Vandana Viswanath Email & Phone Number

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Chennai, India

• I undertake a wide range of writing projects including, but not limited to the following:
• Press releases and content support for environment and biodiversity organisations, with afocus on the lives and livelihoods of indigenous people
• Website content for start-up businesses
• Press releases and communication collateral
• Research submissions and scientific papers by scholars, especially in the field of wildlifeconservation and land restoration

Chennai, India

• I assisted the restoration projects of the organisation in the following capacity:
• Writing and refining content for Indian Biodiversity Information System (IBIS), abiodiversity portal that helps people make informed decisions about their lands andbiodiversity. The site can be accessed at the.
• Furnishing content for the Integrated Forest Management Toolbox (IFMT), a set of usefultools that help officers of India’s state… Show more I assisted the restoration projects of the organisation in the following.
• Furnishing content for the Integrated Forest Management Toolbox (IFMT), a set of usefultools that help officers of India’s state forest departments manage territorial reserveforests, in accordance with the Working Plan.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

As Senior Technical Writer, I worked to support the technical teams with their publications and product documentation. Wrote technical documents, including periodic release documentation that support the monthly IT product releases Interacted with various development teams to collate information for these documents Helped the HR team to generate.

Chennai, India

I edited the book, ‘The Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu’, a comprehensive study led byDr. Avantika Bhaskar, on the biodiversity, hydrology, anthropology, and geology of theWestern Ghats that fall within the state of Tamil Nadu. This book was commissioned by thegovernment of Tamil Nadu and was published by the Care Earth Foundation, a Chennai-basedtechnical NGO.

Chennai, India

As Senior Technical Communicator, I trained teams of writers on topics such as British and American English, Nuances of English Grammar, Bias-Free Communication (Speech and Writing) and Clarity in Writing.The following are some more of the responsibilities I handled: Edited technical documents including user manuals, whitepapers, solution descriptions.

Chennai, India

As a consultant, I trained professionals from ICON’s corporate clients in business communication and content writing.

Chennai, India

When Kumaran Systems needed to revive their web presence In February 2009, I was onboarded with the objective of rebuilding an outdated corporate portal. I rewrote the website content to reflect the company’s current set of advanced services and IT products. I collated content from diverse departments, besides editing and stylising the content. By October.

Chennai, India

As Associate Manager, I mainly managed internal corporate communications. I maintained the content on the company intranet, created and edited internal communiqués and internal publications. I also managed the company’s branding and organised corporate events, including press meets and CSR initiatives. I ensured that all organisational communications and.

Chennai, India

As Editor of the eLearning Services, Sify Ltd, I edited and reviewed learning content documents. Sify diverse global clientele included Microsoft Inc., Cisco Systems, General Electricals and UNDP. I ensured that Sify’s elearning documents adhered to the highest global standards of editing and that the content complied with the preferred individual.

Chennai, India

I concurrently worked with this NGO, which worked for the empowerment and mainstreaming of people with disabilities. Besides writing content for the cross-disability magazine, I worked on the organization's communications for NGO networking and fund-raising activities.

Chennai, India

As Editor, I compiled 80 pages of content, constantly coordinating with reporters and contributors located in various cities. This was a magazine for the animation industry with two editions—Indian and international—and a circulation of 13,000. I was responsible for presenting each issue with a focus—simultaneously upholding the general style and essence.

Chennai, India

Triune was a publication house. The position required coordinating, sourcing, writing, and editing articles for their various publications.

Chennai, India

Median encouraged young writers to enhance their skills and to excel in all kinds of writing. As part of Median, I wrote and designed several brand building strategies, developed many corporate websites, and wrote several in-house newsletters, product manuals, brochures and media releases for Median’s corporate clients.As part of Median, I contributed.

Chennai, India

My first full time job was as reporter for City Mag, a start-up weekly tabloid. A full year here gave me the experience and confidence for a career in mass communication.

Chennai

P.G. Diploma, Journalism Public Relations And Mass Communication, First Class (Gold Medalist)

Bachelor'S Degree, English Language & Literature, First Class (Gold Medalist)

Activities and Societies: Editor, College Magazine I majored in English Language and Literature. My subsidiaries were: * British History.

I.S.C - The Indian School Certificate Examination, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, First Class

Activities and Societies: Elocution, Extempore, Music, and Debate

Indian Certificate Of Secondary Education (Icse), 82%

Activities and Societies: Editor of the School Magazine, Debating Club member Orator, Organiser of the School Cultural Festival Member of.