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Thusitha Herath

Rostrevor,Australia

Summary

I am a highly motivated, hardworking self-starter with an extensive IT systems background having worked as a software developer, software designer/analyst and a test analyst over 20 years and in the last 13 years as a MS SharePoint engineer/administrator with Azure and MS-365 certifications. I have been working in ITSM Framework with ServiceNow (ITSM tool) for last 5 years. I am a quick learner and adopts easily to changing environments. This, along with my great interpersonal and communication skills make me a highly effective team player who adds value to organisations. My highly developed technical skills that span across multiple disciplines allow me to solve complex business problems effectively. I have current Negative Vetting Level1 (NV1) defence Clearance.

Overview

33
33
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SharePoint Support, M365 Engineer/Consultant

Capgemini - Adelaide
01.2021 - 01.2025
  • SharePoint support Consultant for various Companies and government organizations under an on-demand services client contracts for SharePoint online, M365 and on premises. Working with tools like power platform, PowerShell.
  • During my employment at Empired/Capgemini I have rendered my services and consultancy to Clients below both in SharePoint online and on-premises configurations. Further I have supported MS-365 Related configurations as well.
  • Adelaide Airport (On Premises, PowerShell)
  • Department of Premier and Cabinet (On Premises, Power apps and Power Automate, PowerShell)
  • Barwon Health (On-Premises, On-Line)
  • Western Health (on-Premises, On-Line, power Automate)
  • APA (Power apps, Automate, On-line, PowerShell, Sharegate site, document libraries Migration)
  • Department of Fire services Victoria (On-Line)
  • Environmental protection Authority (On-line, M365)
  • Lederer and Real Diary (On-line, M365)
  • Sustainability Victoria (On-line, M365)

SharePoint Engineer/PowerShell script Developer

ASG Group – Adelaide
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Maintain servers in 2013, 2016 SharePoint farm conducting frequent health checks to make sure servers are in working order.
  • Implementing changes related to frequent patching cycles to keep servers up to date with their patching status.
  • Participating and coordinating with change management to apply and install SharePoint application patching.
  • Providing monthly reports and dashboards consists of site usage, site sizes, incidents numbers, service requests and Billing information.
  • Support/consult customers in day today incidents and Service requests.
  • Create, Delete, maintain Individual sites in the systems.
  • Create new Web Applications
  • Executing and building Power shell scripts to retrieve information from systems for various reporting requirements.
  • Participate in annual disaster recovery test exercises.
  • After hours on call services.
  • Participated in a Project to Convert existing 2016 farm to HA SharePoint 2016 farm.
  • Maintained and administered a SharePoint Online installation for Tax practitioner’s board
  • Setting Up and Monitor Dynatrace monitoring tool specific to SharePoint on premises.
  • Currently I am assigned to a SharePoint Migration project at SA Water account. Objective of this project is to Migrate data from SharePoint 2010 on premises system to a SharePoint online system using Sharegate and PowerShell scripting.

SharePoint Consultant/Administrator (ATO account)

DXC Technology (Former HP Enterprise Services) – Adelaide
11.2017 - 02.2019
  • Maintain servers in 2013, 2010 and 2007 SharePoint farms conducting frequent health checks to make sure servers are in working order.
  • Implementing changes related to frequent SharePoint Application patching to keep servers up to date with their patching status.
  • Participating and coordinating with change management to install SharePoint application patching and coordinate with other teams to install windows related patching.
  • Providing monthly reports and dashboards consists of site usage, site sizes, incidents numbers, service requests and Billing information.
  • Support/consult customers in day today incidents and Service requests.
  • Create, Delete, maintain Individual sites in the systems.
  • Create new Web Applications
  • Executing and building PowerShell scripts to retrieve information from systems for various reporting requirements.
  • Participate in annual disaster recovery test exercises.
  • After hours on call services.

SharePoint Consultant/Administrator (Commonwealth Bank of Australia account)

HP Enterprise Services – Adelaide
07.2012 - 10.2017
  • Maintain servers in the SharePoint 2007 farm conducting frequent health checks to make sure servers are in working order.
  • Data recovery restoration using SQL management on demand.
  • System changes and testing
  • Maintaining and monitoring Shared Services such as profile synchronization and Search Crawls
  • Installing SharePoint security patches and Service Packs.
  • Support/consult customers in day-to-day incidents.
  • Create, Delete, maintain Individual sites in the systems.
  • Coordinate with MyTeamSpace system owners and providing them the information/reports they request.
  • Providing monthly reports and dashboards consists of site usage, site sizes, incidents numbers, service requests and Billing information.
  • Conduct fortnightly meetings with service owners.
  • Writing Power shell scripts to retrieve information from the system.
  • Running STSADM Commands to conduct data cleansing site deletion and site restoration activities.
  • Assist junior team members in Incident resolving.
  • Coordinate with server management and SQL teams in various system maintenance activities.
  • Participate in annual disaster recovery test exercises.
  • After hours on call services.

Information Solutions Developer.

