There are hearsay and innuendo on Gotabhya Rajapaksa's (current Presidents) purportedly lack of education. So decided to check, thats far from the truth.
Gotabaya served as an army officer for 20 years.
Then after retiring from the army, got himself a Post Graduate Diploma in Information technology from University of Colombo. To do this about turn in career and at the age of 43 shows perseverance, discipline and intelligence.
He then had a 6 year stint as Marketing Manager at Informatics Ltd, one of the biggest Information technology companies in Sri Lanka. With that emigrated to the US in 1998 (Y2K computer job boom ?) and was a Unix System Administrator for Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA for 7 years.
For those who dont know what a Unix Sys admin entails, needs very logical thinking and discipline, many times more that a regular programmer. The mission critical backbone of the institution is dependent on the Unix servers and its administration. It pays well too USD 120,000/year.
Anyway a synopsis of Gotabaya's career (More detailed info on LinkedIn and Wiki)
Born: 20 June 1949
1971-1991 (age 22-42) Commissioned Officer, SL Army
1992 (age 43) Post Graduate Diploma in Information technology, University of Colombo
1992-1998 (age 43 -49) Marketing Manager, Informatics Ltd
1998-2005 (age 49-56) System Administrator, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gotabaya-rajapaksa/
Gotabaya served as an army officer for 20 years.
Then after retiring from the army, got himself a Post Graduate Diploma in Information technology from University of Colombo. To do this about turn in career and at the age of 43 shows perseverance, discipline and intelligence.
He then had a 6 year stint as Marketing Manager at Informatics Ltd, one of the biggest Information technology companies in Sri Lanka. With that emigrated to the US in 1998 (Y2K computer job boom ?) and was a Unix System Administrator for Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA for 7 years.
For those who dont know what a Unix Sys admin entails, needs very logical thinking and discipline, many times more that a regular programmer. The mission critical backbone of the institution is dependent on the Unix servers and its administration. It pays well too USD 120,000/year.
Anyway a synopsis of Gotabaya's career (More detailed info on LinkedIn and Wiki)
Born: 20 June 1949
1971-1991 (age 22-42) Commissioned Officer, SL Army
1992 (age 43) Post Graduate Diploma in Information technology, University of Colombo
1992-1998 (age 43 -49) Marketing Manager, Informatics Ltd
1998-2005 (age 49-56) System Administrator, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gotabaya-rajapaksa/
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