Ramesh Shanmuganathan

Ramesh Shanmuganathan

Colombo District, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Experience

  • John Keells Holdings PLC Graphic

    John Keells Holdings PLC

    Colombo, Sri Lanka

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    Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

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    Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

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    Colombo, Sri Lanka

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    United States

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    Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

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    Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

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    Colombo, Sri Lanka

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    Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

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    Colombo, Sri Lanka

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    Colombo, Sri Lanka

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    Colombo, Sri Lanka

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    Colombo, Sri Lanka

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    Rochester, New York Area

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Education

Volunteer Experience

  • Covener and Chair

    Sri Lanka SAP User Group - SLSUG

    - 3 years 6 months

    Economic Empowerment

  • Covener and Chair

    Sri Lanka CIO Forum

    - Present 16 years 9 months

    Science and Technology

    It's a online forum that I had created to platform for Business/IT fraternity to collaborate and co-innovate.

  • Chair

    SLASSCOM - CIO Forum

    - 5 years 7 months

    Science and Technology

    Helped establish the SLASSCOM CIO Council to create a voice for CIOs and in promoting collaborative forum within the IT/Business fraternity.

  • President

    Project Management Institute, Sri Lanka Chapter

    - 1 year 7 months

    Economic Empowerment

    Helped establish the Project Management practice in Sri Lanka as the one of the founding Director of the Board as well as subsequent President of the Sri Lanka PMI Chapter

  • Executive Committee Member

    Software Exporters Association, Sri Lanka

    - 2 years

    Science and Technology

    Worked as part of SEA committee, to promote Sri Lanka as a Software destination as well as to develop competencies of Sri Lankan Software Organization to take their offerings overseas.

  • SLASSCOM (Sri Lanka Association for Software and Services Companies) Graphic

    General Council Member

    SLASSCOM (Sri Lanka Association for Software and Services Companies)

    - 1 year 2 months

    Science and Technology

  • SLASSCOM (Sri Lanka Association for Software and Services Companies) Graphic

    Advisory Board

    SLASSCOM (Sri Lanka Association for Software and Services Companies)

    - Present 4 years 2 months

    Science and Technology

  • Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka Graphic

    Advisory Board

    Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka

    - Present 4 years 1 month

    Science and Technology

  • FITIS - Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka Graphic

    Advisory Board

    FITIS - Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka

    - Present 4 years 1 month

    Science and Technology

  • University of Moratuwa Graphic

    Advisory Board

    University of Moratuwa

    - Present 10 years 2 months

    Education

Publications

  • Personal Branding

    Ramesh Shanmuganathan

    See publication

  • Thought Leadership Blog

    Ramesh Shanmuganathan

    Business/Digital Transformation Blog

    See publication

  • Thesis:IP and ATM integration - A pragmatic approach

    Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Thesis:Technology as a Value Leaver in the Banking Industry

    Postgraduate Institute of Management, University og Sri Jayewardeneura, Sri Lanka

  • Thesis:Data Logger - Real-time Data Capture and Analytics for the Construction Industry

    University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Projects

  • Zero Trust Stratehy, Architwcture and Adaption

    We embarked on an ambitious project of embracunv Zero trust across the John Keella group with 70+ businesses and 15000+ employees in 2019.

  • Design, Architecture and impleentatin of an Advanced Analytics Platform for the John Keells group to drive Personalization

    - Present

    This initiative was mooted post we engaged McKinsey to setup a Advanced Analytics CoE for the group. As part of the initiatives, an AA Platform was set up on Microsoft Azure with Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Bricks, Synapsis, etc to run various use cases across the group on multiple streams.

  • Hybrid-cloud strategy, architecture and adaption for John Keells group

    This initiative was aimed at retiring our captive data center in 5 years and embracing Cloud as our native platform to drive Digital Transformation across the industries/businesses within the group

  • Bi-modal IT initiative with API centric architecture for John Keells Group

  • Digitization Program at John Keells Group

  • Group-wide Digitalisation Initiative

  • Hospitality Solution @ John Keells with SAP and INDRA

  • Cloud based collabration @ John Keells with Microsoft O365

  • SAP IFRS @ John Keells

  • SAP ERP Implementation @ Ceylon Pencils

  • Data Center Migration @ John Keells

  • Data Center Consolidation @ John Keells with Cisco,VMware and NetApps

    See project

  • Retail @ John Keells with SAP

  • SAP ECC 6.0 Upgrade @ John Keells

  • 3PL Warehouse Management @ John Keells with SAP

  • Unified Communication @ John Keells with Cisco

  • Universal Identity and Access Management @ John Keells with IBM and Microsoft

  • myPortal @ John Keells with SAP and Microsoft

  • Human Capital Management @ John Keells with SAP

  • SS7 Signalling @ Dialog with Tekelec

  • JV between Air Arabia & John Keells

  • Islandwide, MPLS Core Network @ SLT with Juniper and Cisco

  • Offshore Development Center @ Mercator- Emirates

  • Core Banking Implementation @ NDB Bank with iflex

  • SOC/NOC for INTERNET operations @ SLT with HP and CA

  • Contact Center @ SLT with Avaya

  • Core Banking Implementation @ NTB Bank with iflex

  • Groupwide, Islandwide Intranet @ John Keells with Lucent, Cisco and SLT

  • Contact Center @ Dialog with Lucent

  • Islandwide, private network for John Keells Group with Lucent and Cisco

  • Campus-wide, converged network@ University of Rochester with Cisco and NEC

  • Internet-2 and IPv6 initiative with NSF @ University of Rochester

  • Cloud Adoption @ John Keells with Microsoft and AWS

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    See project

Honors & Awards

  • 50 Most Influential Technology Leaders

    Asia Retail Congress

  • SAP Ace Award - 2015, 2012 and 2009

    SAP and INDUS

  • SAP HANA Innovation Award 2015

    SAP and ASUG

  • Chairman's Award, John Keells Group

    Chairman, John Keells Group

  • IBM Management & Leadership Award

    IBM, Sri Lanka

  • Phi Kappa Phi Honours

    Phi Kappa Phi Honour Society

  • Fulbright Scholarship 1997,1998,1999

    Fulbright Commission, USA

  • First Class Honours

    University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Tamil

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Sinhala

    Limited working proficiency

Organizations

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(USA)

    Member

    - Present

  • British Computer Society

    Fellow Member

    - Present

  • Institute of Engineering and Technology (UK)

    Member

    - Present

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