Kapil Khunt

Experience

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  Cross Country Healthcare

  Oct 2006 - May 2007

  Software Engineer

  Kapil started his career as software engineer by supporting a portal used by recruitment agency in US to manage recruitment and placement of healthcare professionals. He also worked on on-line education portal of company which provided online courses to doctors and nurses in US. Kapil's role at CCI included change request management, issue management, client-support, client interaction and team coordination.

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  IBM

  May 2007 - Apr 2011

  During his tenure at IBM, Kapil's clientèle included automotive giants Mitsubishi, General Motors and John Deere. Working with Japanese client, Misubishi-Fuso Truck and Bus Compnay (MFTBC) to develope its old-vehicle auction system on-line, Kapil and his team earned appreciation from clients which eventually turned out to be an appreciation from IBM management too. It was also a time when GM needed to integrate Locksmith Licensing requirement on its portal as it was mandated by California state laws. In very short span of time, Kapil studied documents describing the law, its compliance to see how a business requirement can be fitted into an existing system. Before the deadline suggested by govt. of California, Kapil and his team successfully implemented this change with fool-proof testing and client-approval.Kapil was also a part of transitioning team who successfully stabilized and sustained Retail Inventory Management (RIM) application, one of the most complex and crucial application for General Motors and its dealers for inventory and supply chain. In his new role of Team leader at IBM, Kapil mentored and led a team to support and develop John Deere’s enterprise collaboration applications on Social Business Software (SBS) platform Jive. As a part of this project he traveled to US to support client operations and upgrade existing application to latest version. In addition to his day-to-day operational responsibility, He contributed significantly by conducting technical project training to entry level and mid-career professionals, designing on-line training for employees and being a part of RFID domain team which develops prototype using RFID technology. Show less

  • System Engineer

    Dec 2009 - Apr 2011

  • Associate System Engineer - Industrial & Automotive Sector

    May 2007 - Apr 2011
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  MPM Infosoft Pvt. Ltd

  Mar 2012 - Aug 2012

  Project Manager

  Kapil worked on to develop an application for a foundry business to manage foundry processing and its vendors. Unique in nature, this application was to be designed right from scratch. Kapil has had a responsibility to build a team which can not only quickly understand business flows but also develop a solution according to its need. Ranging from careful selection of server to technology, recruitment of people to training them were primary tasks that Kapil handled successfully. Within very limited time, Kapil ensured a beta version of product ready for testing for business users. Show less

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  Education Leadership and Management (ELM) Unit, Azim Premji Foundation

  Jun 2013 - Jul 2013

  Summer Intern

  Kapil has done his summer internship at Azim Premji Foundation, Bengaluru where he was tasked with an assignment to compare gov.run public school with private school in a rural setting in Gujarat. As a part of this work, Kapil designed a framework for comparison, with all required parameters included, made a plan for conducting research on field by visiting selected schools in villages and prepared a comprehensive report mentioning observations.

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  A non-profit organization.

  Sept 2014 - Sept 2015

  Research Officer

  Kapil was a member of spearhead team to design and lead 'Thousand School Project', an ambitious project to improve quality of education in govt. primary schools in an area with predominantly tribal population and with limited access and connectivity. As the name of project suggests, the intervention was in almost 1000 schools, covering six blocks of Odisha. Right from inception of project and planning to execution and analysis, Kapil's close involvement in each stage of project has benefited project as well as him since he has had a crucial responsibility as researcher to analyse data and come out with what data suggests. In project's each of three components, capacity building, classroom intervention, and community engagement, his role was to define processes in which interaction and transaction would happen, to monitor and record those interactions to analyse and extract meaning out of it. Recruitment of local youth for teaching job to training them to be ready for role was a task he had been given to design and plan which necessarily included design and development of training and modules which equip required skills, knowledge and, of course, wisdom, From Children's performance in Math and Odia in baseline to their level of improvement after classroom intervention of three-to-six months, were well captured and presented to stakeholders. Engagement of community in a meaningful ways so that people start participating in decision making process of education institutions was also analysed qualitatively to see what brings a sense of owner to community for education institutions. He also had had opportunity to interact with donor, Tata Steel, to review and discuss strategy, budget and resource allocation in order to see effectiveness and likely impact of program. In addition to preparing quarterly reports and annual project reports which he did with enthusiasm and punctiliousness, Kapil exploited his IT skills in every sphere of project. Show less

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  Independant researcher

  Oct 2015 - now

  Researcher, Education and Public Policy

  Kapil is interested in looking at intersection of Learning, Culture and State. His quest to answer the question of 'What improves or enhances collective consciousness in a culture so that learning for posterity in from that culture would empower, despite being socially or economically marginalized? And, can technology play a role in that? if so, how?' makes him more curious to understand intricacies of socio-economic-cultural institutions that have been playing a significant role in constructing knowledge within a society, family or individual. Though technology is disrupting current social relations and interactions, imminent changes unfolding in social institutions still dominate direction and philosophy on which technology can be an enabler or inhibitor. Kapil is hoping to dive little deeper to discover solutions which were covered by perfunctory routines and beliefs, and could suggest ways for future of education not only in developing but also in developed world. Show less