place?I’ll never get regret in lastAs I did something for my hope

I am here for only positivismNegativity can’t break my heartDefeat sounds me next try Deviation looks like new way

I’ll work till defeats turns in successAnd each mistake gives new thoughtWhile each muscle and each cell Not crying only for sole thought

I want to go outside my boundsI want to go beyond my soundCoz my heart never listens “NO”No Compromise with any dreams

Written byShailendra Kumar Gupta

(a0103482)

**********Best Friend***********

You are here in my heart,We will always be together, never apart, friends forever.

In good or bad, in glory days,Happy or sad, forever always.

The sun may always shine upon us,coz our friendship won't end,So here I make a promise to you my best friend,that I'll always be there for you and hope YOU will be there.....For ME too!!

Contributed by:

Runa Majumdar.

Write your Sad times in Sand,

Write your Good times in Stone.

George Bernard Shaw

IMPOSSIBE / “I””M””POSSIBLE”Here I am going to ask few questions with you tell me without taking more than two seconds.

Can Iron float on water?Can water swim in air?Can a man alive who jumped from 100 feet tall tower.

In first shot answers are “NO” and it’s not a shocking response for me. Generally what think is totally depend on what we really observe? There is nothing perfect and nor useless.

A ship can float on water and an aero plane can fly in sky. Its hard to move both even a single inch yet they can run in great speed. So all depends on correct analysis, inputs, outputs, observations, evaluations.

Water can also swim in air but for this you have to create zero gravity situations. So it’s not things are impossible only if you think it is impossible. When you have to work on some thing you have to exactly work on correct points only. Once you are done with all these points you will get required output. Failure is nothing we get from outside but we become part of it when we stop fighting against are challenges. And in the last if iron ship can swim on depthless sea then why we can’t. If water can float in air then why we can’t. We have to go for

correct solutions and I’m in process to search to all these points. After all we can’t simply accept failure.Written by

Shailendra Kumar Gupta (a0103482)

Q. 1) CAN YOU NAME THE BIGGEST NUMBER THAT CAN BE WRITTEN WITH FOUR 1s

Q. 2) Two neighbors were quarrelling over an egg laid by Peacock.The First neighbor claimed that the egg on the ground that the peacock belonged to him.The second neighbor claimed it on the ground that the egg was laid in his garden.

In your opinion who is the owner of the egg..

Q. 3) POOR BUNNY:Bunny lives on the 8th floor of a multi-storied building in South Delhi. When he gets into the elevator on the ground floor, he presses the button for the fifth floor. From fifth floor he walks the rest of the way up to his apartment. But while leaving his apartment, he takes the elevator all the way down to the ground floor.Why this puzzling behavior?

Q. 4) A worker fell of a 25 feet ladder and landed on a hard surface. But he was not hurt. Why not?

Send in your answers to dawna.chongtham@hewitt.com

Hurry with your answers !!!!

Prizes to be won for the first 3 associates with maximum correct answers…