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Educational Background:

PhD - Cyberpsychology, IIT Delhi.

LL.B., Karnataka State Law University (KSLU), Approved by Bar Council of India.

MBA., International Business, Madurai Kamaraj University, India

Diploma in Cyber Law, Asian School of Cyber Law, Pune, India  

PG Dip. in Enterprise Risk Management, ICFAI University, India

PG Dip.in Human Resource Management, Karnataka State Open University, Mysore, India 

M Phil in Psychology, University of Madras, Chennai, India

Post Graduation in Applied Psychology, PSG CAS, Coimbatore, India

Graduate of Psychology, PSG CAS, Coimbatore, India.

 


  
Academic Distinction/Awards :

a) Awarded for the outstanding performance in Applied Psychology Programme, 1993.

b) 1st rank in Post Graduate (Applied Psychology) programme,1993.

c) Smt. PRATIBHA KUMAR AWARD for the best research paper, Industrial Psychiatry Association of India, 1993.

d) DRDO YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD-2003 

e) Appreciation -Director,Center for Leadership and Behavioural Studies,Training Command, Indian Navy, 2003.

f) Appreciaiton - Director of Personnel, DRDO HQrs, Ministry Of Defence, Delhi. For Training program on PTSD for Tsunami Victims, 2006.
Professional Experience :

1. 1997-1999: Air Force Psychologist.

2. 1999-2001: Psychologist,  NPRU, Defence R & D Organisation.

3. 1999-2008: Naval Psychologist.

4. 2007-2008 : Head, Project Management, Tecnical Coordination & Technical   Information Services,DIPR, New Delhi.

5. 2001-2008 : Faculty in Leadership Training Programmes, Personnel Assessment, Stress Inoculation Training, Self Development Programs for Armed Forces Officers

 6. 2008 - Present :Military Psychologist.

 

Professional Certifications
 1.   DISC Profiling through Thomas International Personal Profile Analysis (PPA), May 2007                                                                            

 2.  16PF-5 Certification through Ma Foi Consultants, Chennai, Aug 2007

3.  Tests for Selection & Training (TST)- ThomasInternational,May 2007.                                                                                                                                                                                                      4.Team Analysis System (TAS) - Thomas International, May 2007.

5.  Edward De Bono workshop on Creativity and Lateral thinking, Sep 2007.

Research Publuications/ Participation in National Conferences

Publications

a. A study on mental health if industrial employees, Published in The Creative Psychologist, 1993,5,1&2,47-52.

b. Comparison of mental health among the different age groups industrial employees, Published in Journal of Psychological Researches Sep. 1993,37,3,30-34.

c. A study on some factors for absenteeism among textile workers, published in Industrial Psychiatry Journal 1993,5,2,65-70.

d. A study of Job Stress as related to mental health, Published in Personality Study and Group Behaviour 1994,14,55-61.

e. AIDS Awareness among college students, Published in The Creative Psychologist , 1994,6,1&2,57-62.

f. A study on Job Satisfaction among the textile workers as related to their job stress, Published in Indian Journal of Applied Psychology,1994,31,2,43-46.

g.Traumatic Stress Among Tsunami Victims (2006).  Book Chapter in Recent Trends in Human Resource Management, Global Vision, New Delhi, 67-72.

h.Replicability of `Big-Five’ factors in the Revised NEO Personality Inventory: Exploratory Factor Analysis(2007). Book Chapter in Psychological Assessment in Personnel Selection, DIPR, DRDO, Delhi. 157-164.

i. The effect of Positive Therapy in Managing the Managerial Stress(2009). Journal of Psychological Research, 53(1), 55-59.



Participation in Seminar , Workshops and Conferences

a) National symposium on Psycho-social, medical and Biological aspects of ageing-August 9th and 10th 1990, held at PSG college or arts and Science, Coimbatore.

b) National Seminar on ageing - December 23rd and 24th 1991, held at PSG college or Arts and Science, Coimbatore.

c) National Seminar on Multidisplinary approach to ageing and its associated problems, 23rd and 24th December 1992, held at PSG College or Arts and Science, Coimbatore.

d)VI National Annual Conference of Behavioural Medicine Society of India and NIMHANS workshop of stress, June 28-29,1992 held at national Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience Bangalore and presented a programme on "A STUDY ON SOME FACTORS FOR SMOKING HABIT".

e) 80th session of Indian Science Congress Association 3rd to 8th January 1993, held at National Institute of Osceanography,Goa and presented a paper on "A STUDY ON MENTAL HEALTH OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYEES".

