Santanu (Sunny) Bhattacharjee Email and Phone Number

Sunny's 25 years in the industry includes extensive ICT experience in USA & India spanning hands on systems development and solutions implementation to corporate management and then entrepreneurship. During the tenure he has served MNCs (Nortel, MCI) and start ups in various management, executive and consulting capacities. Sunny has been with equipment manufacturers in architecting and developing switching, routing and transmission systems for voice, data, wireless, advanced intelligent networking and voice over IP. He has also been with service providers in planning and deploying telecom networks, call centers, application services platforms, business automation and connectivity solutions, etc. During the course, he has contributed in standards organizations like ANSI, GSM, IS-41, ITU, etc., in developing world wide telecom and wireless standards and protocols. After 18 years in mainstream industry, Sunny initiated a social enterprise (Technable) with goal to have direct social benefit as primary yield. It is with St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata that the idea of offering employment linked training to underprivileged youth at the base of pyramid (BoP) was first conceived in March 2004. Sunny’s fascination to livelihood thru' skill is because, when a person gets gainfully engaged in sustained income generating activity a family of average 6 members is benefited in long term. In April 2005, Technable was inducted as implementation partner in the “Centre of Excellence for IT/ITeS Assessment and Training”, a consortium initiated by the Dept. of IT, Govt. of West Bengal and the University of Calcutta for HR development in the state. In 2011, this venture is being scaled-up with funding and ecosystem support from National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), Govt. of India. Technable also offers corporate training in communication skills, soft skills and telecom technologies and plans to offer programs in project management and emerging technologies in near future.Specialties: Overall Management, Business Development, Technology. Cross-functional roles; DOMAINS: Telecom, Education management, Vocational Training; Livelihood; Mechanical design automation and work flow management, Enterprise productivity enhancement solutions.