Project Manager at Affno
Sri Lanka
- Current
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- Project Manager at Affno (Pvt) Ltd
- Past
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- Project Manager/Developer at Crystalaxis Technologies
- Project Coordinator/Web Developer at Emirates Business Information Centre
- Web Developer at Travel Byte Technologies (Pvt) Ltd
- Senior Web Producer at Open World Lanka (Pvt) Ltd
- Webmaster at Confifi Management Services
- Webmaster at MegadynamiX (Pvt) Ltd
- Education
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- IDM Computer Studies (Pvt) Ltd
- IDM Computer Studies (Pvt) Ltd
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Asela de Saram’s Summary
Application Developer, Database Administrator, and Project Manager in a wide variety of business applications.
Asela de Saram’s Specialties:
Always interested in new challenging projects, as well as close interaction with the clients and to understand their needs better.
Asela de Saram’s Experience
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Project Manager
Affno (Pvt) Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
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Project Manager/Developer
Crystalaxis Technologies
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — May 2008 (5 months)
* Website design, development, hosting and marketing.
* Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue.
* Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.
* Advising new businesses on formation of corporations and business structures, drafting privacy policies and structuring commercial transactions.
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Project Coordinator/Web Developer
Emirates Business Information Centre
(Hospitality industry)
June 2007 — December 2007 (7 months)
• Development and maintenance of the company web portal using Smarty Templating, Modx (CMS), PHP, JavaScript, XML and AJAX running on Apache servers with mySQL
• Company IT infrastructure administration -
Web Developer
Travel Byte Technologies (Pvt) Ltd
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2007 — May 2007 (3 months)
• Maintenance of a CMS integrated to a booking engine providing rooms available for stay all around the globe, using PHP, JavaScript, XML and Ajax on Apache servers with mySQL - http://www.bedbookers.com
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Senior Web Producer
Open World Lanka (Pvt) Ltd
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2005 — March 2007 (2 years)
• Keeping close relations with foreign clients and account managers to understand and carry out adaptive and in some cases, corrective maintenance according to site specifications.
• Handling maintenance of the following clients/projects:
• Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts - http://www.swissotel.com
• Raffles Hotels & Resorts - http://www.raffles.com
• Amrita Spa - http://www.amritaspa.com
• Cosmopolitan Hotels HK - http://www.cosmopolitanhotel.com.hk
• Cosmo Hotel HK - http://www.cosmohotel.com.hk
• New World May Fair - http://www.newworldmayfair.com
• Dorchester Group Hotels - http://www.thedorchester.com
• Intercontinental Hotels Group
• Other Hand-built and AWS sites
• Developed a SM Tracking System to keep account of the large no.of email change requests coming from various clients. -
Webmaster
Confifi Management Services
(Hospitality industry)
August 2003 — April 2005 (1 year 9 months)
• Primary responsibilities included the overall coordination, maintenance & troubleshooting of the group websites and Online Booking System
• Registration, renewal, and overall control of domains registered
http://www.confifihotels.com
http://www.confifihotels.net
http://www.edenresortandspa.com
http://www.riverinahotel.com
http://www.clubpalmgardenhotel.com
http://www.confifibeachhotel.com
• Advising the management on various IT/Web related issues & web marketing
• Performing troubleshooting regards to software, hardware, and network issues within the departments whenever the need arises
• Involved in several other projects to improve the efficiency of work carried out throughout the chain of companies. Some of these projects include:
• Corporate Intranet accessible to any employees over the WAN
• Miniature reservations system
• Online Mailing list system
• Printed publications/advertisements
Using ASP, MS SQL Server, MS Access, JavaScript, XML -
Webmaster
MegadynamiX (Pvt) Ltd
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2000 — July 2003 (3 years 6 months)
• Web site development, maintenance and troubleshooting
• Functioned at a supervisory level, having four web developers working under me.
• During this time I was involved with the following sites:
• http://www.lankaworld.com - Web portal of News & Current events in Sri Lanka
• http://www.mega.lk - Corporate site of MegadynamiX (Pvt) Ltd
• http://www.cmc.lk - Colombo Municipal Council
• http://www.bungalow.lk - Havelock Place Bungalow
• http://www.lankaworld.com/paffrel - PAFFREL
• FREE Web based Email Service for LankaWorld
• I was also involved in the developments of the following ASP applications:
• LankaWorld FREE Email Directory (Personal & Corporate)
• LankaWorld Email-to-Mail service
• LankaWorld Mailing List Section
Technical Environment: Use of ASP, MS SQL Server, MS Access, JavaScript, XML, WML, HTML and several other software packages built using these skills.
Asela de Saram’s Education
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IDM Computer Studies (Pvt) Ltd
BCS (UK) , Computer Science , 2000 — 2002
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IDM Computer Studies (Pvt) Ltd
NCC (UK) , Computer Science , 1998 — 1999
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