f) VIIth Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatric of India . 10th and 11th April ,1993 held at Cuttack and presented a paper on "A STUDY ON SOME FACTORS FOR ABSENTEEISM AMONG TEXTILE WORKERS"

g) IXth Annual Conference of Psychiatric Society (Tamil Nadu Chapter) held on 30th and 31st July 1994 at Coimbatore Medical Collegehospital, Coimbatore and presented a paper on "AIDS AWARENESS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS".

h) The National Conference of the Psychology of well-being held from 19th and 21st October 1994 at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore and presented a paper on "A STUDY ON JOB SATISFACTION AMONG THE TEXTILE WORKERS AS RELATED TO THEIR JOB STRESS".

i) National Seminar on Psychology in India - Past,Present and Future 22nd,23rd and 24th october 2001 Department of Psychology FMN College ,Kollam Kerela , India.

j) National Seminar on Technological Development and Psychosocial changes march 1-3-2002. Departmental Of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, JAmia Milloa Islamia University, Delhi, India and presented a paper on "Insearch of excellence - Quality within sel: A traditional Indian Approach"

k) VII International & 38 National Conference of Indian Academy of Applied Psychology october 2003. Department of Psychology, JNV University, Jodhpur, India and presented a paper on "The failing Aviator:Human Factors in Piolting Performance"

l)Participated and presented a paper entitled  `Cognitive Casualties and Cockpit Automation : Human Factors in Piloting’ at Life Sciences Scientists Conference held at Defence Food Research Laboratory, Mysore.

m) 10th International & 41st National Conference of IAAP, February 2006, held at NITTTR, Chennai. Co-authored a paper entitled 'Emotional Intelligence, happiness and Anxiety Among College Students : A Correlational Study'

n) National Seminar on Psychophysiology of Well-Being, March 2006, held at MD University, Rohtak. Participated and presented a paper entitled 'Select Affective Predictors of Emotional Intelligence'

o)All India Standasrdisation Exercise, Conference held at Selection Centre East, Feb 2008, Allahabad.

p) War Quotient and Corporate Leadership Quotient : Biographical narrative Interviewing Vs Competency based Interviewing, paper included for presentation in Interviewing Officers Conference, Defence Institute of Psychological Research, Delhi 17-18 Aug`09.

q)Gf and Gc: Implications for Personnel Assessment, presented at `Selection of Potential officers: Challenges in Psychological Assessment, Workshop for Psychologists’ held at selection centre Central, Bhopal. 10-12 Sep`09.

r)Progressive Group Obstacle Race (PG0R),  psychological inputs were given for the paper presented at GTOs Seminar  held at selection Centre East, Allahabad, 14-16 Nov`09.

s)Personality in Relation to Select Dimensions of Positive Psychological Functioning: A Pilot Study among Indian Teens. Workshop in Recent Developments in Positive Psychology, IIT/D, Delhi 15 Jan `10.

t)Soldiering in 21st Century: Competency Testing as a Specialist Strategy for Officers Selection. Technical paper presented to DG MP&PS, Lt.Gen Chaturvedi, at SCS, Bangalore. 01 Jun `10.




Training Programs & Courses Attended:

1)Attended a course on IT BASED MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM at Institute of Technology Management, Mussoorie, during 20 Oct- 24Oct 2004

2)Attended a Course on `EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AT WORK PLACE’ under continuing Education Program of DRDO held at DIPR from 15 to 19 Sep 2003.

3)Attended a CEP Course on `PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS’ held at Defence Institute of Psychological Research from 07 to 11 Oct 2002.


4)Attended a Course on `FOSTERING CREATIVITY AT WORK PLACE’ under continuing Education Program of DRDO held at DIPR from 08 to 12 July 2002.

5) Attended a Course on `E-PUBLISHING & TECHNICAL EDITING' held at Defence Scientific Information & Documentation Centre, Delhi during 19-23 Dec 2005.

6) Attended a Course on ` MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING' held at Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Scienes, Delhi, during 09-13 Jan 2006.

1.           7)  E-Publishing & Technical Editing (Dec 2005),DIPR,Delhi

2.    8) Dynamic Decision Making Techniques (Aug 2007), DIPR, Delhi. 

9) Test development for Personnel Selection (Aug 2007),DIPR,Delhi.

10) Applied Qualitative Analysis, Capsule course at Defence Institute of Psychological Research, Delhi 04-08 Aug`08.

11)Hands-on Sex Therapy & Counseling, workshop held at Medisex Foundation, Bangalore,19-21 Dec`08.

12)Hypnotherapy for Change, workshop held by Bangalore Hypnosis Institute, 14 & 15 Feb `09

13)Application of Statistics in Research. Capsule course at Defence Institute of Psychological Research, Delhi 15-19 Feb `10.

14)Targetted Training on Item Response Theory&Computer Adaptive Testing (Feb 2011). DIPR, Delhi. 

 
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