Philip Ekanayaka is PMP certified professional with exceptional technical leadership and management skills leading numerous software development and infrastructure projects. He has managed all phases of the Compliance, Infrastructure & Application programs and can easily engage executive team members in defining the overall program and project strategy and to develop the business case. Philip has proven ability in collaborating with business department stakeholders, governance, business analysis, application development, and infrastructure engineering groups. He also has strong meeting facilitation skills and the ability to influence the decision-making process. Philip has excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly with all levels, including Executive level.

Financial Industry Compliance Experience

PCI DSS - Standard Industries Group, Parsippany, NJ

Participated in PCI Assessments of 4 Companies of Standard Industries Group of companies: 1. Sales (USA) 2. Sales (Canada) 3. US Aggregates Sales 4. US Paints

Knowledge of PCI Requirements (PCI DSS 3.2.1) and supplemental PCI Council information

Experience working with QSA (Qualified Security Assessor from external vendor (https://www.strozfriedberg.com) performing the assessment, that concluded with a ROC (Record of Compliance)

10+ years Business experience implementing Business Process Re-Engineering & IT projects.

Security project implementation experience.

DATA RETENTION

Scotia Bank, Toronto, Governance and Regulatory compliance

Reviewed Regulatory Compliance and Standardization of all Client Data Retention and Regulatory Reporting

Made presentations, facilitated dialogue, influenced the decision making and reviewed new retention and reporting standards with all Bank’s Vice Presidents, Directors, Senior Managers, SME’s, Technical Team

Managed assessment, review & mitigation of 270 applications and associated databases in 36 Departments/Groups

ANALYTICS

/BIG DATA

Big Data Infrastructure:(Hadoop/MapR/ Pivotal),

Packet Processing (Event Processing Network)

Data Onboarding from legacy feeder systems as events

Analytics using AI for Complex Event Processing

Work Summary (Off-Shore/On-Shore)

Name

New Product/s

Global Team

Period

Altice USA HQ

Support Portals for UBEE GB Router, Altice 1 SetTopBox

US/India/Israel

Amdocs, HCL & InfoSys

21019/20

Thomson Reuters/ Refinitiv

“Know Your Customer” Service Portal (SaaS)

US/Ukraine

EPAM

2019

Standard Industries Group

E-Commerce Portal for Dealers

US Vendor Progress & Inhouse

2015/18

Wyndham Hotels

Wyndham.com Portal (Booking.com integration)

US/India

Cognizant

2014/15

Pfizer HQ (Wyeth Merger Program)

Sales-Team Business Intelligence Web-Portal

US/India

Wipro & Tata

2008/9

Yellow Pages (Trader Media)

Digital Publishing Cycle ERP Products

Canada/India

Teams

2007/8

CBRE – Realnet.ca

Commercial Real Estate Information Service (SaaS)

Canada/USA

Teams

2006/7

Project Management Skills

15 years of experience in collaborating with business department stakeholders, governance, Business Analysis, application development, and infrastructure engineering groups with Strong written, presentation and verbal communication skills.

Strong experience in facilitation, scheduling, communications planning, execution, risk/issue management, and other program and project planning activities.

Experience in presenting project plans, strategy & change management plan to large audience’s skills with the ability to communicate clearly with all levels, including Executive level communications.

Extensive experience with PMO activities & producing PMO Artifacts. Managed all phases of projects including Project Initiation, Planning, Execution, Risk, Controlling & Monitoring & Closure using PMBOK/PMO methodology, People/Vendor Management Skills in Public & Private sectors and excellent knowledge of HR policies.

Experience Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Process Optimization, Infrastructure Design, Business Solution Design & IT Governance

Agile Expertise

7+ years of experience managing delivery of several complex enterprise projects managing multiple using Agile methodology & Agile/Scrum Teams & Standard/SAFE methodologies within budget & timeline.

Utilized Agile tool (JIRA/Confluence) to tracks key metrics (burn up/down, velocity, capacity) and ensure that issues and challenges are identified early, drive progress and provide visibility into team performance, predictability, and delivery.

