Sumanenthiran CV

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CV of T Sumanenthiran Environmental analyst , Environmental Scientist

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Name : Thavajoganathan Sumanenthiran

Date of Birth : 20th

May 1982

Education

Profession and

Skills

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M. Sc in Environmental Science, Postgraduate Institute of Science,

University of Peradeniya (2010)

B. Sc in Environmental Science (special degree) with Second class (lowerdivision) Vavuniya Campus, University of Jaffna.( 2007)

Environmental analyst , Environmental Scientist

Other Training : Toured the USA in March-April 2009 as a short-term scholar on theinvitation of the bureau of educational and cultural affairs, StateDepartment, USA. The scholarship included the following programs andtraining:

Conflict management skills workshop conducted by theUnited States Institute of peace (USIP), Washington DC,U.S.A

Sri Lanka conference on the Global perspectives ofdemocracy conducted by the Thomas JeffersonsUniversity of Verginia in Charolttesville, Virginia, U.S.A

Shadow internship with organizations working for therights of marginalized communities in the Washington DC.Meetings with diplomats and other professionals (formersecretary of states, academics, congressional staffs,congress men, other governmental officials and leadinginstitutes such as ACLU, AJC, CAIR, IRI, IDI, Brookinginstitute, etc) in Washington DC.

Countries of Work

Experience

: Sri Lanka and United States of America (Short term training)

Languages Skills : Speaking Reading Writing

English Excellent Excellent Excellent

Tamil Excellent Excellent Excellent

Sinhala Excellent Good Fair

Employment Record

From August 2009 : To date

Employer : EML Consultants (Pvt) Limited

Position Held : Project Manager cum Research officer

From July 2009 : August 2009


Position Held : Provincial coordinator

From May 2009 : To: July 2009


Position Held : Team leader

From May 2008 : To: April 2009


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Position Held : Senior Program officer

From January 2009 : To: March 2009

Employer : EML Consultants (PVT) Ltd

Position Held : Project Coordinator

From April 2006 : To: December 2007

Employer : Research Council of Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna

Position Held : Primary and Co-researcher

Detailed Tasks

Assigned

Work Undertaken that Best Illustrates Capability to Handle the Tasks

Assigned

Name of Assignment or Project: Initial Environmental Examination

Year: October 2010 November 30th

2010

Location: MAdulkella, Kandy

Client: Madulkella Eco lodge(Pvt) Ltd

Main Project Features:

Position Held: Freelance consultant

Activity performed:

Prepared the complete IEE report

Name of Assignment or Project: National Survey in grass root levelperspective on state reformationYear: March 2010 July 31

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Location: all Island25 district of Sri Lanka

Client: International Center for ethnic Studies (ICES)

Main Project Features: conducting questionnaire survey in 25 districts of

Sri Lanka. This survey is funded by World Bank. The sample number is

3500.

Position Held: Project Manager

Activity performed:

Preparing the sampling framework

Preparing the database in MS excel and MS Access

Conducting training for enumerators

Monitoring and field coordination of the field work

Budget preparation

Financial management of the survey

Monitoring of the database entry


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Preparing the progress reports and final reports

Name of Assignment or Project: North East Local Service

Improvement Project (NELSIP) - Social Impact AssessmentYear: April 2010 July 31

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Location: North and Eastern Province of Sri Lanka

Client: Ministry of Nation building

Main Project Features: The North-East Local Services Improvement

Project (NESLIP) assisted by the World Bank, aims at strengthening

local government institutions to develop their fiscal, institutional

and human resources to make them more accountable and

effective providing the services to the public in the war affected

areas and areas with IDPs who are gradually returning to their

homes after the war. Social Impact Assessments (SIA) is becoming

an integral part of the overall project planning and implementation

process of most of the World Bank funded projects. SIA is a tool

and methodology to measure the degree of impacts and probable

consequences due to the projects that have greater social and

human dimensions. By conducting SIAs, the World Bank expects not

only to identify intended direct and indirect benefits of the

projects to various stakeholders including the project beneficiaries,

but also ways and means to minimize negative social impacts

through mitigation measures.

