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Harshan J.

CEO

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka24 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • Led organizational transformation resulting in $8 million annual revenue.
  • Improved development team productivity by 40% through strategic planning.
  • Established a data mining team enhancing sales generation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Operations Leader with a strong focus on Agile methodologies and team productivity.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agile Project ManagementProcess ImprovementLeadershipOperations ManagementData MiningStrategic PlanningAgile MethodologiesPeople ManagementInformation Technology

Other Skills

Workflow ManagementProduct InnovationStandard Operating Procedure (SOP)New Business DevelopmentIT OperationsProject ManagementManagement ConsultingStrategyTeam ManagementScrumHuman Resources (HR)Project DeliveryRequirements AnalysisSoftware DevelopmentOperational Risk Management

About

Fast-tracked to the position of Vice President of Operations from a software engineer within 11 years at a Silicon Valley-based web development company. With over 16 years of experience in the IT industry and leading cross-functional engineering teams to deliver projects within budget and time with the highest quality. I planned and led the organizational transformation and growth from a smaller start-up to a medium-sized operation, resulting in an annual revenue generation of over US$8 million. Global business giants such as Google, Samsung, Hyundai, Softbank, and WeWork were among the clients for whom I led project deliveries. As an expert in strategies and agile delivery, I specialize in optimizing delivery and business processes to drive efficiency and success. My guiding philosophies revolve around empowering and enabling individuals to become successful leaders. I believe in strategic and adaptive planning, continuously improving processes, aligning cross-functional teams and departments towards common company goals, and fostering a robust organizational culture. Through discipline, unwavering commitment, and a steadfast focus, I humbly acknowledge the significant achievements I have attained. Some notable accomplishments in last couple of years at eight25: - I improved the productivity of the development team by 40% by improving planning, developing internal supporting products, and increasing their job satisfaction by improving the work-life balance of my employees. - I made strategic decisions that positively impacted the organization's culture, such as empowering the team leads and reducing the dependencies between teams while improving coordination among the items. - I've taken the lead in successfully shifting to a WFH work culture while minimizing the impacts on productivity. - Under my leadership, a new data mining team was initiated that contributes to the growth of the sales generation of the organization. - I successfully introduced and implemented a new revenue stream module within the organization, which played a crucial role in enhancing financial stability. My skills are leading software-delivering teams and support departments, data mining for sales lead generation, coaching and mentoring project managers and team leads, building high-performance teams, negotiation skills, Lean change management, agile planning, company culture development, budgeting, and more.

Experience

24 yrs
Total Experience
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Current Experience

Modernie

Chief Executive Officer

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos · Colombo

Celata tech inc.

Chief Operating Officer

Jan 2025Jul 2025 · 6 mos · Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Hrock digital

Chief Executive Officer

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Central park puppies

COO | Driving Innovation and Operational Excellence

Jan 2024Sep 2024 · 8 mos · Remote

Agile Project ManagementWorkflow ManagementProcess ImprovementProduct Innovation

Eight25media

5 roles

Vice President Operations

Promoted

Jan 2021Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • My current role entails the following:
  • Oversee all project delivery teams and lead PMO
  • Setup and manage DevOps and Security Teams
  • Heading Internal Product teams
  • The solely responsible resource for contingency planning.
  • Training and mentoring PMs and Leads
  • Oversee all support departments - HR, T&D, Talent Acquisition, Finance, Admin & IT
  • Process improvement and strategic planning
  • Setup and managed a data mining team for lead generation of the sales team.
  • Oversee and manage Special projects such as OGF's new office relocation and Malaysian business unit.
  • New Business Development
  • Drive initiatives to improve communication, process, and productivity
  • Recruiting key staff members for critical roles
  • Key achievements:
  • Improve productivity by more than 50% by improving processes and internal products and empowering the right people at leads.
  • Provide assistance and guidance in developing a series of internal product ranges called E25OS that enhance productivity within the organization.
  • Develop a robust leadership team through the empowerment of the right individuals.
  • Establish and nurture cross-functional teams, including a ground-up maintenance team, data mining teams for sales generation, DevOps, security team, etc.
  • Establish two new revenue streams for the business, while ensuring the successful continuation of an existing revenue stream.
  • Expand the organization's workforce from a team of eight staff members to a robust team comprising 160 staff members.
Process ImprovementLeadershipOperations ManagementStandard Operating Procedure (SOP)New Business DevelopmentData Mining+11

