User:SujitPal

Author: "TrekAcademy - Volume 1, Lessons in Management & Life from Star Trek"

Web Site: www.trekacademy.com

While living in London, England with his family, Sujit was first introduced to the original Star Trek TV show (with Capt. Kirk & Mr. Spock) at the early age of 10 back in 1966. After moving to New York City with his family in 1971, Sujit assimilated quickly into the local culture by attending Haaren High School. Motivated strongly by Star Trek (and partly by parental pressure), Sujit pursued Physics for his Bachelor’s degree at New York University.

For the last 2 decades of the 20th century, Sujit worked in the technology industry, starting as a software programmer in a small start-up company and ending up as its General Manager, which via M&A became one of the world’s largest leading software and technology services companies with offices in over 70 countries - SunGard.

Areas of expertise and management experiences for Sujit include Consulting, Division P/L Management, Project Management, Product Management, Resource/Capacity Planning, SDLC Management, Client Services Management, Systems’ Integration, Change Management, Software Design/Programming, Quality Assurance, Database/Software Library Administrator, Client/Internal Training, Sales & Marketing, and Author - User’s Guide, Training Manuals, RFP/RFI, and Marketing Collateral.

In this century, Sujit continues to consult in the technology industry on a part time basis and lives in Arizona with his wife Anindita, who, like Sujit is also originally from India, and whom he met while she was working on her PhD in Economics at the University of Southern California.

Sujit attributes forming a lot of his views on management and leadership to the wide variety of staff and management with whom he worked along side through out his careers. In particular, Sujit always credits lot of his success in his management roles to a select few upper management mentors of his at SunGard.

Sujit's book "TrekAcademy - Volume 1, Lessons in Management & Life from Star Trek" (available from Amazon and Barnes&Noble) and his web site www.trekacademy.com are the natural culmination of his two favorite interests, Management/Leadership and Star Trek.