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Reshan Dewapura
COO/ Director

Reshan Dewapura holds a Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and a Masters in Project Management from the George Washington University, U.S.A. He has been in the ICT industry for the last 22 years with over 16 years experience in driving large, complex ICT programs and projects. Immediately prior to joining ICTA in 2003, Reshan worked with Hewlett Packard Professional Services in Europe, Middle East and Africa for almost a decade, where he managed some of the largest ICT out-sourcing projects for HP. He is also a Board Director at Sri Lanka CERT and the LK Domain Registry.

 

Wasantha Deshapriya
Program Director – Re-engineering Government

Wasantha Deshapriya obtained a B. Sc. from the University of Kelaniya, a Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Technology from the University of Colombo and an M. Sc. from the University of Reading, UK. An SLAS officer with public sector experience for more than 20 years, Wasantha has been involved with government computerisation projects for over 15 years and has been instrumental in the delivery of Public Administration Circulars by email and web from 1999 onwards.

 

 

Jayantha Fernando
Program Director/ Legal Advisor

Jayantha Fernando is an attorney and holds a specialized Masters Degree (LLM) in IT & Communications Law from the University of London, awarded on the prestigious British Chevening Scholarship program.

He has over 14 years ICT legal experience in Sri Lanka and overseas, covering Software licensing and IPR issues, IT legal reforms, Internet governance, Domain Name Systems and negotiating & drafting large value Information Systems contracts. He has been a key advocate for ICT legal reforms since 1995 and was instrumental in drafting the Electronic Transactions Act No. 19 of 2006, the Computer Crimes Act No. 24 of 2007 and advised the formulation of the Payment Devices Frauds Act of 2006 and Payment & Settlement Systems Act of 2005.

He commenced his career as a Judicial Intern to Hon Justice Mark Fernando, PC (Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka) appointed by the Council of Legal Education, before venturing into the field of ICT law. He is also a Board member of Sri Lanka Standards Institution (SLSI) and lectures widely on ICT Legal issues at the Sri Lanka Law College, University of Moratuwa and University of Colombo.

In the international arena he is part of the global 21 member Internet Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel of ICANN, and was recently elected as Vice Chair of ICANN’s Government Advisory Committee (GAC).

Athula Pushpakumara
Senior Program Head-  Strategic Communications & Media

Athula Pushpakumara obtained his Diploma in Mass Communication from the University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka and also holds a Diploma in Journalism from the University of Colombo. Athula was a Radio Journalist, News Division, in the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation prior to being appointed Head of Media and PR at ICTA. He is a fellow of the prestigious Radio Netherlands Training Centre (RNTC) in Hilversum and followed the 'News and Current Affairs' course in 1998 and the 'Online Journalism' course in year 2002. Twice recipient of the 'NUFFIC' (Netherlands Organization for International Corporation in Higher Education) scholarship granted by the Royal Dutch Government, Athula did his research on 'Digital News Age' and 'The future of Online Journalism in Europe'. Athula also underwent some Journalism Training organized by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.

Athula won the Presidential Award for the Best Radio News Reporter in 1995 for his productios for the National Radio. A member of the Sri Lanka Professional Journalists' Association and the Parliament Correspondents' Association of Sri Lanka, Athula, is one of the founders of Sri Lanka's widely read news websites, LankaPage.com (first Lankan website) and ColomboPage.com.

Christy Perera
Procurement Advisor

Christy Perera is equipped with B. Sc. - University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics - University of Sri Jayawardanapura, C.Mkt. - the National University of Singapore and Diploma in World Bank Procurement Management - ILO, Italy.

Prior to joining ICTA Christy worked for the SLLT and RS (World Bank funded) Project and the L and JRP (World Bank funded) Project as head of the Procurement Division. Including his experience in the Cooperative Wholesale Establishment as Additional General Manager in charge of marketing and procurement activities for more than 10 years Christy has over 20 years' experience in the procurement activities both local and overseas.

 

Chitranganie Mubarak
Senior Program Head - e-Society

Chitranganie holds a second class (upper) in Chemistry from the University of Colombo. With over 20 years' experience in formulating and implementing national Programmes for export development and promotion, Chitranganie has spear-headed several key export oriented initiatives besides coordinating several donor-funded programmes of the EDB. As Director / TradenetSL, the e- commerce arm of the Sri Lanka Export Development, Chitranganie was responsible for introducing several ICT solutions for facilitating the rural entrepreneur and has played a key role in launching the country's pioneering on-line trading platform.

