Sandika Samarakoon
My credentials
About
Sandika is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) and a Certified Scrum Professional® (CSP), with proven value delivery experience across Education, Finance, Government, Insurance, Publishing, Retail, and Telecommunication domains. Sandika is well-versed with ability to enable teams achieve strategic outcomes using Agile and other delivery management frameworks, driving organisational changes to bring efficiencies with value delivery processes, setting up teams for success through training, mentoring and coaching while liaising with leadership of the organisation to establish repeatable and scalable ways of working with the view of continuous improvements. Sandika is a culturally sensitive professional – having worked in Sri Lanka, Philippines, and Australia backed up by the experience in managing distributed teams based in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, HK, India, Philippine, Sri Lanka, UK, and USA. Specialties: Project management, SAFe, Lean-Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Mentoring and Coaching, Training
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2023-03-01 - present - IAG (Delivery Lead)
- 2008-01-02 - 2009-02-28 - HSBC (Web developer )
- 2009-03-01 - 2010-11-01 - HSBC (Web development lead)
- 2010-12-01 - 2013-05-31 - HSBC (Manager, Digital Publishing)
- 2013-06-03 - 2014-03-31 - Pearson Lanka Ltd (Project Manager)
- 2014-06-02 - 2015-11-30 - Telstra (Iteration Manager)
- 2015-12-01 - 2017-03-26 - Optus (Agile Lead)
- 2017-03-30 - 2017-10-19 - Woolworths Group (Scrum Master)
- 2017-10-23 - 2018-10-12 - Westpac (Scrum Master)
- 2018-10-15 - 2019-08-09 - Telstra (Scrum Master)
- 2019-08-13 - 2021-09-30 - Environment Protection Authority (Victoria)
- 2020-10-01 - 2021-11-30 - IAG (Agile Portfolio Management )
- 2022-06-01 - 2022-02-28 - Coles (Iteration Manager )
- 2021-12-01 - 2022-05-31 - Vocus (Scrum Master )