The profile and activities of the company I work is accessible in company website chennaimertorail.com. DIRECTOR-Projects is one among three Functional Directors of Chennai Metro Rail Limited. I’m in charge of executing the civil part of the prestigious Phase-II project involving about 120 km with as many stations. “On date”this the largest Metro project in India, hope worldwide also, ever undertaken at a time. We use 23 TUNNEL BORING MACHINES for about 42 km of double tunnels. Incharge of Civil works in the upcoming Madurai and Coimbatore metros. Before assuming charge as Director-Projects on 2-6-2021 in Chennai metro, I worked as Director-Projects for Kochi Metro Rail Limited for nearly 5 years. ( 2016-2021)Before that during 2012-2026 i worked in Chennai Metro in various capacities as General Manager, Chief Project Manager and Chief General Manager. As Chief General Manager-Elevated Corridor, I was incharge of entire viaduct stretches of the elevated corridor and construction of three station building works. The elevated viaduct was built largely by segmental construction methods; in some obligatory locations there also involved construction of bridge with Balanced cantilever method of construction, large Open Web Girder steel bridge construction with heavy traffic and adverse site conditions warranting a lot of safety measures. I was further looking after the Construction of one of the largest Depots in metro rails. The Depot is provided with ballastless track, the first in India. My area of interst was track works; I was involved with construction of tracks both in the underground, elevated and depot locations to the extent of 115 track kilometers. There were nos of other civil works like staff quarters and administrative buildings etc that I look after.I was also involved with Arbitration and Adjudication jobs. My most important hobby is reading books and thinking about the issues, primarily of science, philosophy and religion.