Er. Gurpreet S. Grewal has over 22 years of experience in IT education and consulting. He is currently the Director of Operations at Newbridge Technologies, where he oversees a team of 90 people and is responsible for profit generation, operations, and marketing. Previously he held management roles at Cyberworld and Guru Nanak Computers, where he helped grow the businesses and expand their service offerings.
Director Operations IT Education 22 Years Experience
1. Er. Gurpreet S. Grewal
Mobile: 91-9814101346
email: gurpreetsgrewal@yahoo.com
112-G, BRS Nagar, Ludhiana, Punjab. – 141012
DIRECTOR OPERATIONS
IT Education and Consulting
JOB OBJECTIVE
Top Management level position in Education and training field of IT, Engineering or allied industries.
PROFILE SUMMARY
Over 22 years of experience to effectively lead and manage IT business operations and reengineer
processes to improve performance and operational efficiencies. Distinction in identifying direction of
technology and its application to educational & business systems. Deft in developing and providing
consulting services, training and management support in IT education industry.
EDUCATION
The Global Open University, Nagaland. MBA (IT&S) – 2009
Punjab University, Chandigarh. B.E. (Mechanical Engineering) – 1992
PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Authored books on Computer Science
o Based on the syllabus of CBSE, ICSE, for classes 9th
and 10th
published by Goyal Brothers
Prakashan.
o Based on the guidelines by National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT) for Class
1st
to 8th
, published by Goyal Brothers Prakashan.
o Based on the syllabus of Punjab School Education Board from Class 6th
to Class 10th
, published by
Nova Publications, Jalandhar.
o Sample Papers for B.E. (PTU and KU); Polytechnic sample papers of Punjab of Information
Technology, published by MBD Books.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NEWBRIDGE TECHNOLOGIES
(IT Education and Consulting)
Ludhiana, Punjab.
DIRECTOR 2/2010 – Present
Plan & execute corporate policies, marketing, contract negotiations, project management and related
administrative activities & responsible for profit generation. Running in-house training centre for
corporates, students and for testing services at 3 different locations. Provide IT consulting services to
various corporate and educational institutes, focused on manpower/faculty recruitment & training,
content development, quality maintenance of education, conducting examinations, providing hardware,
network planning, & systems integration.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Running in-house training centre for corporates, students and for testing services at 3 different
locations.
Complete responsibility of profit generation, operations, and marketing of IT consulting services in
various schools, colleges and corporate clients.
Handling a team of over 90 people consisting of Mangers, Faculty, Counsellors, and Marketing
personnel and maintained attrition rate below 12%.
2. Planning, documenting & negotiating contracts and identifying, selecting, & negotiating with
hardware and software vendors.
Hiring of team members, performance appraisal, training and career planning of the same. Monitor
and ensure employee satisfaction and motivation.
Preparation of Revenue, Expenses and Capital Budget in consultation with business heads defining
the technology roadmap while maintaining a revenue growth of over 22%.
Projects planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills with ability to support
multiple simultaneous projects.
Keep abreast of infrastructure and available resources to ensure efficiencies are maximized and
facilitate employees to meet their goals and objectives.
Establish, Adopt, inculcate and implement best practices followed by global technical teams.
Identification of emerging technologies, software tools and methodologies and constant up-
gradation of technical skills of employees in the organization.
CYBERWORLD, (IT Consulting), Ludhiana, Punjab.
GENERAL MANAGER 7/2003 – 1/2010
ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER OPERATIONS 4/1998 – 6/2003
Accomplishments
Ventured into Corporate Training, which has become a major contributor to revenue to the tune
of 50%.
Successful contracts for IT consulting with 40 different schools and colleges in Punjab.
Achieved & maintained growth of over 35% p.a.
Handled a team of over 60 people including managers, Professors, teachers and marketing
executives and maintained attrition rate below 10% p.a.
Reduced IT maintenance cost by employing own hardware engineers thus saving up to Rs.
2,00,000/- p.a.
Identifying & introducing new vendors with better rates and refining the system of buying PC’s
from complete machines to buying individual components and assembling them thus leading to a
saving of Rs. 3000/- per system and up to Rs. 400,000/- per year.
Guru Nanak Computers (Center for IT Education), Ludhiana, Punjab.
11/1993 – 3/1998
CENTER MANAGER – Established & Managed computer-training institute, primarily focusing on faculty
recruitment, & training, student training, content development, quality education delivery, hardware &
network maintenance, enquiry generation and conversion, sales and marketing, forming policies and above
all profit generation.
Accomplishments
Started Degree programs in affiliation with Clayton University USA through CMCS.
Started Degree and Diploma programs in affiliation with MCRP University, Bhopal.
Generation of profit from the second year itself.
50% increase in student strength from second year and 40% increase in revenue compounded
annually.
Successfully ventured into corporate training in the 3rd
year.
3. PROJECT MANAGER 5/1993 – 11/1993
ASSISTANT MANAGER N.K Plastics. Jalandhar
7/1992 – 4/1993
Responsible for the production of plastic products on blow moulding and injection moulding machines.
TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCIES
Software
Operating Systems–Windows
Programming Language (Operational Knowledge)
C, C++, Core Java, HTML
Applications
MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access 2010), MS Project (2005), FrontPage (2003), Corel
Draw (12.0), Photoshop