User:Umakota/sandbox

Uma Devi Kota is a post graduate from TISS ( Tata Institute of Social Sciences ), Masters in Philosophy from Madras University. Born to a committed social service couple. Uma had experience in diverse domains. She started her career as Marketing person in a TV channel during its inception days (currently Vijay tv in Tamilnadu). She went on working as recruiter and specialised in Software technical recruiter when software industry was just entering Indian market in big way. She was sought after head hunter during the days when big companies like Cisco and Huawei setting up their R & D divisions in Indian (Bangalore )

Her thirst to learn new things made her move herself into research in a domain where women generally fear to. She has started getting into knowing the pulse of a voter in the year 2009 and then on she was unstoppable in the field of opinion polls. Her strength was to get strait into remote villages and having conversations with them and presenting them as they are.

She is born in Khammam a dist head quarter in Telangana state. Got educated in Hyderabad, Mumbai and Chennai.