Ramanathan Sivakumar Chennai, India ramsiva3@gmail.com ramanathan.sivakumar@icloud.com +91 9840427335 Library and Information Science Professional |Crowdsourcing Contributor for US Library of Congress, Distributed Proofreader, and Volunteer for Digital Preservation and Mapping Projects of US Geological Survey | Data Analysis enthusiast | Blogger |On-line presence at www.ramsiva.com and www.tietac.org Work Experience Information Manager British Council Library, British Deputy High Commission - Chennai, Tamil Nadu February 1977 to January 2002 As the Regional Manager, I coordinated the Library and information services at four libraries in South India focusing on resource management, and customer service. Besides for about 7 years, I was counselling students intending to study at the UK universities. Education Undergraduate degree in Physics and Postgraduate degree in Information Science University of Madras - Chennai (Madras) July 1974 to June 1975 Skills Computer skills (10+ years) Research skills Typing (10+ years) Microsoft Word (10+ years) Microsoft Outlook (10+ years) Microsoft Excel Data entry (1 year) English (10+ years) Blogging Library Services Writing Skills WordPress

Languages English - Fluent

Links http://www.tietac.org

Awards Professional Development Programme in Promoting UK Education and Training August 2007

This Award was given to me by the British Council Division and the British Deputy High Commission in Chennai for my Professional Development Programme in promoting UK Education and training for having passed the examination with Distinction.

Additional Information Currently studying edX online course in Data Analysis offered by IBM. Volunteering: For the last 6 weeks, I have kept myself busy and occupied performing two different roles both are online crowdsourcing projects with virtual volunteering involved myself in helping transcribe Library of Congress documents - Volunteers like me create and review transcriptions to improve search, access and discovery of these pages from history. To leverage my research skills and attention to detail work as a Volunteer for The National Map Corps, which is an online project where people like me can contribute to updating the National Map. The National Map Corps is a volunteer initiative by the U.S. Geological Survey.