EXPERIENCE :

• Joined RRL/IMMT as technical asst. on 03/10/1989 in Special Materials Dept. Now rename as Advanced Materials Technology Dept. Served there till 30/04/2009.
• In-charge, IMMT Central Workshop from 01/05/2009 to 17/01/2012. During this period installed and commissioned the CNC Lathe, CNC Milling, CNC Wire EDM and MIG & TIG welding machines.
• Inspection of radiological medical equipment.
• NDT by using MPT and LPT techniques.
• Mineral Processing Dept- Now working as Sr. Technical Officer (3) in this dept.
• Commissioning and operation of mineral processing equipment.

• Technical support for installation, commissioning and operation of minerals processing equipment.
• Design and drafting of engineering drawing by using AutoCAD.
• NDT by using MPT and LPT techniques.
• Inspection of radiological medical equipment.

• 3rd prize/Bronze medal (First ever medal for RRL/IMMT) in 100m race in 3rd CSIR athletic meet 1993 held at CECRI, Karaikudi.
• 3rd prize/Bronze medal in Javelin throw in 4th CSIR athletic meet 1995 held at CMERI, Durgapur.

• Minerals to metals for sustainability of development.
• Characterization and beneficiation of low grade iron ores and agglomeration of fine concentrate.
• Optimization of iron ore beneficiation plant to enhance the iron recovery.
• Development of pilot scale pelletisation technology for Indian goethitic/hematite ore with varying degree of fineness.
• Pelletisation study on the mixture of iron ore slimes and iron ore fines.
• Beneficiation of BMQ ore in wet process in pilot scale level.
• Process flow sheet development for beneficiation of low grade iron ore.
• Beneficiation of low grade iron ore fine.
• Optimization of iron ore beneficiation plant to enhance the iron recovery.
• Production of TiO2 rich slag by melt separation of iron from pre-reduced ilmenite of Kerala coast using thermal plasma.
• Setting up a pilot plant demonstration unit (30kg/hr) for production of synthetic rutile, pig iron and high purity iron oxide from ilmenite concentration using plasma technology.
• CSIR-AERB project on medical X-ray equipment.
• Preparation of fused WC.
• Assessment of present state of health of coach wheel discs for surface discontinuities of Easr Coast Railway.
• Production of plasma spray grade powder by jet wheel impact atomization.