 

 

D.C.Dissanayake
Program Head - Re-engineering Government

D.C. Dissanayake obtained his bachelor's from the University of Sri Jayawardhanapura, the Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Technology from the University of Colombo and an M. Sc. from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. He was a Class I officer of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service and possesses more than 20 years' working experience in the public sector. He has been involved in the process of computerisation of several government organisations since 1988.

 

 

Radley Dissanayake
Program Head - Administration

Radley Dissanayake has over 30 years' experience in the Public Service behind him, his last post being Deputy Director of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka 1998 -2000. He had served in the Department of Telecommunications as an Engineer, following which he was the head of the Licensing and Spectrum Management Divisions at the Office of the Director General of Telecommunications (predecessor to the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission) from 1993 to1998. Radley also acted as a Consultant in the Public Interest Programme Unit of the Ministry of Economic Reform, advising on regulatory and policy implementation issues.

 

Jagath Seneviratna
Program Head- Monitoring & Evaluation

Jagath Seneviratna holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture specialized in Economics from University of Peradeniya and a Postgraduate Diploma in Economic Development from University of Colombo. He has acquired special skills and training in managing and designing island wide survey projects and research studies, and designing and heading Monitoring and Evaluation systems in the areas of ICT, HIV prevention, Public Health, Primary Education, Teacher Training, Competition Policy and Consumer Protection. Prior to joining ICTA, Jagath worked for the Fair Trading Commission for eight years as Senior Economist, GTZ Basic Education Programme at the Ministry of Education as Head of Monitoring and Evaluation unit for nearly five years, MG Consultants (Pvt) Ltd as General Manager, Surveys and Research for two years and eSri Lanka Monitoring and Evaluation Project as the local Monitoring and Evaluation expert for one year.

Sanjaya Karunasena
Head of Technology & Chief Software Architect

Sanjaya Karunasena is an Enterprise Architect with over 10 years of industry experience specializing in C/C++, Java and Microsoft Technologies. At ICTA while contributing to the design and the implementation of the nationwide SOA infrastructure, he provides technical guidance to variety of initiatives and is the Chief Software Architect.

Previously, he was the Director of Services in an industry leading SOA company, responsible for all client services and infrastructure services, ensuring efficient use of software systems and IT infrastructure to provide highest level of services over the competition. Also, he has lead a 300+ engineering team, developing many enterprise solutions, providing strategic direction to improve software engineering productivity and software quality.

Sanjaya has significant architecture and development experience on product development and enterprise software development, including experience in the retail and the telecommunication domains. Sanjaya's core competencies include, Enterprise Application Development, Reliable Distributed Systems, Software Architecture, Application Development in J2EE, Application Development in C/C+ +, Application Development in Microsoft .NET Framework, Database Design/Application, Software Development on Linux Platforms and Software Development on Windows Platforms.

Also, Sanjaya is a visiting lecture at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and Department of Computer Science, University of Colombo.

Sanjaya has a M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. honors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

Dil Piyaratna
Program Head - Information Infrastructure

Dil Piyaratna holds a degree in Business Administration as well as MCP and MCSE (Microsoft Certified Network Engineer) certifications from USA. Dil's more than 12-year extensive IT and Project Management experience included utilizing cutting edge technologies in network architectures, client/server applications, ERP/CRM solutions and project management methodology in the Silicon Valley of USA, with companies such as IBM , SUN & Linear Technology. Prior to joining ICTA, Dil worked as an IT Project Manager for Keells Business Systems Limited.

 

 

Dinuka Perera
Program Head - Re-engineering Government

Dinuka Perera holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of Regina, Canada and a MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management, Sri Lanka. He is also a Project Management Professional (PMP) credential holder. Dinuka has over ten years IT and Project Management experience mainly in Government, Telecommunication and Banking sectors.

At ICTA, Dinuka heads the business cluster within Reengineering Government Program area which deals with Trade Facilitation, Health and Transpotation. He is also managing a number of projects such as 'ePopulation Register', 'Commom eHRM', 'Translation Software' which are being implemented by ICTA.

