I am from India. Came to United States in August 1995 to pursue higher studies. Completed my dual Masters degree in Information Systems and Computer Science from Arizona State University [ASU] in Fall 1998. In the summer of 1998, I was offered an internship at Lucent Technologies in Milpitas, CA. After completing my final semester at ASU, I took up a full-time position in Lucent as a Web Engineer. In early 2000, Lucent announced it was spinning off a new company - Avaya and the division that I was working on would be part of this new company. Personally, I was not too jazzed about this. Plus the economy was starting to take a hard turn for the south. As much as I luved working in Lucent (now Avaya), I made the rather tough decision of moving on. That brought me to Cisco Systems in Feb of 2001. The first few months @ Cisco were very tough. Soon after I joined, Cisco did it’s first major layoffs in it’s 17 year history. Plus, 9-11 happened soon. I even contemplated going back to Avaya. However, I decided to stick it out and while things did not improve for years, in retrospect, I was blessed to be at Cisco.
Today (07/09/2009), I continue to enjoy my professional life as an IT Architect at Cisco Systems. We still live in Pleasanton, CA and now are proud parents of two kids, a girl (Emma) and a boy (Zachariah). And yes, Bart is still around doing what he does best.
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Email: anand dot sharma at gmail dot com