Formal Brief Resume

Present Position: Consultant, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria

Professional experience

International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna:

2009 - present: In Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Material Section responsible for Uranium resources and production, Best Practices in Uranium Production Cycle and Technical Cooperation with Member States.

Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research, India:

2007 - 2009: As part of Planning and Management Services Group (PMSG) responsible for strategic planning of nuclear fuel cycle activities. Also into knowledge management design and implementation.

1997 – 2006: Associated with Data Centre, Southern Region, Bangalore. Involved with IT enabling of the organization including network administration, database administration, and use of computers geological, scientific data analysis and visualization. Areas of strengths include Operating Systems, Databases, GIS, Digital Images Processing, Graphics, Multimedia and Web development. Also associated with IT security management and development of e-learning modules. Developed various software packages for accounts and administration sections. Well versed in the hardware maintenance and repairs of computers.

1995 – 1997: Uranium exploration in Southern parts of Cuddapah Basin, Andhra Pradesh.

1988 – 1995: Uranium exploration as part of the team that developed the uranium deposits of Mahadek Basin, Meghalaya.

Other professional activities:

-Promoted the use of Open Source Software in servers and desktops and in application development for both Windows and Linux platforms.
-Conducted training / competency development in computer applications.
-Conducted 12 week training "Enabling scientific research with Linux.
-Indian languages facilitation in computer applications.

Publications:

-30 research papers in various national / international journals.
-Articles in newspapers and periodicals related to nuclear energy issues, society and development, environment, IT issues etc

Professional memberships:

-Fellow, Geological Society of India, Bangalore,
-Fellow, Gondwana Geological Society, Nagpur
-Member, American Geophysical Union
-Member, National Geographical Society
-Member, Bangalore Linux Users Group

Interests:

1. Use of Open Source Software technology in all spheres of IT.
2. Implementation of convergent technologies for mass communication and education.
3. Use of VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) in geological visualizations.
4. IT enabled Human resources development for personnel working in hazardous and difficult environments.
5. Benchmarking of Environmental Research related to nuclear development
6. Nuclear Energy vis-à-vis global climatic change.
7. Natural Analogy Studies for Nuclear Waste Management
8. Knowledge Management in Mineral Exploration

Education: B.Sc: Physics, Chemistry, Geology University of Kerala 1984; M.Sc: Geology University of Kerala 1986

Fellowships:

-CSIR, Junior Research Fellowship (Earth Sciences), 1987

Research experience:

-1987 – 1988: Research in Sedimentology, Dept of Geology, University of Kerala

A boring sketch

I am Tulsidas Harikrishnan (T.Harikrishnan)
I have basically three (or four) skills:

I am a Professinal Geologist

I am a self made IT man

I write on technology and developmental issues

I also ponder on the reality beyond our preception

I have done a few things so far:

About 17 years of mineral exploration

Published about 25 technical papers in reputed journals

About 15 articles in popular journals and magazines

A few verses in English (unpuplished and never will be)

Done software development, hardware repairs, networking, network adminisration, web development

Delivered lectures and workshops on open source software

Conducted computer and software training programmes

Web published some ancient sanskrit manuscripts on the facets of reality beyond our preception.

I also

Was born in India (Trivandrum or Thiruvanantapuram, Kerala)in 1963

Went to Nirmala Bhavan School, Trivandrum for primary school

Attended St.Joseph's, Trivandrum for high school

Got some medals in athletics, drama, story writing, fancy dress

Was a Boy Scount (Navel Wing)

Was in National Cadet Crops (NCC) Air Wing

Got admitted in Government Arts College, Trivandrum for pre-degree

Sucessfully completed B.Sc with Geology as major from University College, Trivandrum

Finally got a M.Sc from Univesity of Kerala in Geology in 1988

Was active in geoscientific debating society at Department of Geology

Pursued a course in Creative Writing in English

Did two years of research in coastal morphodynamics (and still is in the path of a Ph.D....)

Saw a PC in 1987

Was active in student politics (unsucessfully contested for a student membership seat in University Senate)

Was active in many socio-cultural forums

Learned some Yoga, TM, and Palmistry

Learned some traditional martial arts from Masters of Kerala style

Was initiated (not formally) in the path of spirtuality by the Masters in the disiplic sucsession of Lord Chaithnya

My Professional track:

Joined Atomic Minerals Division (now Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research, India in 1988.

For the first seven years did detailed uranium exploration (exploratory drilling, detailed mapping)in Northeastern region, Shillong.

Presently working in more or less in the same field in Southern region, Bangalore

Also is in Datacentre, which looks into all the IT needs

My family:

Wife - Sawitha Harikrishnan, Ph.D (Organizational Behavior)

Two daughters - Srilakshmi (11 years) and Meenakshi (9 years)

I hope to peserve a saga of my activities here so that I or someone daring enough can come and ponder over some of my thoughts. No satisfaction guaranteed.