 

Fayaz Hudah
Program Head - Private sector Development

Fayaz Hudah obtained a B.Sc. in Computing and Information Systems from the University of London and a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Charted Institute of Marketing UK. He is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) and has completed initial studies in Intellectual Property from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Fayaz is also a Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by PMI, USA. Prior to joining ICTA, he handled operations at OfficeTiger (Sri Lanka) where he was responsible for managing a 90-member team serving global capital markets. Fayaz started his career at John Keells Computer Services (JKCS) as an Analyst Programmer where he worked extensively with Oracle Tools. An active social worker from school days, Fayaz served as the District Interact Representative of the Rotary District 3220, Sri Lanka and has the distinction of being the Charter President of his Rotaract Club. Fayaz is also a Rotary International Foundation Scholar.

Gamini Karunaratne
Procurement Specialist

Gamini holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka and has over 20 years' experience in procurement in the public sector specializing in international procurement. Prior to joining ICTA, Gamini worked as a Procurement Officer on the (World Bank funded) Ministry of Education's TETD Project

 

 

 

Thushara Suraweera
Programme Specialist

Thushara Suraweera holds a Bachelors Degree in Science and also a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from the University of Colombo. Presently, he is reading for his MBA in e-Governance in University of Moratuwa. Thushara is an officer from Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS) with nine years of experience. He has started his career as an IT Specialist at the Policy Research & Information Unit of the Presidential Secretariat in 1998 and also has got his first appointment as a SLAS officer to the same secretariat. He has undertaken various IT management assignments in organizations he has served. Thushara served as an Assistant Secretary to the President, at Presidential Secretariat before he joined the ICTA.

 

Percy Attanayaka
Manager Finance

Member of Sri Lanka Govt Accountants' service, Fellow member of Institute of Public Finance & Development Accountancy (Sri Lanka ), Diploma holder in Computer Studies (Australia), Public Financial Management (Sri Lanka), trained here and abroad in financial management of donor funded projects, had served in various Ministries, Departments and Projects in capacities as Accountant, Project Accountant, Regional Accountant, Director Finance etc. in a service span of over 25 years.

 

 

Aruni Goonetilleke
Program Manager- Information Infrastructure

Aruni Goonetilleke secured both her a B.Sc. in Applied Science and the MBA from the University of Sri Jayawardenepura. Prior to joining ICTA, Aruni had a 13-year work experience with the Council for Information Technology (CINTEC) where she was Assistant Director, Infrastructure under which were EDI, Internet and Law and ICT.0.

 

 

 

Nalini Senasekera
Program Manager- HRD

Nalini Senasekera holds a B. Sc. in Management Information Systems from the Oklohoma State University, U.S.A . She has over 8 years of IT Industry experience in the private sector where her forte was conceptualising and developing strategic IT educational and training products for both private and Government institutions. Nalini also has had a wide exposure to initiating projects based mostly on training services, liaising with Governmental institutes, taking on diverse roles as a trainer, technical product marketer, human resource developer and implementer of technical concepts. Prior to joining the ICTA, Nalini worked for Lanka Internet Services and Informatics Information Systems (Pvt)Ltd.

 

Melvin Perera
Internal Auditor

Melvin Perera holds a Bachelor’s (Special) Degree in Commerce from the Sri Jayewardenepura University, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka and also passed the Licentiate (Intermediate) examination of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (ICA) and is a finalist of the Society of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka (SCMA). Melvin has over 25 years experience in the field of Finance, Accounting, Auditing, Fund Management, Monitoring and Administration in various organisations dealing with audit firms, imports, exports, trading, garments, manufacturing, services and NGOs in Sri Lanka and overseas.

 

 

Kanchana Thudugala
Senior Project Manager

Kanchana is a project management professional with over 10 years of industry experience in project management, business analysis and software development. At ICTA while providing the project management guidance to all the technology team managed projects, he is also the project manager responsible for the Lanka Gate initiative. Lanka gate is a collection of software infrastructure and systems which is envisioned to be the gateway for electronic information and electronic interactions in Sri Lanka.

Prior to joining ICTA, Kanchana was a Project Manager at Millennium IT, responsible for managing telecom projects and billing product development and has leaded a 50+ member project team.

