BCS Sri Lanka Section Committee

Professor Gihan Wikramanayke has over 25 years of IT experience in diverse areas of the industry from systems design and development to ICT education. He is currently working as the director of the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC). He is also serving his third term as the Chairman of BCS The Chartered Institute for IT, Sri Lanka Section and has been with BCS executive committee since 2003. In 2011 he was appointed for the Council of BCS UK.

He was the deputy director and head of department of the UCSC and has played the role of the Academic Coordinator of the flagship Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) degree programme and the first Computer Science Special degree Programme at University of Colombo. Professor Gihan was a visiting researcher at Umea and Stockholm University, Sweden and at University of New Mexico, USA. As an academic he has published many important articles and book chapters on ICT. He has been a frontline speaker at many National and international conferences. He has held positions in other associations such as CSSL and IEEE. Professor Gihan is also a board of director of the Sri Lanka Software Testing Board and Theekshana a UCSC Company. He has been the team leader of many national Olympiad teams and is associated with the National / International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), National / International School's Software Competition, National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA), Young Computer Scientist (YCS) and Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA).

Prof. Gihan holds a PhD and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Wales, United Kingdom. He acquired his BSc in Statistics and Mathematics from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Mr. Ruwan Amarasekara has been a Chartered member of BCS and obtained his MBA from University of Sri Jayewardenepura. He has a Post graduate Diploma in Marketing and is an Associate Member of Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK. He has been an Executive Committee Member of BCS Sri Lanka Section since 2004. He was extensively involved in many projects carried out by the Sri Lanka Section mainly organising and judging activities of National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) competition. He has over 22 years of experience in IT industry in the areas of IT Project Management, Software Development, System Integration and IT consultancy with both service providers and user organisations. He is currently employed as the Business Applications Director (Asia) at Camoplast Solideal Inc.

Mr. Sujeewa Dissanayake has been a Chartered member of BCS and obtained his MBA from University of Lincoln, UK. He became the Chairman of British Computer Society (BCS) Sri Lanka Section after serving in the committee for four years. He was extensively involved in organizing of National Best
Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) competition. Mr. Dissanayake is the Vice President – Head of Information Technology at NDB Bank PLC. Before joining the NDB Bank, Mr Dissanayake worked at Pan-Asia Bank and the Union Bank of Colombo as Head of IT. He came to banking from the IBM World Trade Corporation, where he was IT specialist for the finance industry. He has over 26 years experience in IT, 20 of which were acquired in the banking sector.

Ms. Niranjala Weerasinghe is a graduate from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka read for the International Relations, Political Science and Sociology in the General Degree in Arts passed out in 1994.

She started her first career in the Education Industry in 1996 at the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing which is a member of the World Marketing Association and the Secretariat for the APMF. She then moved to the Asia Pacific Institute of IT as the Academic Administrator cum Counselor. She joined BCS in 2004 as the regional officer and presently works as the BCS Regional Manager- Sri Lanka. She counts more than 12 years experience in the Education Industry.

Mr. Alanzo Doll has over 17 years experience in the IT industry in the areas of ERP & BI solutions, IT Project Management and Software development. He is presently employed by IBM World Trade Corporation Sri Lanka as their Software IT Architect.
His previous work experience includes Microsoft Sri Lanka where he was employed from the inception of its Sri Lankan subsidiary in 2004 up to 2009. He has been closely working with the NBQSA subcommittee for the past two years in Microsoft’s capacity as strategic sponsor.
He holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from the University of Sunderland, UK and is a Member of the British Computer Society. He is also a NCC Diploma holder, Microsoft Certified Professional and has received further industry training in the United States and several countries in South East Asia.

Mr. Buddhika Siddhisena obtained his B.Sc (Physical Science) from University of Colombo. He is also a Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS). At present, Buddhika Siddhisena is the Co-Founder & CTO of THINKCube Systems which specializes in Collaboration Technologies for the Enterprise. Prior to joining THINKcube, he was working as a Technical Consultant at the R&D Lab of
Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd. He has over 10 years of experience in IT, in the areas of FOSS, E-Commerce and Networking Technologies. Buddhika has also been involved through the inception of several leading FOSS projects, such as Sahana Disaster Management System and Tarprobane GNU/Linux Distribution. He is an active member of the Lanka Linux User Group and the Sri Lankan FOSS Community.

