Uditha Jayawardhane's Linkedin Analytics

Experienced Information Security professional with overall 20 years of IT experience and 14 years of IT Security experience. Key Highlights: • Twenty years of hands on experience in IT, including fourteen years of experience in Information Security Management, Governance Management and Risk Management. • Excellent hands-on experience on information security risk management standards (ISO 31000, AS/NZS4360 and RiskIT), information security framework standards (BS7799, ISO17799, ISO2700x Series & COBIT 4.x, ISM, PSPF) and operational & service delivery standards (ITIL and ValIT) • General awareness on PCI-DSS standards and compliance requirements. • Hands on experience in developing, implementing and managing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans and processes. • Excellent written and verbal skills to express security ideas or concepts proficiently to promote buy-in from all stakeholders in their own language. • Analytical and proactive approach to problem solving by collaboratively working with other expertise in various teams and using own researching capabilities to find various alternatives to achieve a resolution when faced with challenges. • Excellent customer relationship skills enable me to develop excellent rapport with customers, leading to a trust-advisor relationship. • Outstanding communication skills with the capacity to successfully influence at all levels by articulate and expressive in conveying a thought or idea to an audience and ability in translating technical requirements to business understandable context with value propositions to the business as well as translating business requirements to technical context with business logics and processes. • Excellent project management skills and awareness on project management methodologies. • Excellent mentoring skill. • Ability to respond to change. • Quick and self learner – always willing to learn and apply new things. • Hands-on experience in leading teams