Suranjana Abeysinghe

•Provided technical support, promoting coatings to Architects and Engineers. •Operated island wide color mixing centers and provided an efficient technical service. •Conducted workshops and in-house programmes on wood coatings, interior and exterior wall paints, metal coatings, epoxy floor paints and water proofing compounds. •Expertise in Wood Coatings and hands on application including spraying enabled in marketing of products.

•Developed new products in PVDF and Polyester systems including metallic and pearlescent shades and evaluated products for accelerated weathering tests. •Developed products in PVDF spray coatings (Extrusion). •Visited coil lines and reported Technical issues to Technical Manager (Asia Pacific in Australia) and received positive feedback and implemented remedial actions. •Established the marketing opportunity of coil products to Saudi Arabia’s biggest steel producer Hadded Cooperation.

•Reported to Business development manager and overall responsibility of quality assurance and quality control activities in coil coating paints. •Liaised with customers regarding quality specifications and ensured batches manufactured in Polyester, Epoxy and PVDF paints conform to the specifications. •Cost reduction and formula maintenance of batches.

•Issued quality control batch cards for product manufacturing. •Made adjustments in production batches for color and physical properties, achieve final product specifications and issued product test certificates to customers. •Matched color (Solid, Metallic and Pearlescent) with computer aided software. •Reduced the batch cycle time of coil batches by computer color matching methods. •Reduced the large stocks of part generated paints to almost noth

•Gained Awareness of ISO 17025 Laboratory procedures and experienced on maintaining a laboratory under ISO 17025 procedures. •Tested fuels as per ASTM /IP standards using viscometers, flash point testers, bomb calorimeters. •Tested metals in petroleum products using atomic absorbance spectrophotometers. • Knowledge on expressing/deriving uncertainitites. •Achieved the accreditation of the laboratory for testing fuels by Sri Lanka Standard Institution.

•Regularly involved in quality control functions and also on continuous improvement of quality testing as an active team member. •Used expertise on finding surface area/Pore size distribution of activated carbon by BET N2 adsorption isotherms using gas chromatograph and surface area analyzers. •Conducted flue gas analysis of activation kilns using gas Chromatograph. •Audited various departments as an internal auditor

Chemistry Special Applied maths and Physics