Joydip Dhar

Experience

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  Aptara

  Dec 2001 - Dec 2005

  Senior Executive

  • Aptara, Inc., is a US based media company specializing in digital content development• I worked as an Executive, where my profile involved helping and co-coordinating the production team in managing book publishing projects by maintaining daily inflow reports• I also used to take care of invoicing and do the client communication with clients through emails for any questions, production team had while processing a project

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  Cenveo

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  Senior Account Executive

  • Cenveo is a world leader in the management and distribution of print and related offerings• I worked as a Senior Executive with Elsevier, Lippincott-Williams & Wilkins scientific publishing journal division projects• My job profile included managing details of each journals project from the first stage through the final printer stage• I maintained and prepared monthly and weekly schedule reports for management. I also used to do the client communication through conference calls and emails to ensure successful completion of projects Show less

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  Thomson Digital

  Feb 2007 - Dec 2007

  Project Manager

  • Thomson Digital is a comprehensive digital solutions provider serving the global publishing fraternity. This is part of the India Today group, a highly reputed media conglomerate• I worked as a Project cum Production Manager catering to publishing clients based at United States• I was also responsible for coordinating and managing a production team of around 50 FTEs for successful processing of book publishing projects

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  Newgen Publishing and Data Services

  Mar 2008 - Jul 2011

  Project manager

  • Newgen Knowledge Works is into pre-press publishing needs of books and journals publishers based in US, UK and Europe• I worked as a Project Manager with the Legal Publishing Group of Aspen Law Publishers, a division of Wolters Kluwer Law and Business publishing company, based at New York• I managed and took care of each and every step involved in typesetting of law books as per specifications and guidelines provided by the client, starting from the manuscripts review stage, copyediting, composition, xml conversion, proofreading, QC review and final review stages till the book is ready to go to the printer for printing• I also coordinated and managed a production team of around 40 FTEs which included proofreaders, operators and copy-editors (in house and United States based freelancers). I was in constant touch with editorial production managers and editorial directors based at client offices in United States via emails, web-seminars and conference calls to ensure smooth processing of projects Show less

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  Apex CoVantage

  Aug 2011 - Feb 2012

  Project Manager

  • Apex CoVantage is into content, media, publishing and engineering solutions with their India headquarter based at Hyderabad• I worked as a Project Manager during my short stint at Apex CoVantage. I worked very closely with publishing client, ABC Clio on book publishing projects• I was responsible for managing the book projects from the initial manuscript review stage till final printer stage. I worked very closely with the client publishing editor and also managed a team of around 50 FTEs via emails, weekly and monthly production team meetings, conference calls etc. Show less

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  Crest Premedia Solutions (P) Ltd, Pune

  Jul 2012 - Mar 2016

  Senior Project Coordinator, Senior Project Manager

  • Crest is part of Springer Nature group and is an ISO 9001 certified, IT and ITES company that offers services in software development, research & analysis, e-publishing, project management, marketing & BPO• I worked as a Senior Project Coordinator with Pre-Media books division at Crest. I was part of Team Management and handled project management teams of 35 FTE project managers catering to German, Dutch and English book publishing client, Springer based at Germany, Netherlands and United States• I was the single point of client contact for Springer book publishers: Springer Medizin, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, and Springer Munich• I took care of client communication through emails, IP phone calls and conference calls in order to update project progress and schedule status on daily and weekly basis and was responsible for client relationship management• I handled project management of book conversion projects for Springer apart from handling layout (Template) implementation projects• I was also responsible for managing a team of around 100 FTEs comprising of Copy-Editors, Indexers and Graphic Operators. Their task was to review manuscripts, process graphics and create Index files when new projects were received from the client as per specifications and requirement. I was responsible for the quarterly and yearly appraisal ratings of the team members reporting to me Show less

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  SPi Global

  Feb 2017 - Apr 2019

  Account Manager

  I worked with SPi as an Assistant Account Manager and I was responsible for pre-press business, people management and project management for World’s second largest publisher, Springer based at Germany. SPi is catering to US, UK and European publishing clients. I was also responsible for coordinating and managing production team of more than 150 FTEs for effective processing of projects

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  Lionbridge

  May 2019 - now

  Project Manager

  I am working as a Project Manager at Lionbridge, with Life Sciences team. My responsibility includes managing projects received from CRF (Signant Health), based at London, starting from the quotation creation phase through the approval of quote, receipt of input files from client till the final delivery files is ready for delivery to client and also invoicing. I need to co-ordinate with agencies and freelance language expert vendors specialized in ‘Clinical Trials’, located all over the world and also internally with production teams (DTP & Engineering) along with Language Leads (LL) located at Lionbridge’s offices at Zilina and Amsterdam, to ensure smooth functioning and processing of the projects, so that milestones and client delivery deadlines are met with quality Show less