professors have been a great strength to me . Even today , my Prof . Ravande Kishore , Prof . Murali Krishna , Prof . M V S Sridhar & Prof . Rajshekar stand are a great support to my career .
Favorite hangout spot in OUCE Being a Civil Engineering student , I was privileged to be a part of the OUCE Main Building and obviously , it was the steps at the entrance of the Main building where we would often hang out .
Your best Buddies in college days Ravi , Sandy , Venky , Navneeth , Partha , Uday , Rakesh , Sravan , Aruna , Monica , Preethi Leela , Sreeram and of course all my other friends too .
Your favorite subject in 4 years Theory of Structures and RCC .
Career aspects :
Can you explain us your career progression after you stepped out of OUCE ? Soon after college , I was awarded with the prestigious European scholarship of 36,000 Euros to pursue my double Masters in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology from three universities i . e . University of Joseph Fourier , France ; University Of Pavia , Italy & Imperial College London , UK . Soon after my MS , I got placed in Ove Arup & Walsh group . As it was a smaller firm , I preferred joining Walsh group so I could learn more . Later , I returned to India after 9months as I had planned earlier .
I joined a firm in Hyderabad where my Professor used to work and in three months I was made the Head , Operations for the Hyderabad zone . After a year , I quit that company and started my own firm in October , 2009 with the name M / s Gorle Group ( Engineering & Architectural Consultants ). We started with one employee and today we are 50 people with a presence across India and the Middle East .
Can you tell us more about your contributions to industries and in your area of expertise ? I was very fortunate to get a break through in the early age of my career designing Krishna Phase III 410 MLD Water treatment plant , around 150 crores project which serves the city which I have grown up and live .
We are also fortunate to design almost 30 % of Telangana Mission Bhageerada Water Treatment plants .
We are part of Ganga Purification , Musi Purification and several other water projects in India and abroad .
We are proud to say that we are strong in Structural Designs of Residential , Commercial , Industrial & several Infrastructural projects to name across India . Today we serve the Top construction gaints in India right from L & T , Shapporji Palonji , Hafeez Contractor , NCC , MEIL , IVRCL , Ramky Group , Alexandria , IHP , RBI , OSMANIA UNIV ., GHMC , Several others in Infra Companies , Govt bodies .
When you were in final year in OUCE , how did you see yourself ( professionally ) after 10 years , and how different was it in reality ? When I was in the final year I had two things in mind- either to be an IPS officer or to get into business in Structural Consultancy and I have chosen the latter and it wasn ’ t easy being young with not much of experience and support .
In final year I hardly had an overview of what I m going to be except that I have to do well in my consultancy .
When you look back to yourself “ as a student ” in OUCE , what is it that you would like to change and why ? I should have studied my subjects more as a passion rather than just trying to get good grades . It would have changed the way I would have thought about my career .
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