Purnendu Gupta

Sr. Director @ Gartner

About

Rich experience across the breadth of IT strategy and execution disciplines. Functional experience ranges from IT assessent and solution design, consultative selling and execution on large technology global application services sourcing deals for clients in North America. Special expertise and interests include IT effectiveness and portfolio assessment, contract design and negotiations, program governance, Six Sigma based process improvement, and business transformation. Proven track record in client relationship /account management across Fortune 500 client engagements with mature as well as evolving technology management paradigms. Specialties: IT Advisory, Large IT outsourcing deals, master service contract negotiations, account operations management, pre sales and client relationship management, process improvement, international operations

Country

United States

City

New York

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

IT Strategy, IT Outsourcing, Strategic Sourcing, Business Development, Pre-sales, Bid Pricing, Project Portfolio Management, Client Service Management, Account Management, Program Management, Software Project Management, SDLC, Agile Methodologies, Business Intelligence, Management Consulting, Process Improvement, Six Sigma, International Operations, Contract Negotiation, Contract Management

Experience

Sr. Director

Gartner

2012-12 - Present · 13 yrs 10 mos

MBA Intern

IBM

2011-5 - 2011-8 · 4 mos

Hawthorne, NY

Service cost optimization, competitive intelligence study and benchmarking for IBM’s Strategic Outsourcing and Cloud Computing offering (Smart Cloud Enterprise) as a part of IBM GTS’s strategic cost take down initiative Co-authored a paper on labor trends in the Cloud Computing paradigm Created IP for an improved analysis method for IT service support service analysis