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..And I get Twittered, for the first time!.

nobody@flickr.com (Mark D. Martin India) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:51:49 -0700

Folks,

It’s been a while since I’ve either posted up any shots or stayed in touch with you so while apologies are in order, I think its best that I give you all an update of a few recent developments, which I am sure you guys would want me to buy you a round a beer for!

After spending two memorable years with the big 4 consulting firm KPMG LLP in India where I led the firm’s airline business advisory practice, I took a decision to get back into core airline operations and decided to join up with India’s only profitable low cost airline, SpiceJet and be part of its management team.

Getting back into the airline management boiler-room this time has been more intense for me as LCC operations focus on being ultra-lean and trusting that the business now is increasingly process driven, at SpiceJet, I’ve kept my key responsibilities to be operations planning, strategy, operations improvement and developing improved processes for maintenance, flight operations and terminal services.

While the switch happened kind of suddenly, even before I could get my new office, word was on the street of me joining through the ‘grape-vine’, and the press splashed my joining new all across the globe and the Big 4 alumni Group ‘Twitter’ed me online, which honestly has never happened to me before.

While still at KPMG I had two brief visits, one to a town in India called Pune (pronounced “Poonah”); a city known for its automotive industry, excellent weather, the sex oozing Osho Ashram(no offence meant to the Osho woman followers, its just that you look HOT in those body hugging saffron robes!) and home of India’s finest high society event, the Pune Derby; and the other to Mumbai to close a mergers and acquisition transaction for a Private Equity investment firm keen to invest in India’s aviation sector.

I’ve posted up a shot of my visit to a Pune and to Mumbai, where I met up with an old friend and business associate, Mr. B.P Baliga, Senior Vice President of Jet Airways, who retires after spending 40 glorious years in aircraft maintenance and engineering.

Before leaving KPMG, , some of the folks knew that I was into photography and wanted me to do a photo shoot for the Corporate image library. While I have never shot portraits before this would be a first for me to take up something as this. For me, this meant spending time to compose the shots well, especially since most of them had to be taken in office and in various work type situations. I’ve posted selected shots of the KPMG photo shoot for you folks to take a look. A lot of the credits go to the guys who modeled for these shots. All the guys you see in the shots are REAL KPMG India employees some of which include Partners. While this was my first attempt, it would be great getting your comments and views to this; and a special shout-out to all the guys in KPMG for being great sports.

On joining SpiceJet, I needed to go to Mumbai and Kolkatta, which was my first ever visit to that city. My work involved checking station maintenance operation and I managed to catch a glimpse of some really fine airplanes flying in and out. It was raining as hell in Kolkatta and Mumbai since India is think into the monsoon period so getting good light was pretty tricky, and I could not do much to improve the awesome shades of grey that the clouds had. Attached are the shots I took, do let me know if they came out well. Some of them sadly have noise in them; I guess this would go when I migrate to the Canon EOS or Nikon D70 line soon.

As always, it would be pleasure hearing from you and getting your comments to my shots, especially the KPMG photo shoot and the one’s I took in Mumbai and Kolkata.

Fly safe,

Mark

Maximum City | Mumbai's Andheri West suburban district

nobody@flickr.com (Mark D. Martin India) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:51:49 -0700

Uploads from Mark D. Martin India

..And I get Twittered, for the first time!.

Maximum City | Mumbai's Andheri West suburban district

Emirates Airline Airbus A330 Departing Mumbai

KPMG Photoshoot 2009 | Simrat Singh, Manager Markets & Partnerships, KPMG LLP in India

Mark D. Martin | Joins SpiceJet

Mark D. Martin joins SpiceJet | ET Chennai pg 4 July 06 2009

Mark D Martin joins SpiceJet | ET Delhi Pg 06 July 06 2009

Mark D Martin and Mr. B.P Baliga

Bhutan's Druk Air Airbus A319 departing Kolkatta

Air India's newly converted Boeing 737 Freighters operating for India Post

SpiceJet Boeing 737-800NG comming in to Kolkata's main bay

Indigo Airbus A320 Departing Kolkata

SpiceJet Boeing 737-800 Departing Kolkata

Indigo Airbus A320 Departing Kolkata

Paramount Airlines Embraer EMB 170 comming in to Kolkata

Indigo Airbus A320 departing Kolkata

SpiceJet Boeing 737-NG Departing Kolkata

Global Supply Systems Boeing 747-400F

global Supply Systems | Boeing 747-400F comming in to Kolkata.

Mark Martin joins SpiceJet