Shanaka Fernando
Project Manager
Canberra
Summary
Self-directed and driven project management professional with comprehensive accomplishments in aerospace, space, and military force transducers and systems with more than eleven years of experience. Responsible for defining and designing the electronics, mechanical system integration and verifying that the system meets the requirements set out by internal and external customers and working with other teams to ensure product delivery to time, quality, and cost targets.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Aerospace Customer Support Manager
HITEC Sensors
Kadawatha
09.2019 - Current
- Provided aerospace program management support to major aerospace customers.
- Established excellent relationships build up with Aerospace customers such as BAE Systems, Safran Electronics and Defense, Collins Aerospace, Meggitt Aerospace, General Atomics, etc.
- Performed project feasibility studies at reception of RFP. Requirement and specification analysis.
- Negotiated project plans and scopes with customers. Prepared financial budgets as per project scopes.
- Timely achieved stakeholder critical milestones such as PDR, CDR, TRR, PRR, etc.
- Successfully implemented product qualification programs.
- Conducted failure investigations and root cause analysis.
- Created and supported customers with new aerospace products and solutions.
- Involved with design review processes of aerospace, space, and defence products as per customer requirements.
- Attended customer audits and third-party organisation audits as per AS9100 Rev D.
- Thorough knowledge of regulations such as EASA/ITAR/FAR/DFAR during project and product handling.
- Long-term contract negotiations with customers.
Electronics Engineer / Senior Electronics Engineer
HITEC Sensors
Kadawatha
09.2011 - 09.2019
- Practiced project management concepts for aerospace and defence force sensor products.
- Managed product changes and configuration control of products.
- Successfully handled technical and management issues of projects/products.
- Successfully designed electronic circuits and reviewed for aerospace products as per DO-254.
- Successfully completed design integration and aerospace project requirement analysis.
- Completed project risk analysis using MTBF, FMECA calculation.
- Established aerospace Product Life Cycle from inception to disposition.
- Involved with FAIR compiling and reviewing as per AS9102 guidelines.
- Successfully completed customer audits and third-party organisation audits as per AS9100 Rev D.
- Designed multi-layer layouts using Altium Designer.
- Created automated test system development for Aerospace Standard.
- Prepared documentations related to Design justification and design analysis.
- Prepared documentation for product manufacturing
Electronics Engineer
Pioneers Technical Systems Co. Ltd.
Jeddah
08.2009 - 07.2011
- Successfully designed wireless communication system from brainstorming to the end product.
- Designed electronic circuits and systems with/without micro-controllers.
- Implemented project management concepts.
- Experienced in National Instruments testing and automation field.
Education
MBA -
University of Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire, UK 01.2021 - 11.2021
Post Graduate Diploma - Manufacturing Management
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Colombo, Sri Lanka 07.2014 - 07.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering
National Institute of Technology
Silchar, India 06.2005 - 05.2009
Skills
AS9100 QMS
DO-254/DO-160G/ MIL-STD-810G
Data Analysis
Multitasking Abilities
Problem-Solving
Product Design and Development
System Integration and Verification
Analog and Digital Electronic Designs
Altium Designer
Matlab/Simulink
Labview
Solidworks EPDM Configuration Management
Report writing
MS Project
Certification
Registered in National Engineering Register (Engineers Australia) in Information Telecommunication and Electronics Engineering ( (Membership No: 6313690)
Key Projects
- Designing and producing Force Transducers for Flight Control System in Civil Aviation while revolutionising the pilot control system technology. Involving on the introduction of Active Control Stick with BAE Systems which is now flying with Gulfstream G500/600/700 and Embraer KC-390.
- Designing and producing Force Transducers for Active Parallel Actuator System for CH-47G when introducing Fly-by-Wire during a retrofit program with BAE Systems.
- Designing and producing Brake Force Transducers for Dream Chaser space cargo vehicle currently under development by Sierra Nevada Corporation for NASA.
Research Experience
- Changes Proposing to Agile Project Management Practices with the Impact of COVID-19 in the areas of Project Deliverables and Stakeholder Communications’ – MBA Dissertation (2021).
- Production Line Capacity Optimisation for an Aerospace Transducer Production Line’ – Post Graduate Dissertation (2015).
- Complexity reduced multi-tier perceptual-based partial encryption for secure speech communication’ - TENCON 2009 - 2009 IEEE Region 10 Conference (2009).
References
- Provide upon request.
Timeline
Registered in National Engineering Register (Engineers Australia) in Information Telecommunication and Electronics Engineering ( (Membership No: 6313690)
07-2021
Member of Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET)
05-2021
MBA -
University of Gloucestershire
01.2021 - 11.2021
Aerospace Customer Support Manager
HITEC Sensors
09.2019 - Current
Member - Engineers Australia (Membership No: 6313690)
03-2019
IPC/WHMA-A-620 Certified IPC Specialist (CIS) (Expired)
09-2016
Certified Internal Auditor for AS9100 Rev D
07-2016
Post Graduate Diploma - Manufacturing Management
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
07.2014 - 07.2015
Electronics Engineer / Senior Electronics Engineer
HITEC Sensors
09.2011 - 09.2019
Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) (Expired)
07-2010
Electronics Engineer
Pioneers Technical Systems Co. Ltd.
08.2009 - 07.2011
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering
National Institute of Technology
06.2005 - 05.2009