Isuru Wanasinghe
Co-Founder/Director at Project Academy- Claim this Profile
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Project Academy
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E-Learning Providers
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-Founder/Director
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Nov 2012 - Present
High school tutoring is a highly competitive industry, but what high schools students expect from the world is changing and the industry is not changing fast enough to meet those expectations. At Project Academy, not only do we produce incredible academic results, but we also focus on nurturing within our students a genuine love for the work they do. We believe you do your best work when you love the work you do, love the people you do it with, and love the space you do it in. We're bringing that aggressive, focused, beautiful work ethic, to the high school space, by building educational technology that helps students self-manage their work better while giving our tutors better transparency over student performance, designing beautiful study spaces and classrooms that are open from morning till almost midnight every night so our students can use the centre as a second home, and cultivating a young, vibrant culture that makes the learning process fun and engaging. We've built the kind of tutoring centre that the future of education deserves.
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Generation Entrepreneur
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Australia
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Professional Training and Coaching
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1 - 100 Employee
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Member Of The Board Of Advisors
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2017 - Present
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Founder and CEO
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Feb 2017 - Sep 2018
Life is Yellow is a delightfully addictive new iPad game where you play a chef running a crazy takeaway shop serving tomato soup to a never-ending line of impatient little monsters. The game's user analytics also makes it useful for primary school classrooms, giving teachers the opportunity to cover part of the mathematics syllabus with a cheeky game that tracks class data and reports to you automatically. We are also working with kids with special needs to make the game more accessible to everyone. Release Date: June 2017 Early Beta Demo available at: www.lifeisyellow.com Proudly backed by EduGrowth, Navitas, Monash University, Deakin University, Charles Sturt University, Griffith University and La Trobe University.
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Chief Creative Officer
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Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
As Chief Creative Officer of Fiftysix, I am the executive lead on the design and development of Planet 56 - a collection of integrated apps designed for Fiftysix hardware that teaches students to design and code computer programs for Fiftysix tablets, drones and robots. Planet 56's greater purpose is made up of 3 elements: - Teaching students to build hardware by educating them on the technical science behind 21st century computing - Teaching students computer programming through a custom-built IDE and a library of interactive lessons so students are empowered to build apps to control this hardware - Allowing students to form companies within the Planet 56 Ecosystem in order to build apps in teams, to share their creations publicly and in an open-source format, and to learn software development collaboratively as a community based on the flare of entrepreneurship
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Project Management Consultant
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Nov 2011 - Dec 2013
As a management consultant at TBH, I have been involved in project planning, project management and project programming on large-scale infrastructure, as well as software development portfolios for telecommunication giants in Australia, ranging from projects costing $16 million up to $1.3 billion. As a management consultant at TBH, I have been involved in project planning, project management and project programming on large-scale infrastructure, as well as software development portfolios for telecommunication giants in Australia, ranging from projects costing $16 million up to $1.3 billion.
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Education
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University of New South Wales
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons)