Experience

South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI)

• South Africa
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Team Coordinator

  • Oct 2007 - Present

  Communicating, planning and actioning the daily work programme of the Technical Team technicians Actively involved in Health and Safety of Technical Team technicians Tracking and monitoring the use of a fleet of 15 work vehicles and offering feedback to erring driversInvestigating workplace incidents and accidents

• Technician

  • Mar 1982 - Sep 2007

  Rearing of parasitoids to control pests of sugarcaneTravelling to many parts of the sugar industry to release various parasitoids of sugarcane pestsErecting of Pit fall traps and Malaise traps to trap potential parasitoids and predators of sugarcane pestsSupervising of teams during the sampling of various host plants for potential beneficial insects to control sugarcane pestsIdentifying to Family level the predators of sugarcane pestsSorting, pinning, preserving (Taxonomy) and record keeping of all insects collected during field tripsCapturing of sampling data on spreadsheets for analysis



The POST newspaper

• Tamil (Kollywood) movie critic- The POST weekly newspaper

  • May 2016 - Present

  I review Tamil language (Kollywood) movies on a weekly basis in the POST newspaper.



Megazone Media

• Megazone South Internet Radio Presenter

  • Apr 2019 - Jan 2020