ANANDA

LIYANAGE

M A N A G E R - I T

****/*, **** - ****,*******,

Pannipitiya, 10230, Sri Lanka

009**********

adryld@r.postjobfree.com

A B O U T M E

Qualified, well-experienced,

and versatile ICT

Professional with over 15

years of experience in

Planning, Implementing,

Designing, and Managing

ICT Security Projects.

Ability to work effectively

and efficiently with

available technical

resources. Customer-

focused, Result-oriented,

and collaborative leader,

team builder with the

ability to interface across

multiple departments for

cost-effective management

of high-level projects.

Superior communication

skills, including

presentation and writing

abilities.

A strategic thinker with a

higher level academic

background with Post

Graduate & Masters's

qualifications and trained

locally as well as abroad in

industry-leading products

manufacturers including

Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point,

Cyberoam, Symantec,

Kaspersky, DELL, HP, IBM &

Microsoft, Linux, Open

Source and Security

Services experiences in

Penetration Testing and

Vulnerability Management

and Security Hardening for

Telco and Banking Sector

aligned with CIS Controls,

NIST and ISO 27001.

L I N K S

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anan

da-liyanage-b27165a1/

Linkedin:

E D U C ATION

M A S T E R ' S D E G R E E 2 0 1 5

U N I V E R S I T Y O F C O L O M B O, C O L O M B O Master of Information Systems Management, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management

P O S T G R A D U ATE D I P L O M A 2 0 1 5

U N I V E R S I T Y O F C O L O M B O, C O L O M B O Postgraduate Diploma in Information Systems Management (PgDISM) H I G H E R N ATIONAL D I P L O M A 1 9 9 9

C I T Y & G U I L D S O F L O N D O N A R T S C H O O L, C O L O M B O Electronics and Communication Technology

H I G H E R N ATIONAL D I P L O M A 2 0 0 4

E N G I N E E R I N G C O U N C I L - U K

WORK E X P E R I E N C E

M A N A G E R I N F O R M ATION S E C U R I T Y A N D O U T S O U R C E O P E R ATION J U L 2 0 1 8 - P R E S E N T

C R Y P T O G E N P V T LTD, C O L O M B O

• Determine the goals of IT within broad outlines provided by the executive management and contribute to the continuity of computer services by providing necessary technical leadership and project management and coordination.

• Definition and Scoping of IT Security requirements, creation, and execution of all IT and Data Security related strategies enhance the reliability and security.

• Manage IT staff by recruiting, training employees, communicating job expectations and performance appraising, perform all supervisory responsibilities associated with the IT department including employee-related issues.

• Manage all communication with customers, prepare reports and resolve technical problems.

• Security operation center implementation and Management. I T M A N A G E R M A Y 2 0 1 6 - M A Y 2 0 1 8

D E L O I T T E S R I L A N K A, C O L O M B O

• Determine the goals of IT within broad outlines provided by the executive management and contribute to the continuity of computer services by providing necessary technical leadership and project coordination.

• Manage IT staff by recruiting, training employees, communicating job expectations and performance appraising, perform all supervisory responsibilities associated with the IT department including employee-related issues.

• Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.

• Overseeing and determining timeframes for major IT projects including system updates, upgrades, migrations, and outages.

• Participate in all hardware and software evaluations and maintains vendor contracts.

• Preserve assets by implementing disaster recovery, backup procedures, information security, and control structures

• Planning and design, IT infrastructure implementation project, Design, development, implementation, action, and coordination of systems, policies, and procedures

• Planning, developing, and implementing the ICT budget and obtaining competitive prices from suppliers to ensure cost-effectiveness. H E A D O F I T S O L U T I O N S M A Y 2 0 1 5 - J U N 2 0 1 6 S O L U T I O N L I M I T E D, C O L O M B O

• Managing all IT Solution projects and Design and Planning.

• Develop and implement project plans, resource capacity, risk assessments, and contingency plans

• Project manage the implementation and integration of the planned Client solutions.