Kanchana is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Also Kanchana holds a Master of Business Administration in Information Technology from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and a B.Sc. honors degree in Management Information Systems from the National University of Ireland, University College Dublin.

Crishantha Nanayakkara
Senior Technologist

Crishantha Nanayakkara holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computing and Information Systems from the University of London and a MBA in Information Technology from University of Moratuwa. Crishantha has more than 13 years of software development and design experience in several leading IT companies in Sri Lanka. His core competencies include enterprise application development, database design/development, application development using Java/J2EE technologies, application development using leading ERP software applications and e-Government related research. Currently at ICTA, he is working as the project architect to the Lanka Gate project.

 

Himira Ratnatilake
Senior Systems Engineer

Himira Ratnatilake holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, has over 5 years experience in IT industry. Prior to joining ICT Agency, he worked for Open World Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.

 

 

 

 

Gavashkar Subramanium
Project Manager

Gavashkar Subramanium has over 6 years experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining ICTA he worked for John Keells Plantation Sector for 5 years. He was involved in the implementation of the computerization project on 20+ sites which included the introduction of various manual systems and the subsequent conversions to computerized systems. He was involved in Network Management and MIS operations of the organization and was also involved in ADB funded civil work projects for the company.

 

 

Thusha Mukunthan
Project manager- Re- engineering Government

Thusha holds a BSc (Hons) in Information Systems from the University of Manchester Metropolitan, U K. She worked previously at Four Corners Lanka Ltd and was at Informatics International Ltd prior to joining ICTA. She has more than 4 years of proficient experience in the IT industry, especially in the telecommunication domain and web related applications.

 

 

 

Chinthake Ranasinghe
Project Manager

Chinthake Ranasinghe holds a B.Sc. (Hon) of Computing and Information Systems degree from the London Guildhall University currently managed by the London Metropolitan University. He has completed the licentiate level examination of the Institute of Chartered Accountancy of Sri Lanka and Audit Training. Prior to joining ICTA he worked for IDM Software International (Pvt) Ltd for 7 years. He has worked as Programmer, Systems Analyst and Designer, Team Leader and Software Development Coordinator. He was a visiting lecturer for IDM Computer Studies (Pvt) Ltd.

 

Suranga Jayasuriya
Project Manager

Suranga holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Systems Management from the City University of New York, USA. He has technical and professional experience in System Administration, Network Management and Website development. Suranga has been working in the IT industry for almost 6 years in the USA and Sri Lanka.

 

 

 

Sujith Jayasuriya
Project Officer

Sujith Jayasuriya holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Applied Sciences from University of Sri Jayewardenepura. He has completed Professional Graduate Diploma of British Computer Society and holds the MBCS (Member of British Computer Society). He is reading for the MBA in Management of Technology in University of Moratuwa.

Prior to joining ICTA, Sujith worked at HNB Assurance Limited as a Senior Executive and Sujith has more than six years industry experience.

 

Malith Galketiya
Senior Technical Assistant

Malith Galketiya is a Network and hardware enthusiast with an industrial experience of 4 years. He is a former employee of Sri Lanka institute of Information Technology. Malith is a self learned professional and expanded his knowledge with industry recognized hardware certifications like Diploma in Applications (NIBM) Microsoft Certified Professional, A+ ant Network+. He experts in working in Server environments and hardware trouble shooting.

 

 

Somasiri De Silva
Senior Finance Executive

Somasiri De Silva obtained his B.Sc. (Special) Degree in Business Administration from Sri Jayewardenepura University, Sri Lanka. He also holds the Licentiate from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, the National Diploma in Accountancy from the Sri Lanka Technical College, the Diploma in Business Studies from the Government Polytechnical Institute at Dehiwala and the Membership of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka (MAT).

With over 30 years of experience as an Accountant and a Finance Manager subsequent to joining the Government Accountants Service in 1977, Somasiri has been involved in foreign funded Projects during the last 13 years in the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

Shriyananda Rathnayake
Content Manager

Shriyananda Rathnayake holds a Master’s degree specialising in Project Management from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka and Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics(Second Class Upper) from the same university. Prior to joining ICTA he worked for the Gamidiriya, Community Development and Livelihood Improvement Project and OneWorld South Asia as Content Consultant. Shriyananda has more than six years’ experience in content development and deployment specially in the ICT Development field.

