Devmei Senarath Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Roles and Responsibilities:•Experienced in spearheading diverse projects, adept at leading workstreams and thriving in independent and team environments. •Liaise with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to find the best approach to improving the prototype build data at Ford, focusing on nine key areas. Collate information and data to present to senior clients. •Demonstrate proactive approach by prioritising achievable actions amidst project delays, ensuring continued progress and timely delivery. Ensure relevant stakeholders remained informed and engage throughout the process. •Quickly adapted and adopted Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to release data for Formula 1 2023 Season Williams cars. During peak periods, process over 100 change requests per day.• Provide mentorship and management of new starters, providing guidance and developmental actions whilst holding them accountable. • Global EDI Co-Lead and a cultural lead in Australian and UK Business Units, implementing educational posts, discussion forums, training and strategies to improve the business EDI targets and ensure inclusivity is met across all levels of the business. •Supporting C-suite meetings with confidential data on Finance, HR and Business Strategies.• Foster collaboration across multiple teams, adept at leveraging available resources to grasp project content and direction, ultimately formulating strategic plans autonomously. • Achieved 100% BoM quality for prototype car build data within 3 weeks. Overall improvement of prototype car build data resulted in a save of 1 million USD to Ford.• Ensured proposed designs met changing FIA (Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile) F1 standards and liaised with Engineers and SMEs to ensure this.• 100% of mentees passing probation.• Establishing continuous improvement methods and leading knowledge capture to quickly onboard new team members.

Melbourne, Australia

•Leveraging existing resources and expertise to catalyse transformation across diverse workstreams, including harnessing established metrics for reporting, analysis and driving meaningful impact. •Creating and establishing trackers to provide regular metrics to all levels, aligning the data according to seniority and user requirements.•Leading and running stakeholder meetings, across four time-zones, and cultural and language diversities; driving change and create urgency that is understood by all.•Tailoring software (in-house and OFT) training sessions to suit the trainees based on the technological ability, language diversity and role.•Diligently managed daily report updates facilitated team updates, proactively investigated and scoped bottlenecks, provided clear directives for swift issue resolution, upheld accountability standards and escalated matters as necessary to ensure timely project delivery. •Delivered presentations to senior management, effectively identifying bottlenecks and risks, and skillfully addressing pushback questions to ensure comprehensive understanding and alignment on critical project aspects. •Daily reporting of release progress, exporting metrics and visually presenting data to drive impact.•Document processes in layman terms for new starters.•Established a roadmap to highlight status of commodities, roadblocks, support required and target dates. This was adopted on other projects and utilised in external forums to report program status, both internally and by client.•Managed an off-track engineering team to align to program timing and deliver effectively to target date, through relationship building, driving escalation forums, resolution management and stakeholder engagement. Resulted in a 25% increase in output within a month; cementing client’s trust and ensuring the continuation of the project.•Recognised formally by client for delivering quality analysis of BoM data within 2 weeks to meet a project critical gateway.

• Creating and delivering educational sessions at QR on topics relating to ED&I - microaggressions, privilege, disability awareness, sexual orientation diversity, bystander intervention, allyship.•Provide recommendations and frameworks to senior managers and C-suite team on improving company strategy on ED&I.• Celebrate QR's cultural diversities through engaging Slack posts and cultural presentations•Creating engagement within the delivery team to create content and run ED&I related social events

Melbourne, Australia

- Conducted in-depth data integrity analysis using MS Excel of Defence’s Smalls Arms inventory, drawing data from multiple databases such as MILIS, AIMS and IMAT.- Ensured the cataloguing of items met Defence standards and requirements. Consistent liaising with clients during the procurement of stock with the Defence supply chain network.- Independently learnt SQL

Melbourne, Australia

- Provide software administrative support for internal and external clients. Primarily link between technical and non-technical clients. Liaise with developers and internal and external clients through the use of phone, email or in person.- Utilise data to resolve business and software issues in the most effective and productive manner. Identify and implement best practices and suggests how to improve current practices.- Involved in product development workshops and provide software training for end users in person and through developed manuals. - Proactively identify opportunities for software improvements through Confluence. Manage support tickets on the project management software Zendesk. - Creation of Geographical Information System (GIS) maps for internal clients. Outstanding interpersonal and communication strengths leveraged to train users, troubleshoot issues and ensure total client satisfaction.- Professionally contribute to an agile environment and product development and training processes. Utilise JIRA as part of task, sprint and bug tracking and planning.- Recognised for accountability during a period of insufficient resources in February 2018. Trained Office First Aider.

Melbourne, Australia

A voluntary position within the WISE 2018 committee at the University of Melbourne, I am responsible for gaining partnerships with industry members which include the gaining of sponsorship. This would allow WISE to continue empowering female students and those who identify as female to continue a career pathway in STEM.

Brisbane, Australia

- Team Integration Logistic Support (ILS) focal; performed testing and successfully delivered project reports on the integration and verification of software and hardware.- Documentation of Verification & Validation (V&V) and User Acceptance Activities. Ensured V&V activities reflected user requirements and sought internal and external clarification when required. - Creation of test environments using TestRail and briefly Sikuli as part of V&V and automation testing. - Created, updated and managed user stories using JIRA. - Designed software and network systems using Enterprise Architect. Completed Logistic Support Analysis (LSA) on hardware using Omega PS.- Served as technical publication reviewer and developer, including product development and management of the technical publications.- Performed requirements analysis using DOORS. Co-operated and gathered information through team engagement and communications.- Professionally contributed to an agile environment and software development processes. Utilised JIRA as part of task, sprint and bug tracking and planning.- STEM Ambassador for Boeing Defence Australia and volunteer for student engagement activities.

Canberra

• Caring for persons of various disabilities including personal care- physically and intellectually of all ages • Developing interpersonal, social, reading and writing skills for persons with a disability• Planning outings for clients and respite care

Cambodia

- Applying engineering skills in a humanitarian context in a developing community-Community engagement-Cross cultural engagement with the local communities-Providing engineering solutions in a cross cultural context

Melbourne, Australia

• Analysing and creating standards using X-ray diffraction for various clients• Creating a Claisse (Flux Ratio) Calculator for sample preparation• Material Analysis using X-ray diffraction• Administrative Tasks

Canberra, Australia

-Assist incoming students, international and domestic, with enrolment process during enrolment periods.-Provide students guidance and advice on enquiries.-Facilitate communication between key stakeholders.-Work in a highly international environment.

Master Of International Business, International Business

Activities and Societies: - Studies focused on the areas of business analysis, management and finance in an international context..

Bachelor Of Engineering (Honours)/ B Science, Systems Engineering, Renewable Energy Systems, Natural Resource Management

Activities and Societies: - College of Engineering and Computer Science -EKTA, South East Asian Society

Summer Course: Renewable Energy: Policy And Development, Environmental Policy

Activities and Societies: -Visited multiple industries including Julich Research Centre, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).