Experience

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  Sliit

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

  Lecturer + systems engineer
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  Sri lanka telecom

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2022

  •Strategic Planning: Provided vision, leadership and governance of IT Strategy, IT architecture, digital transformation, cyber security, and information management, ensuring alignment with organizational strategies and industry practices.•Leadership: Proven leadership capability and experience, including leading by example to inspire a large team to deliver a highly professional, customer oriented, innovative, and future-focused ICT capability across the SLT group, while navigating a complex landscape of technological challenges.• Compliance Management: Ensured compliance with relevant legal, regulatory, and professional standards for technology and data security as governed by the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) while inlining with the organizational governance and compliance frameworks.•Project Management: Conceptualized and coordinated major ICT projects while gaining experience in corporate governance, project management and resource management. • Budget Management: Preparation of Annual IT business Plan and manage the ICT budget, including forecasting, cost control, and expenditure tracking for both OPEX and CAPEX investments.•Partner Management: Established and maintained value-based stakeholder and strategic partner relationships which meet business requirements. Show less •Operational Management: IT service management to provide reliable, scalable, and up to date technology infrastructure, support services, and effective management of Cybersecurity risk. Reviewed, managed, and reported key performance indicators, that measure and optimize technology performance.•IT Security Management: Managed the security and stability of on-prem, cloud and shared services to support business outcomes through effective ISMS practices, risk management strategies, including the development and implementation of cyber security frameworks, processes and controls that meet all IT compliance and legislative requirements.•Compliance Management: Ensured compliance with relevant legal, regulatory, and professional standards for technology and data security as governed by the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) while inlining with the organizational governance and compliance frameworks.High Availability Administration:- Oracle RAC installation and configuration with ASM- Storage Foundation for Oracle RACDatabase Administration:- Oracle Database Administration on Oracle 9i, 10g R2, 11gBackup Administration:- Veritas Netbackup Configuration & AdministrationCloud Infrastructure Show less

  • Deputy General Manager - IT Strategy & IT Planning

    Jan 2016 - Jan 2022

  • Engineer - Storage Administration and IT Planning

    Jan 2009 - Jan 2016

  • Engineer - System Administration

    Jan 2003 - Jan 2009
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  Sri lanka telecom

  Jan 2022 - now

  General manager - business support & artificial intelligence

  - Formulate & operationalize the organizations Data Strategy & Data Governance Framework- Recognize data as a valuable business asset to ensure that the organizations data shall support data driven business decisions through BI tools (tableau) & ML based analytics- Lead the adoption of BI dashboards as the single source of truth to enable informed management decisions- Lead the Data Engineering Activities with Informatica ETL tool- Big Data Analytics for data driven decision making- Operationalization of CRoss Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM)- Implement & Operationalize ML deliverables -- Churn Prediction -- Product Recommendations -- Defaulter Customer Prediction -- Anomaly Detection -- SIMbox fraud detection -- Customer Creditworthiness with rule based algorithms Show less