Kapil Gupta

Current

• Program Manager and Innovation Strategist, Corporate Innovation Programs at IBM

Past

• Project Lead, IBM Corporate Webmaster Team at IBM
• Webmaster, www.ibm.com at IBM
• Assistant Webmaster at Merlin Computers

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Education

• NYU Stern School of Business
• University of Houston
• University of Mysore

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Kapil Gupta’s Summary

Technology manager/Program manager with experience in leading distributed teams to meet business goals; business and marketing strategist for the corporate innovation organization at IBM.

Experience with both ends of the software development spectrum: as a business owner setting strategy and direction for software development teams; and also as a development manager executing on business requirements from project sponsors. Also support customer engagements by evangelizing and sharing with C-level customers, IBM's experience in building a culture of innovation.

Kapil Gupta’s Specialties:

Technology Manager, Project manager, Product manager, Business strategist, Development Manager, IT Architect, Internal Marketing and Evangelism

Kapil Gupta’s Experience

• Program Manager and Innovation Strategist, Corporate Innovation Programs

  IBM

  (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

  Drive Program management and internal Social Media strategy;
  Drive Technical strategy and Technology management for an enterprise (Worldwide) collaboration tool that has driven multi-million dollar business impact to the company.

• Project Lead, IBM Corporate Webmaster Team

  IBM

  (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2002 — May 2005 (3 years 2 months)

  Responsible for business and project management of projects to deliver solutions on schedule and on budget; also directly led distributed subteams (local and offshore) to execute complex application development and deployment for critical components of www.ibm.com

• Webmaster, www.ibm.com

  IBM

  (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 1998 — March 2002 (3 years 5 months)

  Development manager for an effort that deployed a new worldwide corporate portal by consolidating sixty separate country websites: responsible for managing application architecture, development and deployment.

• Assistant Webmaster

  Merlin Computers

  (Privately Held; Consumer Electronics industry)

  September 1995 — October 1998 (3 years 2 months)

  Day to day website adminstration and operation; application development with focus on ease of use and scalability.

Kapil Gupta’s Education

• NYU Stern School of Business

  MBA , Marketing, Management , January 2001 — May 2004

  Activities and Societies:

  European Business Society

• University of Houston

  MS , Computer Science , January 1993 — September 1995

• University of Mysore

  B.E. , Industrial and Production Engg. , 1988 — 1992

Additional Information

Kapil Gupta’s Websites:

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Kapil Gupta’s Interests:

creation of social software for enterprises, social media as a tool for competitive advantage, building a culture of innovation

Kapil Gupta’s Groups:

European Business Society @ NYU Stern

•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    The University of Houston Alumni Association
•    NYU Stern School of Business
•    Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering [SJCE], Mysore, India
•    HorizonWatching

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