Kenneth Yohan Gunasekara Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

Key Responsibilities• Global product line manager for the cyber security portfolio (SASE, IDS, IPS, URL filtering), Nokia SD-WAN customer portal, SD-WAN proxy solution and public cloud integrations.• Research, collect, and assess all the feature requirements from all the service provider customers across different regions (NAM, EMEA, APAC) and arrange the priorities for the feature deliveries.• Asses the product security vulnerabilities based on Nokia DFSEC threat scanning & quality control standards.• Produce product requirement documents and feature designs for all the roadmap features of individual product lines.• Working with technology partners (AWS, Azure, Zscaler, Checkpoint, Equinix… etc.) for feature integration and qualifications.• Working with global sales engineering/account leads to design solutions for the service provider partners.• Working directly with 35+ software engineering member task forces to design and develop the features for the assigned product lines. Working directly with 180+ software engineering task forces and 15+ global product managers for cross-functional activities.

Singapore

Key Responsibilities• Product management – APAC regional product owner for the Nokia SD-WAN portfolio, customer feature prioritisation, led the competitive analysis program, product requirement documentation (PRD) preparation for the Nokia global product team, conducted roadmap roadshows, new feature presentation to the customers, Led APAC software engineering team to design and develop custom applications for specific use cases.• Solution architecting – analyse and evaluate complex hybrid cloud systems and set software-defined architecture specifications, develop high-level overlay network design diagrams for multi-cloud integrated platform systems, integrate different components of products and elements for SDN in the data Centre and SD-WAN to provide a solution for the customer, driven the SDN/SDWAN pilot projects and POC/POV.• Tendering – Support the sales teams to develop customer proposals to deploy products and solutions. Respond to specific customers' requirements in RFI/RFP and provide Scope of Work and Bill of Materials.• Cross-functional - Guided professional services team to prepare the scope of work documents by providing diagnosis details, modifications, and improvements of the customer network, worked with sales and account business development teams for the qualifications of the opportunities.

Singapore

Key Responsibilities• Worked as an APAC regional presales consultant at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.• Architect cloud networking solutions, conduct HP distributed cloud networking proof of concepts and build and set up network virtualisation test labs.• Profoundly contributed to the design of complex SDN cloud solutions with Helion OpenStack, Multi hypervisors, and third-party network orchestrators. • Architect and setup SDN and network management-related labs in HP Singapore Customer Experience Centre • Contributed as a lead solution architect from the HP distributed cloud networking perspective to implement the first proof of concept with HPE Helion Carrier Grade 2.0, HP DCN 3.2R4 integrated solution, and Anuta Networks NCX controller in APAC.

Maldives

Key Responsibilities• Held the responsible for the entire IT operation of the hotel chain, including four luxury resorts spanned across four atolls in the Maldives. I was the corporate manager of the IT team deployed in the Maldives. • Provided critical IT support for the organisation’s hospitality operation to run the 24x7 guest service operations, including wired & wireless network access and Micros Fidelio Property Management System services.• Architect and design the underlay network and system roadmap.• Plan and execute the network and IT systems implementation projects.

Sri Lanka

Key Responsibilities• Handled the 24X7 operations & management of the service provider’s widely spanned Ethernet backhaul transport layer2 Cisco switch network. • Provided support for all the IP Core functions & services. • Provided 2nd level support for the enterprise customer MPLS-VPN/Layer2/IP-Core services and 24X7 on-call support for the entire IP-Core network infrastructure.• Handled the operations & management of the company’s internal service LAN and metro Ethernet network.

Bachelor’S Degree, Information Technology, Upper Second Class

Certified Ethical Hacker (Ceh) V12, Cyber Security

Following - Pending Certification

Education record

Nokia Nuage Networks PLM & RND Summit - 2023 Jan Bangalore, India Nokia Nuage Networks Sales Kick Off - 2018 Mountain View, California.