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Leisure is in the air! It’s time for all the gaiety and fun.  With Christmas, Team OT observed another occasion of rejoicing. The festive season casting magic on all, filled the entire office with joy and enthusiasm. Christmas tree, Cake, Pizza and all manner of rock ‘n’ roll goodies for the delectation of all, Oh yes! They came with great gusto.

Christmas at Orchestra

The conference room was gaily decorated, all very gay and bright. In the far corner of the room, was a well decorated Christmas tree. Resembling very much holy fir and pine decorated with silver tinsel, miniature crackers and glass balls of many different colors. On the top, looking down on the tree with its myriads of tiny fairy lights is a Christmas star — shining and silvery, gifts underneath for all. Special incense brought the aroma of evergreens and freshness of the Himalayan peaks into the office.

No celebration is complete without a party flavor. At Orchestra Christmas, the team came in happy and excited to have some blithesome moments on the notes of fun, laughter and jokes. The jollification continued with a ‘Black Forest cake’ and ‘Texas Size Pizzas’.

Christmas is the time to have fun and excitement, it’s the time to share love and happiness; it’s the time to rejoice so many wonderful gifts life gives and it’s the time to realize the joy of giving. To add to the merriment, the secret Santa had gifts for all, ensuring smiling faces on Christmas.  It was joyous to see the team bonding together. Most enjoyable was when they wore “Sherlock Holmes” hat  and tried to guess who their secret Santa was.  Someone looked at the handwriting, someone was searching for “finger prints” and some adopted under the table techniques “bribing” Royna. It was delightful to see how everyone was so thoughtful in choosing the gifts and adding to the Christmas Galore.

Team OT is thankful to Jeff, Kathy and Royna for their enthusiasm and endeavour to make this Christmas memorable, beautiful and joyous. Orchestra family sings it’s Carol in the rhythm of team spirit, sharing happiness, mutual respect, coordination and joie de vivre. A time together to cherish for!

Oct 31st! Yes, it’s that time of the month that we all get ready for some spooky Halloween celebrations. It’s that time of the month, we have our pumpkins lit up in the dark, bags filled with candy and welcome in the trick or offer the treats to the trick-or-treaters.

At Orchestra, Halloween was celebrated in great splendor by everyone at office. As part of the celebration, everyone was handed a little pumpkin the day before Halloween and was asked to either carve, draw, or embellish the pumpkin, of course, without cooking it. The employees took their respective pumpkins home that evening, spent some quality time with their family or loved ones and came back the next morning with creatively decorated pumpkins.

Some carved the pumpkin. Some drew on the pumpkin. Some carved and beautifully embellished the pumpkin. This pumpkin, with an inkling of high tech, called the “IA Test Robot”, was inspired by Orchestra Technology’s main tool, Cloud Platform, the Intelli-Agent.  It was skillfully embellished with paper clips, candy canes and things that made it look like a robot at work. Everyone wished the IA Test Robot would take up all their tasks on the day of Halloween. Amazingly it did! Ask me how……

Royna, who comes with deep interest in art and painting, had her pumpkin carved with such precision that we could clearly see the teeth sticking out of her “pumpkin monster” (#4).  Roger took the privilege of having some cute help and had his pumpkin drawn by his little daughter. She had a two faced pumpkin on either ends: one sad face named ‘Sad’ and another happy face named ‘Smiley’ (# 7). In this fun pumpkin parade at Orchestra’s arcade, only one was going to be selected as the winner. Everyone casted votes using colorful M&Ms for their top three pumpkins. The winner was our very own CEO, Anuj Jain. Anuj came up with a brilliantly creative idea of turning his pumpkin into Cinderella’s carriage by using scrap pieces of plastic to make wheels and creatively balanced the pumpkin on all the four sides. It was a perfect, out of the box Cinderella’s carriage.

Everyone congratulated our winner and the day ended with cutting cake and distributing candies. Everyone’s creativity was appreciated as they thought out of the box to come up with something quickly in a day and with minimal resources. This was a great occasion where Orchestra Family came together and bonded so well while sharing their pumpkin carving experience with their family to their co-workers. It was good to see the behind-the-scenes of the little pumpkin turning into a beautifully, embellished end product.

OT is proud of its multi-skilled team which is a blend of technical expertise, art, dexterity, flair and great aptitude. What a creative and a fun day to take a break from work and spend quality time with not only our family/loved ones but also our co-workers!

Yash Ramamurthy

“Creating a strong business and a better world are not conflicting goals- they are both essential ingredients’’– William Clay Ford, Jr. Executive Chairman, Ford Motor Co.

Since its inception, Orchestra Technology believed in the notion of talent development as a part of corporate ethics. ‘OT Upskills’, a flagship global internship program of Orchestra Technology, is committed to provide with opportunities for holistic development. During 8 to 12 weeks, our interns, Undergraduates, Graduates or Post-graduates, interact with a diverse group of employees and business leaders, and develop a deeper understanding of real world work place.