Miss Kalani Samarawckrame is a 22 year old final year student at Informatics Institute of Technology studying Bsc(Hons) Software Engineering from University of Westminister(UK). She had also completed BCS examinations and holds MBCS status. She is also a SCJP and studying for other Sun Certifications. She has worked at Epic Lanka(Pvt) Ltd. Kalani’s intereststed mainly in the fields of Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence.

Mr. M.G. Tillekeratne is a chartered member of the BCS and a chartered member of IESL. He graduated in the field of Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from University of Moratuwa in 1978. He is currently the Deputy General Manager (Information Technology) at the Ceylon Electricity Board. He has worked as a communications engineer, Computer & SCADA systems engineer and project manager for digital microwave network project before becoming the Head of IT in the CEB and has over 29 years of experience in the field of ICT and engineering. He functions as the Chief Judge in the Panel of Judges for NBQSA 2008.

Mr. Ransith Fernando joined the Sri Lanka section  of the BCS last year and worked in the sub committees for the NBQSA and the Lecture Series.  

In his professional life he manages SAP systems across MAS Holdings and is a member of the CIO Council of MAS. His current interests are on the harmonization of data across multiple SAP systems. He has around 23 years of experience in the IT field including management, offshore software development and training.

Ransith has completed the BCS examinations. Additionally holds a NIBM Diploma, Computer Science Degree from the University of Colombo, MBA in IT from the University of Moratuwa. He has received further IT training in Belgium, UK, India, Japan and the US including executive education at Stanford Business School.

Mr. Shanaka Prassanna Rajapakse is a member of the British Computer Society and a executive committee member for the last 2 years.

Shanaka has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry in the area’s including management, ERP and BI solutions’ project management etc...He was pioneered in implementing the software and automating the cold storage warehouse project which is owned by Finlay’s PLC Srilanka joint venture with Finlay’s U.K and Swire group. He headed the ERP project for Finlay Plantations which comprises of both Udapussellawa and Hapugastanne plantations joint venture with soft systems India.

He has been closely working with the BCS Srilanka NBQSA judging panel and was part of the organizing committee for workshops’ Ceo’s forum etc...He is currently heading the IT for both Agarapathna & Kotagala Plantations managed by Lankem Group.

He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of KEELE, UK and is a Member of the Australian Computer Society too.

Mr. Vajeendra S Kandegamage counts over Fifteen years of experience in Software Development, Project Management, Training, Consultancy and all related field of Information Technology. He holds professional qualification such as Australian Computer Society Examination (ACS) Member of British Computer Society (MBCS) and also holds Charted Status of British Computer Society (CITP).

Substantial part of his industry training was had at Hewlett Packard Singapore, Conrac Germany, and Seven Seas Computers UAE. Currently he handles the work load of Conrac Gmbh within Sri Lankan territory during 2004 - 2006.

Several leading high bracket Tourist hotels in Sri Lanka engaged him as their Consultant in management software due to his expertise in this particular field. He also holds the Product Specialist position of the SMART Management Software and the Director Projects & Planning at the Info Link Systems Lanka Ltd.

Mr. Vajeendra S Kandegamage is the Chairman of the NBQSA Sub Committee for 2009.

Mr K V Kuganathan is a member of the is a member of the British Computer Society. He holds B.Sc. (Hons) in Computing and Information Systems at the London Guildhall University and M.Sc In IT Consultancy with Distinction. He currently the Senior Manager – E Banking at Hatton National Bank PLC. He was working as a Technical assistant at Argos Business Solutions U.K.

He has over 16 years of experience in IT industry in the areas of IT Project Management, Software Development, and System Training. He has received further IT training in Singapore, UK, and India. In addition Certified Course Trainer on Appreciative Inquiry conducted by Appreciative Inquiry Committee, U S A in New York.

Mr. M Qasid Mukthar is a member of the BCS – The Charted Institute for IT. He also holds the professional qualification – Australian Computer Society (ACS). He is new to the ExCo, and has been a part of the NBQSA sub committee.

Qasid counts over 7 years of experience in the software user interface field. He currently works at Ecode Lanka Software (Pvt) Ltd - as a Senior UI Engineer who’s accountable for analyzing the latest industry & design trends, developing design concepts & user interfaces.