Hello everyone I'm cloud hired. So my name is Umang Prassad. I
currently live in Mumbai. And I originally hail from Bihar. So
currently, I am working as a project manager, an organization
which specifically deals with cloud services. So my roles and
responsibilities are more of getting in touch with the
clients requirements gathering,
preparing a plan of action, deciding the Statement of Work,
and all in all, helping the clients to get things done for
them.
Before joining go cloud careers, I was working as a project
coordinator as working for Lauren information technology
and I was handling one of their banking clients called Access
bank. So it was an end to end process of coordinating things,
arranging for the virtual infra and getting the software
prepared by the developers and I was handling around IT teams at
that point of time. i Yes, I was pursuing an engineering course I
would say no, it was from Intel depart from a company which is
based out of Bangalore here in India. So I took up a course and
I got to know bits and pieces about the products, the public
cloud products. Yes, so actually, my expectations were a
bit different from that course, I expected to learn the basics
of the technology first, and later on, understand how these
public clouds work, and what are the actual technology things
that are being used in what I would say, and backstage, which
are not visible. So those are the things which I was
expecting. And moreover, I came from a project management
background, and I was coordinating projects. So I came
from a project management background. So I wanted some
understanding of how to relate to this technology along with
staying in this project management field. So that is
what I was expecting, but it was completely sort of an
engineering role. And they were mostly into product, say, the
actual product, if they are talking about AWS cloud, so they
just thought about the console, how to use the console. That's
That's it?
Well, I was surfing for more info related to cloud on
YouTube. So that is where I found the Google Cloud
architects channel on YouTube and then got to know that there
are some free lectures which mic used to conduct. So I attended
those two lectures and liked it. And then that is where I
initiated contact with Mike first. As I mentioned, I
attended two free lectures. While attending that lecture,
you get to know that yeah, this is the kind of knowledge that
you are actually expecting, Mike was explaining the complete
technology. If you know the technology, you can work on any
end product, which is based on it. So Mike explained it very
beautifully in those two lectures. And I was like, Yeah,
I want to learn more. This is what I wanted to learn. So I
want to learn more and I made a decision Oh, this would have
quite a bit of division in the answer. So I would say the first
piece that I got is knowledge. That is the most important thing
which I was looking for from this course. So I understood
what the technology is. Again, I seem to be repeating myself
again and again on this one, but yeah, I I understood that how
this thing works. And it is not that Mike follows a complete,
you know, curriculum that is there. I mean, he is not there,
that kind of guy that there is a set piece that he has to follow
whatever is related to that technology, and whatever just
saying is like, yeah, you're my student, you have to learn this.
So, he's pretty much selfless. And if I talk about the
learnings, this is what I learned, again, from my net,
yeah, you need to be selfless, you need to contribute to the
community to the industry. So that is another thing. Again, if
the other piece I talk about, I got in touch with a very huge
community, I made some friends who decide internationally, and
they always give the warm regards whether it's an
achievement when I got OCI certified, or whether it's a
very small other achievement that I pass this thing of ice
this test on LinkedIn. And then when I got a job, I got many
messages from colleagues who were a part of this community
and who are a part of this community. So that is what I
gained another thing. And if I talk about monetary things, to
be honest, my salary, which was their back end time, which I
used to get, was to be precise half of what I'm getting right
now. So that that is the thing that I have taken from Google
Cloud architects. Okay, so this was basically focused on a more
emotional intelligence. So talking to people, a person can
speak in a way that the other person sitting on the other side
of the desk would actually listen to us. That's, that's the
thing that separates this program for from any other and
that is what is missing everywhere. Like, if I talk
about this quality of Mike, he, wherever he stands, or wherever
he starts talking, he builds up an aura that everyone in the
room is listening to him. So that is what he is trying to
inculcate in every other person who picks up this course. So
that is what I have learned from him a little bit, I won't say
that I am completely him, it is going to take me a lifetime to
become that person. But yeah, I understood that that part is
really important. And that is the thing that has helped me to
get to this role, actually. So my role completely involves
communication, wherein I have to be on calls, mostly seven to
eight hours a day, then I'm working for nine hours, I'm
seven to eight hours and on call. Communicating with the
clients, I'm communicating with vendors, and others at times
with the internal teams, training them a bit about what
the project is all about. And so that that is what I have
learned. And that is what something has helped me prepare
for this role. And definitely, this is going to take me a long
way. Because as of now I'm working as a project manager and
I am at a lot of different things I had in my life. So
definitely these are the qualities which I carry I had to
be honest, nobody would you know, want to you you to use
their contacts. So that's the major difference, I would say,
Here, you're free to talk to anyone. So people from very high
level in the hierarchy of a corporate architecture. They are
the students of Mike and people like me, who start from the
bottom level of project management are there and we guys
are all students and we are allowed to communicate with each
other, get to learn things, get to meet new people. So that that
is the most You know, biggest difference, I would say. And
apart from that, nobody really focuses on emotional
intelligence, they, the trainers, they would never ask
you to practice yoga, to practice your breathing style,
and your posture, and prepare an elevator pitch or present
yourself. So these are the things, the complete structure
of this program is really very unique. And it really separates
you from the complete world, I would say.
It made me think about my ways of approaching things. So I
really like how it was taught during the live lectures, and
you have to listen more, a person has to be attentive
person has to listen more, and soak more information within
himself or herself. And that is how a person can, you know, make
things for people. It's not that one can just simply jump to
conclusions, just ask a couple of questions, take some
information for just noting down sake, and then jump to
conclusions and acting as if we know everything. So that is
something which is not really good, even in terms of corporate
life, or in terms of our personal life. So that is
something which I see that I have changed myself a little bit
in terms of listening. Yeah, so the unexpected thing is,
literally, I'll start from the community part itself there. And
I was given the opportunity, a free hand to talk to anyone I
want. I introduced myself in the channel, and people were
friendly, talking. Hey, welcome. Welcome to the course. So this,
this is a really big thing. People don't really communicate,
they are not allowed to care. As really happy that yeah, people
really talk to each other, really help each other.
Mike came up with programs like students who are supposed to go
out with him write articles. He even gave chances to students
who were interested in life projects.
I remember there was a guy, he was an I am expert. So my goal
was thought of promoting in such people who are interested in a
specific domain or know a bit about it, so they can get even
more exposure. So that that was completely unexpected. Because
the training programs are like, users need to understand what we
are teaching. And then if you excel as per our parameters,
you're good, and if you don't do not, but here it was completely
different. There is no measurement here, there is like,
You're good at this stuff. So start doing it. Yeah, you're
good at writing co author with us. So that's, that's a big
thing. So And moreover, free boot camps. That's the biggest
part. It's not just for the students, it's for the complete
community, whoever wants to learn, they can join them for
free and learn that is such a big thing. You take out time,
from your own life, and you are donating it. It's like you're
just giving that time away. And for the better future of someone
else you don't even know. So that's that's a great thing. It
was pretty unexpected. And it was really great. Hello,
everyone, I'm cloud hired. So that's my way of expressing
gratitude towards you guys. Thank you very much. And to
everyone who's out there listening and would say whether
you want to get into this tech or not. You can at least be a
part of this community to learn how important it is to have an
effective communication because without communication, helping
people inside tech Israel really difficult. People who are there
on the other side who don't understand tech a lot, they need
a good communicators. They need someone who can understand
things in their language and then translate into the
technological language wherein the techie people can actually
understand the perspective of the non tech people. So I would
really ask that stay in touch with the community. Try
attending the boot camps and learn as much as you can at
least take up the communication but that's that's really
important in life. Thank you.