Engineer Information Technology

Prageeth Sandakalum M.K.D.N.

Address: **, ****** ****, *********, ********, Sri Lanka.

Telephone: +94 – 11 2652855

Mobile: +94 – 71 3566736

Email: glat2k@r.postjobfree.com

Date of Birth : 04 / 12 / 1987

Nationality: Sri Lankan

NIC No: 873393149 V

Marital Status : Single

LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/prageeth sandakalum/22/913/893

Having variety of achievements in the fields of academics, communication and leadership to a greater

extent, my career aim is to further improve my technical, interpersonal and leadership skills in order to

become an internationally recognized professional and an effective leader to the global information

technology industry while providing my best possible contribution back to the Employer.

Senior Engineer – Technology at Virtusa Implementing a Social Business Suit with SharePoint

2010/13, C#.NET, ASP.NET, WCF, MS SQL Server & Related Technologies.

Guest Speaker SharePoint & Social Business Conference 2012, USA | Speaker at Microsoft

Sri Lanka Technology Forums | Various Educational Institutes

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1st Class honors degree holder – Information Technology, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Advanced Communicator Bronze, VP Public Relations, Former Area Secretary, Toastmasters

International / Corporate Trainer on Effective Communication and Public Speaking.

Former Microsoft Student Ambassador / Partner.

Graduated from Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa – Bachelor of

Science (Honors) in Information Technology with a First Class Standard (Average GPA – 3.82)

– 4 Years of Study – Fully Conducted in English Medium

Diplomas and Certificates

Course Status

MCTS in Configuring and Administering Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Completed

Advanced Application Design and Development (ASP.NET / C#) – A Sharp

Power Camp : 2009 / 2010 Completed

Diploma in Spoken English with Distinction (Royal Institute : 2004) Completed

Diploma in English (Aquinas : 2004) Completed

Secondary Education – Ananda College, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka

o GCE A/L : Obtained 2As and 2Bs (Including A for General English) – 1st attempt (2006)

o GCE O/L : Obtained 9As and a B – 1st attempt (2003)

Virtusa (Pvt.) Ltd. Sri Lanka

Senior Engineer – Technology (1/10/2012 – To Date)

Engineer – Technology (1/8/2011 – 30/09/2012)

Projects:

V+ (Social Networking Platform for Virtusa)

o This application is created using Microsoft SharePoint 2010/13 with C#.NET, MS SQL

Server 2008, WCF and related technologies. Was responsible for,

Understand the requirements given by the business users.

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Interactively participate in discussing, clarifying the requirements.

Design and develop the components / procedure / jobs.

Test and deploy the components.

Present it to external parties if requested.

o Personally developed various components for this application

SharePoint 2010 MySites implementation

Video Sharing Platform using MMPCM/SharePoint 2010

Raves – Peer Appreciation Platform

Badges – Performance Management in Social way

Other contributions to Virtusa

Presentation on “finding a suitable research topic” for final year / 3rd year Engineering students

at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Workshop on “Effective Communication” at National Institute of Business Management

Presentation on “Social Media for Business” at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Presentation to Virtusa Top Management on improving University Hiring

Mentor/Guide at Virtusa Toastmasters Club

Executive Committee member – Virtusa Club

Industrial and Financial Systems (IFS)

Trainee Software Engineer (01/08/2019 – 31/01/2010)

Projects:

Voice Command Recognition integration to the IFS Applications.

o Research about the approaches and technologies available.

o Design, Develop and Test the run time customizable voice library for the IFS

Applications using C#.NET, XML, Reflection, MS SAPI 5.1, IFS internal frameworks.

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o Integrate the solution to the IFS Applications.

o Document and Present the solution to technical teams in Sri Lanka and Sweden.

Aranxa (Pvt) Ltd

Consultant – Application Security (01/03/2010 – 31/05/2010)

Projects

Application Security Consultant

o Identify security threats for a pool of client applications develop by the company.

o Suggest and develop suitable solutions to mitigate the security risks.

Excelsior Research Pvt. Ltd

Founder

Projects

GK Graphite QA Tool

o A project based on automating the QA process of GK Graphite (Pvt) Ltd. operating in

Bogala Mines, Sri Lanka

o Used C#.NET, MSSQL Server 2005, Crystal Reports & Serial Port Programming

LinkLk Components

o Supervised several university projects developed for LinkLk product owned by

Ridgecrest Financials Pvt. Ltd (http://www.linkLk.com)

Have an extreme passion on technologies like Microsoft SharePoint 2010/13 and ASP.NET

based web development and mastered the skills in SharePoint 2010 Social Features.