Position Held: Project Manager

Activity performed:

Project management

Conducting focal group meetings

Conducting interviews with local government officials

Conducting workshops

Name of Assignment or Project: Research Project on Climate Change

- Impact on transport infrastructures due to Sea level Rise

Year: July 2009 to October 2009

Location: Kelaniya Negombo

Client:Climate Change Division - Ministry of Environment & Natural

Resources, Government of Sri Lanka

Main Project Features: studying the impact of predicted sea level rise

including the transport infrastructure that are located within the 1

m contour from the MSL and other interconnected main services

and operations that could also be affected due to the impact on


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transport within the study area

Position Held: Research officer

Activity performed:

Literature review on Global scenario of Climate changeField assistantship

Data analysis

Report writing

Assignment or Project: The Present Condition Survey of Night Soil

Treatment at Local Authorities of Sri Lanka on the Capacity Upgrading

Project

Year: July 2009 to October 2009

Location: North and eastern province

Client: NSWMCS Office- Ministry of Local Governement, Governmentof Sri Lanka

Main Project Features: The objective of this survey is to get the detailed

information by directed interview survey from Local Authorities at the site

and site visiting surveys, in order to study the feasibility of the

construction of night soil treatment facility at candidate sites. This

detailed information will consist of; Collection of night soil, Treatment of

collected night soil, Availability of candidate sites, Environmental and

Social issues. The survey area covers seventy two (72) local authorities

identified as the candidate sites. I covered 20 LAsPosition Held: Provincial CoordinatorActivity performed:

The questionnaire provided will contain the information on collection and

treatment of night soil, environmental and social issues and the

availability of candidate sites for the treatment plant.

The key informant interviews will be conducted with the Chairman or the

Mayor of the local authority and PHI, MoH and Environmental officer to

get both political and public views of the matter.

Name of Assignment or Project: Local Authority Capacity Building &

Public Education of the Environmental Restoration Project

Year: May 2009 to July 2009

Location: Ampara

Client: UNOPS / EU

Main Project Features: The solid waste management component of this

project aims to address the chronic solid waste situation in Ampara

District by implementing an effective system which builds on existing

structures and maximizes collective efforts of different stakeholders,

implements new appropriate technologies and promotes environmental

standards. .

Position Held: Team Leader


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Activities Performed:

Institutional capacity building for the Local authorities

Community awareness and development

Designing and conducting social survey for the willingness to payfor the solid waste management collection

Reporting to the head office and client

Providing recommendation and suggestion from field knowledge

Investigating the field situation for project implementation

Establishing a communication channels with Local authorities

Name of Assignment or Project: Local Authority Capacity Building &

Public Education of the Environmental Restoration Project

Year: May 2008 to April 2009

Location: AmparaClient: UNOPS / EU

Main Project Features: The solid waste management component of this

project aims to address the chronic solid waste situation in Ampara

District by implementing an effective system which builds on existing

structures and maximizes collective efforts of different stakeholders,

implements new appropriate technologies and promotes environmental

standards. .

Position Held: Senior Programme Officer


Carryout rapid situational assessment

Develop plan for existing system improvement

Training on participation technologies

Initiate and engage community in SWM with the LA

Develop general awareness campaign materials

Develop specific campaign materials

Prepare materials with the consent of LAs and UNOPS

Carryout training and coaching

Name of Assignment or Project: A study of soil erosion in chena

cultivation areas in Potuvil & Lahugala DS and assessment of the

potentials for agro-forestry demand for fuel wood in the areaYear: December 2008 to march 2009

Location: Ampara

Client: NECCDEP

Main Project Features:

Position Held: Project Coordinator


Field study coordination

Social assessment

GIS mapping


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Specialization area:

1. Environmental Impact Assessments

2. Research and documentation3. Social survey and statistical methods

4. Conceptual modeling

5. Capacity building and community awareness

6. Environmental management

7. Environmental systems Modeling Conceptual and numerical for the application of

Environmental management, hydrology, climate change, process8. GIS and Remote sensing Spatial modeling, cartography and spatial data base development

Accepted full papers:

T. Sumanenthiran and M. Manobavan., the Gaian approach/es for controlling chaos in environmental

management at the Vavuniya Urban Council submitted for the 5th

International Conference of Business

Management (ICBM) of the University of Jayawardhanapura 2008, Sri Lanka.

