Nauzad Kapadia

Nauzad Kapadia

CEO & Founder, Quartz Systems, India

Nauzad Kapadia is the founder of Quartz Systems, a company based out of Mumbai that does corporate trainings and offers consultancy services for the Microsoft platform and range of products. Nauzad has been an ASP.NET and SQL Server MVP for 7 years. He was instrumental in the formation of the INETA (International .NET Association) Academic Committee which was responsible for spreading .NET awareness and assisting various educational institutions in coming to grips with new technology.

Since Oct. 2003, Nauzad has been a regular speaker at major Microsoft events like MSDN, DevDays, Tech·Ed, Devcon and Innovation Days to name a few. He has also been working as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) and has authored content on ADO.NET, Web services, SQL Server, Windows Workflow Foundation and C#. Nauzad has played the role of a technical architect and is responsible for the design and implementation of numerous large SharePoint and MVC projects in India and around the world.

Nauzad has a total of 20+ years of experience in the IT Industry and has worked on almost all technologies right from COBOL and Dbase to .NET. However lately he has become passionate about BizTalk, SQL Server BI and SharePoint and devotes most of his time and efforts towards these technologies. Apart from computers, he relishes playing tennis, running marathons, bikes, photography, rock music, beer, pizzas and anything else that comes in the category of “fun and entertainment”.