The Virgin and Child with St. Anne   ( Leonardo Da Vinci)

At Orchestra Technology, we believe that talent isn’t just about technical and intellectual skills, it’s also about willingness to learn and share, the ability to work in teams, to be able to think out of the box, entrepreneurial skills and other soft skills like emotional intelligence and creativity. In an effort to develop such talents, Orchestra Technology has been offering paid and unpaid internships to a diversified group of students across multiple cultures and educational background through its Human Resources group under the name of ‘OT Upskills’. 

OT Upskills Undergraduate program aims to provide the students a first-hand exposure on different career paths available to them. It enables them to find out the domain where their interests lie. Exploring is a very important part of higher education and going by the cliche, “a try before you buy’’, this Undergraduate training program here helps the students to explore. At Orchestra, students gain work experience to acquaint themselves with a discipline they are looking to learn about, ensuring and validating that the degrees they are going to earn, are the right ones for them.

The program attracts a mix of students to cultivate global talents and fosters a multi-cultural environment to develop a productive attitude towards cross-cultural understanding and ability to perform on a global platform. Our effectual Talent Management Strategy is planned and designed around three major dimensions of learning- Education, Experience and Exposure. Interns gain skills and competencies by rigorous coaching and mentoring in the work place. Goal of this program is to not only enhance their skills but also cultivate qualities such as leadership, effective communication and decision making. Orchestra Technology partners with universities across USA to offer paid and unpaid internships followed by placements in Engineering, IT, Telecom, Accounting and Management domains.

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“OT Upskills Graduate Program” offers a greater learning experience to the college students who are seeking to earn an advantage before they earn their degrees. A well- executed graduate internship program at Orchestra enables the college students build industry knowledge, have an onsite experience on their major field of study and have a practical exposure to work environment. Interns learn to apply their academic experiences into real life situations and put to action their classroom lessons. OT gives them an outstanding source of networking contacts to build professional relationships and references. The program helps them add and refine the valuable skills, thus helping in making right career choices.

“OT Upskills Post-graduate program” is designed for the graduating students who are all set to make their way through the increasingly more competitive job market. The program invites the potential graduates to strengthen their work skills and professional work habits; something which they couldn’t have learned in the intramural set up of their universities. Orchestra provides them a unique learning opportunity by creating learning objectives and converting them into active responsibilities. In the current economic and employment scenario where ‘dog-eats-dog’, this higher level program enables the interns stand out in the crowd over those who have limited practical experience. The interns, after they are trained, are seen as prospective employees with their newly acquired work-ethics, knowledge and persona.

For a successful business, one of the most important attributes is to spot talent and develop it. Believing in the philosophy of nurturing talent as a corporate responsibility, we expose our interns to business challenges and encourage them to be creative while having fun. This program grows with OT employees as its confederate. The OT team is thankful to one of its team members, Helen Tian, for introducing ‘OT Upskills’ to many of its interns.

 It’s a matter of great pride for us that numerous interns who went through OT Upskills program are now full time employees of Orchestra Technology and working in the fields of Software Development, Testing for cutting edge technologies like VoLTE, IMS, Intelli-Agent Platform in different parts of US.

At Orchestra Technology, we believe in continuous improvements and growth and our OT Upskills program is constantly yielding good results!

Testimonials:

“I interned for Orchestra Technology about 3 years ago and it was undoubtedly a good experience. The leadership is extremely knowledgeable and will give you work that will have an impact down the line. You will have chance to deal with clients and work on exciting new changes in telecommunications field.’’– Samiha Verma- (Summer 2011)

“The whole experience was perfect to me. Being a part of accounting team, I gained skills in my field, giving me a mind-set and perspective to think about problems and resolve the issues. I got to work in a warm atmosphere where I had an opportunity to have lot of interactions with friendly seniors and had lot of fun’’– Dan Sara Lu (Summer 2014)

”As a student of Business Studies, my projects during internship at OT was based on marketing area. OT is a very professional company and everyone works in a very professional way. Also, it is technologically very advanced and I got to learn and work on newest technology. I found my colleagues and supervisors very friendly and helpful. Overall, it was great learning experience”- Han (Carrie) Lu (Summer 2014)

 “My responsibility as an internship included reviewing design and requirements docs to understand Intelli-agent software product features, specifications, and functionality; Monitor defect status to ensure that they are resolved properly and in a timely manner. I began with individual testing the network on phones using the company product and using various function to see how it worked, what process was used and how the data was further viewed and analysed. It was a great opportunity and practice for me to integrate the knowledge and projects learned in the university into real industry and business field. Meanwhile, I had another good chance to witness how professionals at Orchestra showcase the strength of product for potential customers in terms of great presentation as well as creative and comprehensive Brochure.”- Lin Ma (Summer 2014, Full Time employee-OT)

“As an intern, I have enjoyed the learning, working and challenging on each day. As a young engineer, I’ve experienced two stages as learning and contribution at OT. I started by learning the basic architectures & functionalities of IA, doing IA testing including sanity/ integration/ regression/ stress test. Testing engineers plays a very essential role on the initial phase of each project. They need to work closely with the project manager and developers, clearly understand the testing requirement from customer.  This requires not only technical knowledge and skills but also patience, details-oriented and good communications.  As part of the team, I’m honored to grow together with our product and enjoying the learning, challenging and the sense of achievements.”– Jeremy Yao (Summer 2014, Full time employee- OT)

