Dileepa Madushanka

P.A.DILEEPA MADUSHANKA Jayaniwasa,Polgahamulla,Dikwella--Project Manager with over 4 years of experience in managing projects of large budgets, managing teams over 30+ engineers in different methodologies like Agile, Kanban, Lean and Waterfall. PMI, SCALED AGILE, AXELOS, and Scrum Alliance Certified Practitioner aiming to leverage experience and efficiency expertise into the published Delivery Manager position. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE WILEY GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES Project Manager • • • • • July 2019 – Present I manage K12 Australian Portfolio, which comprises of 18 products. Responsible for managing 3 project teams comprising of 18 team members while being the main contact person from technology operations. I use Kanban and Scrum methodologies across delivery, resource, time & schedule, scope, stakeholder, quality and risk management. I have expertise JIRA for Project and Program level dashboards. I gained experience in handling impediments, backlog grooming, iteration / sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives and lessons learned, status reporting, progress tracking and initiating on time corrective actions. PEARSON LANKA Project Manager • • • • • July 2017 – May 2019 I manage several key projects in Pearson Learning Solutions Portfolio. Responsible for managing multi million-dollar budget while leading 4 project teams comprising of 30+ team members while being responsible for the implementation, maintenance and delivery of multiple business critical applications. I use SAFe, Agile, Kanban methodologies across delivery, resource, time & schedule, scope, stakeholder, quality and risk management. I have expertise JIRA for Project and Program level dashboards. I gained experience in handling impediments, backlog grooming, iteration / sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives and lessons learned, status reporting, progress tracking and initiating on time corrective actions. VIRTUSAPOLARIS Senior Consultant – Process (Contract) • • • • • Jan 2017 – July 2017 Establish and maintain overall governance structure, standards and processes for the projects utilization and enhancement. Consultation on delivery issues and provide solutions to mitigate and overcome critical scenarios. Conducting Organizational/Project level audits to identify issues, facilitate and enable appropriate actions for continuous improvement. Consultation on Start Right, Execution Right and Close Right procedures. Consultation on Project productivity, Product Quality improvement in Software Development Process. MOZIDO INC Delivery Project Manager / Technical Head • • • • • July 2015 – July 2017 Mozido Inc, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas which design and develop mobile commerce and payment solutions globally. Managing implementations in Sri Lanka, communicating with clients and stakeholders while following the customizations done by the development team in India and product team in US was my role as the Delivery Project Manager. Managed project progress by monitoring the deliverables against the schedule baseline. Managed project quality that deliverables are being completed to defined expectations. I used Agile and Waterfall methodologies across delivery, resource, time & schedule, scope, stakeholder, quality and risk management. HSBC GROUP KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Senior Software Engineer July 2014 – July 2015 CODEGEN INTERNATIONAL PVT LTD Software Engineer July 2013 – July 2014 CREATIVE SOLUTIONS Associate Software Engineer - Mobile Jan 2012 – July 2013 PUBLICATIONS OFFICE SPACE BECOMES AGILE WAR ROOM scrumalliance.org Sep 2017 Do you have a collocated team? Is communication minimal? Do you often encounter distractions? Looking for possibilities to improve teamwork? If you said "yes" to most of those questions, the "Agile war room" method might work for you. https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2015/september/office-space-becomes-agilewar-room SAFE AGILE PI PLANNING SESSION youtube.com Apr 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHIWMaj3Oro RETROSPECTIVES FROM A NEW FRONTIER linkedin.com July 2018 This article discusses the new/innovative approaches towards retrospectives. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/on-boarding-agile-retrospectives-dileepa-madushanka-/ CERTIFICATIONS • Certified in SAFe® 4 Agilist (SA) at ScaledAgile. • Certified in ITIL Foundation (2011), License- • Certified in Project Management Professional(PMI-PMP), License- • Certified in PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), License- • Reading for PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA) • Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) at Scrum Alliance, License- • Trained for Yellow and Green Belt Six Sigma form HSBC Learning Center. • Sun Certified Programmer for Java Platform Standard Edition 6. • Oracle Certified Java EE5 Web Component Developer for Java Platform Standard Edition 5. • Certified Developer by Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) for Best Practices in Mobile Development. EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO SCHOOL OF COMPUTING Bachelor in Information and Communication Technology Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 • Final Year Project: Sri Lankan Crop Prices Android Application • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gac&feature=md Freelance iPhone Developer for NUS (National University of Singapore) We developed an iPhone Application to show all Halal restaurants in Singapore. Using Xcode 3.0 with Objective C we plotted geo locations on the Google map loaded from the SQLite database. RAHULA COLLEGE, MATARA Mathematics 1994 – 2007 EXTRA-CURRUCULAR ACTIVITIES • One of my captures was chosen to the best 30 photographs for "My Sri Lanka, My Future" Photography Competition held by United Nations Sri Lanka in parallel to UN Day - 2014 https://www.facebook.com/UNSriLanka/photos/a-/-/?type=1&mref=message_bubble https://500px.com/dileepamadu • I have won multiple chess awards in inter-house competitions during- at Rahula College, Matara. REFERENCES MR. DUMINDA WEERARATNE CEO Project Management Solutions (Pvt) Ltd / Project Management Consultant and Trainer, Faculty Speaker-- MR.NIHAL COORAY Chairman – Sri Lanka-- I hereby that above stated qualifications are true and accurate to the best of my knowledge. Dileepa Madushanka.