Suhit Gupta, Ph.D.
255 W. 94th Street, Apt. 19B
New York, NY 10025
suhit@suhit.com
(917) 915-3411

Executive Summary :


Senior technology management professional with over 14 years of experience in Technology Transformation, IT Engineering and Operations, and Application Development. Specializations in organizational design, creation, and turnaround, inter-departmental program management, solutions architecture, and strategy. In depth knowledge of enterprise-wide technologies and their integration in both Financial Services and Internet Technology industries. Proven ability to lead large cross-departmental teams, and manage implementation of technology transformation based strategies. Experience with leading large-scale multi-discipline programs including:

  • New Trading Floor, including desktop virtualization and turret telephony
  • Patch distribution service development which enabled patch management and software distribution to reduce critical risk to the firm
  • Technology transformation program, including managing consulting teams from McKinsey, Bearing Point, PwC and Deloitte
  • Managing the recall, ranking and relevance of search results and instant answers for the Bing Maps (previously Windows Live Local) search engine

Experience :
BRIDGEWATER ASSOCIATES, LP., Westport, CT 2008 - present
Technology Manager November 2009 - present
Technology Manager in the IT Engineering department with responsibility to create, staff and run the department to excellence. This included ensuring that Engineering was built to transform the IT department maturity direction. Role included ensuring that Engineering was aligned with business technology strategy and goals, managing technology sub-groups in the department, and leading a variety of complex programs to reduce business risk and meet future growth needs
  • Responsible for all infrastructure of the new Trading Floor (top priority for 2009-2011 for top hedge fund of the world). Introduced desktop virtualization (VMWare VDI) and a new turret telephony infrastructure (BT) to the firm, a Cisco Nexus based network, with complete disaster recoverability and robust security
  • Managed a $25M budget across all technology programs and led a team of over 40 engineers and operations associates
  • In order to reduce critical risk to the business, established a patch management as a service in the firm that included software patching of thousands of desktop and server fleet. The program was developed to introduce a methodology to handle both software patching and software distribution
  • Responsible for specifying and creating a 200kW $3M Engineering Lab to create an incubation and testing environment for all new technology initiatives. This included setting up an interim lab to handle the most critical programs and the migration into the permanent lab environment
  • Responsible for managing the Workplace Engineering group, which included planning, establishing and managing the desktop engineering team from scratch which would be capable of managing the requirements of the enterprise
  • Ensured Engineering and Operations, (plan-build-run components within IT) were aligned in their initiatives and the department was working on the right things and is meeting business needs
  • Ensured Engineering’s standards were sensible, (provide positive leverage vs. creating bottlenecks). Provided guidance and feedback so that plans and designs were reliable, secure and efficient, and that there was agility and reduction in risk
  • Created goals and responsibilities for the department and the responsibilities for all the managers. Established, enforced, and oversaw excellent management in Engineering. Responsible for all hiring for the department as part of ensuring appropriate Engineering capability/capacity to meet goals


Management Support to the CTO March 2008 - November 2009
Responsible for providing leverage to the CTO. Worked on transforming technology at the firm from boutique to enterprise class. Role included the evaluation and prioritization of the CTO office, and simultaneously leading a number of project initiatives, so that Bridgewater's technology could be transformed in an acceptable timeframe
  • Managed strategic consulting engagements (McKinsey, Bearing Point, PwC, Deloitte) to pull together the technology transformation program for Bridgewater Associates and to launch the execution against a multi-year plan
  • Helped manage a $60M budget portfolio for the CTO and the Core Technology department which oversaw a variety of discretionary and day to day operations & support programs
  • Probed and synthesized the technology and personnel risk across the enterprise, and ensured that the CTO was aware of all risks and issues from the various federated technology departments
  • Ensured that the CTO had a prioritized list of responsibilities across all of Technology and worked to ensure that the CTO was working on the right things
  • Introduced Apple's iOS into the enterprise as a mobile computing platform (all employees received iPod Touch devices leading up to iPads, to improve productivity). This has now been expanded into a firm-wide mobile initiative with a proprietary home grown application distribution framework and applications to be utilized by managers and technologists alike
  • Provided the CTO with an actionable synthesis of the performance, issues, risks and management of the Core Technology group, senior management and general technology talent

MICROSOFT CORP., Redmond, WA 2005 - 2008
Program Manager, Bing Maps ( previously Windows Live Local) October 2005 - March 2008
Responsible for the recall, ranking and relevance for search results in the mapping product by Microsoft. Built and managed the roadmap for the product and was instrumental in the prioritization of a product direction new to Microsoft
  • Responsible for Relevance of search results, Query Parsing and Recall of search results. Managed and led a team of 10 developers and testers
  • Responsible for producing industry leading Local Search Instant Answers, ahead of similar products by Google or Yahoo, as rated by Comscore
  • Provided direction and planning leadership for the Relevance team
  • Ensured clear requirements and specifications of features that were prioritized for shipping, and served as Release Manager for the releases for the greater Local Search team
  • Liaised with Microsoft Research to introduce research ideas into the product
  • Recognized as a high potential employee and awarded the Microsoft Gold Star award for excellent performance


GOOGLE, INC., New York, NY 2005
Software Engineer Intern Feb 2005 - June 2005
Invited to work at Google based on assessment of research by the Head of Google, NY. Responsible for developing and testing web classification strategies on very large internet-scale data sets
  • Created classification techniques for the web, based on genre analysis using algorithms that perform at web-level complexities
  • Introduced tree inference mapping algorithms to find similarity in web pages


COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY 2000 - 2005
Systems Administrator, Center for Computational Learning Systems June 2004 - September 2005
Lab Manager and Systems Administrator, Programming Systems Lab September 2000 - September 2005
Invited to design and set up the infrastructure at a new $25M research lab at Columbia University. Separately, responsible for the creation, setup and maintenance of the infrastructure to support the research of the systems group (PSL) that worked on critical DARPA, ONR, NRL, and NSF programs. Influenced the technology strategy for the Computer Science department at Columbia University
  • Managed a Windows 2003/2000 and Linux based server infrastructure with redundant and secure storage
  • Created and managed Exchange Server based e-mail system for over 50 users (with the ability to grow to 250 users)
  • Introduced and managed EMC storage of over 100TB with automatic backup and snapshotting capability
  • Set up Windows 2000 and Linux Workstations for the use of students in the lab with sharing and backup capabilities
  • Provided Tier 1 - Tier 3 software and hardware support to over 75 users. Upgraded and maintained servers, workstations, and software on all systems
  • Managed development teams that created application suites to support research goals
  • Introduced and maintained a high quality GPU and multimedia architecture to support all 3D graphics based research


ADELPHI UNIVERSITY, Garden City, NY 1997 - 2000
Project Manager, Real Media January 2000 - May 2000
Systems Administrator, Faculty Development Lab June 1999 - August 2000
Systems Administrator and Webmaster, Adelphi University Library May 1997 - May 1999
Education :
Columbia University - September 2001 - June 2005, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science. Programming Systems Lab. Thesis: “Context-based Content Extraction of HTML Documents”
Columbia University - September 2001 - December 2003, Masters of Philosophy, Computer Science
Columbia University - September 2000 - October 2001, Masters of Science, Computer Science
Oxford University - August 1999 - January 2000, Study Abroad Program, Computer Science and Math
Adelphi University - September 1996 - May 2000, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Math

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