Remote worker in Colombo,srilanka with 18+ years of experience - Last seen 3 years ago

Darshana is Insightful Technical Project Manager, Program Manger, Enterprise-PMO leader, and Senior consultant with 12 years of exposure in Planning, Designing, implementation, Consulting & Operations of Enterprise Project/Programme Management using Agile methodologies; SCRUM & KANBAN for world-leading multinational Organizations & Sri Lankan Government Sector (ICTA), covering wide array of Information technology & telecommunication domains while achieving challenging OKRs. Successful at motivating multiple PMO teams, Stakeholders to meet demanding KPIs. He has Hands-on experience in leading Project management & supportive tools such as MS Project, Jira, Redmine, Slack, MS SharePoint

Work Experience,
Company- ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA)
Designation -Project Management Consultant
2020(Nov)- 2022(Apr)

Responsibilities:
Responsible for Enterprise-PMO Governance,
Responsible for Organizing, planning, drive, implementation, monitor multiple, large & Complex projects in Enterprise level.
Responsible for Multiple Project Execution with Agile Practices.
Accountable for Design & Develop effective OKRs & Effective Release planning
Accountable for Lead multiple project teams (PMOs) concurrently with efficient Resource Management.
Effective EPMO Governance practices during; Strategic planning & Sprint Retro s
Responsible for Effective Release Coordination & Regression planning.
Applying of Data driven Strategic Planning for EPMO.
Efficient delivery of strategic portfolio management (SPM)
Manage Strategy Execution Management (SEM)
Responsible for Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis (IIPA)
Support FMEA & RCA based Risk Mitigation



Company- State Ministry of Cooperative Services, Marketing Development & Consumer Protection
Designation - ICT Consultant
Digital Transformation project (budget: 3.5 billion LKR)
2020(Sept)- 2022(Apr)

Responsibilities:
Manage Digital Transformation; Centralized e-supply chain project (budget: 3.5 billion LKR)
Responsible for Organizing, planning, drive, implementation, monitor all CAA-PMO projects in parallel using Agile practices.
Accountable for Lead this PMO with efficient Resource Management.
Accountable for design & develop effective OKRs & Effective Release planning.



Company- Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA-SL)
Designation - ICT Consultant
Digital Transformation project: (budget: 20 million LKR)
2020(Sept)- 2022(Apr)

Responsibilities:
Plan and Manage Digital Transformation; for 5 Digital ecosystems integration.
• Commodity Standards and Quality management tracking system.
• Price management, forecasting & Food Security management system.
• National Business & Supplier Registration system. (New Reg.s for CAA & APIs from Government eROC & DS Systems)
• Complaint management & Raid management system.
• Haride.lk Portal implementation & integration. (Consumer Goods information dissemination System
Connect Processes (Channels+ Strategy)
Connect Systems (Technology + People)
Responsible for Multiple Project Execution with Agile Practices.
Responsible for Organizing, planning, drive, implementation, monitor all DCD-PMO Projects in parallel using Agile practices.
Accountable for Lead this PMO with efficient Resource Management.
Accountable for design & develop effective OKRs & Effective Release planning.


Company- Department of Cooperative Development (DCD)
Designation - ICT Consultant
Digital Transformation (budget:1.2 billion LKR)
2020(Sept)- 2022(Apr)

Responsibilities:
Manage Digital Transformation; All Island Cooperative shop chain with Centralized MIS dashboards. (budget: 1.2 billion LKR)
Responsible for Multiple Project Execution with Agile Practices.
Responsible for Organizing, planning, drive, implementation, monitor all DCD-PMO Projects in parallel using Agile practices.
Accountable for Lead this PMO with efficient Resource Management.
Accountable for design & develop effective OKRs & Effective Release planning.

