Profession:
(1)
Naturalist, Trekker
and Guide with extensive field experience in Ornithology.
(2)
Lecturer with audio-visual
aids on Natural History Subjects.
(3)
Voice Technician; Instructor
in English Conversation, Pronunciation, Vocabulary Building.
(4)
Consultant for Personality
Development
Presently employed:
·
Voice Technician &
Instructor in English Conversation at Scottish High, Gurgaon
·
Conducting Natural History
Workshops at Schools.
·
Working as a Team Naturalist
for Adventure Tour Groups.
·
Conducting courses for
spoken English, including voice training and communication skills
at "Enhance Finishing School," New
Delhi.
·
Working as a Guide for
birdwatchers and as a Naturalist for groups from foreign countries.
Experience:
Worked as a Lecturer:-
·
2003:- Upper & Lower Sixth at BCS on Strategies for Effective
Living.
·
1997-2004:- Director of Nature Activities, Bishop Cotton, Simla
·
1990-2004 : Presented audio-visual lectures on Natural History
Subjects at British School, Vasant Valley, The Shri Ram School,
G.D.Goenka School, New Delhi; BCS, Chapslee, Auckland House, Simla;
Mayo Girls’, Mayo College, Ajmer; The RIMC, Welham Boys’, Welham Girls’,
Hopetown, Cambrian Hall, Hilton School and Brightland’s School, Dehra
Dun, RKK Girls’, Jodhpur.
Worked as a Naturalist and Trekker:-
2005-1986:
- With party from London & Canada to the Sangla Valley
- With BCS Mountaineering Expedition – Bidhan Pabhat,
21,000ft, Garhwal Himalaya
- With Mussoorie Public School,
British School, American Embassy School New Delhi.
- With 7 Indian/German members of Sud-Chemie
to Govind Sanctuary and Kedar Kanta, 13,000ft.
- With 12 members of the Ronald Macdonald
Foundation, USA, on a 2-week trek to 12,000ft in the Garhwal
Himalaya followed by a rafting expedition from Rudraprayag to Rishikesh.
Org by HRR
- With a party of 15 Australians from
an Adventure Group on a 21-day trek to Base Camps of Shivling
at 14,500 ft and of Thalai Sagar at 16,000 ft in the Garhwal Himalayas.
- With "Saheli", American
women on tour in India, organized by 'Cross Cultural Relations'.
- With Dr. Kumar Krishna, Emeritus Professor
Biology, City University of New York, and Research Associate,
American Museum of Natural
History, on birding excursions to National Parks and to different
habitat zones in the Western Himalayas.
- With Welham Girls’, Dehra Dun on
the DEAS for a Gold Medal in the Garhwal Himalayas;
- With Adventure Tour Group companies,
Northern Holidays, HRR & Asian Adventures.
- With The Lawrence School, Lovedale
in the Annamalai Hills
- With the Goa Hiking Association
in the Sahaydris..
- With WWF affiliation, in the jungles
of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
- Under the sponsorship of the Defence
Services, with children of Naval Officers, to Badrinath,
Mana, Hemkund, Valley of Flowers; the
forts of Shivaji in Maharshtra.
·
Worked as a Consultant:
1.
Voice Technician at
Scottish High School,
Gurgaon
2.
Resource Person for
Round Square
Conference, India
3.
Instructor for Yoga,
Pranyama & Meditative Techniques at BCS, Simla
4.
Workshops for teachers,
WGHS & SPS on science of learning & fostering one’s productivity.
5.
Resource person for
HRD dept. at BASF.
6.
Conducted Dance &
Movement Therapy & Yoga Workshops at Learning Centre, Simla
7.
Executed workshops on
Etiquette for Teachers and Junior Executives
8.
Designed a module for
Stress Management
9.
Planned a Programme
on Effective Environmental Education.
10.
Designed curriculum
for “Educating for Character.”
11.
Selected to participate
in a Research Project, initiated by the Oriental Bird Club, England on
the Black-necked Crane in Ladakh at 11,000-14,000ft.
12.
Researched and organized
a Nature Environment Quiz for schools of Dehra
Dun.
13.
Invited to address Trainee
Teachers at the ONGC Mahila Samiti Polytechnic for women.
14.
Taught Voice Training
in schools of Dehra Dun.
Education: Sophia College, Bombay University;
trained in India for Elocution & Theatre
