Pritam Bhattacharyya

Pritam Bhattacharyya

Engineer, Manager, Translator, Writer, Editor, Consultant, Business-wallah, Publisher, Printer, Teacher

Address: 91 /A Baithakkkhana Road, Calcutta 700 009 INDIA

Tel: + 91 9432649580

Blog:    Freelancer's Freelancer

Formal Education

a.      B.Tech (Hons) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engg – NIT, Calicut , Kerala (previously REC) – 1996

b.      Masters in Communication Management – 2005-2006, Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow, UK.

c.       First position in 10^th in the State Board  and 2^nd Position in 12^th in the State Board

Professional and Entrepenurial Experience

I have worked as a Federal Government Employee, then a Private Sector employee, a Freelance Cross-Cultural Consultant and now Founder and Chief Wordsmith of Wordsmith Communuication – a Language and Cross Cultural Consulting.

From 1996-2002:  Worked as a Project Engineer and later as a Project Manager for VSNL, then India’s sole international carrrier and ISP. Was part of the team that built Cochin’s International Telecom Gateway, with termination point for major submarine Cable.

I had been Government of India’s Representative on-board various ships that laid undersea Cables around the globe.

From 2002-2004 : Back to Calcutta from Malabar and VSNL became a Tata Company through disinvetment. Worked as Regional Quality Head for Customer Service. Major learning was in the domain of Marketing, Sales, Customer Engagement and Training sales force and Field Engineers.

From 2006 till date: On return from UK, having completed Masters launched Wordsmith Communication – a cross cultural consulting agency focussed on Telecom Sector. 

In 2008, started Pentasect, an online platform, Publisher, Cultural Magazine and Print on Demand Provider for creative writers, commentators 

In 2011, launched  Wordsmith University - a Freelancer's Business School.

In 2012, launched Wordsmith Ashram - a de-toxification and work-space for Freelancers inside the Tea-garden zone of North East India. 

Language / Translation Experience

1. Native in Bengali and Sylheti
2. Understand, write and speak Assamese, Hindi, Sanskrit, and Malayalam.
3. Translating from En <> Bengali, Sylheti for last 15 years. Last 5 years as a professional translator.
4. Lionbridge Recognized Bengali (Indian) and Bengali (Bangladesh) Translator.

Scholarship / Recognition:

1. Williamson Magor Scholar (1992 – 1996)
2. British Chevening Scholar (2005-2006)
3. Rajib Gandhi Foundation Scholarship for winning Sadbhavana National Essay Contest (1992)
4.  National Scholarship 1990-1992
5. Selected by IIT, Kharagpur and Manchester Business School, UK for PhD programme in Business Managament.

 Publication – On Business, Management and Life in general

     1. All my works on freelance business development and Li-Der [ Life Designer ]ship at Wordsmith's Work           

• Across
• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• PageMaker
• PASSOLO
• PowerPoint
• QuarkXPress
• SDLX Translation Suite
• TRADOS
• Wordfast