Sep 2016 – Mar 2017 · 6 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

• Working on data specific to entertainment industry, notably video-on-demand market in several European countries, including France. Responsibilities included generating, processing and cleaning up data, as well as producing final communication elements.

Mar 2016 – Aug 2016 · 5 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

• Gathering pertinent information in relation to worldwide industrial activity.

Apr 2015 – Jun 2015 · 2 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region · Remote

• Setting up and designing a website for the research project Manusastra (partnership between institutions from France, Cambodia and Laos), and coordinating its online content.

Feb 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos

• Have worked occasionally as an extra in feature films and short films or as an actor in commercials.

Jan 2015 – Feb 2015 · 1 mo · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

• Market research analyst for an India-based short-term project in the field of food safety equipment.

Mar 2014 – May 2014 · 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• Teaching French to students of departments of Hospitality (at bachelor's level) as well as Tourism Administration (at master's level), and setting internals examination papers. Short-term contract for the semester taken up to help the institute as their earlier-contracted teacher had left midway.

Jun 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Teaching French (A1 and A2 levels) to commerce students (specialising in Travel & Tourism). Was instrumental in establishing an exchange programme for both students and academics with ESDES business school in France.

Mar 2013 – Apr 2020 · 7 yrs 1 mo

• Interpreting between French, Hindi and English. Clients have ranged from multinational retail chains to foreign office departments and NGOs. Recent clients include the Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation (NOREC, earlier known as Fredskorpset).
• Translating from French to Hindi. Clients have included the Louvre museum in Paris.

Sep 2008 – Sep 2016 · 8 yrs

• Working as an independent freelance copy editor and publishing consultant for various international publishing houses and vendors. I mainly work on social sciences books and academic journals, especially a lot of politics/political science and history manuscripts relating to subject areas such as the Cold War, African studies, media studies, Caribbean studies, feminist studies, and Francophone literature as well as film and film production studies. Thanks to my educational background in engineering, I also receive work from time to time on STM texts as well as corporate brochures and presentations. Overall, my projects have ranged from virology to musicology!
• Also an occasional copy editor of fiction.

Sep 2012 – Oct 2012 · 1 mo · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Short-term project for Microsoft India; help given for French and Italian apps, as well as to software testers.

Oct 2011 – Apr 2012 · 6 mos · Lycée Turgot, Limoges

• Working with 15-23-year-olds as well as colleagues of mine on their English skills in this high-achieving public school of France.

Jul 2011 – Sep 2011 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Help provided for a short-term project related to hotel and resort ads in Italian.

Aug 2008 – Sep 2008 · 1 mo

• Involved in the Higher Education department of OUP. Commissioning new manuscripts, developing accepted manuscripts and studying the market. Helped develop a manuscript before proofs could be produced, as well as visited BITS Pilani during my short stay here.

Apr 2008 – Jul 2008 · 3 mos

• Taking care of the production flow of the manuscript from the copyediting stage till the time the book is out. Liaising with authors was a key element of this job.

Sep 2007 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Reviewing movies or writing about cinema, with focus on French cinema and animated films.

Dec 2006 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Running the editorial department of this niche company (only editorial and project management departments, only for major works; no typesetting). Involved in all aspects: from assigning work and QC'ing different editors' output, to recruiting and training people, to developing processes and workflow in the company. Besides, of course, editing and liaising with the publishers.

Dec 2005 – Nov 2006 · 11 mos

• Editing major reference works (comprehensives and encyclopedias).