HP – Adelaide
07.2011 - 07.2012
  • Systems development and maintenance using Microsoft tools
  • SA Water Template project for Tender procurement Process. This project involved designing InfoPath forms supported by C# code to generate predefined MS Word templates. Once developed, the templates were published in a SharePoint server to facilitate access by various users. SharePoint lists have been used extensively to store and retrieve data.
  • Maintaining CSM Portal system which was catered for South Australian Government Departments. The system was developed using VB and Sequel database.
  • Data analysis work using Excel VBA scripts and pivot tables.
  • Design and develop an application using ASP.NET with C#. This is to manipulate user access details in active directories for HP CSM Portal (Customer service management).

Senior Analyst Programmer. (AS400, RPG iSeries), QA Analyst

Elders
08.2004 - 07.2011
  • System maintenance and enhancements to Insur90 General Insurance System.
  • Connectivity between MS office tools to Insure 90 system
  • System maintenance and enhancements to Elder’s agriculture Merchandise system.
  • Quality Assurance
  • Experimenting with IBM Rational Automation testing tools.
  • Systems Support

Senior Analyst Programmer. (AS400, RPG iSeries), QA Analyst

VERO
05.2003 - 03.2004
  • Analyze/Develop/test Conversion programs to convert AMP General Insurance system (I90) to VERO (Formerly Royal Sun alliance) General Insurance (I90) System.
  • Assisting in data mapping
  • Various enhancements work being carried out to the current VERO General Insurance system (I90) to support the Conversion
  • Test/Analysis for various enhancement work carried out to support the AMP Conversion

Senior Analyst Programmer. (AS400, RPG iSeries)

Royal & Sun Alliance
08.1998 - 11.2002
  • Participated in a Major software conversion project, which converts all available separate life insurance systems to a single system called LIFE/400.
  • Analysis Design, program and unit testing of all major Conversion programs
  • Analysis of Databases in both Source and target Systems and design
  • Assisting in data mapping
  • Developing Conversion Procedures
  • Documentation of all above functions
  • Analyzed Designed and Programmed, Major modifications in Company direct marketing system. This includes a Substantial analysis of screen changes and how it affects to other units

Analyst Programmer /Senior Analyst Programmer (AS/400, RPG 400)

AMP
09.1994 - 08.1998
  • Participating in a project of upgrading the Insure/90 to its Latest Version.
  • Documentation Update
  • Maintaining the JD Edwards Interface System, which interfaces all Other Computer systems In AMP to the JD Edwards accounts system.

Analyst Programmer

AIG – Australia
05.1992 - 12.1993
  • Maintenance of Life insurance system (OLAS) which was written in System/36 COBOL.
  • Corrective and perfective maintenance
  • System 36 Operations
  • Quality assurance and system support.

Education

Higher National Diploma - Computing

British Computer Society
01.1990

Skills

  • SharePoint Engineering, Admin and Development
  • Web Content Management
  • SharePoint Configuration
  • PowerShell Programming
  • SharePoint on premises to online Migration Using Sharegate
  • Powe Automate Workflows
  • Maintenance Nintex Workflows
  • Maintenance Power apps Forms
  • Maintenance Nintex Forms
  • ITSM Framework, ServiceNow

Certification

  • AZ-900 – Azure Fundamentals 2023
  • MS-900 – MS 365 Fundamentals 2025
  • SC-900 – MS 365 Security 2025
  • PL-400 – PowerApps Developer (Preparing for the exam) 2025

Languages

English
Full Professional

Interests

Playing Guitar and Music

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

  • Federal Government
  • State Government
  • Banking and Finance
  • Insurance

SECURITY CLEARANCE

  • Australian Citizen
  • Negative Vetting Level 1

Education/Training/certifications

  • AZ-900 - Azure
  • MS-900 – MS 365 Fundamentals
  • SC-900 – MS 365 -Security Fundamentals
  • Preparing for PL-200 – Powerapps functional consultant
  • British Computer Society (Higher National Diploma in Computing, UK)

Company Sponsored Courses

  • Dynatrace associated certification (ASG)
  • SharePoint 2013 Development and Administration
  • Azure based SharePoint 2013 online
  • Azure based Client CRM (online)
  • SharePoint 2010,2013,2016 Deployment, Engineering and Administration
  • ASP.NET, C#, VB
  • IBM Rational Testing Tools

Timeline

SharePoint Support, M365 Engineer/Consultant

Capgemini - Adelaide
01.2021 - 01.2025

SharePoint Engineer/PowerShell script Developer

ASG Group – Adelaide
01.2019 - 01.2021

SharePoint Consultant/Administrator (ATO account)

DXC Technology (Former HP Enterprise Services) – Adelaide
11.2017 - 02.2019

SharePoint Consultant/Administrator (Commonwealth Bank of Australia account)

HP Enterprise Services – Adelaide
07.2012 - 10.2017

Information Solutions Developer.

HP – Adelaide
07.2011 - 07.2012

Senior Analyst Programmer. (AS400, RPG iSeries), QA Analyst

Elders
08.2004 - 07.2011

Senior Analyst Programmer. (AS400, RPG iSeries), QA Analyst

VERO
05.2003 - 03.2004

Senior Analyst Programmer. (AS400, RPG iSeries)

Royal & Sun Alliance
08.1998 - 11.2002

Analyst Programmer /Senior Analyst Programmer (AS/400, RPG 400)

AMP
09.1994 - 08.1998

Analyst Programmer

AIG – Australia
05.1992 - 12.1993

Higher National Diploma - Computing

British Computer Society

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