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