Iranda Hewavitharane

Experience

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  DirectFN

  Aug 2009 - Aug 2010

  Intern
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  MAS Holdings

  Jan 2013 - now

  Drive project team performance, ensuring seamless collaboration with vendors, partners and work groups to deliver successful outcomes across the project portfolioDevelop and uphold detailed project plans and a comprehensive program roadmap, ensuring timely progress and alignment with key deliverables to meet objectives effectivelyHelped to establish a digital project governance framework for MAS, defining roles and responsibilities to improve accountability and streamline digital transformation initiativesImplement JIRA methodologies, including advanced dashboards, to track project milestones effectively, ensuring transparency and proactive issue managementManage contracts and relationships with vendors, evaluate their performance, and negotiate terms as needed to ensure quality standards are met Show less ✓ Managing & leading the project teams while coordinating the partners & working groups engaged in the project teams.✓ Developing & maintaining detailed project plans & reviewed in timely manner against the set deliverables.✓ Managing project-related issues, risks, scope with the working groups.✓ Working closely with business divisions & external parties to ensure project outcome meets the business needs.✓ Managing project evaluations & dissemination activities & ensure all project documentation as defined in the standards & maintain throughout the project.Innovate new strategies to build new business models to help organizations to thrive in the digital age.✓ Analyse market demand, checking hypothesis, business story mapping, prototype development & documentation to meet and customer acceptance criteria.✓ Tracking delivery items through project management tools. Tracking budgetary protocols, resource management & demand escalation to track the success of the product✓ Exposure to different methodologies including design to delivery solutions (Agile & Waterfall) & work with multiple external service providers within given company IT governance & Intellectual property protocols Show less ✓ Continuously engage with the business leaders to identify and prioritize the required digital tech solutions to future proof the core.✓ Validate and identify the most impactful digital technologies by onboarding the tech partners to work in collaboration with the in-house research engineering teams and the SBU teams to collaboratively work on a proof of concepts.✓ Assist strategic decision-making initiatives by carrying out relevant research/ groundwork, analysing and conceptualizing thoughts, ensuring all required information is made available thereby, facilitating the decision-making process. Show less Monitoring and reviewing strategic and continuous improvement initiatives in order to ensure a smooth operations process whilst, also attending to the following:Assist strategic decision making initiatives by carrying out relevant research/ groundwork, analyzing and conceptualizing thoughts, ensuring all required information is made available thereby, facilitating the decision making processLiaise with Manager - Strategic Planning and Business Analysis in order to ensure all requirements of the management team pertaining to the sales, capital assets and expenditure budgets are communicated/ met in an effective manner.Build and maintain effective business relationships with all business partners (Customers, suppliers) in order to develop and retain the image of the organizationWorking with the team towards the efforts on Business Analysis practices in the areas of business analysis requirements management, planning, requirements elicitation, requirements analysis, & communication and solutions validation.Prepare financial and management reports to the senior management of MAS to update the current business status in the apparel industry. Liaise with relevant individuals within the business division in order to ensure the information obtained conforms to the needs/ requirementsContribute to special projects (Lean thinking, Customer/ Supplier interface, Value Stream) and other ad hoc projects as and when required whilst, conducting research/ study in the relevant areas. Show less

  • Program Manager

    Apr 2023 - now

  • Senior Project Manager

    Mar 2021 - Mar 2023

  • Project Manager - Digital Projects

    Apr 2017 - Feb 2021

  • Senior Business Analyst - Strategy & Digital Innovation

    Mar 2016 - Dec 2017

  • Senior Business Analyst

    Apr 2015 - Feb 2016

  • Business Analyst

    Jan 2013 - Mar 2015
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  Runway Kit

  Jan 2017 - Jun 2022

  Co-Founder/Product Owner

  Runway Kit is an end-to-end platform initiated by the digital arm of MAS Holdings to support fashion startups and medium scale fashion brands in fashion designing, sample making, and manufacturing under low MOQs. The goal is to help aspiring fashion designers and business entrepreneurs realize the dream of setting up their own clothing line or fashion business from scratch with relative ease.