Asanka Wijeratna

Experience

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  Microsoft

  Jul 1999 - May 2003

  Software Test Engineer

  API and algorithmic level testing for a number Microsoft Office products such as Photodraw and Netdocs. Responsibilities included developing test plans, developing and executing test scripts, test automation, performance and stress testing etc

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  Inviso

  Apr 2007 - Aug 2015

  Worked as the Technical PM on various agile project teams building modern windows applications for the Windows store and the internal Microsoft Company Portal. As the Technical PM I was responsible for all SCRUM ceremonies, infrastructure planning for the project, backlog and scope management, managing technical challenges and impediments, budget tracking, technical documentation, and all release management and compliance activities.I also spearheaded an organization wide effort with the development team, as the Product Owner, to automate the deployment process utilizing Microsoft Release Manager, Octopus and PowerShell scripting Show less Managed a team of operations analysts that carried out the deployments and handled all customer escalations.Responsible for coordinating, executing and managing all pre-production and production releases. The project portfolio consisted mostly of multi tier business intelligent applications based on Microsoft technologies. Worked with project teams to plan and identify risks, develop and document the deployment process for projects of varied complexity, implement security and cross domain authentication, ensure compliance with Microsoft policies etc. Implemented and managed a framework for customer escalations, ensuring that we were meeting all service level agreements in place and resolving issues per client expectation. Show less

  • Technical Project Manager

    Sept 2013 - Aug 2015

  • Release and Customer Support Manager

    Jun 2010 - Sept 2013

  • Project Manager

    Apr 2007 - Jun 2010
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  Rightside

  Oct 2015 - Jan 2017

  Scrum Master

  Managed 5 agile teams as the ScrumMaster, and was responsible for transitioning the engineering team to a well defined agile process, driving all SCRUM related meetings and artifacts, configuring and managing Team Foundation Server and cross team coordination and communication. I also project managed more high impact, multi team initiatives involving the maintenance of project plans, coordinating scheduling and resource allocation, identifying risks and dependencies, release planning and stakeholder communications. Show less

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  Amazon

  Mar 2017 - now

  Senior Technical Program Manager