Certification:

Certified Project Management Professional – PMP #313354

Certified Scrum Master ID# 15979

Certified Six Sigma Green Belt #GB09051601140

Certified ITIL Service Management – ITIL #56798

Certified IBM Domino Professional – CLP

Certified Network Engineer CNE

Certified Training in CISSP & ITIL V2 & V3

Altice USA (Cablevision) www.alticeusa.com, Bethpage, LI, NY

Altice USA is a communications and media company that enables its customers through the power of connectivity.

Senior Project Manager April 19– To- Mar 20

Benefit: Improved Customer Satisfaction by providing “Self-Care” tools for 3 Million+ clients

Managed multiple Digital Agile enterprise (Mobile & .net) software development project with On-Site Stakeholders, Technical Leads and Off-Site development team & vendors. Analysis & resolution of performance /velocity issues, coaching mentoring team members. Managing Dev, QA, UAT & Release Management.

Thomson Reuters www.thomsonreuters.com, PA

Senior Project Manager

Benefit: Improved user satisfaction via User-Friendly Interface for KYC Applications.

Jan 19– To- April 19

Managed multiple Digital Agile enterprise software (SaaS) development project with On-Site Stakeholders, Technical Leads and Off-Site development team. Analysis & resolution of performance /velocity issues, coaching mentoring team members. Managing Dev, QA, UAT & Release Management.

Standard Industries Group (http://www.standardindustries.com/) NJ

Senior Project Manager – Agile/Waterfall June 15– To- Dec 18

Standard Industries is a global, diversified holding company with interests in building materials, aggregates, and related investment businesses in public equities and real estate. With approximately 15,000 employees and operations in more than 80 countries.

GAF (Manufacturing Division) www.gaf.com, NJ

Leading roofing manufacturer in North America, with plants strategically located across the U.S. A member of the Standard Industries family of companies, GAF is part of the largest roofing and waterproofing business in the world.

PCI Compliance Program Managed multiple projects covering Assessment, Gap Analysis, Short Term Remediation, Long-Term Remediation with a QSA (Qualified Security Assessor ), that concluded with a ROC (Record of Compliance)

Benefit: Legal Compliance to PIC Regulations

PCI Security Standards Include:

The PCI DSS applies to all entities that store, process, and/or transmit cardholder data. It covers technical and operational system components included in or connected to cardholder data. If you are a merchant who accepts or processes payment cards, you must comply with the PCI DSS.

Conducted compliance assessments in All Companies & Departments in Standard Industries Group who handle Credit Card Data:-

Manual & Automated Business Processes: Changes to ensure Card Holder data is handled securely by Inside & Outside Sales, Accounting & Treasury teams.

Training & Review of Compliance: Managed deployment of PCI Compliance Training to all impacted areas performed Audits to ensure that new processes are implemented at operations level.

E-Commerce (Agile): Refactor E-Commerce Shopping Cart, Credit Card Acceptance, PayPal Payment Gateway processes to ensure PCI compliance or reduce scope.

Infrastructure: Upgrades to Firewalls, Security Policies, Servers, OS, Middleware, Databases to ensure PCI compliance.

Managed multiple projects to comply with PCI security requirements, Cybersecurity Policy, Perimeter Protection, End Point Protection & Data Monitoring using tools. Forcepoint/Websense, Qualys, Carbon Black, NetBrain, IBM App Scan, Setup of external Security Operations Centre (SOC)

Wyndham Hotel Group N.J. http://www.wyndhamworldwide.com/category/our-brands

Senior Project/Release Manager Jul 14– June 2015

Wyndham Hotel Group (NYSE: WYN) is the world's largest and most diverse hotel company with approximately 7,500 hotels worldwide.

Digital Channel Enhancements Program - Websites (20 Brands) 5M+ Users

Benefit: Increased room sales from www.booking.com clients

Managed multiple Agile SDLC projects engaging business & technical teams located in USA & India.

