Ritwik Bisaria: My First Job

This is where I spent my 3 years in Sify Limited, Hyderabad. Started as a Sales Engineer Trainee - Enterprise Solutions on 6th August 2003. Moved to Account Manager 2A in August 2004 (1 year probabtion). Was then promoted to Account Manager 2B in March 2005 and was promoted to Key Account Manager in October 2005. Left Sify on 25th July 2006 as Key Account Manager handling the biggest customers for Sify in Andhra Pradesh. Sify has taught me a lot and I dont lie when I say that. "I thank Sify for making me what I am."

Though 2 people who made my career were:
1. Cherian Thomas - The Regional Manager when I was the Key Account Manager who trusted me at every point and had given me the fredom to handle my customers the right way! Thanks Sir.
2. Ramesh Kumar - My first boss. The reason I have put him 2nd in line is because there is so much to write about him that Cherian's paragraph would have gone un-noticeable. My fist boss, the reason for me where I am today. The reason for me what I am today. A person who guided me whenever I needed the help, who gave me the opportunity to fall and learn from my mistakes. A person who told me that Sales people are also Ethical. A person who told me how to present what you want to communicate. A person who took bold decisions like,

When all other Sales Engineer Trainees were pushed by their bosses to do 15 calls in a day, Ramesh sir was ok with me doing 3-4 calls in a day

When location heads were sent for ISO training, I was the only Sales Engineer Trainee who was sent by his boss to get trained on ISO

When other Sales Engineer Trainees were leaving their jobs, he, while quitting, ensured that organisation gets to know the potential and starts giving me bigger roles and responsibilities

Result : When all other sales engineer trainees in total nationally did 20 laks of business, I did 40+ lakhs alone. When all other sales engineer traines nationally did 32 lakhs, my numbers were close to 95 lakhs. When the senior Account Managers who used to do Annual bookings of 3.8 crores in bigger markets that HYD, I used to 4.3 crores. When other Key Account Managers were people with minimum 4+ years of sales experience, I was made a KAM with 2 years of experience.

The people who definately have made my career in terms of understanding what Sify / technology / sales all about are the people who's name I would like that mention specially. Veerender (PMG, for the technical and road direction related help), Ashwin (for being a nice friend), Lalit kumar Pandey (PMG, tech again), V. Vijaykumar (mastlog, bhailog), Navaneeth sir (best collegue one can have), Ali sir, Narayan sir, Vijay Krishna sir, Mila Dev, Ashwinth MR, Sai Prasad, RVSS Prasad, Vijayraj, Sudeepto Dutta, lots n lots of ppl in Chennai and other locations, Anuj Malhotra sir ............... n on n on n on .................

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