Sunday, February 21, 2016

Sitecore Footsteps Chaturanga Ranatunga Wins Sitecore MVP 2016

Sitecore Footsteps' Chaturanga Ranatunga wins Sitecore Most Valuable Professional Award 2016. He became the First Sitecore MVP from Sri Lanka.



Sitecore Newsletter :
http://www.sitecore.net/learn/blogs/best-practice-blogs/pieter-brinkman/posts/2016/02/announcing-2016-sitecore-mvp-awards.aspx

Full MVP list can be found at Sitecore MVP website


Brief History about my journey...


I started my Sitecore journey in 2010 and doing my Sitecore certification on March 2011 with Sitecore 6.4. At the beginning of my Sitecore carrier, I worked with and read blogs by awesome Sitecore MVPs. And it was more than 4 years ago, I was thinking what if I could become a one of those guys, the Sitecore MVP.

My work for the previous year...


 Blogs
http://sitecorefootsteps.blogspot.com 
- 41 blog posts for 2015 (overall 60 blog posts)
User Group Contributions
Sitecore User Group Sri Lanka - SUGSL
- Initiator & Co-Founder of the user group
Presentations
Sitecore Development Basics - March Meetup - SUGSL
- http://www.sugsl.com/march-meetup-look-into-sitecore-development-basics-event-report/
Introduction to Sitecore - April Meetup - SUGSL
- http://www.sugsl.com/growing-the-sitecore-community-april-meetup-event-report/
YouTube Videos
"Sitecore For Dummies" YouTube Channel 
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOEkI9lPwX8Z6E66bwimr2A
 - 23 small videos published
Sitecore Marketplace Modules
https://marketplace.sitecore.net/Modules/L/Lang_Item_State_Change_Workflow_Action.aspx
https://marketplace.sitecore.net/Modules/Q/Quick_Info_Tooltip.aspx
Sitecore Community Forum
http://community.sitecore.net 
- top 1% in the community forum with lot of answers/posts/questions
Social Media
Sitecore knowledge share on Facebook/Twitter/Linkedin

People who helped me on my way...


My Team at IFS
Ola, Jon, Thomas, Henrik, Buddhika, Thisara, Asanka, Pradeep, Nalin

Michael Shaw
Helping me to setup Sitecore User Group Sri Lanka with lot of advices/encouragements/publicity

Michael Reynolds
Sitecore fashionate guy with lot of advices/help/encouragements. Also help us by presenting at our user group.

Nikola Gutsew / Matthew Kenny / Sen Guptha / Matthew Tilbury / Hiruna Dissanayake
Help us by presenting at our user group.

John West/Pieter Brinkman
Lot of kind advices/encouragement when I just send them emails requesting information

Klaus Petersen / Alex Shyba
My early stage online and offline motivators through their expertises & contributions

My Friends/Colleagues at Codehouse
Including Pasan, Prageeth, Udara, Ashan and all

My Friends/colleagues at HSBC
Including Hirantha, Indika, Dilanka and all

Our Friends at Virtusa
Including Anuradha, Shehan and all


It was a long list. But without them, I will not have to write this post. :-)


Thank You!!
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