Organized, Coached & Mentored scrum teams. Total Budget: 3 Million.

Program: Merging of www.Booking.com to Wyndham Websites (13 Brands).

KPMG (Client Cablevision HQ) Bethpage - New York

Senior Project Manager at Cablevision, LI, NY Jun 2012 – Apr 2014

Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) is one of the nation’s leading media and telecommunications companies, delivering its Optimum-branded television, Internet, and voice offerings throughout the New York area.

Program1: Customer Experience Improvement

Managed multiple Scrum projects engaging business & technical teams to deliver SDLC projects utilizing Scrum methodology. Total Budget 10 Million. Assisted in transformation of project teams to Agile/Scrum Methodology. Organized, Coached & Mentored scrum teams at Cablevision.

Program1: Big Data & Analytics (4M Customers)

Benefit: Increased customer satisfaction via early detection/remediation of channel degradation/failures

Project 1: Build, Test, Deploy of Big Data Infrastructure:(Hadoop/MapR/ Pivotal),

Project 2: Build, Test, Deploy of EPN (Event Processing Network)

Project 3: Build, Test, Deploy of TIBCO infrastructure: -

Project 4: Data Onboarding from legacy systems

Project 5: EPN (Event Processing Network), CEP (Complex Event Processing/Analytic

Program 2: TIBCO Middleware Implementation (4M Clients) Agile

Benefit: Increased customer satisfaction via predictable on-time delivery of services

Conversion of ERP from Vitria to TIBCO platform

Project 1: Sales Processes Automation (TIBCO/Web)

Project 2: Service Activation Processes Automation (TIBCO/Web)

Project 3: Engineering Processes Automation (TIBCO/Web)

Project 4: Enterprise Oracle DB Upgrade from v10 to 11g Rel. 2

Scotiabank Toronto

Senior Project Manager - Waterfall Apr 2011 – Apr 2012

Program 1: Governance and Regulatory compliance of Data Retention in 26 Departments & 170 Apps & 2,700 DB’s

Benefit: Cost reduction by $1.3 Million/Annum in cost by eliminating duplicate processes and excessive data retention

Reviewed Regulatory Compliance and Standardization of all Client Data Retention and Regulatory Reporting

Made presentations, facilitated dialogue, influenced the decision making and reviewed new retention and reporting standards with all Bank’s Vice Presidents, Directors, Senior Managers, SME’s, Technical Team to review 270 applications and databases in 46 Departments

Identified regulatory/compliance requirements for data and obtained team consensus to implement the change

Engaged vendors by creating MOU, Contracts, and budgets and obtaining management team approvals

Verified and documented all applications, databases and regulatory reports used at Scotia Bank

Identified Gaps/Risks/Custom Requirements for all Applications and Databases

Developed Risk Mitigation plans to avoid loss of data during migrations

Scotia Capital -Toronto

Senior Project Manager – Agile / Waterfall Jul 2009 – March 2011

Program 1: Wealth & Trading Applications Efficiency Improvement

Managed multiple SDLC projects: Engaged business & technical teams to deliver projects utilizing Waterfall & Agile methodology

Benefits: Annual Savings of $480,000 by reduction of servers from 85 to 45

Project 1: Trading Platform Upgrade: Citrix Software and 22 Applications from version 4.0 to Xenapp11 -Waterfall

Managed upgrade of 4,500 clients from Citrix version 4.0 to Xenapp11, upgrade of Office 2000 to Office 2003, and upgrade and consolidation of (85) Server Citrix Server Farm located in two Data Centers from version 4.0 to 4.5

Migrated 20 Applications from 32bit to New 64bit version & Windows Server Farm from Win32bit to Win64bit.

Performed Load Testing and Application Performance testing using HP Load Runner

Managed deployment of Pilot & Canada-Wide release in corporation with Business Teams.

