Pritam Bhattacharyya

CURRICULAM VITAE

Name: Pritam Bhattacharjee

Date of Birth: 23^rd April, 1974

Contact Telephone/Mobile:  91 9432649580  

Email:  wordsmith.bengal@gmail.com

            wordsmith_bengal@yahoo.co.in

Educational Qualification: 

1. Bachelor of Technology (Honours) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Calicut, Kerala, India (Sept’1997)
2. Masters Student in Communication Management in Graduate Business School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK (February’2005) as British Chevening Scholar.

Professional Experience: 

1.        Joined VSNL, India’s international telecom provider and leading ISP in 1997 as Sr. Engineer in Cochin, Kerala (1997) in International Telecom Gateway Project.

2.         Promoted as Project Manager in 1999, handling VSNL’s Project related issues  at Cochin for two mega international under sea Optical Fibre Projects SEA-ME-WE 3 (South East Asia Middle East West Europe 3) and SAFE (South East Asia Far East).

3.        On-board France Telecom ship for cable –laying as Government of India Representative in 2000 for 15,000 km under-sea Cable Laying from Singapore to Marseilles, France for SMW-3 and SAFE Project.

4.        Promoted to Senior Manger in 2002 and working as Regional Co-Coordinator for VSNL, Eastern Region, based at Calcutta, India.

5.        Promoted as Regional Quality Head, (Dy. General Manager) Eastern Region looking after VSNL’s all corporate and retail services in Eastern Region (2003 -2004)

6.    Founder and Chief Wordsmith of Wordsmith Communication (2006-till date)

Literary /Extra-Curricular / Linguistic / Translation Skill/Experience

Language Skills

1. Bengali and Sylheti – native tongue – Fluent in writing, comprehension and speaking. University level academic certification in Bengali.
2. Hindi, Assamese, English – Fluent in writing, comprehension and speaking. Diploma Level Certification.
3. Malayalam, Sanskrit: Moderate Fluency on all departments. High School Level academic Certification in Sanskrit.

Literary Achievements

1.      National Recognition from  Prime Minister of India for being best Essay Writer in English (1992)

2.      Magor Education Trust Fellow for overall literary achievement in High and higher secondary school (1989-1992)

3.   British Chevening Scholar (2005-2006)

4.      Author of a collection of English Essays – Essays in Idleness, published in Calcutta Book Fair’2003. Excerpts available at http://personal.vsnl.com/syhlleti/essay.htm

5.   Editor-at-large of Pentasect - bilingual monthly online ezine on Greater Bengali Culture, in publication since 2008.

6.   Founder of a publishing platform Showcase  - backed up by a Translation Engine and Print-on-Demand set up,

      presently for English and Bengali writers.

Translation Skills:

1.      Translated Dr. Carl Sagan’s Science Popularizer Classic The Cosmos in Bengali (2004). Under publication by Punascha, Calcutta, India.

2.      Founder and Mentor of www.syhlleti.org – Internet’s first and leading Cultural Portal on Sylheti language and Sylheti community worldwide, based in Calcutta and Silchar in India. (1999).   

3.      Editor-at-Large for Project AIHB (An Intimate History of Bengal) –  Multi-Lingual, multi-cultural Project (http://personal.vsnl.com/syhlleti/aihbpreface.htm),

Part-funded and facilitated by SDMF, Calcutta 

4.       Transcribed Oxford Physicist and Mathematician Sir Roger Penrose‘s Lecture delivered at Calcutta at the behest of British Council, Calcutta. The transcribed material can be seen here  at http://personal.vsnl.com/syhlleti/essay.htm with a link to British Council website.

5.   A Professional Trainer in Proz.com on Freelancer Business Development

Endleaf :

            Believe in quality and precision as a creative imperative for all Translation Work – literary, technical, documentation or routine. Consider myself as an integrator as well as provider of quality Sylheti and Bengali Translation Resources – especially for Sylheti, including its Bangladeshi variant (spoken mostly by immigrants in UK and USA ) and its slightly different Indian variety (spoken mostly in North Eastern India and pockets of East India).

            Write, translate and work under the pseudonym of wordsmith – a name, a noun, a class that applies for all workers with words of the past, present and who are yet to come.

            My current mission is to mentor Freelancers worldwide to make them aware that they are the Business Owners and CEO and by implication : Captain of their Freelancer-ship