Pankaj Gupta has over 16 years of experience working for various organizations in architectural roles involving application development, cloud technologies, and technology transformations. He currently works as a Microsoft Competency Head at DAMCO, where he is responsible for vision, strategy, architecture, governance, and trainings. Prior experience includes projects involving requirements analysis, solution design, migrations, and integrations for clients in various industries. He has expertise in technologies such as .NET, Azure, SQL Server, ALM tools, and programming languages like C# and VB.NET.

1. WORK EXPERIENCE:
• Total experience 16 years in different organizations TCS, HCL, Quark, NTT Data, CSC
• Working as Microsoft competency head with Damco (http://www.damcogroup.com) since Apr-2015
• Working closely with Director Sales / Chief Delivery Officer / Pre-sale Head / Chief Digital Officer and
Founders, Chief Executive Officer, Managing Directors
• Worked as architectural role like Solution / Enterprise / Application / Technical / Cloud / Transition /
Integration / DevOps / Technical Process
• Worked in different domain like Insurance, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Banking, Logistic and
Hospitality
HIGHLIGHTS:
• Involvement in different stages RFP / tender response / pre-sale / technical feasibility of
requirement / non-functional requirements / estimations / environment setup / build and deployment /
cloud movement / application migration and technology transformation / test data preparation / data
migration / performance monitoring / SDLC methodology implementation etc.
• Worked closely with Project stakeholders / Business Analyst / Subject matter experts / Business
users / Infrastructure Architects / Service Providers / Architect office to understand the requirements,
existing infrastructure, existing technology stack, enterprise solution, existing application in case of
re-engineering and provide end-to-end solution
• Worked as Azure Architect covering SaaS / PaaS / IaaS / Azure Tools for VS / Azure SDK’s for .NET
/ Azure SQL / Federation Database / Windows Azure Active Directory / Storage / Virtual Machine /
Web Site / Cloud Services etc.
• Worked for different type of application development like mobile client / rich internet based / web
based / windows based / backend / remoting / business intelligent applications
• Worked in different environment – Windows Azure Visual Studio Online, Virtual Machines on
Customer location, Amazon Web Services, ServiceMesh - Cloud Management
• Hands on with latest tool and technologies like end to end ALM implementation using TFS
• Designing Tools - Enterprise Architect, MS Visio
• Business Intelligence / RDBMS – SQL Server BI, QlikView, SQL Server till 2008 R2, Oracle8.0
• Software/IDE – Online Visual Studio on Azure, Visual Studio till 2013, Adobe Flex Builder 2.0
• UI Frameworks - HTML5, Angular JS, Bootstrap, CSS 3.0, JQM, PhoneGap
• Client Frameworks – MVC, MVVM, Single Page Application
• Service Frameworks – Web Services, WCF Services, ASP .NET MVC Web API
• Middleware Frameworks - .NET 4.5, nUnit, Entity Framework, Log4Net, Enterprise Library, nCache
• Code Quality Tools – SonarQube, FxCop, StyleCop, Code coverage instrumentation, MS Fakes
• Programming Languages - C#, VB.NET, Actionscript 3.0, Developer2000
• Defect Tracking Tools – HPQC, Bugzilla, Test Director, Silk Radar
• Configuration and Continuous Integration Tools – TFS, VSS, CVS, SVN, WISE
Pankaj Gupta
Microsoft Competency Head
Contact: +91-9818261666(NOIDA)
Email: pankaz_2000@yahoo.com

2. • Operating Systems - Win 98/NT/2000/XP, Windows 7

3. CERTIFICATION:
• TOGAF 9.1 (The Open Group Architecture Framework)
• Scrum Master
• Diploma in advance computing (C-DAC) under Department of Electronics and Information
Technology
EDUCATION:
• B. Tech. from Punjab technical university - Gold Medal for being the batch topper
• M.B.A. – IT from Symbiosis center for distance learning
INTERNATIONAL VISITS:
• FIS – Investment Management, Philadelphia, US
• PCIS – Workers Insurance, Newyork City, US
• WheelRight – Fleet Management, Oxford, UK
• MISys – Inventory Management, Vermont, US
• Vitae – Co-ordinated care, Aarhus, Denmark
• Zurich – General Insurance, Portsmouth, UK
• CareFirst – Health Insurance, Maryland, US
Company Work Experience Period
DAMCO Competency: Vision, Roadmap, Strategy, Mapping, Diagnosis,
Governance, Trainings, Workshop, Frameworks, Processes
Sales and Pre-Sales: RFI, RFP, Solutioning, Estimates, Case Studies,
Customer Penetration, Transitioning new accounts to delivery team
Delivery: Architecture Defining, Technology Decisions, Guidelines,
Best Practices, Technical Audits, Reusable Components
Apr 15 – Till Now
CSC Praksys DK: Cutting edge technology transformation from mainframe
Vitae DK: Provide technical solution and process
ZURICH UK: Application architecture and migration
CSC Portal: Integration of all application under one umbrella
Mar 08 - Apr 15
NTT DATA
(formerly
KEANE)
E.On UK: Established architectural governance
Carefirst US: Requirement analysis and technology transformation
Laquinta US: GUI framework on top of mainframe application
Apr 05 - Mar 08
Quark EC Manager: Team lead for module development Nov 04 - Apr 05
HCL PMO: Implementation of third part tool for project management Jul 04 - Nov 04
TCS
(formerly TIL)
Mercer US: Requirement analysis and designing for Appraisal module
QCA UK: Integration of security solution, unit testing, coding
MTNL Delhi: Regional support and creating report
Bank of Newyork US: Preparing service specification and coding
Jan 01 - Jul 04