Project 2: Enabling SSO for Capital Market Applications (J2EE) – Scrum Methodology

Enabled SSO using SPNEGO/WebSphere with AD integration

Performed Analysis of current “Capital Market Applications” authentication methods, environment including current versions of Java, J2EE/Oracle applications needs, and infrastructure enable SSO capability

Designed/Code/Test/Deploy: WebSphere/SPNEGO/AD based authentication, for each application to enable SSO capability and allowed access rights to data/functions based on each application ACL

oReduced login time and security risk of writing passwords in paper

Pfizer Global Headquarters New York

Project Manager May 2008 – Jun 2009

Program 1: Merger/Align of Wyeth ERP Processes to Pfizer ERP Environment

Managed multiple SDLC projects: Engaged business & technical teams to deliver projects with On-Shore and Off-Shore Teams (Wipro, Tata) . Total Budget: $4 Million USD

Benefit: Reduction of 15-20% of Salesman time spent on computer updating activity and marketing data

Project 1: Remediation to ITIL Incident, Problem, Change, Asset Management Processes. (Remedy)

Project 2: Remediation of Enterprise ERP (Java/Oracle) Application -Agile

Project 3: CRM, Product, Geography Data Schema Remediation & ETL to Data-Warehouse

Project 4: Building Pfizer Sales SharePoint (BI) Portal with BPM/Oracle DW - Agile

Project 5: Building Pfizer Resources SharePoint Portal with BPM (Car, Samples, Literature) – Agile

Trader Media Corporation (Yellow Pages) Montreal

Project Manager- Agile Mar 2007 – Mar 2008

ERP Process Improvement Program (Digital Web & Print Publishing Life Cycles)

Managed multiple SDLC projects engaging business & technical teams to deliver projects utilizing Agile methodology. Total Budget: $6 Million

Benefit: Reduction of 15 to 25% time/resources required to complete a single publication cycle

Project 1: Remediation: Enterprise CRM application Java/Sybase/Oracle/Canto – Agile

Project 2: Build Java Based Portal – Trader.CA Portal (4-Tier) – Agile

Project 3: Build Integrated Workflow Application (Sales, A/R, Production/Delivery) – Agile

Project 4: Build XML Based Content Repository & Data Migration/ETL

Project 5: Build BPM and Dashboards to monitor KPI’s – Agile

Realnet.ca Toronto

Project Manager Aug 2006 – Feb 2007

Enterprise Portal Rebuild Program

Managed E2E delivery of new “REALNET.CA” portal by engaging business & technical teams: to deliver projects utilizing Agile methodology.

Benefit: Reduction of 15 to 20% time/resources required to update building transaction data and search time.

Project 1: Delphi – E-Commerce Web Application (www.realnet.ca) - Agile

Managed Application Development Team for migration of existing Domino Based Real-Estate Information services to Open-Source/Web Based Application, using .Net, ASP, Tomcat, MS SQL, Linux, Windows 200 platform, management of system development lifecycle and data migration

Project 2: Data Migration and ETL from Domino DB to SQL DB

Managed a team consisting of Business Analysts, Architect, and Business Leads to design new Database Schema

Extracted existing data from Domino to flat files, and transformed and loaded data to new databases

Project 3: Atlas – GIS Mapping Web Application – Agile

Developed the web-based MAP Integration to Delphi Product using DMTI supplied data layers using UAT NAT 83 (Meters) shape files combined with FBS Umap, Ortho-photo (Digital)

Project 4: Athena – Web Based CRM Application Integrated to Accounting Software – Agile

Implemented the web based ACCPAC and Sage CRM integrated workflow solution for Customer Relationship Management, Sales, Quotes, and Invoicing and Accounting

Falls View Casino OLG Niagara Falls

ITIL Consultant – IBM Global Services Apr 2006 – Aug 2006

ITIL Program

Benefit: Improved Service Level to end-users.

