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Gowrisankar Kalyanasundaram

Gowrisankar Kalyanasundaram

Choolaimedu

Summary

Over 14 years of experience in e-Publishing and accessibility, with a focus on transcription, translation, proofreading, and language editing for English content. Proven ability to create captions, audio descriptions, and alt-text, enhancing accessibility across digital and print formats. Led teams in citation, bibliotagging, media tagging, transcription, and theological editing for Faithlife, ensuring high-quality outputs. Collaborated with U.S. clients to fulfill technical requirements for diverse in-house projects.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Content Specialist

AstroVed.Com
Chennai, India
03.2025 - 01.2026
  • Executed transcription tasks with high accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Performed Tamil-English translation, ensuring cultural and contextual relevance.
  • Created engaging blog content on diverse topics to attract readership.
  • Reviewed and corrected documents for grammatical and stylistic precision.

Senior Group Leader, Multimedia Accessibility

Amnet Systems Pvt. Ltd.
03.2021 - 01.2024
  • Clients: DTSC, California, US; Faithlife, Bellingham, US

Transcriptionist/Senior Proofreader

AstroVed.Com
11.2019 - 03.2021
  • In-House Operations

Team Lead for Citation, Biblio Tagging, and Media Tagging Teams

Amnet Systems Pvt. Ltd.
03.2010 - 10.2019
  • Clients: Faithlife, Bellingham, US; Oxford University Press, US

Education

BA - English

Madras University
01.2019

NAC - Machinaries

ICF
Chennai
01.2006

HSC - Maths, Biology

CHSS
Chintadripet, Chennai
01.2002

SSLC -

CHSS
Chintadripet, Chennai
01.2000

Skills

  • Correcting spelling mistakes
  • Grammatical error correction
  • Subediting
  • Liaising with clients
  • Checking materials and paperwork
  • Resolving queries
  • Coding manuscripts
  • Creating artwork briefs
  • Ensuring correct captioning of illustrations
  • Maintaining awareness of new words
  • Discussing libelous sections
  • Producing style checklists
  • Retrieving articles from archives
  • Preparing preliminary pages
  • Overseeing proofreaders and copyeditors
  • Budget management
  • Schedule management
  • XML transformation
  • Code review
  • Team operations management
  • Client interaction for updates

Languages

Tamil
English

Custom Section

  • Faithlife MobEd, Senior Group Leader (Final QC), Faithlife (formerly Logos Bible Software), Bellingham, Transcription, Proofreading and Language editing, Transcribing the audio files spoken by scholars, proofreading and editing the transcribed document with CMS and SBL styleguides
  • Faithlife TV, Senior Group Leader (Final QC), Faithlife (formerly Logos Bible Software), Bellingham, Open/Closed Caption, Creating captions to Faithlife videos to make it accessible to visually impaired and other differently abled personalities. Creating subtitles for the video content as SRT and web VTT files
  • Faithlife Conversion, Group Leader, Faithlife (formerly Logos Bible Software), Bellingham, ePublishing, XML, Value added Content [Citation and Reference Tagging], Book design is the process of converting the RTF/PDF resources to electronic resource using the tool BDU (Book Design Utility). This includes processes like text conversion, proofreading, metadata filling, design decisions, image processing, language tagging, reference/citation tagging and all the value added tagging. We also process foreign language (Spanish, Latin, Hebrew and Greek) books. The process includes keying the foreign languages as Hebrew and Greek in separate tool called Shibboleth.
  • Freelance Translation, Freelance Blog Writing, Article Writing, Lekhaka (Greynium Infotech), Freelancer, Translating article from English to Tamil and writing content for Blog

Personal Information

Father's Name: Kalyanasundaram

Timeline

Content Specialist

AstroVed.Com
03.2025 - 01.2026

Senior Group Leader, Multimedia Accessibility

Amnet Systems Pvt. Ltd.
03.2021 - 01.2024

Transcriptionist/Senior Proofreader

AstroVed.Com
11.2019 - 03.2021

Team Lead for Citation, Biblio Tagging, and Media Tagging Teams

Amnet Systems Pvt. Ltd.
03.2010 - 10.2019

BA - English

Madras University

NAC - Machinaries

ICF

HSC - Maths, Biology

CHSS

SSLC -

CHSS
Gowrisankar Kalyanasundaram