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LedgerEdge- Served as the lead business analyst on the vendor side for the LedgerEdge Corporate Bond trading platform, leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT) to optimize trading processes and enhance market liquidity.- Collaborated closely with stakeholders to craft comprehensive user stories, ensuring the integration of core fixed income trading functionalities for both European and North American markets, such as Request for Quotes (RFQs).- Collaborated with other Order Management System (OMS) vendors to integrate their platforms with LedgerEdge, ensuring seamless connectivity between brokerages and the trading platform. This strategic collaboration facilitated FIX integrations with platforms such as Charles River IMS and ThinkFolio OMS, paving the way for increased client onboarding.- Collaborated with pricing data providers to furnish necessary pricing data for trading and trade enrichment. Facilitated regulatory reporting through TradeWeb.

Experience gained: - Worked as the Product Owner for Sysco Supplier Suite, a platform for vendors to interact with Sysco business. Worked on the following applications embedded in the platform:o Costing – An application that allows vendors to submit future prices for items. The application was integrated with an AS 400 based legacy backend, which holds master data. o User Management – An application used for authenticating and authorizing users based on active directory and external IDP. - Worked as the Product Owner for Sysco Delivery Web application, allowing customers to track their deliveries placed with Sysco in real time, with truck locations and item/order details. - Worked on a COVID 19 based web solution to allow warehouses to sell products directly to end consumers using an off-the-shelf ecommerce platform. The solution went live within 2 weeks from initiation. - Worked on a cloud-based Driver Pay calculation solution, generating pay reports for drivers based on driver performance, taking into account over 50 parameters coming from multiple external sources, and then pushing them downstream upon approval. Key roles and responsibilities:• Working with multiple stakeholders to elicit requirements• Maintaining a prioritized backlog of stories with acceptance criteria defined• Leading cross-functional teams comprising of internal employees and external contractors • Overseeing technical designs and test plans with development and quality assurance leads during product development• Creating/reviewing entity-relationship diagrams, flow/sequence diagrams, wireframes created using Balsamiq or InVision.• Working with UI/UX teams to perfect user experience and user interface designs• Conducting User Acceptane Testing (UAT) sessions with business, while meeting project milestones• Providing L3 support for issues on products• Developing user guides and carrying out user training sessions

Experience gained:- Served as the primary Business Analyst for BT Studio on multiple projects. - Worked on conceptualizing a centralized authentication and authorization platform which could be used by multiple teams.- Worked as a BA and Scrum Master for the Data in Motion (DIM) platform team, and worked on enhancing the following products: API Central 2.0: A centralized API management platform which could be used across Sysco for API Management. DIM Connect: A self-serving platform, governing DIM products with value additions SPEED Platform: Event streaming platform based on Kinesis streams Centralized ESB Platform: Worked on a centralized ESB Platform which could replace a legacy ESB Platform in use. - Worked on the Sysco Canada project, implementing a Supplier Suite which could be used by vendors to interact with Sysco. - Gained exposure to different AWS technologies such as S3, ECS, EC2, Kinesis, Connect and CloudWatch. Key roles and responsibilities:- Understanding business requirements and finalizing application requirements to be built. - Identifying and finalizing Minimum Viable Product (MVP) scopes for projects.- Working with external vendors to select the most suitable products to be incorporated into the DIM Platform.- Liaising with external teams and raising and handling dependencies.- Mentoring and grooming team members to enhance their overall performance and promote career development.- Working with external vendors to select the most suitable products to be incorporated into the DIM Platform.- Following Agile principles and meeting internal agile performance benchmarks. - Facilitating Scrum Ceremonies – Daily Standup, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming sessions.

Experience gained:- Worked as the functional product manager of the Platform layer which caters to multiple products built at MillenniumIT such as Millennium Exchange and Millennium Surveillance. - Managing expectations of different internal product teams- Building common components at the Platform layer, generalized to cater to the requirements of multiple productso Yaan Framework: A UI framework to be used in UIs across MillennniumIT productso Reference Data Manager: An application to store and manage master data across multiple products with automated synching mechanisms and upload/download features. o Authentication Server: A fully-fledged Authentication Server, supporting enhanced features such as multi-factor authentication and usage dashboards- Providing input for RFPs- Use of agile methodologies.: Use of sprints, epics and user stories, story estimation and grooming, ceremonies (sprint planning and retrospective)- Behavior Driven Development (BDD): Use of BDD for story formulation with acceptance criteriaKey roles and responsibilities:- Acting as the functional product manager at the Platform layer, approving and managing new functional requirements to be built by the team- Responsible for managing the Platform roadmap and to assist in the managing of Developer(Dev) and Quality Assurance(QA) teams to meet committed deadlines- Carrying out demonstrations to both internal and external parties on new features built at the Platform layer- Negotiating with different teams on changes to existing features- Maintaining, grooming and prioritizing product backlog and carrying out other product management tasks including creating roadmaps and vision for products.

Experience gained:- Worked as a Business Analyst in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) project- Hands on experience in implementing business solutions with high stakeholder expectations- Analyzing business requirements from London Stock Exchange Group trading venues including: o London Stock Exchange o Borsa Italiana o Turquoise MTF o Oslo Bors Stock Exchange- Exposure to entire Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC)- Exposure to tools such as JIRA and Confluence for requirement and defect tracking, Mindjet for mind mapping, and Knowledge Tree for document versioning.Key roles and responsibilities:- Liaising with client business teams to gather, analyze and finalize requirements; serving as a bridge between the clients and the internal development teams to come up with feasible solutions- Documenting functional requirements to an extend understandable by business clients while covering implementation details required by internal development and quality assurance teams- Carrying out in-depth analysis with internal development teams to assist in optimal design for implementation- Review of QA test scenarios and mind maps to ensure that the implementation is properly tested and properly understood by the internal teams while covering the entire scope- Coordinating with Project Management (PM) teams to gather effort for new requirements by helping internal teams understand the core requirements and implementation concerns at early stages

- Exposed to different segments associated with the telecommunication industry of Sri Lanka.- Gained hands on experience on technical exercises associated with the telecommunication network.- Directly involved in activities related to GSM radio network planning and optimization process.

University Of Moratuwa

Took part in a 7 week start up accelerator program conducted by MIT, USA. Served and led GlassCUBE, as the CEO to the successful completion of an Android based application. - Won the people's choice award for the best idea.- Won the University of Moratuwa faculty award for the most promising start up. Accelerating Information Technology Innovation (AITI) is an MIT program with the goal of enabling mobile technology innovation in developing markets. Sponsored by Google, AITI organizes summer startup accelerator programs at leading universities in developing countries. Led by MIT instructors, the program enables aspiring young entrepreneurs launch their own technology startup ventures with the 6-8-week timeframe.

Bachelor Of The Science Of (Bsc) Engineering, Electronic And Telecommunication Engineering

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