AFVOA Newsletter of Year 2021

Section 6 - Memoirs CV 2 No. 01 / 2021 Page 78 of 123 About the Author Wg Cdr C Ravishankar was commissioned in the Accounts Branch of IAF in June 1977. His indoctrination into EDP was during 1984 in Military College of Telecommunications Engineering (MCTE), Mhow. He had a long tenure of 6 years at a stretch in EDP Wing of AFCAO, revamping the computerized Officers Pay System between 1985 and 1990. Many of his colleagues knew him to be the ‘F 1517 man’ (F 1517 is the AF Officers’ Pay Slip, which underwent many refinements during this period). He is a graduate of the DSSC, Wellington. He also holds PG degrees in Business Administration and Computer Applications. He availed PMR in Jul 1998 to make Chennai his permanent home and to make a second career in IT. He was an SAP Consultant for two years, part of which was with L & T Infotech, Mumbai. He changed over his line to Java based product development in BFSI domain during 2000 and was with a Palo Alto based startup for six years. He currently heads the Operations and Delivery of a medium sized Indian multi national headquartered in Mumbai, for the 15th year running ( www.hurix.com ) . He is passionate about his work. His recent pastimes are casual blogging and active Smuling, specializing in mushy- mushy Tamil duets of yester years!