• Estimate cost, and prepare business cases for IT solutions, considering infrastructure, licenses, development, and support

• Work with the core infrastructure support teams to develop high-level project schedule resource plans for implementation projects S E N I O R N E T WORK A N D S Y S T E M S A D M I N I S T R ATOR J U N 2 0 0 7 - A U G 2 0 1 5

B S H A R P T E C H N O L O G I E S, C O L O M B O

• Managing servers virtualization technologies like VMWare Server/ESXi and Microsoft Hyper/Virtual Server

• Operate, maintain, and proactively manage secure network switching/routing, virtual private network, domain name system, and wireless and l Open Bsd Firewall & Security Systems

• Responsible for building new testing and production environments as required

• Maintained and Administration Linux Application Servers.

• Implement ITIL-based processes and procedures; promote standard operating procedures to ensure key performance indicators are achieved

• Define and document best practices and support procedures

• Train and provide troubleshooting procedures to helpdesk personnel for first- line network and system issues.

• Network Monitoring and bandwidth management (Nagios, Darkstar, Squid Proxy) maintain, support & implement the Disaster Recovery Plan and Business N E T WORK A D M I N I S T R ATOR M A Y 2 0 0 3 - A U G 2 0 0 7 S J M S A S S O C I ATES, C O L O M B O

S E N I O R S Y S T E M S E N G I N E E R A U G 2 0 0 0 - J U N 2 0 0 3 B A R T L E E T I N N O VATIVE T E C H N O L O G I E S, C O L O M B O P R O F E S S I O N A L Q U A L I F I C ATIONS

C E R T I F I E D I N F O R M ATION S E C U R I T Y M A N A G E R ( C I S M ) T H E I N F O R M ATION S Y S T E M S A U D I T A N D C O N T R O L A S S O C I ATION

( I S A C A ) J U N 2 0 2 2

M I C R O S O F T C E R T I F I E D : A Z U R E F U N D A M E N TALS M I C R O S O F T J A N 2 0 2 1

AWS C E R T I F I E D S O L U T I O N S A R C H I T E C T - A S S O C I ATE A M A Z O N W E B S E R V I C E S O C T 2 0 2 0 - O C T 2 0 2 5

I T I L F O U N D ATION V 3 I N F O R M ATION T E C H N O L O G Y I N F R A S T R U C T U R E L I B R A R Y S E P 2 0 1 6

PALO A LTO N E T WORKS C E R T I F I E D N E T WORK S E C U R I T Y E N G I N E E R

( P C N S E ) PALO A LTO N E T WORKS A U G 2 0 2 0 - A U G 2 0 2 2 C Y B E R O A M C E R T I F I E D N E T WORK & S E C U R I T Y P R O F E S S I O N A L C Y B E R O A M J U N 2 0 1 7 C C N A C E R T I F I E D C I S C O J U N 2 0 0 1 - J U N 2 0 0 4 P R O J E C T S

M A N A G E R I N F O R M ATION S E C U R I T Y A N D O U T S O U R C E O P E R ATIONS- C R Y P T O G E N P V T LTD

• Security implementation and assessment Projects (Leading Telco Organization)

-MBSS V1

-MBSS V2

-MBSS V2 & CIS Benchmark.

-AWS Cloud - Security implementation and assessment Project

• Security assessment Project (CIS Benchmark & Vendor recommendation) - Leading Financial Organization.

• Security implementation and assessment Project -Australian government organization.

• Data Centre Security Implementation Project - Leading Telco Organization.

• SIEM Fine-tune and assessment Project -Leading Telco Organization. I T M A N A G E R - D E L O I T T E S R I L A N K A

• Lead large IT projects, including designing and deploying new IT systems and services.

• Implementation of the Deloitte image server systems and EMS ERP Systems.

• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organizational standards.

S E N I O R N E T WORK A N D S Y S T E M S A D M I N I S T R ATOR - B S H A R P T E C H N O L O G I E S

• Open source firewall implementation projects - Inhouse

• VMWare Infrastructure Implementation Project(ESXi and KVM) - Inhouse

• Dev Environment Implementation(Linux) - Inhouse

• Database implementation (MSSQL) - Inhouse

S K I L L S

Technical Management IT Operation Management

Resource Management Project Management

Planning, Allocation, Monitoring,Risk

Assessment and Budgeting

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