Ashan Abeysekara

Shrewsbury, MA ad4pvu@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn 508-***-****

Accomplished senior executive with over two decades of experience proficient in crafting and executing strategic roadmaps, demonstrating prowess in synchronizing business and IT endeavors across diverse organizational domains. Entrusted with the oversight of IT landscapes, charting strategic trajectories, and harmonizing present and future IT capacities with business objectives. Acknowledged both internally and externally as a trailblazing leader, renowned for delivering cutting-edge systems and pioneering solutions through the adept utilization of contemporary technologies.

Skills:

Management:

Oversite Portfolios, Program, Project, P/L Budgets, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Risk, Stakeholder, Change Management, Team Development, Merges, Acquisitions, IT InfoSec & PMO operation.

Certifications:

Project Manager (PMP)

AWS Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-CO2)

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C02)

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

IT Service Management (ITIL4)

Professional Experience:

Apple Inc. Client of SGU

Sr. Program Manager 07/2023 – 03/2024

Oversite sustainability materials program (C&D construction and Demolitions) at Apple, achieving 85% reduction in carbon emissions and saving operational costs.

Managed 12 cross-functional teams nationwide and directed and budget forecasting.

Tools: MS Project, Tableau, Clarity PPM, Confluence, and ServiceNow.

NatWest Group Client of SGU

Sr. Technical Program Manager Infrastructure Refresh 01/2023 - 07/2023

Directed a complex Infrastructure Refresh for organization objectives with a $5.6M budget, overseeing data center upgrades and setup relocated old Colo to new Colo & set up new DR location.

Oversite migration of 400 SAN ports 2500 VMs, move 800 VMs to AWS with DevOps ready, new setup six PowerMax 8500 replicated 30 PTB via SRDF, Data retention with Iron Mountain.

Tools: Waterfall, Hybrid, MS Project, Teams, Power BI, Clarity PPM, ServiceNow

Bank of Montreal Bank (MBO) Client of SGU

Sr. Project Manager - Mergers and Acquisitions Digital Payments 05/2022 - 01/2023

Implemented Bank of the West merger and acquisition migrates credit/debit products and cut off payment network from Fiserv to FIS control budget of $15M.

Controlled all aspects of project management & PMO reporting, and tools used Waterfall, Hybrid, MS Project, Power BI, Clarity PPM, and ServiceNow.

Army & Air Force Exchange Service Client of SGU

Sr. Technical Project Manager Infrastructure Refresh 11/2021 - 03/2022

Transformed end to end project management leading infrastructure refresh project transferring IBM mainframe workloads to AWS reduces MIPS with a budget of $4.5M.

Tools Waterfall Methodology, MS Project, Clarity PPM, MS Teams, and ServiceNow

Santander Bank Client of SGU

Sr. Technical Project Manager – ATM Infrastructure 04/2021 - 10/2021

Coordinated ATM (NCR/Diebold) refresh project across 250 locations in northeast managed hardware and ATM smart client upgrades.

Controlled all project aspects including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, budgeting, communication, and reporting.

Tools Waterfall Methodology, MS Project, MS Teams, and ServiceNow

Sunrise Group USA - SGU

Senior Executive Portfolio & Program Manager 01/2021 – Present

Oversite Portfolio & Program to achieve clients organization objectives.

Provided consultancy and portfolio services to client C-Level executives and managed diverse programs & projects.

Oversite P & L, CAPEX, OPEX management, RFP, RFQ, RFB

Boston Technologies

Sr. IT Executive – Portfolio/Program Manager 01/2007 - 11/2020

Controlled 40+ nationwide programs across diverse industries, P & L oversite, OPEX management

Managed portfolios of IT technology & banking Software

Tools: Fiserv, FIS, SWIFT, ATM, ISO 20022, Waterfall, Agile, MS Project, AWS, Azure, SAP, EBS, SDLC, IBM mainframe, SAN, VMware, Cisco, and switches Colo and DR.

Oversite P & L, CAPEX, OPEX management, RFP, RFQ, RFB

DBS Bank of Singapore

Sr. VP – Banking & IT Infrastructure 01/1999 - 12/2005

Oversite IT infrastructure, ATM, SWIFT, Colo, DR critical banking applications 30 team of engineers, application developers, project managers and team development.

Design roadmaps and implemented technology across platforms, oversite P & L, CAPEX, and OPEX management.

Solve complex issues and structured & unstructured.

Aston Electronics Sri Lanka

Technical Support Manager Enterprises Solutions 02/1990 - 09/1999

Provided nationwide systems support for various technologies including HP, ATM, SWIFT, and IBM Mainframes.

Managed client projects and programs, specializing in Cobol programming.

Education:

B.Sc. – Electronics & Computer Engineering

MBA – London Business School

Entrepreneurship Certification – Harvard Online University

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