Hasintha Thilakarathne
Cairo
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
ICT Solutions Specialist
FAO
Cairo
11.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- Design and develop complex, custom Power Apps solutions leveraging advanced features such as custom connectors, canvas apps, model-driven apps, and AI Builder
- Integrate Power Apps with external data sources, APIs, and services using Data verse, REST APIs, or custom connectors
- Create sophisticated Power BI reports and dashboards, utilizing DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) and M (Power Query Formula Language), Power Query, and custom visualizations to deliver actionable insights
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- Designed and developed Power platform based iRecruitment Application for the Human Resource Unit of FAO RNE
- Designed and developed Power platform based iProcurement(Under development) Application for the Procurement Unit of FAO RNE
Software Development Project Manager
United Nations
02.2020 - 11.2023
- Company Overview: United Nations (MINUSMA/DPKO)
- Participates in the development of major IT systems’ projects within the mission, creates time plans, monitoring the progress of the development, deployment, and commissioning of various intranet systems
- Assists the BSU development team with the development of strategies and design application architecture, to implement mission wide information management systems projects
- Documenting every aspect of an application or detailed systems and other functional requirement specifications documents
- Writing the project proposal, project cost estimation, scheduling, software process tailoring, project monitoring and control, software configuration management
- Participates in risk management, managerial report writing and presentation and interfacing with clients/stakeholders within the mission
- Give adequate support to the development of technical specifications for the procurement of equipment and contractual services and coordinates the technical evaluation of proposed technical specifications
- Conduct user training sessions to focal points of other sections and overseeing the activities of the members of the development team
- Developing good working relationships within team members and other sections focal points and stakeholders to achieve organizational tasks successfully
- Migrate on-premises BSU Web servers and DB servers to Azure App service, Configure IIS and web deployment, SSL configuration on Production Sever
- United Nations (MINUSMA/DPKO)
- Designed and developed Change request Management system to automate Change initiation process, change approving process using PowerApps and SharePoint online
- Use power automate to sending notification emails Stakeholders, change approvers
- Design and developed pharmaceutical application to manage drug stock inventory and issue drugs from the Level 1 UN hospital
- Application was developed using PowerApps and SharePoint online
- Designed and developed Project Information management system to record project details and developed Power BI Dashboard to track and visualize the progress and geospatial locations of various project in Mali
- Created Dev
- Server, Configured IIS, Web hosting, Tortoise SVN configuration, Visual SVN server Configuration
Business Systems Developer
United Nations
01.2015 - 01.2020
- Company Overview: United Nations (MONUSCO/DPKO)
- Give a hand in the creation of system design, Architecture design and functional specification for development of new software projects in the mission
- Involving in software configurations management, web application hosting, deploying applications on the web server
- Software code repository management (Versioning Control of source code)
- Write Software code that can improve efficiency of business processes in existing web applications in the mission
- Enhancing Intranet applications by identifying opportunities for improvement, making recommendations, and designing and implementing required systems changes
- Liaises with other Units within the Service and other logistics support elements of the Mission to maintain optimal 24/7 operations for the network and server systems operations
- United Nations (MONUSCO/DPKO)
- Designed and developed UNV Leave/Attendance module, Implemented R&R calculation algorithms based on R&R duty station and R&R cycle of UNV Leave/Attendance and contract management system for UNV office
- Analyzed, Designed, Implemented, and Deployed of Electronic Drafting and Approving Project (Incoming and outgoing Code cables for the office of SRSG)
- Developed MONUSCO Security Operation Application
- Built algorithm for Transforming Tetra Radio coordinates into Latitude and Longitude, Integrating Google Map API in to .net Application and populating MONUSCO Staff geographical locations on the Map (based on transformed coordinates into Lat
- & Long)
- Web server and DB Server migrated from windows server 2000 into Windows 2012 R2 (from on premises servers in to UNGSC cloud-based web servers)
- Migrated all Internal applications in the mission (MONUSCO), Configured IIS, Setup Database Server, Configured and installed SSL certificates, Configured SVN server and restored version history on new SVN server
- Implemented Active Directory (LDAP) user login authentication for all internal applications in the mission
Senior Software Engineer
Private Sector
11.2010 - 12.2014
- Company Overview: (Wakensys Pvt
- Ltd, EFutures Pvt
- Ltd, Eves Pvt
- Ltd, Enabler Pvt
- Ltd)
- Give a hand in the creation of system design, Architecture design and functional specification for development of new web-based projects
- Write Software code that can improve efficiency of business processes in existing web applications
- Implementing test project and writing test methods to test business logic
- Supports the development of technical specifications for the procurement of equipment and contractual services and coordinates the technical evaluation of offers and proposals received
- Research, analyses, and evaluates new technologies and makes recommendations for the development team
- Determine process improvements, best practices, and develop new processes
- Work in close partnership with cross-functional teams and management
- Serve as a technical lead contributing to and directing the efforts of development teams, including internal and external team members
- (Wakensys Pvt
- Ltd, EFutures Pvt
- Ltd, Eves Pvt
- Ltd, Enabler Pvt
- Ltd)
- Developed of Budget Management System, Integrated data access layer using NHibernate, Analyzed, designed, and developed detailed technical specifications of Tariff calculations and translates them into business methods and algorithms, built unit testing methods for relevant business domain methods
- Analyzed, designed, and developed detailed technical specifications of admin portal of Online music store, Payment gateway and charging gateway integration in online payment module
- Developed of Online reservation portal, Implemented payment handling module
- Analyzed and developed Axis mobile solution
- Implemented pickup and delivery module
- Developed of European car repatriation web portal
- Implemented web service layer and Data access layer
- Involved development of online self-storage facility
Software Engineer
Private Sector
09.2007 - 11.2010
- Company Overview: (Ekabiz Pvt
- Ltd, Four Corners Lanka Pvt
- Ltd)
- Developed software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, and following the software development lifecycle
- Improved operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures
- Liaised with colleagues to implement technical designs
- Maintained and improved existing codebases and peer review code changes
- (Ekabiz Pvt
- Ltd, Four Corners Lanka Pvt
- Ltd)
- Developed of Online Visa eligibility assessment and consulting services web application
- Analyzed designed and implemented visa eligibility assessment process, Implemented UI
- Analyzed and designed internal time attendance and task management application
Timeline
ICT Solutions Specialist
FAO
11.2023 - Current
Software Development Project Manager
United Nations
02.2020 - 11.2023
Business Systems Developer
United Nations
01.2015 - 01.2020
Senior Software Engineer
Private Sector
11.2010 - 12.2014
Software Engineer
Private Sector
09.2007 - 11.2010
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