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Rasika Samarakoon

Rasika Samarakoon

Program Manager
Colombo,11

Summary

20 Years of strategic level experience in Program, Project and Change Management to deliver solutions in Digital Transformations, Integrations and Process Improvements. Experienced as a Certified SAFe Agilist, Scrum Master, PMP Project Manager, SAP FICO Consultant and Microsoft Dynamics NAV Financial Consultant.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Program Manager

Diesel & Motor Engineering PLC
12.2021 - Current

Managed UAT and Cutover for SAP S/4HANA implementation for DIMO Group. Scope for project phase 1 includes 7 company codes across 13 business segments for all S/4HANA core modules (FI,CO,MM,SD,PP,QM,PS,PM) and one industry specific module, VSS. Project involved 500 end users, around 20 Business Process Owners and 40+ SAP consultants.

Senior Manager-Shared Solutions-Digital Government

Information And Communication Technology Agency Of Sri Lanka
09.2020 - 11.2021

Senior Manager to lead shared IT solutions implementations and roll-outs across Government Organizations in Sri Lanka.

Managed National level large scale for implementation of Email and Video Conferencing solution for 500,000 Government Servants across 1,000 Organizations in Sri Lanka under funding of World Bank.

Senior IT Project Manager

Brandix
06.2019 - 08.2020

Delivery Lead and PMO Lead for Brandix Enterprise Applications Group Delivery. Responsible for implementation of Project Management best practices and frameworks in Brandix Enterprise Application projects.

Project and Change Manager

Camso UK
04.2018 - 05.2019

Change Management Lead for Camso UK SAP S/4HANA and Salesforce implementation. This is SAP migration project from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. Salesforce was tightly integrated with SAP S/4HANA. Relocated to UK for one year for this project and worked along with Accenture as implementation partner.

IT Senior Project Manager

Camso Sri Lanka
09.2017 - 04.2018

Project Manager and Change Manager in EMEA region for SAP and Saleforce implementation project. Traveled and worked with teams in Germany, France and Luxemburg. Accenture was implementation partner. Worked with 50+ Camso and Accenture consultants.

SAP Project Manager

GSK
02.2016 - 08.2017

Stream lead for SAP implementation and integration project

SAP Project Manager

Attune
11.2014 - 02.2016

SAP Project Manager to support and maintenance for MAS Group in Sri Lanka Apparel industry

IT Business Partner

Uniliever
10.2007 - 10.2014

IT Business Partner for Finance and Supply Chain. Systems involved were SAP, COGNOS and MFG/PRO.

SAP Consultant

PwC
03.2005 - 10.2007

SAP FICO certified consultant

SAP Consultant

John Keells Holdings
01.2004 - 03.2005

SAP Core team member and junior consultant

Education

SAFe® 4 Certified Agilist

Scaled Agile, Inc.
12.2017

PRINCE2

AXELOS Global Best Practice
09.2016

PMP Certification

PMI
09.2010

FICO Certification

SAP
12.2006

Bachelor of Science - Industrial Management

University of Kelaniya
Colombo, Sri Lanka
04.2001 -

Skills

    Project Management

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Timeline

Program Manager

Diesel & Motor Engineering PLC
12.2021 - Current

Senior Manager-Shared Solutions-Digital Government

Information And Communication Technology Agency Of Sri Lanka
09.2020 - 11.2021

Senior IT Project Manager

Brandix
06.2019 - 08.2020

Project and Change Manager

Camso UK
04.2018 - 05.2019

IT Senior Project Manager

Camso Sri Lanka
09.2017 - 04.2018

SAP Project Manager

GSK
02.2016 - 08.2017

SAP Project Manager

Attune
11.2014 - 02.2016

IT Business Partner

Uniliever
10.2007 - 10.2014

SAP Consultant

PwC
03.2005 - 10.2007

SAP Consultant

John Keells Holdings
01.2004 - 03.2005

Bachelor of Science - Industrial Management

University of Kelaniya
04.2001 -

SAFe® 4 Certified Agilist

Scaled Agile, Inc.

PRINCE2

AXELOS Global Best Practice

PMP Certification

PMI

FICO Certification

SAP
Rasika SamarakoonProgram Manager