@goosehd Hi again!
@Heavy_blue Thanks for the warm welcome. Very happy to be here.
I am from India originally. My first job was in advertising, worked a number of positions in the Middle East - Dubai, UAE, Muscat, Oman, Amman, Jordan, then in London, UK, and then in New York, NY., Orlando, FL. (in 1999) which was home base for our software development/digital marketing company. Online forums managed: Toyota, Honda, Chrysler, Volvo, National/Panasonic, Sanyo, Toshiba and IKEA - now these were all out of the UAE and focused on Middle East markets. At the risk of sounding pompous, these were first-of-their-kind projects. The online forums were all bespoke.
In 1999 I set up India's first digital marketing company, moving to the US to service several e-commerce start-ups. This was the so-called offshore development era. Yours truly typically traveled to India 4-6 times a year to liaise with customers in the States and software developers back in India.
On the personal front: I'm back in India, live near Mumbai (Bombay), semi-retired at 57, my wife also works with a 2-billion dollar product development software global enterprise and my daughter just qualified for the Bar (intellectual property lawyer, working at a leading IP development firm) and is hugely obsessed with LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton).
The 666s will take 4-7 days to reach Mumbai and thereafter will go into the black hole of Mumbai Customs. The arcane workings of said MC are best left to the imagination. Then there is a hefty Customs Clearance cost - 31 to 35% of the invoice price, depends on the 'mood' of the Customs Examiner, who at the best of times are a jealous and spiteful bunch. But we men of Iron must soldier on, heart within and God overhead.
Looking forward to keeping you all posted, men of the Iron Cloth!
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