Name: Mallikarachchige Geethapriya Tillekeratne

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Mallikarachchige Geethapriya Tillekeratne

Profession: Electrical & Electronics Engineer and ICT Consultant

Present Job:FreelanceConsultant in ICT and Energy Sectors,

Part time ICT Consultant for KPMG (Sri Lanka)

Date of Birth: 05thAugust 1955

Gender:Male

Nationality: Sri Lankan

Address:No 69/13C, Templer’s Road, Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka.

Contact No. (M):+94 714 115583

Memberships in Professional Institutes:

Chartered Engineer, Member of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka, (MIESL).

Chartered Member of the BCS The Chartered Institute for IT, UK (MBCS, CITP).

Professional Activities:

2013/2014 - Chairman, ICT Committee of Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka.

2012/2014 - Chairman, BCS The Chartered Institute for IT, Sri Lanka Section.

Key Qualifications:

Professional Qualifications:C.Eng., MIE(SL).

Chartered IT Professional (CITP), BCS The Chartered Institute for IT, UK.

Educational Qualifications:

1974-1978BSc Eng - Major in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering - University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

2006Diploma in Commercial Arbitration-Institute for the Development of Commercial Law and Practice(ICLP), Sri Lanka

Key Experience:-Functioned as Chief Judge for National Best Quality ICT Awards annual competition conducted by BCS The Chartered Institute for IT, Sri Lanka Section from 2008 to 2011 and in 2015 & 2017. Also served as a Judge in the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) competition for 6 years (2008-2011, 2013 and 2015).

-Functioned as the Chairman, BCS The Chartered Institute for IT, Sri Lanka Section during 2012 – 2014.

-Part time ICT Consultant for KPMG, Sri Lanka.

-Headed the IT Division of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), the national electric utility from 1994 to 2012 and led the development and deployment of present customer billing systems, finance and material management system, human resources information system among other systems.

-Also functioned as the Project Director for the National System Control Centre Project under Clean Energy Access Improvement Project funded by ADB engaging in selection of consultants, preparation of specifications and tendering stagesfrom 2009 to 2012. This involved setting up of new load dispatch centre and setting up of an island-wide Fibre Optic network using 1200 kms of OPGW over power transmission lines and STM-1 communications system.

-Worked as the Project Manager for the Digital Microwave Communication Project from 1989 to 1991 engaging in preparation of specifications, tendering and contract award.

Employment Record:

Aug 2015- To dateFreelance consultant in ICT and Energy Sectors.

Part time ICT consultant for KPMG, Sri Lanka (2017)

Mar2012 – July 2015Additional General Manager (Distribution Division 04)

Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), Sri Lanka.

Head of the Distribution Division 04 of Ceylon Electricity Boardand a member of the Corporate Management Team directly reporting to the General Manager who is the Chief Executive Officer.

Retired from CEB service in Aug 2015.

Dec1994-Feb2012 Deputy General Manager (Information Technology)

Ceylon Electricity Board.

As the CIO, responsible for planning, implementation, operation and maintenance of business IT systems of the CEB.

Led the following IT projects/tasks:

• Development and implementation of customer billing system which handles over 5.4 million electricity customers. This was an in-house development and included invoicing, payment handling (POS & payment channels), meter reading etc, and integration of remote meter reading of bulk customers through mobile network.

• Procurement and Implementation of finance accounting and material management system. This was later integrated with internally developed service provisioning and job costing system.

• Procurement and implementation of human resource information system

• Development of corporate website

• Development of the call centre and outage management system

• Preparation of technical specification for procurement of a maintenance management systemfor power plants

• Planning and setting up of corporate data network (VPN) for CEB with communication links from telco operators and interfacing with OPGW based fibre network.

• Planning and Setting up of corporate datacentre with disaster recovery site.

• Development of organization structure and manning of the IT department.

Responsible for the operation and maintenance of the IT infrastructure across the organization including the corporate data centre.

Also functioned as the Project Director for System Control Centre Modernization Project funded by Asian Development Bankduring the period from 2009 to 2012. Responsible for selection of consultants, preparation of specifications and bid documents, tendering and bid evaluation phases of the project as per ADB guidelines.

This included three contracts namely the setting up of new load dispatch centre and SCADA system as a replacement for the existing one, laying of 1,200kms of OPGW on the transmission network and setting up of an island-wide Fibre Optic network using STM-1 communications system as replacement for existing PLC based system.

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Aug 1991-Nov 1994Chief Engineer (Electronic Data Processing)

Ceylon Electricity Board

Responsible for the operation and maintenance of the IT infrastructure of the CEB.Also carried out the requirement study for the development of the customer billing system.

Jun 1989 -Jul 1991Project Manager (Microwave Communications System Project)

Ceylon Electricity Board

Responsible for planning, preparation of specifications, tendering and contract awarding stages of island wide digital microwave communications system project. This included setting up of island-wide main bearer network comprising of PCM links and digital switches at strategic locations and a subscriber radio systems to connect remote offices.

Sep 1985- Jun 1989Electrical Engineer (System Control Centre Maintenance)

Ceylon Electricity Board.

Responsible for maintenance of SCADA master station computer system and communications systems at the national system control centre of the CEB.

Apr 1979- Aug 1985Electrical Engineer (Communications)

Ceylon Electricity Board.

Worked as a project engineer for implementation of National System Control Centre project which involved the setting up of the national Load Dispatch Centre and PLC/VHF/UHF based communications systems of CEB.

M G Tillekeratne

14thOct 2017.