We are from Mumbai, in Maharashtra, India but moved here  to the US in April 1997 to explore and get a more rewarding life and lifestyle for us and our kids. To be truthful, I traveled a lot in my job in India with a consulting company and rarely got to spend quality time with the family and was looking for a more grounded job and also as my wife quoted  - 'if you promise to be  home every evening  we will go to the US or any other place on the planet ', and  so the decision was made to come here.

I joined Fortuna Technologies Inc. which was in Sunnyvale, CA .Prior to coming here I joined first at their Hyderabad office and helped them set up their Training Centre for Oracle Applications in India to train people in one of the most popular ERP package. The timing was appropriate for us as it allowed our kids to finish their school year in India and then  all of us to traveled together to the US.

We stopped en route in Singapore for a week to visit one of our very close friend . We had  a great time reminiscing old memories as we were all meeting after a very long time. It was also my family's first trip abroad and it made the trip all the more eventful and it was also a great beginning to a totally new life in a totally new country about which we had very little information.

We landed at San Francisco, and our friend Veena picked us up at the airport and we stayed for a couple of days at her house  till we got over our jet lag . She had already made all arrangements and had booked us an apartment at Sunnyvale, California.  We lived in Sunnyvale for around three years and then decided we wanted to own a house and bought one in Fremont in 2001.

I am currently in the process of forming my own company and intend to consult in the areas of Finance Process and Controls and help users to implement ERP applications (mainly Oracle Applications Suite), and related system solutions.