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I merely told her with engaging simplicity that 'the art of life
 was the avoidance of the unattainable' - Saki

In the fall of 1989, I started my Bachelors degree program in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. After 4 years of hostel life punctuated with lending notes, 'putting fundaes' the night before exams, dabbling at six-a-side soccer and ultimate frisbee and umpteen latenight trips to Tarams tea shop, there I was with a B Tech mostly because my teachers worked hard. I also earned the title 'The Official Notestaker' of the class.

As if a four years' stint at studying Cheme were not enough, I proceeded to master the topic by enrolling at the Ohio State University's masters degree program in the department of Chemical Engineering in fall 1993. The cold weather and my first winter were really great experiences. As I took classes and researched in the area of polymers, I was drawn to manufacturing and I prepared to take an interdisciplinary program in Manufacturing Systems Engineering offered by the Engineering Research Center for Net Shape Manufacturing (ERCNSM) at the OSU. I graduated in summer of 1995

Then, I joined the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola. I worked in product and technology development areas for 32 months in Phoenix, AZ. I then moved to Austin, TX to work in an operational role in a wafer Fab.

Now, I am a student in MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing Fellow Program, Class of 2001. This is a dual degree program culminating in masters degrees in engineering and management.  I am enrolled in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as in the MIT-Sloan School of Management .

As part of my dual degree program at MIT, I spent 6.5 months on an internship with Dell Computer Corporation in Austin, TX. I worked on identifying and designing a collaborative decision support system for managing a high volume computer assembly facility in Austin.