Head Of Operations

Promoted

Oct 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

Agile MethodologiesProject Delivery

Manager Operations

Mar 2014Oct 2019 · 5 yrs 7 mos

  • Consultation for different department standardize quality processes including test documentation, test metrics, best practices, and reporting and visibility for overall quality of our apps.
  • Manage employee concerns through collaboration with HR
  • Structure effective training programs and measure their success
  • Manage the daily operations and act as supervisor of the HR team.
  • Accomplishes human resources department and organization mission by achieving results as needed.
  • Recruit, select, train, assign, schedule, coach, counsel
  • Maintain discipline among employees.
  • Communicate job expectations, planning, monitoring, appraising and reviewing job contributions
  • Plan and review compensation actions, enforcing policies and procedures
  • Maintain safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following and enforcing standards and procedures, complying with legal regulations
  • Manage staff levels, hours, contract labor to revenues
  • Responsible for all department managers and supervisors, with review/approval responsibility for all employees
  • Forecast requirements, prepare an annual budget, prepare monthly budget, schedule expenditures, analyze variances, initiating corrective actions
  • Make sure the working environment maintains access to quality equipment
  • Coordinate administrative issues
  • Organises, plans, and implements inventory activity
  • Develop innovative network troubleshooting methods that reduce downtime
  • Recommend information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes, identifying problems, evaluating trends, anticipating requirements.
  • Accomplish financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, initiating corrective action.
People Management

Technical Project Manager

Jan 2013Mar 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

Software Engineer

May 2012Dec 2012 · 7 mos

Insharp technologies (private)limited

Software Engineer

Jul 2011Apr 2012 · 9 mos · Homagama

  • Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
  • Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure optimization and functionality.
  • Ensure smooth operations of web processes and infrastructure.
  • Create documentation for software created.
  • Produce results effectively and within the deadlines set.

Greenford roundabout bp

Assistant Manager

Jul 2006Aug 2011 · 5 yrs 1 mo

  • Job Description
  • Solely responsible for the management
  • Maintaining and monitoring stock control system.
  • Preparing and maintaining of Disaster Recovery plans.
  • Maintenance of computer peripherals under organization.
  • Scheduling upgrades for all software products within the company.

Lolc holdings plc

2 roles

Software Engineer

Mar 2005Apr 2006 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Job Description
  • Developed web applications using Classic ASP, ASP.Net, C#.Net, SQL Server 2005 and Cristal reports.
  • Designing n-Tire architecture applications and business logics after analysis of user requirements.
  • Planning the final launching and distribution of internal host applications to the end user.
  • Prepared work flow and system processes documents for the developed systems.
  • Planning and scheduling upgrades/patches for all software products within the company
  • Preparing and maintaining of Disaster Recovery and Risk assessments plans.
  • Solely responsible for the administration of server and network within the company. (Domain, Exchange, Proxy, Firewalls, Backup servers, Dial-up & Communication servers, IIS & ISA servers, AS/400 & OS/400 system etc..

IT Officer

Dec 2001Mar 2005 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Information Technology

Education

University of West London

Master of Business Administration - MBA

May 2019Dec 2020

University of Greenwich

BSc (Hons) Computing — Computing

Jan 2007Jan 2010

St. Peter's College

A/L

Jan 1997Jan 2000

St. Peter's College

O/L

Jan 1987Jan 1997

London Business School (Pvt)

Diploma — Computer Science

Pvt

Advanced Diploma; Diploma — Computer Science; Web Technology Science Land Information Technology

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