Biodata

Experience

Working as Knowledge Management Executive with SunTec Business Solutions, Trivandrum from May 2006 till date
Worked as Library& Website Management Specialist with Urban Health Resource Centre (formerly Environmental Health Project), New Delhi, a USAID supported non-profit, from November 2004 to April 2006
Worked as Information Officer with Help Age India, New Delhi from November 2002 to September 2004.

Professional Qualification

2001-02: Associateship in Information Science, an advanced level post-graduate course (equivalent to Master of Library & Information Science) from National Institute for Science Communication & Information Resources (formerly INSDOC), New Delhi, a constituent unit of CSIR, Govt. of India.

Educational Qualification

2001 M.Sc. in Physics from School of Pure & Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala in with First Class (60%)

1998 B.Sc. Physics with 82% (M.G. University, Kerala)

1995 Pre-degree (PCM) with 80% (M.G. University, Kerala)

1993 Matriculation with 90% (Kerala State Board)

Publications

Managing Information Sources on the Internet Using WebBiblio Subject Gateway System in Perspectives on knowledge management (2008), S.381-390 by Scarecrow Press Inc. (Ed. I V Malhan and Shivarama Rao K)
WebBiblio Subject Gateway System: An Open Source Solution for Internet Resources Management- Presented at the National Convention on Library and Information Networking (NACLIN 2005), Bangalore organized by DELNET from 22^nd-25^th August 2005

Training Programs Attended

National Workshop on Building Digital Libraries conducted by Jaypee Institute of Technology, Noida from June 17-18, 2005
Management Development Programme on Digital Libraries conducted by IIM, Kozhikode from September 16-18, 2002.
Orientation camp conducted by the Dept. of Education, Kerala for the Gifted Students of the State in 1989.

Achievements

Developed an open source subject gateway software WebBiblio which is hosted by Sourceforge.net, world’s largest open source development platform
Developed Urban Health Gateway, a web-based subject gateway for USAID-supported Urban Health Programme in India, using WebBiblio. Urban Health Gateway is featured in the UNESCO-report Open Access to Knowledge and Information : Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives -South Asian Scenario