It was January 1999, had just received an Appraisal letter and my contribution was appreciated in recent Standard Chartered Bank’s project. I had acquired a reputation of daredevil for any Technical Escalation and was promoted as Team Lead - Escalation. It was all going very smooth and was on Cloud 9. And it was time where email was a new toy and something grabbed my attention and it was Y2K Bug. It was an awareness article on Y2K and possible issues. Honestly had not thought that a new year could cause such be problem and then realized its not just one year transition but a transition from 20th Century to 21st Century. It was interesting. And I started reading articles related to the same. Had attended few lectures in Computer Society of India and similar institutions and got the bigger picture of that. And then came across one tool which I found very interesting. It was Y2K Compliance tool for desktops. Out of sheer curiosity I ran that tool on our shared PC but was totally disappointed as it showed our PC as “Compliant” and then felt bad as one opportunity to upgrade it was lost. Then did tried same on couple of other PC’s and got mixed results. I compiled a result and next day met our GM with the same. He asked me what exactly that tool was and how it was doing the test and how authentic the tool was and asked me to find is there any way to make “Non-Compliant” PC’s compliant ones. PC Magazine was one of favorite those days and got some clue. What we see in Dubai “Computer Street” in Mumbai we had Lamington Road, been to few known places to check that clue. It was a PCI card and after installing it into non-compliant systems they were becoming compliant. Our GM was very happy he smiled and said “Swapnil, you have no idea what a service offering you have just discovered”.I was then made Program Manager for Y2K Compliance. And first project was done for one Co-Operative bank. Sales team was very happy with the result as they were trying to sell new PC’s there but were not successful and then this project helped them to get the breakthrough. I was MOST WANTED person in the organization, for better reasons