Worked at ONGC - the National E&P Company with over 43 year experience as professional explorationist having expertise in Seismic Technology on-land as well as off-shore (2D, 3D, 4C-3D) - all aspects including acquisition, processing and interpretation, supervision, Quality Control and Quality Assurance etc. Conversant with all facets of exploration and development, reservoir characterisation and field monitoring. Have good experience of Project Monitoring and Contract Management. Have experience in unconventional HC resources : Shale Gas, Coalbed Methane and Gas Hydrates.From May 2016 worked at DGH - the technical arm of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) as Deputy Director General (Exploration) till 31.10.2018 and superannuated from active service of ONGC from the post of Executive Director. Association with DGH continued till April 2019 as Advisor. Can fit into almost any leadership role.MAJOR CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS / HIGHLIGHTSMote than 30 geoscientific interpretation projects completed.Presented several technical papers at National and International conferences including SPG, AAPG, SEG & SPE. • Managed re-processing of vintage 3D seismic data of Mumbai High (2006) – till date, it is the best processed output and still being used for development decisions at Mumbai High Asset.• Renovation and complete overhauling of Virtual Reality Centre at Vasudhara Bhawan, ONGC Mumbai. • In-charge Seismic-to-Simulation project of main producing reservoirs of Mumbai High Field (2007-2011).• Planning to execution - India’s first Node based 4C-3D Seismic API project in the Mumbai High Field , Western offshore India (2011-2013).• Execution - ONGC’s first high-resolution Broadband Carpet 3D seismic survey in West of Mumbai High area (2014-2015).• Execution - 3D OBC seismic data in the logistically challenging shallow water - transition zone - land area in the East Coast of India. • Execution - ONGC’s first 3D CSEM API Project in Deep Offshore, KG Basin (2015-16).• In-charge National Seismic Project sponsored by Govt. of India.• Association: Resource Re-assessment of sedimentary basins of India (2017). Proposed recategorisation of the sedimentary basins of India which was adopted by the MoPNG. • Establishment of Secondary Data Centre of the National Data Repository at Bhubaneswar (2018).