Reuben Fonseka, Manager - Presales

Reuben Fonseka

Manager - Presales

ComNET Solutions LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems
Experience
24 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :24 years, 9 Months

Manager - Presales at ComNET Solutions LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since December 2015

Leading a team of Six Senior Sales Executive, Providing them the guidance, support and assistance to build cutting edge wining solutions for their customer needs and helping out to convert the opportunity into sales.
Identifying the contact, corresponding with the lead to understand the prospects needs to build the right solution and convert the opportunity into Sales.
Preparation of solution and proposal based on customers’ requirements.
Product demonstration, proof of concept and preparation of marketing documents.
Helping clients to prepare Request for Proposal (RFP)
Assisting the technical staff during implementation and managing the project for the solution.

Manager - IT/ Customer Support at Streamline International (Pte) Ltd.
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 3
  • August 2005 to August 2015

Effectively planning and executing all Engineering and IT related projects.
Achieved 94 - 98% renewals of annual maintenance contract each year by providing services to the client’s utmost satisfaction.
Setting budgets and agreeing project time scales and deadlines.
Providing the client with a customer focused efficient and cost-effective technical support service.
Scheduling workloads to meet priorities and targets.
Smoothing processes to get rid of inefficiencies using ITIL framework.
Building strong relationships with existing and prospective clients.
Handling all confidential information in a professional manner.
Controlling and maintained budgets and expenditure.
Ensuring security and upgrades are kept up to date.
Holding weekly internal and external meetings on progress.
Keeping accurate records of expenditure, accounting, costing and billing.
Cultivating the company’s reputation in the market & with customers.
Managing multi-disciplined teams and resolving any conflicting priorities.
Formulating and circulating agendas and action lists.
Providing Technical Consultancy, Pre-Sales Support to Marketing, Customers

Customer Support Engineer at Digital Information Technologies (Pvt) Ltd
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 7
  • January 2001 to April 2004

Determined the nature of faults and then took steps to rectify them.
Wrote up progress and statistical reports for supervisors and managers.
Promptly escalated any quality or integrity issues.
Handled all confidential information in a professional manner.
Trained up and supported the work of other support staff.
Involved in troubleshooting and resolving all IT queries.
Helped to resolve hardware or software problems.

Customer Support Executive at Bartleet Electronics (Pvt) Ltd.
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 2
  • June 2000 to January 2001
Senior Technician at Tech Sri Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 5
  • March 1998 to June 2000

Education

Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems
  • at British Computer Society BCS The Chartered Institute for IT UK
  • April 2009

This is a two year part time coursed conducted by British Computer Society, UK. Where I got an exemption for certificate level and some subjects due to my work experience. The following subjects were what I followed: 1. Computer Services Management (Completed) 2. Management Information Systems (Completed) 3. Network Information Systems (Completed) 4. Web Engineering (Completed)

Diploma, Computer Systems
  • at Singapore Informatics
  • May 1997

One-year full time course conducted by NCC UK. Followed the course semesters fully but completed examination only for the following three subjects. 1. Computer Programming 2. Computer Systems 3. Software and Information Processing

Specialties & Skills

Process Management
Service Improvement
Technical Support
IT Project Management
Service Management
Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Planning
Servers, Virtualization Solutions
IT Infrastructure Projects
Network Solutions
Administering & Configuring
Operating Systems
Store, Archive & Restore
Security, Compliance Monitoring

Languages

English
Expert
Tamil
Expert

Training and Certifications

Diploma in Computer Studies / NCC (Training)
Training Institute:
Singapore Informatics Sri Lanka
Date Attended:
June 1996
Duration:
2000 hours
Visual Basic 5.0 (Training)
Training Institute:
NIIT
Date Attended:
April 1998
Duration:
80 hours
Compaq Certified Systems Engineer (Training)
Training Institute:
Compaq Asia
Date Attended:
June 2001
Duration:
40 hours
MCSE (Training)
Training Institute:
Netassist Sri Lanka.
Date Attended:
April 2002
Duration:
360 hours
cPanel & WHM Proficiency (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
Data Communication and Computer Networks (Training)
Training Institute:
Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies
Date Attended:
October 2000
Duration:
40 hours

Hobbies

  • Athletics
    Won Several Awards in School, Zonal, District Levels
  • Marshal Arts
    Was Awarded Brown Belt and won Island Wide Competitions in Carta and Sparing
  • Games
    Good Player of Carom / Cricket / Chess / Table tennis / Badminton