 

 

Sameera Jayawardena
Project Manager - ICT HR Capacity Building

Sameera Jayawardena holds a BSc. (Hons.) in Computing and Information Systems from the London Metropolitan University, UK. Prior to joining ICTA, Sameera worked for the Tharuna Aruna Project conducted by the Ministry of Skills Development. Equipped with experience in training and management Sameera also worked as the Branch Manager at Vinit Computer Studies and as a visiting lecturer at reputed ICT training institutions. Sameera has been working in the ICT educational field for past six years.

 

 

Rukshika Sinharachchi
Project Manager

Rukshika Sinharachchi holds a B. Sc. in Management and a Diploma in Economics from the University of London. In addition Rukshika possesses the Higher Diploma and the Diploma in International Relations from the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies. Prior to joining ICTA, Rukshika worked as a Manager at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.

 

 

 

Indumini Kodikara
Project Manager

Indumini holds a MBA from Postgraduate Institute of Management and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture (Second Class Upper) from University of Peradeniya, Specialized in Agricultural Economics. Prior to joining ICTA Indumini worked at Sri Lanka Export Development Board. Indumini’s over 9 years experience includes e-commerce applications for the development of exports. Further as a Deputy Director at EDB she played a key role in implementing the EU-Sri Lanka Organic Agriculture Project.

Rangalal Willaddara Gamage
Technologist

Rangalal Willaddara Gamage holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Electrical and Information Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna. He is reading for the M.Sc in Computer Science in Faculty of Engineering University of Moratuwa.

Rangalal has more than 3 years of software development and design experience in several leading IT companies in Sri Lanka. He has also worked as an Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Electrical & Information Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna.

His core competencies include enterprise application development, Java/J2EE/PHP/.Net technologies, application Servers (WebLogic/WebSphere/Oracle 10g R3), ISO 8583 ATM Transaction processing and Asterisk.

Hasika Erandathi Liyanage
Senior Finance Executive

Hasika Erandathi Liyanage is a finalist of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka & a Bachelor of Accountancy & Financial Management (special) degree from Sri Jayewardenepura University with a second class upper division. Prior to joining the ICTA she served the Jafferje Brothers Group of Companies for six years as an Assistant Accountant. She is experienced in financial management, Accounting & Internal controls (policies, procedures & systems) in the industry areas of Finance, Manufacturing & Services.

Tharaka Dayabandara
Project Officer

Tharaka holds a BSc honors in Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and is currently reading for his CIMA strategic level.

Prior to ICTA, Tharaka worked for Dialog Telekom PLC, as a Business Analyst in Vendor Management in Group Supply Chain Management. He was responsible for commodity strategies for optimized supply chain management in Tech-infrastructure. Tharaka also worked with Telecom Malaysia Group procurement and Vodafone SCM for procurement planning, market intelligence, forecasting, and benchmarking activities. Instrumentation of Vendor performance and performance based supplier contracts are some of Tharakas' initiatives in Dialog Group.

Kasun Warnakulasuriya
Project Officer

Kasun holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Technology and Diploma in Computer Systems & Networking from the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT). He has technical experience in Network configuration and Software development. Kasun expanded his knowledge in the field of Marketing having Preliminary Certificate in Marketing (PCM) from Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM).

Sachini Shakila
Project Officer

Sachini Shakila holds a Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology Degree from University of Colombo School of Computing. Prior to joining ICTA she served as a Management Assistant in the Government Sector.

A.J.M.Raashid
Project Officer

A.J.M. Raashid holds a Bachelor of Information Technology Degree from the University of Colombo School of Computing. He has completed Professional Diploma on E-Technology Computing from the National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), specialized in web centric application designing and development. He is reading for the MBA in Information Technology at the University of Moratuwa.

He has experience in BPR, Business Analysis, Lecturing, Analyzing, Designing & Development of Information System and brief experience in software marketing & presales. He is also a compere in public and corporate events.

Chathura Sammandapperuma
Project Officer – ICT HR Capacity Building

Chathura Sammandapperuma Joined ICTA in 2008 after obtaining his Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology with Honors from University of Colombo. Currently he is reading for the MSc in Management and Information Technology in University of Kelaniya.

 

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