'Returning to India gave me a real opportunity to evolve from a technical to a more challenging managerial role'

Background



With a masters in Computer Science from IIT Chennai, Chary joined the

university’s programming and system administration department. In 1984, he

worked for Hinditron Computers as systems programmer. Later, he served as a

consultant on IBM mainframes in Denmark for two years, both as a developer and

database administrator in DB2 and IDMS. Prior to joining HTC, he was a

consultant in the US for seven years in sales force automation, order management

and data warehousing applications on mainframes, and also worked as an Oracle

database administrator.

Current job profile



As a V-P of technology management (global operations) at HTC, he is

responsible for the company’s offshore and domestic project execution, product

development, customization, process improvements, recruitment and training. He

is credited with setting up the company’s IBM mainframe and SAP divisions. He

is also instrumental in establishing its projects and e-commerce training

division.

Turning point



Chary feels that returning to India in 1994 and setting up HTC’s

operations in the country from scratch was the turning point in his career.

"This gave me an opportunity to evolve from a technical role with

experience in design and development of business applications to a challenging

managerial leadership role," he says.

Best decision



"My best decision was to push for product development by 1998,"

says Chary. According to him this has enabled the company create a world-class

mid-range CRM product and other products in areas like customer order

management, delivery, billing and financial accounting.

Work mantra



Change is the only constant in the world and the IT industry is it’s best

example. Our strategy, R&D, marketing and human performance functions

continually look for changing trends in the business and emerging technologies

in order to proactively bring in the necessary direction, technology and process

changes.

As told to Shubhendu Parth