Managed ITIL Incident & Problem Management implementation project engaging business & technical teams to deliver projects utilizing agile methodology. Total budget: $500,000

Responsibilities:

Made presentations, facilitated dialogue, influenced the decision making and reviewed new standards with All Business Groups Directors, Senior Managers, SME’s and obtained consensus of “Falls View User Departments” to implement the changes to processes

Worked on a team of Design, Development, Business, Deployment/Change, and Support

Analyzed business requirements and existing infrastructure in consultation with Sponsors, Functional Managers to implement Service Desk, Incident, Problem, change and release Management ITIL processes

Architected, designed, customized and tested Front Range ITSM software to support ITIL Processes

Customized, tested, and trained on the Pilot of Processes and Tools

Deployed ITIL compliant processes including Service Desk, Incident, Problem Change and Release Management

Ministry of Health, CCAC Toronto

Project Manager (E-Health) - Agile Jul 2003 – Nov 2005

E-Health and Process Optimization Program

Managed multiple E-Health projects engaging business & technical teams to deliver projects utilizing agile methodology. Project Budget: $4 Million (6 Projects)

Team Size: Business Team (18), BA Team (6), Development Team (8), QAT Team (25) & Infrastructure/Deployment Team (12).

Benefit: Reduction of 15 to 25% travel time of Nurse Practitioners and reducing the insurance claim payments.

Project 1: Design, built, tested and deployed “Interoperable Electronic Health Record”, supporting Ontario Health Insurance Program.

Project 2: Analyzed, designed, optimized and built the “New Digitized Business Processes” for all operations of insurance program

Project 3: Analyzed and designed the KPI and built dashboards and MIS Reporting to management analyze budget vs claims paid on all insurance claims.

Project 4: Designed, built, tested and deployed BPA/BPM using custom .NET interfaces to CRM, UI interfaces, Order Processing and Content Repository (Xerox-DocuShare) among Home Care Division of Ministry of Health in of Ontario

Project 5: Designed, built, tested and deployed combined with wireless-access for Nurse Case- Practitioners to read, update and create new orders from anywhere in GTA using a Laptop or PDA

Major Achievements

Pfizer/Wyeth M&A: Successfully managed enterprise infrastructure, architecture, design, implementation “US Sales Force Realignment projects” to merge the Sales Force Business Process & Operations of two distinct Companies operating across USA to a single unified process.

Cablevision: Successfully managed enterprise architecture, design, implementation of “EPN” Event Processing Network (Kafka, Flume, Zookeeper), Big Data (Hadoop, MapR/HBase, MapReduce, MongoDB etc.) & Analytics (TIBCO BE/Spotfire) Solutions to identify video signal, errors, outages usage patterns by analyzing telemetry data/logs from 4 million Set-Top-Boxes each minute.

Scotia Capital: Successfully managed Enterprise Infrastructure, Architecture, Design, upgrade & upgrade of 4,500 clients from Citrix version 4.0 to Xenapp11, Upgrade of MS Office for 4,500 users, Upgrading/Consolidation of Server Citrix Server Farm (85) in 2 Data Centers from version 4.0 to 4.5 & migrated 20 Applications to new platform.

Ministry of Health, Long Term Care - Managed a leading-edge project to develop the first “Interoperable E-Health Record” solution in Canada integrated to care planning, care delivery, provider, outcome & financial cost management using remote laptops connected via Cellular data networks.

Education:

Diploma in Business Analysis, Design and Development – Control Data Institute, Toronto, Canada

Certificate in Electrical Engineering - Intermediate – City & Guilds College, London University. UK

Other Proficiencies

Technology: Tools

Operating Systems: Android, IOS, Linux, Windows, Unix, Sun OS

Development Languages: Java, .Net, ASP, Tomcat, MS SQL Ajax, JavaScript, EJB, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, JNDI, JMS and Applets, HTML/XML, XML/XSL, Perl, J Query, Eclipse, Struts, PHP, Python

J, .Net/ Web Services, TIBCO BE, BW, ODBC/JDBC, VB, J2EE

Databases: HBase, Hadoop, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase

Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, Six Sigma

Human Languages: English, Spanish

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