Company- MTN Telecommunications [South Africa] –
Designation – Consultant Project Director
Digital Transformation & EPMO Strategy Development. MTN-UG- (8 million USD)
2020(Mar)- 2020(Sept)
Responsibilities:
Manage Digital Transformation Digital Transformation & EPMO Strategy Development Programme of Uganda Operation.
• Implementation of ITSM environment.
• Design ITIL based Generic Service Value System (SVS) and specific Service value chain (SVC)
• Managed Business Process Re-engineering and workflow automation.
• Design & Implement Paperless-Office modeling
Responsible for Enterprise-PMO Governance,
Responsible for Organizing, planning, drive, implementation, monitor multiple fast-track projects in Enterprise level.
Responsible for Multiple Project Execution with Agile Practices.
Accountable for design & develop effective OKRs & Effective Release planning
Accountable for Lead multiple project teams (PMOs) concurrently with efficient Resource Management.
Effective EPMO Governance practices during; Strategic planning & Sprint Retro s
Responsible for Effective Release Coordination & Regression planning.

Company- Hutchison Telecommunications Ltd
Designation - Unit Head IT- Billing, CRM & CVM
IN-Merge, Billing Operations.
2019(Jul)-–2020(Mar)
Responsibilities:
Lead & Mange Product Development team of ETISALAT Cluster (IN/SME & Corporate )
Lead & manage Billing Operations team and ETISALAT Cluster
Applying of Data driven Strategic Planning for product bundling for Business strategy team.


Company- Etisalat Telecommunications –
Designation - Vertical Head – IT Billing Solutions
EPMO Strategy, ITSM,CRM,Charging & Billing Solutions.(budget:18 million USD)
2015(May)-–2019(Jun)
Responsibilities:
Responsible for Enterprise-PMO Governance; ITSM, CRM & Product Development
Responsible for Organizing, planning, drive, implementation, monitor multiple, large & Complex projects in Enterprise level.
Responsible for Multiple Project Execution with Agile Practices.
Accountable for Design & develop effective OKRs & Effective Release planning
Accountable for Lead multiple project teams (PMOs) concurrently with efficient Resource Management.
Effective EPMO Governance practices during; Strategic planning & Sprint Retro s
Responsible for Effective Release Coordination & Regression planning.
Applying of Data driven Strategic Planning for EPMO.
Efficient delivery of strategic portfolio management (SPM)
Manage Strategy Execution Management (SEM)
Responsible for Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis (IIPA)
Enterprise Program and Portfolio Management (EPPM)
Support FMEA & RCA based Risk Mitigation

Company- Etisalat Telecommunications –
Designation - IT Unit Manager- Intelligent Network
PMO: All Product Developments of Intelligent Network Prepaid System
2013 (Aug)-–2015(Apr)
Responsibilities:
Responsible for PMO Governance; IN Product Development, e-TOM implementation
Responsible for Organizing, planning, drive, implementation, monitor multiple, large & Complex projects in Enterprise level.
Responsible for Multiple Project Execution with Agile Practices.
Accountable for Design & develop effective OKRs & Effective Release planning
Accountable for Lead multiple project teams (PMOs) concurrently with efficient Resource Management.
Responsible for Effective Release Coordination & Regression planning.


Company- Etisalat Telecommunications –
Designation - IT Senior Engineer – Data Analytics/Data Science (Manager Grade)
PMO: Datawarehouse Project + Management Information System
2010(Apr)-–2013(Jul)
Responsibilities:
Responsible for PMO Governance; DWH project, Teradata ETL implementation, SOX implementation, BPR-stage2 (AAF,CMR)
Responsible for Organizing, planning, drive, implementation, monitor multiple, large & Complex projects in Enterprise level.
Responsible for Multiple Project Execution with Agile Practices.
Accountable for given OKRs & Effective Release planning
Accountable for Lead multiple project teams (PMOs) concurrently with efficient Resource Management.
Effective PMO Governance practices
Responsible for Effective Release Coordination

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Skilled in	project management programme management agile methodologies program manager scrum kanban itsm it governance it strategy digital transformation information security it compliance data governance data analytics microsoft project jira redmine slack microsoft sharepoint microsoft excel microsoft word microsoft visio
Fluent in	englishsinhala
Preferred annual pay (min)	$145,000/year
Preferred hourly pay (min)	$70/hour
Last seen	3 years ago
Signed up	3 years ago
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