Characteristics of a Director

A Director position holder must be:

1. A strategic thinker can provide thought leadership to projects and products
      I always believe in "Strategic Thinking" as it is a powerful and invaluable skill, one that leads to greater chances of success in projects one is involved in. It involves:

1.       Setting goals 
2.       Developing long-range plans
3.       Anticipating the unexpected 
4.       Continuous analysis of one's environment
5.       Cooperating with One's competitors to have an added advantage.

2. Data driven planning, specifically in the world of Big Data and decision making
    It is a known fact, that the decisions to any new product design, develop, test and launch are purely based on Data, All the decisions on management or recommendations have been made consciousness, which has been derived based on the data present on those sections.I always have presented my research with data to my management and my recommendations to the entire teams I worked with, for all of us to come to a conscious and make informed decisions.

3. Strong motivator and team builder
    I like not to take any thing personally, I like to work with anyone at any time basis, I am a student of life and share my positive experiences with life to motivate others, how to handle conflicting situations and more.

4. High degree of customer orientation
    We are consumers first, if we think like this and walk in the shoes of consumers a Mile before making any choice, we are at added advantage, this is what I always do.

5. Must be an advocate of lean processes
    I strongly believe in the best use of available resources, as it is the key to success. It is vital to identify the value of the project/product, stream line all values, create a work flow, by establishing a pull to complete project/product, try to get as much perfection as possible, and restart this process...This was majorly my process impromenet cycles.

6. Be committed to organizational development and operational excellence
    There is a big saying, I absolutely believe in "The food container you eat from, do not poke holes in it, rather take care of it".

7.  Hands on experience in building and delivering enterprise class software products

--Extract from a LinkedIn website.

Connecting to Remote System using Private SSH Key

Connection to remote system using secure keys can be accomplished by various tools such as RDP and SSH clients.  Remote machine has to create a key based on the credentials and this has to be used, while doing the remote connection.

When we used to connect using SSH clients, permission to the file plays a role in connection to the remote system, even if all of the rest are fine.

This will create a panic and will get the work to stop unless until the the file permissions meet the required credentials.

It is quite easy and we have to confirm that the current user alone should have read permission and rest of the users or groups should not have any permission.

This can be achieved by running the following command:

chmod 400 privatekeyfile.pem

This will do the necessary credential changes and the command "ls -l" would get the following like,

-r-------- 1 user group 1678 Dec  6 15:07 privatekeyfile.pem

Now, you can connect to the remote system using SSH, like

ssh -i privatekeyfile.pem user@servername