Mass Communication Diploma holder with past teaching experience giving group tution on Television Production Lab, TV Journalism and Program Formats and TV Production: Ideas to Screen

Rishiraj's CV

Career Contour:
Electronic News Media:
March 2010 – March 2015: Air Play Producer (News) with News Time (A regional News Channel in Kolkata, India).
March 2008 – July 2009: Associate Producer (Entertainment News) with Kolkata TV (A regional News Channel in Kolkata, India).
October 2005 – March 2008: Assistant Producer (Entertainment News) with Kolkata TV (A regional News Channel in Kolkata, India).
December 2004 – October 2005: Package Producer (Entertainment News) with Star Ananda (A regional News Channel in Kolkata, India).
Creative Writing and Multimedia Project Development:
September 2004 – December 2004: Content Writer, Multimedia Developer with Vikramshila Education Research Society (an INGO in Kolkata, India) as an educational researcher for designing and developing alternate media contents, facilitating back classroom transaction.
October 2002 – August 2004: Content Writer, Multimedia Developer with Education Third Wave (an educational resource organization, promoted by the PEARSON GROUP in Kolkata and in Delhi, India) for designing and developing alternate media contents facilitating back classroom transaction.
July 2000 – June 2002: Web Content Writer, Web Designer with Tecmatics UK Limited (a Software Development Firm in London, UK – worked in NOKIA, UK as a web content developer)
May 2000 – July 2000: Visualizer with Brand Expressions (An Advertising Agency in Bangalore, India – major client being ZEENEXT.COM).
September 1999 – May 2000: Visualizer with V R Real Technologies (a Multimedia firm specialized in architectural walkthrough, design and developing multimedia CDs in Bangalore, India).
Freelance:
October 2015 – January 2016: Worked with ESDECS, a social enterprise, as Head, Corporate Communications.
December 2014 – March 2015: Worked with SAHAY, a NGO affiliated to CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL, Kansas City, USA as a Communication Expert, making communication materials like posters, banners and films for them.
June 2011 – Aug 2011: Teaching TV Journalism and formats, Television Production: Ideas to Screen and Television Media Lab as a Guest Faculty in International School of Business and Media (ISBM).
August 2009 – December 2009: A Non fictional Television programme of 108 episodes, about talented but poor school children who other than education excel in their co-curricular activities. In those episodes celebrities from the same field talked about their struggle to fame and also addressed the candidate directly through the programme. (Name of the Programme: R O Feylna Noi, Channel of Telecast: R Plus, a regional channel in Kolkata, India.)
January 2010 – March 2010: A 18 minute Promotional Documentary film on an INGO. (Name of the INGO: Tomorrow’s Foundation)
August 2004: A Music Audio CD on contemporary Bengali rhymes as music director and arranger (Name of the CD: Kagojer Putul, Name of the organisation: Vikramshila Education Research Society)
September 2002 – October 2002: Multimedia Campaign on HIV/AIDS, TVC for Unilevers, Nepal. (Name of the organisation: Thompson Nepal in Kathmandu, Nepal, a part of JWT Inc.)
August 2002 – September 2002: Exploring North East India as a Travel Journalist (Name of the organisation: Travel Plus, a part of India Today Group)
July 2002 – August 2002:Website Design and Content Management for Nepal Youth (Name of the organisation: Today’s Youth, Kathmandu, Nepal)
Academic Credentials:
2000 - Post Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication from Jadavpore University, Kolkata.
1995 - B.Com (Honours) from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata
1992 - Higher Secondary Examination from St. Lawrence High School, Kolkata
1990 - 10th Examination from St. Lawrence High School, Kolkata
Interests:Reading,Writing,Music.