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Contact Information |  TOP |
Address: 91/A Baithakkhana Road 700 009, Calcutta, Bengal 700009, India
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Phone: 919432649580, Fax: 44 8703836591, Cell Phone: 919432649580 Joined: Saturday, March 22, 2003, last update Wednesday, July 07, 2010  Preferred E-mail of Pritam Bhattacharyya: send a messageWebsite: http://www.wordsmithcommunication.com
Working language pairs and rates: | TOP |
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Bengali >
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$0.05 |
$20.00 |
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Assamese >
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$0.07 |
$25.00 |
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Hindi >
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$20.00 |
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Language locales: English - United States
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Editing, Proofreading, Translation Specialization | TOP |
Telecommunication, IT, HealthCare Subject Areas | TOP |
Advertising, Aerospace Engineering, Art, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Computer and Information Sciences, Computer Engineering, Data Communications, Education, Engineering, General, History, Humanities and Humanistic Studies, Information Sciences and Systems, Philosophy, Religion, Religion and Religious Studies, Science (General), Telecommunications CURRICULAM VITAE
Name: Pritam Bhattacharjee
Date of Birth: 23rd April, 1974
Contact Telephone/Mobile: 91 9432649580
Email: wordsmith.bengal@gmail.com
wordsmith_bengal@yahoo.co.in
Educational Qualification:
- Bachelor of Technology (Honours) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Calicut, Kerala, India (Sept’1997)
- 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
- Bengali and Sylheti – native tongue – Fluent in writing, comprehension and speaking. University level academic certification in Bengali.
- Hindi, Assamese, English – Fluent in writing, comprehension and speaking. Diploma Level Certification.
- 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.
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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.
TC, Proz, Linked-in, Scribd, Lulu Articles Published in the How-To Library of Translatorscafe.com | TOP |
Wordsmith Quality Model WQM 10 – An Attempt to Make a Homebrewed Quality Model Quality, like any product or service is a mixture of many tangibles and intangibles. Same in the case of translation and localization sector. I would rather say that Quality in this business is all the more complex and nuanced. Our Quality Model, called LQM-10 or 10 point Language Quality Model is a weighed average of the factors described in this article. However no quality model can be said to be perfect and exhaustive.
Designing a Stress Test for a Translation Project — Towards a Global BenchmarkThe essay argues that there exists no reference or benchmark for setting the deadline, quality and cost ratio of a translation project. There is no risk management process planned out and causes problem later. The essay proposes a model and then goes to explain how users of TC or such portals can input such a model to make global benchmarks for each language and type of projects.
Price as Signature: Advice to New Translators and Agencies from IndiaThe article advises linguists and agencies from India as how price quoted tells many things about oneself as well the services. It explains how price is something like signature and a race to the bottom can only compromise tommorrow’s wealth and profit for today’s gain. It cautions as how a linguist and agency from India can devaluate itself into a low-cost, low-trust and low-valued provider by not taking adequate consideration in pricing.
Survival Story of a Language Professional Turned Agency OwnerThere are a number of language professionals who are turning to be Agency owners, by choice or absent-mindedly or by sheer accident. I had found myself absent-mindedly into the role of an Agency owner while I started formally as a Language Professional some five years back. I have tried to elaborate core challenges faced while this transition happened. I have also tried to emphasize as how social networking and Internet’s evolution pose opportunities and threats.
Practitioner’s Tips for Email Marketing in Language Business — Part IFor a linguist and a small agency, email marketing is the only feasible option to reach far flung clients. However, nature of email and nature of the Internet have changed considerably in last few years. Though fundamentals are same, but some tuning is needed to use this simple, virtually costless, high ROI tool with highest effectiveness. One of the issues is to understand how human behaviour interacts with email and changes both.
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