Kapila Nanayakkara, Director - IT Operations and Business Support

Kapila Nanayakkara

Director - IT Operations and Business Support

American Express Saudi Arabia

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Information Systems
Experience
26 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :26 years, 10 Months

Director - IT Operations and Business Support at American Express Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since March 2015

Manage IT Operations, Help Desk, IT Procurement team to support end users. Develop business requirement for core system enhancements and manage all core system related projects for core card management platform.

Diractor - Card Systems and Operations at Amex (Saudi Arabia) Ltd
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2011

Manage/Upgrade, Impliment Card Processing solustions. Manage 24 x 7 IT Operations

Head of Card System Administration and IT Operations at Amex (Saudi Arabia) Ltd
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2009 to December 2011

Manage Card Processing/Authorization systems and 24 x 7 IT Opeations

Unit Head - Card System Administration and IT Operations at Amex (Saudi Arabia) Ltd
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2008 to July 2009

Manage Card Processing system and IT operations

Unit Head - Card System Administration at Amex (Saudi Arabia) Ltd
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2007 to June 2008

Manage Card Processing system

System Analyst Desiner at Hatton National Bank Ltd
  • Sri Lanka
  • August 1997 to August 2007

Analys and Design transaction processing systems and MIS for the Card Centre to optimize the work flow.

House keeping of Informaix Database.

Desing and Impliment stored procedures in Informix SQL

Certification procedures and Project management with Payment associations (Visa / Master).

Education

Master's degree, Information Systems
  • at Anglia Ruskin University
  • April 2017
Diploma, Distinction
  • at National Institute of Business Management
  • June 1995

Diploma in Systems Analysis & Design. A highly recomended course of study for 1 1/2 yesr fulltime with the following area covered. System Analysis & Desing Computer Architecture Business Analysis & Quntity Techniques System Software Programming in Pascal,COBOL.,RPG,Assembler/VB/FoxPro/Clipper

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Card Processing System

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Chember of Commerse and Industry
  • Member
  • September 1995
British Computer Society
  • Professional member
  • June 2010

Hobbies

  • Golf
    Championship wards in local tournaments