Col N N Pasupathy (Retd) is Director Technical of VQI, he has a wide experience in IT field both during his service in the Indian Army of 30 years as well as after his retirement in the Corporate Sector. A graduate of Mechanical engineering from Madras University in 1969, he has obtained Post Graduate Diploma in Electronic Data Processing and Systems, in Electronics (Communication and Radio Engineering) as well as Business Management from Military Colleges of Instructions. He has been in the IT field for the past 25 years having hands on experience in Main Frame, Mini and Client-Server Systems.

At VQI, he leads a team of software professionals involved in software design, development, implementation and maintenance of one of the biggest and renowned Benefit Administrators of US handling more than 250,000 participating employees (1,250,000 eligibles).

He has to his credit development of one of the biggest HR Management System in the Indian Army for the Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers during 87-89. He later converted this legacy system to RDBMS in 96-97. The system handles manpower planning, training, placement, promotion, discipline, and maintenance of personal and family records of more than 100,000 serving personnel. Almost 500,000 records are of retired personnel are kept in data warehouse. He was involved in the design and development of a large number of systems in the Army pertaining to Training, Administration, Logistics, and Engineering Support to Army Equipment. In 1982, he developed a system for reliability analysis of Armored Fighting Vehicles to arrive at fault frequency, repair effort, condition monitoring, MTBF, to determine planned withdrawal for minor and major overhaul. In 1991, he developed a system for analysis of terrorists' information for an Army Division engaged in Counter Insurgency Operations.