Gurpreet Singh

About Gurpreet Singh

Technically sophisticated and business-savvy management professional with a pioneering career reflecting strong leadership qualifications coupled with “hands-on” IS and Systems expertise. Maintain focus on achieving bottom-line results while formulating and implementing advanced technology and business solutions to meet a diversity of needs. Superior record of delivering simultaneous large-scale, mission-critical projects on time and under budget.A strong leader with an organizational vision, who knows how to recruit, develop, drive change, motivate and retain diverse staff. Enjoy working collaboratively with executive leadership teams to drive innovation to deliver top line and bottom line results while improving the customer experience. Expertise in system assessments which identify strategic direction and improvement areas based on current and future business drivers. Has a deep understanding for the business and strong business acumen as well as extensive experience in contracts, negotiations and outsourcing. Effective Written & verbal communication skills.

Experience

1. IT Director & Head - Technical Center of Competence Americas

   Siemens

   Sep 2012 — Present · Alpharetta, GA, US

   Job responsibilities included managing vendor relationships, liaising with the Offshore, Data Center and ERP support teams, lead the technical team to support a large-scale ERP system. Multi-dimensional Information Technology business leader with Service management and P&L experience and extensive global IT transformation expertise working with multibillion-dollar complex manufacturing and Industry products SAP ERP system. Lead global teams for multiple system implementations, supported global systems and have outsourcing/offshoring experience for over 10 years. Undertook Strategic initiatives with regards to reducing organizational and IT landscape complexity. Managed technical teams on the SAP on HANA landscapes. My value add is my strong grasp of business needs and broad knowledge of Technical SAP process requirements with the view to optimizing business processes.Program manager for a 12 million dollar project to move Eight large global ERP systems to the MS Azure cloud. Lead a team responsible for moving all non-ERP applications for region Americas to Azure logic apps.

Education

• WESTERN MICHIHAN UNIVERSITY

  Master's degree, Computer Science

• St. George's college, Mussorie, India

  High School

  1979 — 1991

• Department of Management Studies , NIT Warangal

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering

Skills

• Sap
• Change Management
• Process Improvement
• Software Documentation
• Management
• Automation
• Sap R/3
• Sap Products
• Project Planning
• Sap Erp
• Security
• Unix
• Data Warehousing
• Business Process
• Integration
• Team Leadership
• Erp
• Oracle
• Directors
• Requirements Analysis
• Databases
• Customer Relations