GAYAN INDIKA SENARATH

Highly skilled estate manager with over 10 years of experience in tea garden maintenance, estate bungalow and garden maintenance, minor crops (cardamom, cinnamon, pepper, and clove), timber, and other horticultural, plant management. Well-versed with landscaping, gardening, horticulture, and plantation management. Familiar with nursery management of plantation crops (tea, rubber, timber, and minor crops), ornamental plants, fruits, and vegetables. An individual with a drive to comprehend new concepts and experiences and well-organized with great attention to detail, possesses good communication skills.

• Managed nurseries for tea, rubber, cardamon, cinnamon, pepper, ornamental plants, avocado, mandarin, and vegetables
• Planned and implemented annual fertilizer programs
• Provided advices on methods to mitigate and cope with adverse effects of natural disasters and practiced methods to control and prevent pest and diseases of all crops
• Conducted irrigation management practices including sprinklers for flowers and minor plantation crops and drip irrigation for nurseries and vegetables
• Planned year around harvesting cycles; Arranged tea plucking cycles to maintain plant vigor and optimize the yield, organized rubber tapping overseeing the weather patterns, measured girth in deciding harvesting of timber and conducted all the practices related to seasonal harvesting of other crops
• Implemented quality improvement practices through sorting, grading, and use of proper packaging and stacking
• (The related quality improvements and practices are done to obtain Rain Forest Alliance certificate in year Madolsima Plantations PLC
• And ISO 2200 HACCP certificate for tea in 2012-Kahawatte Plantations PLC.)
• Organized and supervised all the practices related to manufacturing of tea and rubber
• Maintained factory equipment, factory machinery, garden machinery, and vehicles
• Planned annual production goals to meet organizational requirements through regular monitoring of market trends and requirements
• Planned and managed monthly budgets and monitored monthly production and costs
• Prepared monthly finance and daily operational reports
• Conducted feasibility assessment of cultivation project and recultivated or diversified marginal tea lands
• Maintained good rapport with lower level and higher management
• Liaised with contractors, buyers, external organizations, personnel related to quality certification schemes and professionals in the field
• Mitigated and advised on labor related matters
• Coordinated recruiting and training of personnel
• Professional Development