Team 2011
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Vinodh Rajan
Vinodh is responsible for the technical infrastructure of the Foundation, Digital Library website and contributes as the Wiki Developer. He has spearheaded the optimization of the site by automating wiki tasks, integrating various tools and implementing various updates. Vinodh is maintaining a group to handle and improve the website.
Vinodh was born in 1987 in Chennai, India. He is a graduate in Information Technology and Chemical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India. His research interests are Computational Linguistics, Indic Language Computing, Orthographies and Web Intelligence. He is fluent in English, Telugu, Tamil & Hindi.
Vinodh is working as Software Engineer in Chennai, India.
Vinodh has contributed to Tamil Wikipedia and actively participates in Tamil Heritage Foundation activities including Heritage Wiki.
He is located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Natkeeran L.Kanthan
Natkeeran is responsible in developing the technical roadmap for the Noolaham digital library. He is the co-coordinator of Noolaham's executive meetings. He is also part of the Noolaham Canada Team.
Nakeeran graduated in Master of Engineering (Electrical-Computer Focus) from Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
He is a software developer with focus on business intelligence applications in Toronto, Canada.
He also contributes to Tamil Wikipedia and human rights violations documentation projects.
He is located in Toronto, Canada.
Piratheepan Paramanathan
Piratheepan is responsible for the Noolaham :: USA. He served in the Noolaham Foundation board of trustees in 2008. Piratheepan joined as a volunteer in 2006 and helped creating Noolaham content pages in Joomla and Mediawiki. He organized the first fund raising activity for Project Noolaham in 2007 in Southern California.
Piratheepan was born in Kanderodai, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He studied in Jaffna Hindu College, Jaffna. Piratheepan received a B.Sc in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 1997 and a MS in Civil Engineering from the Clemson University, South Carolina in 2002. While in Peradeniya, he actively participated in various cultural activities and served as the President of the university Tamil Society in 1996/1997.
He is located in Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
Ponmailainathan Ketheswaran
Dr. P. Ketheswaran is responsible forNoolaham Australia. He started contributing towards Noolaham activities in 2008. As he is an editor of a quarterly Magazine `Kalappai' he has been involved in a number of projects to preserve Tamil language and culture amongst Tamil Diaspora.
Ketheswaran is originally from Karugampanai (near Keerimalai), Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He studied at Mahajana College (1-10 grades) and then at St.John's College, Jaffna. Ketheswaran is a Consultant Radiologist in Sydney. He completed his MBBS degree at the University of Sydney, Australia. Then he obtained his specialist degree in Radiology. While he was in the Sydney University, he established `Sydney university Tamil Society' and actively initiated and coordinated in various projects (including The Unifund Project, Tamil Competitions, Publishing Kalappai Magazine, Publishing a Social/Business directory(Tamil guide) for Tamils in Sydney and several other projects). He served as the President of the Sydney university Tamil Society in 1994/1995. He is now the President of the Australian Medical Aid Foundation (Sydney Branch).
He is located in Sydney, Australia.
Bharaneetharan J
Bharaneetharan is responsible for the Noolaham : England. He was introduced Noolaham for various websites and Tamil media. He is trying to get more volunteers to Noolaham Foundation.
Bharaneetharan was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1984. He studied in Jaffna Hindu College, Jaffna. Bharaneetharan received a B.Sc in Computer Networks from the University of East London, England in 2009. He is working as Journalist and producer in Television.
He is located in London, United Kongdom.
Thivatharan Jeganathan
Thivatharan is the Coordinator of the Noolaham Colombo. Thivatharan is Building and Coordinating Noolaham Colombo as Regional Noolaham.
Thivatharan was born in 1990 in Jaffna. He studied in Colombo Hindu College. Currently, he is a science undergraduate student at the University of Colombo.
He has actively participated in various activities and held leading positions including President, Secretary and Prefect etc in school level.
He is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Sutharsan Srinivasan
Noolaham Canada
Gowthaman Kunchipatham
Noolaham Jaffna
Andi Schubert
Andi Schubert was born in Colombo in 1986. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Kelaniya with an Honors Degree in English in 2010.
He is the founder/coordinator of the Young Researchers' Collective that has been working since early 2010 to develop the next generation of research activists and public intellectuals in Sri Lanka.
His research interests are currently identity, conflict, history and memory, language and class, reconciliation and the democratization of knowledge production.
He is currently based in Colombo, Sri Lanka
S. Kuneswaran
Kuneswaran contributes towards Puthiya Noolaham newsletter and other outreach activities.
Kuneswaran was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1971. He studied in Uduppiddy American Mission College. Kuneswaran received a B.A (Hons) from the University of Jaffna in 1999. He has authored two books, a poetry book and an article collection. He has also edited four other books.
He is currently working as Teacher in Chemamadu Sanmuganantha Maha vidyalayam, Vavuniya.
His interests include diaspora tamil Literature, poetry, criticism, Photography and blogs.
He is located in Jaffna, Srilanka.
Thiruvarangan Ramachandran
Thiruvarangan is responsible for the Accounts and Financial issues to the Foundation.
Thiruvarangan was born in Jaffna, Srilanka in 1981. He studied at Jaffna Hindu College. He is a Science Graduate from the University of Colombo. He is following Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and doing final level.
He is working as Accounts Assistant from 2007 June in Stassen Group of Companies, Colombo.
He is located in Colombo, Srilanka.
Gowrishangar Yogendran
Gowrishangar is responcible for Noolaham Foundation's day to day accounting activities.
Gowrishangar was born in 1991 in Jaffna. He was a student of Colombo Hindu College where he served as a prefect and participated in various activities organized by the school. Currently he is following CIMA.
He is located in Colombo, Srilanka.
