Sri Somanchi: Imparting Knowledge to Build Managers for the Future

Management is a vast field of study. Millions of students all over the world get a college degree and think they have learned all there is to carry the responsibilities of a manager. The harsh truth of their inexperience confronts them when they actually go into the corporate world. The job of a manager is to handle and supervise the complete operations of a company or office. No organization can succeed without the skills of a deft manager. Sri Somanchi has years of industrial experience that she has penned down for helping new managers to get better at what they do.

Managerial skills are not something that one can develop with theoretical education alone. There are plenty of other job skills that come along with a college or school education. They raise the value of resume. Even employers believe that recruits have these skills even without job experience. This is not the case with management. As Sri Somanchi has put down in her new book entitled, “Management as a Profession”, a manager becomes great with practice. This practice takes place throughout their lives. Moreover, when they take it up as their profession, they need advice.

Sri Somanchi has served in the top tier of the corporate world for several years. Attaining the heights she has reached was a mean task. However, Sri has always been up for challenges. Her educational background shines a light on her successful years in Andhra University before immigrating to California State University. Science has been her childhood love and that shows in the qualification degrees she went for. A Bachelor’s in Physics, and Masters in Mathematics and Computer Science, equipped her enough to pursue her dreams. She was already in the “land of opportunity”; she just had to utilize it.

Her first job was at a private company as a Software Engineer. Sri Somanchi was looking forward to working her way up the ladder. However, new opportunities came in front of her and she changed companies. It was not long before she was working at Hewlett Packard. Her skills in coding granted her immense respect in the IT industry. She was a born leader and these new responsibilities were teaching her the management skills she would require later on. She had no degree in Management per se, but she was learning at one of the best places in the world.

One thing led to another and Sri Somanchi bagged a job at Intel Corporation. Here she was not just a Software Engineer but a Product Manager as well. Her dedication to her job enabled her to lead from the front whenever it was asked of her. The ten years of managerial skills that Sri Somanchi earned has inspired her to write all that she learned. She is now Senior Information Systems Supervisor at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

“Management as a Profession” is a book that would take students and professionals on a journey of self-improvement. The easy-to-understand tone has helped Sri Somanchi to convey the objectives of her book without fuss. That is not a surprise coming from someone who has managed people her entire life.