Anthony Gooneratne

• Analyzes issues raised by clients pertaining to business products and provides solutions and recommendations.
• Works exceptionally in a team setting, by providing support and guidance.
• Ensures all resolutions provided comply with Bank of Canada regulatory requirements.

Analyzed issues raised by clients pertaining to business products and services; provided solutions and recommendations adhering to company policy and regulations in a timely manner.

• Coordinated project resources across technical, administrative, business teams, and third-party vendors.
• Maintained a high success rate of effective implementation of financial system and infrastructure projects across the bank’s divisions.
• Closely worked with Consultants and Program Leaders to identify the business needs which were analyzed to determine the technical requirements of the project scopes.
• Created request for proposals (RFP), business requirement documentation, traceability matrixes, contracts and other project documentation in adherence to PMI standards.
• Defined best practices by moving between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and owners’ requirements.
• Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed.
• Conducted user acceptance testing (UAT) for continual refinement of system processes.
• Effectively bridged the knowledge gap between stakeholders and internal teams that significantly helped to minimize scope creep and issue escalations.
• Communicated progress using reports, graphs, presentations, and dashboards to the management team, project steering committee, consultants, and clients on a regular basis.

• Managed implementation, support, and troubleshooting of core banking system and other integrated applications of the bank.
• Researched and identified business improvements and determined appropriate systems required for process improvements. Created and managed implementations of process automation. Reduced processing time by 60% for key processing workflows.
• Created and maintained standard operating procedures governing system functions and features.
• Trained business personnel in use of systems.
• Led periodical Business Continuity Process and Disaster Recovery drills.

• Led data migration for the core banking migration project which was completed in a record timeframe in the banking industry.
• Led the development of comprehensive data extraction algorithms and procedures which were used for data migration between the core systems.
• Managed user acceptance testing (UAT) for each data migration cycles.
• Led the development of data cleansing tools and actively engaged in data cleaning tasks.

• Designed the technical architecture for the central recovery database (CRDB) platform.
• Managed project procurement.
• Coordinated and implemented the CRDB application and its infrastructures (e.g., development of the application, implement application hosting servers, data communication devices and security firewall).
• Conducted user training and connected over 100 micro financing institutions to the CRDB system.