Research Manager
Nuwan is the Project Director for LIRNEasia’s mobile health-related project: Evaluating a Real-Time Biosurveillance Program: A Pilot Project. As a Senior Researcher at LIRNEasia, he has begun developing an abstract framework for comparing and contrasting early-warning systems with an aim towards classifying early-warning systems. He is also the Director of Spot On Solutions, which provides specialized affordable “service type” information technology enterprise planning solutions using Free and Open Source Software, especially targeting the small and medium industries in Sri Lanka. FOSS initiatives have much collaboration with the Lanka Software Foundation.
Nuwan is advising the Sarvodaya Community Radio Program, which is aiming to sustain the WorldSpace satellite radio channel for community development and emergency communication. He was the Researcher/Project Manager for LIRNEasia’s disaster related project Evaluating Last-Mile Hazard Information Dissemination in Sri Lanka (also termed as the HazInfo project). He was a founding member of the post-tsunami-work volunteer group: Community Focused Disaster Response, an ongoing project focused on giving the people in Komari, of the East-coast of Sri Lanka, a better life. He also played an instrumental role in launching and developing Infocraft Limited as the IT arm of one of the largest conglomerates, Hayleys Ltd Sri Lanka, with expertise in software engineering, management and operations research.
Previously he worked as a Business Analyst for Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology and headed the team that developed an IT Master Plan for the Coconut Charcoal Activated Carbon Manufacturing Organization: Haycarb Limited. He began his career in the IT industry working as an Analyst Programmer for APS Healthcare and developing clinical/health manage care software solutions in the USA. He has also worked as an Instructor in Operations Research at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Montana, USA and an Analyst Programmer at the Montana World Trade Center, Montana, USA.
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