Main Intelligent Transport System (ITS) Consultant of Expressway projects of Road Development Authority (RDA) – Sri Lanka
Former Consultant – to
Director General of Telecommunications Regulatory Commission – Sri Lanka
Senior Lecturer – ( Visiting )
University of Moratuwa
University of Kelaniya
KMITL University in Bangkok
SAITM – Malabe, Sri Lanka
Manodha graduated his first degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering with honors from the University Moratuwa – Sri Lanka in 1998. He started his career at Sri Lanka Telecom as a Telecommunications Engineer and deployed the first ever Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN) in Sri Lanka. In the year 2000 he was awarded the Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbugakusho) study in Japan and he obtained his MEng and PhD in Telecommunications and networks engineering from the University of Electro-communications, Tokyo, Japan in 2003 and 2006 respectively.
After graduating the PhD, he joined Freescale Semiconductor Japan Ltd., (former Motorola) as a “Systems Engineer” & was involved in designing & developing base station/infrastructure for 3G/HSPA/LTE, WiMAX etc. & providing telecom infrastructure (such as NGN) solutions for leading operators like NTT Docomo, KDDI etc. (4 years until end 2009). He has vast experience in working in projects with leading international vendors such as Fujitsu, NEC, Ericsson, ZTE, Huawei and Tier 1 operators such as NTT Docomo, KDDI, NTT etc.
He plays a key role in the telecommunications industry in Sri Lanka as a leading trainer, consultant and an academic since his return to Sri Lanka in 2010. He served as the consultant to the Director General –Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRCSL) from June 2010 – October 2012. He was actively involved in many projects (providing leadership) namely National Backbone Network (NBN), IPv6 Working Group in Sri Lanka, Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) and Automation of TRCSL Systems, National Certification Authority, Advanced IT Park – Hambantota, National Cyber Security System etc. He is also a Leading Industrial Trainer in the fields of Telecommunications/Networking/Cyber Security /ICT, who has trained over 1000 engineers/technical officers of the leading Telco Operators in Sri Lanka (i.e. SLT, Dialog, Mobitel, Etisalat, Airtel, Hutch, LankaBell etc.). He also conducts training courses outside Sri Lanka too.
Manodha is a consultant to Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) highways in Sri Lanka. He is also a consulting partner for leading Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI)
His current research interests are in Mobile communications, IP related networking, Data Communications and Cyber Security.