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Hello, I'm Nilanka Seelawardana

Project Manager
and Digital Strategist

About Me

Working in a fast-growing Silicon Valley based full-service digital agency with world-class capabilities in strategic consulting, web design, mobile app development, eCommerce, and digital marketing services that deliver transformational work for clients

Utilize my knowledge and skills to lead technical staff and manage projects. Good knowledge of project management software and CMS software programs. Experienced in managing teams, training programs, handling interviews and administrative roles. Past technical knowledge is a huge advantage to work directly with the development team and understand the project very well to ensure projects run smoothly.

Capabilities

My passion and goal is to help you make your business standout.

Project Managment

  • Agile Scrum
  • Protfolio Managment
  • JIRA

Process Improvment

  • Dashbaords
  • Optimized workflows
  • Process Automation

Strategy

  • User Personas
  • Customer Journeys
  • Market Research

User Experience

  • User Research
  • Wireframing & Prototyping
  • Information Architecture

Design

  • Branding
  • Creative Direction
  • Interactive Experiences

Web Development

  • CMS
  • CRM Integration
  • Quality Control

Clients

I have worked with

Work & Education

January 2019 - Present

EIGHT25MEDIA

Senior Project Manager & Product Owner

Building in-house RnD products, playing the product owner role in the RnD section products,Set and maintain team KPIs and Monitor Team Performance. Introduce and apply new processes to improve the entire production line. Create new workflows.

January 2016 - December 2018

EIGHT25MEDIA

Project Manager & Scrum Master

Responsible for the projects from the beginning to delivery. Apart from that, manage a separate product team where we build and maintain the platform for all web applications. Key Areas Project planning and resource management Conducting Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum meetings, Retrospectives, Sprint Reviews.

October 2011 - December 2015

Calcey Technologies

SE / Senior Software Engineer

Worked in many projects including C#, SSIS, PHP, Ionic and angular. Was the lead of a HTML5 team where we built hybrid mobile apps using NodeJs and Inonic for tabs and mobiles for the clients in the USA. Team also carry out development for Core Product of the iPad CMS and do the necessary improvements for the Core.

October 2010 - October 2011

Virtusa / Monara

Apprentice / Associate Software Engineer

Involved in different areas of the projects such as Analyze, Design, Coding and Testing.Worked on an online poker website development and testing project.

February 2021

Scrum Alliance

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

CSM-image Facilitate better dialogue between the Product Owner, Scrum Team members, customers, stakeholders, and executives. Increase engagement andScale Scrum and Agile beyond a single team

September 2019 - September 2021

University of the West of England

Master of Business Administration MBA
  • Customer and International Markets
  • Managing People in a Global Context
  • Financial Decision Making
  • Systems, Structures and Operations
  • Leadership, Complexity and Change
  • Digital Business Information Systems

March 2021

ICAgile certified coach

ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching

CSM-image (ICP-ACC) facilitation, professional coaching, mentoring, and teaching in service of Agile teams

February 2021

Scrum Alliance

Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner®

CSM-image maximizing business value and Product Backlog optimization to understand how to do the best possible job to satisfy key stakeholders

July 2007 - October 2009

Staffordshire University

BSc (Hons) Degree in Computing (Second Class Upper Honours)

Covered modules such as Research & Planning, Analysis & Design, Implementation & Testing, Web Programming, Mathematics and Algorithmic, Human-Computer Interaction and Usability, Enterprise Web Applications, Project Management Final Year Project (First class) - “An Artificial Intelligence Chess Application”

March 2016

Scrum Alliance

Certified ScrumMaster®

CSM-image Exam Subject Areas- CSM General Knowledge, CSM Scrum Roles, CSM Scrum Meetings & CSM Scrum Artifacts.Exam score - 35 points (or 100.0%) out of 35 maximum points

January 2020

Scrum Alliance

Certified Scrum Product Owner®

CSM-image Create the product vision, order the Product Backlog, and make sure the best possible job is done to delight the customer.

Get In Touch

hi@nilanka.net

I'm happy to connect, listen and help. Let's work together and build something awesome. Email Me.

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