Rohan Jayasekera

Current

Director, OpenSRS Email Service at Tucows

Past

Product Development Consultant at Rohan Jayasekera Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
Co-founder at Sartorial Instruments & Technology Inc.
Internet Business Strategist at Oven Digital

Co-founder, Director of Internet Technology at Sympatico
Various at I. P. Sharp Associates / Reuters

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Education

Gestalt Institute of Toronto
University of Waterloo
University of Waterloo

Lower Canada College, Montréal

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Connections

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Industry

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Rohan Jayasekera’s Summary

I'm a veteran of the online services industry (and co-founder of Sympatico.ca in the Web 1.0 days) and my mission is to define, build, and improve online products/services. I have a degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo, and have over 20 years' experience developing online systems. Currently I'm the product manager for the OpenSRS Email Service, at Tucows. Read my blog on topics related to Web 2.0 at http://www.RohanJayasekera.com/blog .

Rohan Jayasekera’s Specialties:

Product management, business analysis, product definition, product development, project management, software development management

Rohan Jayasekera’s Experience

Director, OpenSRS Email Service

Tucows

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

March 2008 — Present (7 months)

I am the product manager for the OpenSRS Email Service (millions of mailboxes under management through our many resellers) and the OpenSRS Personal Names Service (get yourself an email address based on your name, e.g. if you're Amy Smith, amy@smith.net -- we own 40,000 surname-based domains for this purpose).
Product Development Consultant
Rohan Jayasekera Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1993 — March 2008 (14 years 5 months)

Please see my website, www.RohanJayasekera.com. Available for short- and long-term engagements. I've done work for, among others, Canada.com (via Cossette Communications), Bell Sympatico, Rogers Cable Internet (via Certainty Solutions), The Globe and Mail (via Blue North Strategies), and Reuters.
Co-founder

Sartorial Instruments & Technology Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 5 months)

Helped this startup created by clothing retailers to define, build and launch an automated-tailoring product, The Fitter, that revolutionizes made-to-measure clothing. www.thefitter.com (yes, it's Internet-based). In 2006, Holt Renfrew rolled out the system to all their stores across Canada.
Internet Business Strategist

Oven Digital

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

October 1999 — November 2000 (1 year 2 months)

Advised client firms on what to do on the Internet, using my understanding of what works there and what doesn’t. Beginning with high-level objectives, produced solutions covering aspects from business models down to site navigation. Clients included Starwood Hotels and InspectValue.com, the first online vehicle inspection service.
Co-founder, Director of Internet Technology

Sympatico

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

January 1995 — July 1998 (3 years 7 months)

Co-founder of Sympatico, Canada's largest Internet service, and Sympatico.ca, Canada's most popular web portal (now Sympatico.MSN.ca). Co-wrote the business plan for both in early 1995, including a remarkably accurate forecast of the development of the Internet and its business implications. Worked with Bell Canada, BCTel (now Telus), and MT&T (now Aliant) to rapidly create their first consumer Internet services (fastest product launch in Bell's history: eight months), and with other phone companies to integrate their services, creating the only service to cover every province and territory. Made it easy to use by the mass market, including automated configuration of the user's computer during signup, and was involved in everything from editing the user's guide to being a model in the ad campaign. Led the technical development of Sympatico.ca and its related sites such as Canada411. Pioneered website personalization: the Sympatico home page has been dynamically generated since Day 1.
Various

I. P. Sharp Associates / Reuters

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1976 — 1989 (13 years)