Gurpritpal (Gurprit) Singh Email & Phone Number

Reading, United Kingdom

I am a founding Director of Ethical Reading. Ethical Reading is a non-profit Community Interest Company whose key aim is to encourage organisations, by working through individuals, to give greater priority to ethical behaviour with particular focus on how they treat their employees and the environment. Our vision is that society can be positively transformed by organisations with a deeply rooted ethical behaviour, who are strongly engaged with the local community and who act in an environmentally sustainable way. You can find out more about us at our website: https://www.ethicalreading.org.uk. Come and Join the Movement!

I retired from HP and full-time employment to take time out and focus on a small number of core activities to better balance priorities. These included (1) spending more time with my family and travelling. (2) Running - I have run the London, Paris and Liverpool Marathons, numerous half half-marathons and 10k runs. (3) Philosophical studies in Ethics & (4) An initiative to drive greater ethical behaviour in business in the Reading/ Thames Valley area. The plan is to announce the project in the second half of the year and launch it as a socially responsible enterprise.

Uk

I am currently Chief Technologist within the HP's Enterprise Group focussing on the finance sector. In this role, I help clients address compelling business challenges with HP's end to end portfolio of products and services. My focus is on technology strategy, innovation and the use of leading edge technolgies and services(e.g. hybrid cloud services, next generation compute, network and storage, smart connected devices) to drive competitive advantage for our clients.

Working with a broad range of clients at CxO level to provide strategic IT advisory services covering datacentre, cloud and smart connected devices. Frequent speaker at internal and external conferences and events.

Cingular Consulting Services provides strategic technology review, planning, development and delivery services to large and medium sized enterprises.

Driving early engagement with customer and partners in key next generation web technologies majoring on the Live development platform, Devices (embedded development) & Identity. Providing direction & strategy on next generation web & software plus services.

Technical strategy & direction for the EMEA services technical field, developing and deploying services offerings, managing risk across portfolio of largest engagements in the region, developing key skills & capabilities including an MBS incubation practice, leading the EMEA Centres of Excellence.

Managed the Developer, Infrastructure, Strategy & Architecture Consulting Practices. Responsible for utilisation, offerings, skills, P&L & people management.

Microsoft lead for a major government PFI bid (over 100,000 nodes). This role involved working closely with consortium counterparts and the mobilisation of local and corporate Microsoft resources. Project managed high risk engagements and conducted technical risk assessments on several large projects and bids. Instrumental in moving the UK MoD onto the Windows NT platform. Managed three separate businesses successfully: Project based developer consulting, dedicated relationship based developer consulting (with P&L responsibility) and all UK lab infrastructure. Grew the team from 24 to 44 over the year & exceeded all operational metrics including revenue and utilisation.

Manager of the lecturing staff of seven. Design, review, development and delivery of training in application development. A principal MS presenter at national and international seminars and conferences on software development (NT Developers Conferences in Singapore, New Zealand & Australia).

Team Lead of the asynchronous component of Scitec's MAXIMA communications node.

Development lead for two major components of a VLSI System Simulation project - Hardware Acceleration and Behavioural Analogue Modelling. Designed and developed a Parametric Cell Generator for VLSI design.

Msc, Electronics

Pgce, Physics Teacher Training

Bsc (Hons), Physics