Experience

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  Hatton National Bank PLC

  • Chief Information Officer

    • Sep 2021 - Present

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  Nations Trust Bank PLC

  • Sri Lanka
  • Banking
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Deputy CIO

    • Feb 2020 - Aug 2021

  • Vice President - IT Infrastructure & Operations

    • Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

  • Assistant Vice President - IT Infrastructure & Operations

    • Jun 2018 - Dec 2018

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  Brandix Lanka Ltd

  • Colombo 03

  • Senior Manager - Group Infrastructure and Telecom

    • Mar 2012 - Jun 2018
    • Colombo 03

    Reporting to the group Head of ICT – functioning as the group lead for all Infrastructure and Telecom related services across all 42 locations. RESPONSIBLE FOR:Vendor management including negotiation of contracts for infrastructure and telecommunication services. Capacity planning overseeing planned upgrades including virtual machine / storage performance and capacity / LAN and WAN / data center - capacity and capability. All group related local and international telecommunications operations. Continuously improving IT services while strictly adhering to budgets. Agreeing and implementing the groups central service catalogue cost charge-out model.All group related central data center operations including all virtualisation / storage management and standards compliance (ISO 27001 and Tier-3).Complete ground up construction of the groups Tier-3 (compliance certified) data centers at Colombo and Ekala .Scoping and implementing the groups ERP HA / DR strategy through the use of VMWare SRM / Cisco Nexus 7000 and other suitable technology. Implementation of best practices for the IT service function, standard operating procedures and ITIL compliant tools and continuous review and improvement process. Identifying and implementing industry best practice solutions for internal deployment to further increase efficiency and service. (Through the participation of Microsoft / VMWare / Cisco events in India / Singapore and USA). We have successfully implemented solutions such as Crestron office automation via the internal IT team when local support was unavailable.

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  Unilever

  • Grandpass, Colombo 14.

  • Service Delivery Manager - Enterprise Services

    • Mar 2005 - Mar 2012
    • Grandpass, Colombo 14.

    Reporting to the head of business systems – functioning as the IT lead for all IT Infrastructure and Telecom related services across Unilever Sri Lanka sites. RESPONSIBLE FOR:All aspects of IT service delivery including support desk, level 2 support, regional escalation and infrastructure support.IT Infrastructure Change Manager and also ITIL rollout lead for Unilever Sri Lanka. Operational Safety Marshall for the IT function.Ensure group infrastructure policies and processes are carried out. The central IT function being located in Unilever Asia IT (Singapore) IT Governance and regulatory compliance for IT infrastructure including Sarbanes-Oxley.Also responsible for the ground up IT infrastructure implementation of the new Unilever 28 acre manufacturing site in Horana from a Greenfield state. Total project duration was 24 months.

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  Tritel Services (Pvt) Ltd

  • United States
  • Telecommunications
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Deputy Head of Research and Development

    • Jan 2001 - Feb 2005

    Reporting to General Manager - IT functioning as the IT lead for all IT Infrastructure and Telecom related developments deployed locally and overseas.RESPONSIBLE FOR:Managing the Research and Development division which specialised in product development for the telecom sector.Procuring services from national and international service providers. (Voice / Value Added)Telecom infrastructure management.Global GVMS Project Implementation – Rollout of global Global Voice Mail System (GVMS) store & forward voice mail telco platform in USA, Canada, Dubai, Philippines and Sri Lanka (1999-2000). Server co-location in MCI Worldcom – New Jersey & iPrimus – Toronto.

  • Staff Engineer - Networks

    • Jun 1999 - Dec 2000

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  Lanka Internet Services Ltd

  • Corporate Solutions Engineer

    • 1994 - 1997