T. Sumanenthiran and M. Manobavan., (Utilizing) the influences of chaos for effective environmental

management of the Vavuniya Urban Council, accepted for the 6th

Annual Research Sessions of the

Eastern University 2007, Sri Lanka.

Name of Assignment or Projects:1. Development of an appropriate environmental conservation and

management framework for implementation in the Vavuniya UrbanCouncil - (Grant number : UJ/VC/RG/2007/05)

2. Evaluating the impacts of summer holiday research projects as acatalyst to boost scientific reasoning amongst undergraduates acase study of a teacher initiated (and coordinated) summer holidayresearch project by a group of students in the Faculty of AppliedScience, Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna.- (Grantnumber: UJ/VC/RG/2007/04)

3. Assessment of forest cover changes in the Vavuniya District-(Grant number UJ/VC/RG/2007/11)

4. Worked as a Producer and film director in the digitaldocumentary movie funded by Vavuniya Campus, Campaigningfor environmental awareness and effective environmentalmanagement. (Grant number : UJ/VC/RG/2007/05)

Employer: Research Council of Vavuniya Campus of the University of

Jaffna

Year: April 2006 to December 2007

Location: Vavuniya

Position Held: Primary and Co-researcher

Activities Performed: Preparing the planning, designing and implement

the academic research projects funded by research council, under the

senior researcher. Three research grants received and implemented. The

fields of research interests are environmental management, remote

sensing, and geographical information systems, social mobilization of

environmental issues and scientific reasoning, effective environmentalscience research methodologies


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Accepted abstracts:

T. Sumanenthiran. Exploring the cause of Geo-physiological disorders by using Geo-psychological

approach for Effective urban environmental management, abstract accepted for the 3

rd

InternationalNonlinear Sciences Conference Tokyo,-2008 Japan

T. Sumanenthiran and M. Manobavan., Unpredictable non-linear elements in the water resource

management at Vavuniya Urban Council, Sri Lanka, abstract accepted for the3rd

International Nonlinear

Sciences Conference Tokyo,- 2008 Japan

T. Sumanenthiran and M. Manobavan.,Modelling of Environmental Functionalities to investigate ways

for augmenting effectiveness in Urban Environmental Management Systems, Accepted to 2nd

International Symposium at the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Belihuloya from 8th

- 12th

July

2008

T. Sumanenthiran, M. Manobavan, S. Shanmuganathan, A. S. Stanislaus, S. Saminathan.,T. Sajitharan and

T. Utharan., Application of Aristotelian Wisdom (Synergy Hypothesis) in Environmental Science

Research to 2nd

International Symposium at the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Belihuloya from

8th

- 12th

July 2008

Research blogging:http://environmentalscienceresearch.blogspot.com

Nonrelated referees:

Professor (Dr). Atula Senaratne,

Department of Geology, University of Peradeniya,Peradeniya, Sri Lanka,

Telephone: (94) 81 2394206

Fax: (94) 81 2388018, Email:[email protected],[email protected]

Professor (Dr). J. C. N. Rajendra,

Professor in Physics, OUSL

49Q/18, Perera Place, Old Mihindu Mawatha, Dehiwala

Colombo

Residence: 0115516725

e.mail:[email protected]

Certification:

I, the undersigned, certify that to best of my knowledge an belief, this CV correctly describes myself, my

qualifications, and my experience, I understand that any willful misstatement described herein may lead

to my disqualification or dismissal, if engaged.

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