Upul Weerasinghe

Upul Weerasinghe

Software Engineer

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  • About me

    Consultant Project Manager and Business Analyst

  • Education

    • Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology - SMU

      2007 - 2009
      MBA
    • London Metropolitan University

      2000 - 2004
      B.Sc. (Honors) Computing and Information Systems
  • Experience

    • IDM Software International (Pvt) Ltd

      Jul 2001 - Mar 2006
      Software Engineer

      Delivered a key project two months in advance of deadline.Played BA role in stages of the projects.Served as key liaison between customer and development team.

    • Virtusa

      Mar 2006 - Apr 2008
      Senior Engineer, Technology

      Won best performance award for coding and analysis .Personally commended by client for technical and business understanding, and leadership.Constantly received favourable feedback from client and management on work and communication.

    • Innovative-e (Pvt) Ltd

      Apr 2008 - Sept 2008
      Senior Engineer

      Liaising with client on a BA role to capture requirements.Troubleshooting, defect fixing and testing of application.MySQL and PHP (Moodle) based development

    • IronOne Technologies LLC

      Sept 2008 - Apr 2009
      Business Development Manager

      Signed up financial institutes for business intelligence solutions.Worked with international IT partners in signing up national and international telecom companies for Microsoft solutions.Organized and managed successful training programs for clients.Requirements elicitation and managing of PoC projects for BI (MOSS 2007 and SQL Server 2005), and Dynamics 4.0.

    • Innovative-e (Pvt) Ltd

      Apr 2009 - May 2013
      Business Analyst

      Managed a global fortune 100 client’s account and successfully extended the account lifetime.Led the offshore team to deliver exceptional results with high client satisfaction.Conducted highly effective requirement elicitation meetings with clients and mapped processes and solutions to requirements.

    • Pyxle (Pvt) Limited

      Apr 2013 - Mar 2015
      Project Manager and Senior Business Analyst

      Successfully managed and delivered SharePoint and .Net projects for a US fortune 100 client.Efficiently managed a four terabyte SharePoint 2010 to 2013 migration with minimum impact to customer and business.Mapped processes and mobile and web based solutions to client’s business problems.Successfully implemented and conducted Scrum as the company project management methodology.

    • Occulem (Pvt) Ltd

      Apr 2015 - May 2016
      Director of Operations and Head of Project Management

      Successfully managed and delivered SharePoint and .Net projects for multiple large conglomerates.Mapped processes and mobile and web based solutions to client’s business problems.Led a team of technical staff through defining the requirements and development for several internal applications and products.Managed financial and operational functions of organization including HR functions.

    • Common Edge Pvt Limited

      Apr 2016 - now
      Project Manager and Senior Business Analyst

      Managing web based ecommerce projects for US clients.Implemented internal development and QA process.

    • Amplifyn

      Jun 2018 - now
      • Head of Delivery

        Feb 2022 - now
      • Head Of Project Management

        Jun 2018 - Sept 2022
    • Fitzroy IT

      Apr 2022 - now
      Project Management Consultant

      Worked with the team at Fitzroy IT. My work included: process improvement, project management, and business analysis. Involved in establishing a Jira based agile project management process.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Jira Fundamentals Badge

      Atlassian
      Mar 2022
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    • The Non-Technical Skills of Effective Data Scientists

      LinkedIn
      Mar 2022
      View certificate certificate
    • Certified Scrum Master

      GoodAgile