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“It was quiet challenging for me change my daily schedule completely from school to intern/real job. I needed to adjust myself from every aspect. Here I have an interesting story to share with you. I usually got up late when I was at school as most of classes started from afternoon, however when I started the internship in OT. I needed to go to office around 9am and consequently I often felt sleepy after lunch. Once I got into sleeping in office and Anuj saw it, so he asked “Are you sleeping or what are you doing”? I was dazed and didn’t know how to respond. At that instant, Jeremy pulled my leg and told me to answer, “你就说你正在做测试工作” (I am doing test).  So I answered “I am doing test”. Of course as a smart and sharp man, Anuj saw that I was not doing test. He told me that I should pay attention and be dedicated. This one was a serious and important lesson to me, I got to know that it was different being in school and being in an office, I must change my habit to adapt to new environment. Right now I always keep early hours and make myself energetic at working hours. We always need to learn something from mistakes. –  Lin Ma.

“We had fun while working. Other than working, I also watched football games during lunch hours. At those time, I felt we are a team and together, we can achieve.’’- Han (Carrie) Lu

”In those day, I was deeply impressed by working atmosphere at OT. Apart from daily work, we celebrated our Chinese festival- The Dragon Boat Festival and got together with team members.”- Dan (Sara) Lu

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Employees are extended members of our family! Having a firm belief in this philosophy, Orchestra Technology (OT) constantly strives to create an atmosphere of friendship and open communication to enable its team members to thrive and achieve their full potential. Inspirited by the idea, Mridul and Anita from OT’s Telecom Services Business Unit, partnered with the customer to organize an exciting jaunt in Seattle’s majestic landscape, so as to celebrate the success and contributions of OT’s team.

Seattle, a city lying on seven hills, is located between the salt water Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) to the west and Lake Washington to the east. Having a history of boom-and-bust cycles, the city’s economy has been driven by older industries like shipbuilding, aircrafts in the post World War- I years to new economy conglomerates leading the Internet, Telecom and Services domain.  Beautiful cityscapes, marine climate, endorsed by strong art and culture, make Seattle one of the most romantic and appealing places on the planet Earth.

May 15, a fun, memorable corporate excursion event, bringing plenty of sunshine and cruise season, Puget Sound, Seattle served OT people a perfect spot to collaborate as a team, as Collaboration being the watch-word of today’s work force. Says Anita, from Human Resources team, “It was a wonderful time. Travelling through the Puget Sound North around into Salmon Bay through Chittenden Locks on through the Lake Washington and finally to Lake Union, gave us an opportunity to mingle with the team and know each other more. It was such a bonding event.’ ’As enjoyed the spirit of the colorful water fronts, spectacular Seattle skyline and majestic mountain ranges, says Curtis, ‘’ I got to spend time with our co-workers outside the office. It was also fun on the tour to see parts of Seattle that we don’t see on a normal day, and to learn a little history of the city.’’ Adds Mrunmayi, ‘’It was fun knowing each other as we had lot of personal interactions and the main aim to get to know each other was fulfilled’’ .It was an amazing experience as it made them unlock their passions and learn more about each other; and in the process about themselves too while basking in the glory of nature.

According to ‘Psychology Today’, a company culture which is based on friendship, mutual reliance, collaboration and sharing, is more likely to have strong desire to bond and to provide support for handling larger projects and challenges.

The excitement continued further over the group dinner in Bai Tong Thai Restaurant, having beautiful décor inside and out, as they relished the delish, scrumptious food with exotic Thai flavors and fragrances. Taken delight in the leisurely moment, says Adrian, another senior member of the team, “we enjoyed delicious Thai food’’. It unearthed many hidden talents of the team members from different cultural background. Having reveled the moments, says Srikiran, ‘’ we really had good time, enjoyed nice, funny conversation’’. The team is proud to have an Indian Idol participant Bhavyang, who made the time more pleasurable by singing the famous Hindi song ‘’Tum Hee Ho’’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V1bSw8fyzM). Also, the team rejoiced listening to the Chinese song ‘’Beijing Huan Ying Ni’’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPiWsequAZw), beautifully sung by the OT team members who recently relocated from China. It also led to creating an instant Whats App group to strengthen this bond further where the team has been sharing anecdotes and jokes, constantly bringing more humor and joy in their daily lives.

Mridul, Dir. – Business Development and Anuj, OT’s CEO, flew from San Francisco and Dallas respectively to mingle with the team. They made everlasting bonds with the team as they shared their life stories and keenly listened to those of the team members. All in all, it was a great event flowing harmoniously from early afternoon to late evening. An everlasting memory, a beginning of new friendships!

Puja Srivastava

Inputs By: Adrian Gu, Anita A., Mrunmayi Modak, Srikiran, Bhavyang Mehta, Curtis Maddex

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