Debasri Chakrabarti

India and APAC-

• Developed and updated project plans to document objectives, technologies, schedules, and funding.
• Produced thorough, accurate and timely reports of project activities.
• Reviewed project risks and devised proactive strategies to avoid potential roadblocks.
• Implemented effective communication protocols between internal teams working on different aspects of a given project.
• Conducted regular status meetings with internal teams and external partners to track progress against established milestones.
• Actively sought out feedback from stakeholders throughout the duration of a project in order to identify areas needing improvement or adjustment.
• Communicated effectively with stakeholders to ensure project goals are met on time and within budget.
• Developed and maintained project plans, timelines, and budgets.
• Provided guidance to team members regarding tasks assigned to them.
• Maintained records of all documents related to the project, including specifications.
• Created project status presentations for delivery to customers or project personnel.

Analytic Linguistic Project Manager, Bengali, Language Lead for Indo-Aryan group of languages with Cognizant Technology Solutions, Team Manager, Bangalore (May-4- 2018-March 2023), Optimum Infosystem Pvt Ltd, Bangalore (August-1- 2016-May-3- 2018)

• Working on different Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Generation (NLG) projects for Indian languages.
• Team management, work review, and process training.
• Provided guidance to team members regarding tasks assigned to them.

• Dialogue System from Hindi to Indian Languages- developed a system (preprocessing to generation) for a consortium based speech to speech bidirectional Machine translation system for Hindi, English, Bangla, Malayalam and Punjabi.
• English to Indian Language Machine Translation System- developed a Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) based Machine Translation System for English to Indian Languages (Hindi, Bangla, Odiya, Marathi, Gujarati, Bodo and Urdu) for Tourism, Health and Agriculture domain.
• Indian Language Annotator Using Deep Learning Algorithm Model - Designed a framework of learning and prediction in NLP parlance based on Deep Neural Network architecture.