Fluency Programming Language / IDE / Databases

SharePoint 2010, ASP.NET / C#.NET (2.0, 3.5 & 4.0), SharePoint Designer

2010, HTML, CSS, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 / 2008, Visual Studio family,

Excellent

WCF, Entity Framework, LINQ

Good XML, JavaScript, AJAX, Windows Mobile

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J2SE, J2ME, PHP, Adobe Dreamviewer, Adobe Photoshop

Have Learnt

Project Ideal Lanka

Description ICT Driven Rural Development (Focused on employment)

Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010 2nd Runners Ups (Software Design).

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Graduate Enterprise Challenge 2011 (Top 10 Projects).

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Achievements Grade A in the 3rd year semester II group project.

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ITRU Research Symposium paper published.

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Joint National Conference in IT and Agriculture – Paper Published

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Group Leader / Design and Development using ASP.NET, C#, Web Services,

Responsibility Neural Networks, etc…

Project “m Shopper”

A Comprehensive approach for mobile shopping (Level 4 Project)

Description

Achievements Graduate Enterprise Challenge 2011 (Top 3 projects).

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Design and Develop the system using ASP.NET, J2ME, Artificial Intelligent

Responsibility Algorithms / Market Segment Analysis and Requirement Gathering.

Project VirtuTADA

Description Training and Development Automation Project for Virtusa (2008 / 09)

Achievements Grade A in the 2nd year industry Project.

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Group Leader, Requirement Analysis, Design and Develop the system using

Responsibility C#.NET, Testing and Deployments

Project Eye Consultant

A Software / Hardware combined approach to provide solutions for certain

Description

diseases in the eye

Achievements Grade A+ in the 1st year Semester II Project.

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Responsibility Design and Develop the system using J2SE / Testing and Quality Assurance.

Worked in the development team of Microsoft Student Champs Web Site

Developed several mini projects including A Parser (C FIX Protocol Integration Project

(Java) and several other web sites.

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Academic

First Class Honors degree in Information Technology (Among the top 3 in the batch)

Highest GPA Holder for the batch – Level 1 Semester II in 2008.

Awarded the “Deans’ List Certificate” for outstanding Results in 5 out of 8 Semesters

Published 2 research papers as an undergraduate student.

Information Technology

2nd Runners Up, Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010.

Semi Finalist, Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009.

Top 3 Projects, Graduate Enterprise Challenge 2011 (mShopper).

Top 10 Projects, Graduate Enterprise Challenge 2011 (Ideal Lanka).

Communication

Toastmasters Competent Communicator Award: 2011.

Toastmasters Advanced Communicator – Bronze: 2012 Division 1st Runner Up, Division H,

Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest 2011.

Division 1st Runner Up, Division H, Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest 2010.

Area 1st Runners Up, Area H1, Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest 2011.

Area 1st Runners Up, Area H1, Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest 2010.

Club Level Champion, Smedley Toastmasters Club, Humorous Speech Contest 2011.

Club Level 1st Runners Up, Smedley Toastmasters Club, Humorous Speech Contest 2010.

1st Runners Up, Smedley Toastmasters Cup, Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest 2010.

2nd Runners Up, Smedley Toastmasters Cup, Toastmasters Impromptu Speech Contest 2010.

Sports

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Gold Medalist – Ananda Vs Nalanda Annual Chess Championship (Under 17 category) in 2000.

Champions – Ananda Vs Nalanda Annual Chess Championship (Under 15 category) in 2001.

Speaker – SharePoint & Social Business Conference, Hyatt Regency, Greenwich, CT, USA on

“Improving Employee Engagement with SharePoint OOTB Tools”

Conducted an 8 week Corporate Training Program on “Effective Communication & Public

Speaking” to Ridgecrest Financials Pvt. Ltd.

Coordinated a Speech Craft Program to WSO2 Inc. organized by Smedley Toastmasters Club.

Conducted a presentation on “SharePoint 2010 Social Features” at SharePoint Sri Lanka User

Group, October, 2011

Conducted the industry presentation on “Millennial Enterprise” at Microsoft Student Champs

Forum – September, 2012

Conducted a Session on “Introduction to ICT” at Sri Lanka Foundation Institute (SLFI)

Conducted Sessions on “Introduction to Programming”, “Web Development with ASP.NET” &

“Advanced C#” at University of Wayamba organized by Microsoft in 2009.

Conducted a session on “Design Patterns” at Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka by

Microsoft in 2010.

Did 3 presentations at Microsoft Student Champs on “SharePoint 2010”, “Design Patterns” and

“Agile Software Development” in 2009 / 2010.

“Project Ideal Lanka”: Published in the Information Technology Research Unit (ITRU)

Symposium 2010.

“A Comprehensive Approach for Developing Rural Agriculture” Published in the Joint National

Conference in Information Technology in Agriculture 2011

“Agile Software Development Methodologies”: Independent Study (Level 3 Semester I

Compulsory Course Module).

None related referees can be provided upon request to prove my Information Technology,

Communication and Academic skills

I hereby certify that the above information is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.

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