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The jury: Sitting (left to right) Shyam Malhotra, Sanjay Singh, Pramod Nigam. Standing (l) Sanjiv Mathur (r) Anil Valluri |
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The jury process was the most critical step in determining these awards. The jury should have enough market and environmental knowledge, has to ask the right questions, in this instance, also have the hands-on experience needed to judge the complexity and the implementation challenges involved in the projects.
The jury for 2004 consisted of two members from the IT industry, two from IT users and one from media. The jury met in Delhi to deliberate on the awards. The short-listed projects and a synopsis of each one of them were already available with the jury. Besides, the jury had the power to ask for any other project to be included in the final ranking. The jury could also decide on the final number of awards to be given and the categories in which they were to be given.
The first task that the jury set for itself was to identify the areas in which the awards would be given this year. Then each project was presented to the jury by the concerned presenter. Each presentation was followed by questions to the project advocate as well as deliberations amongst the jury members.
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Jury members awarded points to each projects on the basis of the five criteria (the five award categories) they had originally set up, and then short-listed the top three projects from each jury member for a final round of discussions. The winners were selected from this list.
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Promod |
Nigam |
Promod Nigam
Head, Regional Support and Development Centre, Unilever
Asia: Information Technology
Promod has over 25 years of experience in industrial engineering,
consultancy, training and IT. He worked with the National Productivity Council
before joining Unilever. At Unilever, he has held the positions if IT Manager
for Hindustan Lever, Head of the Infrastructure Management Centre for
Unilever's businesses in Central Asia and Middle East and Regional Director
for Global Technology Services for Unilever based out of Singapore, before
moving to his current position.
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Shyam Malhotra
Executive Director CyberMedia India Ltd.
An engineer and business administrator by training, Shyam began his career in
marketing, working for Siemens, Tata Exports and Eicher Goodearth. Shyam then
moved on to publishing and general management in 1985 and is presently the
Executive Director, CyberMedia and Editor-in-Chief, Cyber Publications, which
include PCQuest, Dataquest and Voice and Data.
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Anil |
Valluri |
Anil Valluri
Director, Systems Engineering, Sun Microsystems
Anil started his professional life in DCM Data products 19 years ago.
Subsequently, he moved on to Digital and then to Sun. Anil is one of the most
sought-after IT industry experts in the country because of his first-hand
experience with some of the best IT implementations in the country.
Sanjay Singh
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Sanjay |
Singh |
Head, IT, Timex Watches, India
After completing his engineering, Sanjay started his profession as a C
programmer for embedded devices, moved on to networks and database management
and then got back to embedded-systems' design. He joined Timex in 1998 and has
a total of 12 years of experience. He is a proponent of Linux, having converted
many of Timex's systems to run on Linux. He has been running PCQLinux ever
since the early Slackware editions.
Sanjiv Mathur
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Sanjiv |
Mathur |
Director, Customer Partner Experience, Microsoft, India
Sanjiv brings 14 years of IT industry experience to the jury. He started his
professional life as a developer, and has worked on Unix, Unify, Oracle, COBOL
and PC-based development systems. He was with Wipro, moved on to Oracle and then
to Microsoft, where he handled various sales positions and became the marketing
head of Microsoft in India, before moving on to his current role.
In the past, Sanjiv has written in PCQuest, about the evolution of databases.