Oshadhi Alahapperuma - Embassy of Sri Lanka in Stockholm

Oshadhi Alahapperuma
Ruhunu Paya, Urugamuwa, Matara, Sri Lanka
Strandvägen 39, 104 50 Stockholm, Sweden
+46(8)6608956| [email protected]
EDUCATION
St. Petersburg State Electro Technical University
Bachelors of Science in Engineering
St. Petersburg, Russia
1997 - 2002
St. Petersburg State Electro Technical University
Advanced Certificate in Russian Language
St. Petersburg, Russia
1996 - 1997
Ananda College
G.C.E (A/L)
Colombo, Sri Lanka
1983 - 1990
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Embassy of Sri Lanka
Ambassador
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Appointed as the Ambassador to Sweden with accreditation to Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland,
Latvia and Lithuania.
Appointed by H.E the President of Sri Lanka as the youngest Ambassador of Sri Lanka serving in a
foreign mission.
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skills Development
Personal Secretary to the Hon. Minister of Youth Affairs and Skills Development
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Stockholm, Sweden
2011 - upto date
Colombo, Sri Lanka
2010 - 2011
Assisting the Hon. Minister in a multitude of duties including ministerial, social and electoral
obligations providing vast and valuable experience.
Mobitel (PVT) LTD
Colombo, Sri Lanka
2002 - 2011
General Manager – Network & Service Quality
- Directly reporting to the CEO. Member of the Senior Management Team; the Decision making and
Governing body of the company.
Manager – Network & Service Quality
- Formulate the service quality goals for the organization.
- Overall responsibility of monitoring and establishing appropriate service quality in terms of
industry expectations.
- Establishing and reviewing benchmarks with regard to service quality and performing gap
analyses.
- Establishing and implementing systems where service quality meets both external and internal
requirements including legal compliance and customer expectations and creating as well as
monitoring frameworks where service quality can be a key differentiator to win market share.
Engineer - Transmission Planning
- Supervision and optimization of the island wide transmission network. Played a key role when the
network was being migrated to GSM from TDMA.
LANGUAGES
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Sinhalese - Mother tongue
English - Good
Russian - Intermediate
Swedish - Beginner
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
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Proficient in Transmission Planning; site surveys, LOS visits, Link budget calculation, frequency
allocation.
Proficient in TEMS software used for MW planning. Site sharing. Sub frequency bands and sport
frequencies.
Proficient Microsoft Office, Adobe, Windows, MAC OS X, PowerPoint, Internet and Database
researching, HTML.
Represented Mobitel in evaluating the vendors for 3G Migration in site visits to Melbourne, Zhen
Gang, Hong Kong, Singapore and Athens.
Successfully completed the Executive Program: “Achieving Excellence through Superior Service”
conducted by the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.
Participated in the Network Evaluation Summit in Singapore
Completion of overseas training in TEMS link, Mini Link Operation and Maintenance, Mini Link
TN, HC and E system in Sweden and Malaysia.
PERSONAL INTERESTS
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Social Work
Badminton, Cricket and Chess
Spending time with family, friends and take care of pets