RedAlkemi celebrates Annual Day: highlights from the Session

November 30 - 3:45 PM, And occasion was RedAlkemi’s Annual Function as all RedAlkemists gathered to celebrate the 5th Anniversary, a moment of pride and honor for all of us. The event was coordinated by the HR department & Gurinder anchored the event. The event commenced with an opening speech by our new HR – Ms. Preeti Raina, who spoke about HR’s commitment to Quality employee recruitment & retention, continued stress on employee internal trainings (as she promised more workshops on .NET, PHP, Flash etc) and other past & upcoming HR policies.

Ms. Chhavi Firani – RA Senior Business Analyst took the stage from Preeti, expressing her joy of achieving up to 75% of our 2007 sales targets. She said - We don’t have regrets for the 25% we didn’t achieve as we have managed 92% client satisfaction for the 80% we have worked for. She also talked about the new tools like QMS – Query Management System, which allowed us to have a better conversion rate and a better Project Management Process in place.

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Then called upon stage was Mr. Santosh Pathariya, System Analyst & Programming Head of RedAlkemi (yet another RedAlkemi Hall of Famer) who talked about how he has been working with all the programmers to update RedAlkemi with the ever changing technology in the international arena and the benefits of the recent seminars on ‘enhancing communication and interpersonal skills’. The programmers are now able to communicate with the clients directly and more efficiently.

Next one was Ms. Sheetal Singh, Design Team Head, who later won the award for the Most Enthusiastic Employee of RedAlkemi as well (it says it all about her). She presented the past achievements of RedAlkemi in the Designing field with some really beautiful slide show (could have easily won award for the ‘Best Designed ppt slides’ too), including our masterpieces and how the design team has adopted Web 2.0 so efficiently.

To take over from Sheetal was Mr. Aman Bahl – Asst. Manager – Product Innovation. He talked about the new innovative process that we have floated and new services that we are starting by automating certain processes. With our new process, we would be able to deliver high quality industry relevant links to our clients more efficiently. “We would also be able to offer a combination of different promotion services together and enhance overall marketing strategy. We have done a lot of hard work to develop this high quality link solution for our clients”, he said, “I am sure our efforts will pay and all our clients will be benefited.”

Next to take the stage was Ms. Anuja Gupta, COO – RedAlkemi. “We are doing well”, she said, “but we are still short of being phenomenal”. Anuja spoke about the areas where we have improved as an organization and the lined up challenges for the year 2008. She also expressed her joy on the past year performance of RedAlkemi while giving full credits to all System Analysts, Business Analysts and the HR Department. There was a special mention of Mr. Sanjeev Singh Rawat, Mr. Santosh Pathariya & Mr. Vijay Gupta for their long-term contribution to RedAlkemi.

Some final words were added by Mr. Atul Gupta, Co-founder & CEO – RedAlkemi. ‘If we want to reach to the top, R&D is a very key area and we are doing exceptionally well. We have to rise from simply being a service industry to actually owning the IPR (Intellectual Property Rights)”. He also spoke on how Indian IT industry has an edge over China, because of being the second largest English speaking nation of the world (after US, of course). “India has just the right blend of people and resources”, he said, “There should be nothing stopping us now”. It was truly a motivating speech for all of us.

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There was also a small ‘Award Distribution Ceremony’ as the following awards were given away by Anuja:

Best Office Boy - Mr. Surjeet Kumar
Best Employee HR - Ms. Gurinder Kaur
Best Employee Tech - Mr. Sahil Anand
Best Employee PDME - Mr. Pankaj Jaiswal
Best New Employee of the Year - Ms. Kalyani Raghavendra
Punctuality Award - Mr. Suresh Kumar
Max sales Target Met - Ms. Chhavi Firani
Best Team Head - Mr. Sanjay Gupta
Most Enthusiastic Employee - Ms. Sheetal Singh
Most Dedicated Programmer - Mr. Satwinder Singh

This was followed by a traditional RedAlkemi custom, where senior RedAlkemists (2 years+) get to put their hand impressions on the RedAlkemi ‘Wall of Fame’ (these hand prints glow as the UV light falls on them). New inductees into the ‘Wall of Fame’ were - Sunil K Gautam, Ravinder Singh Negi, Anshu Kaul, Pankaj Lakhanpal, Abhishek Vaid, Sachin Sharma, Aman Bahl, Shazia Naaz, Akash Dwivedi, Satwinder Singh, Pankaj Jaiswal, Lalit Sharma, Surjeet Kumar, Arjun & Satish.

After the “Wall of Fame” ceremony, Atul & Anuja cut the cake to mark the 5 year celebration. This was followed by Tea & Snacks. It was indeed a motivating Annual Day celebration for all of us and I am sure that RedAlkemi is all set to continue the triumph in the year 2008 too. Cheers !