Identity:
Balakrishna Vardhanapu
104, Pochampally Apmts
Tilaknagar, New Nallakunta
Hyderabad – 500 044.
[email protected]

Qualifications:
1. BA Degree (Public Admn. Political Science and Sociology) from Osmania University, Hyderabad.
2. Post Graduate Diploma In Journalism, Sardar Patel College of Communications, Curzon Road, New Delhi.
3. Basic Induction Course, Indian Institute of Mass Communications (IIMC), New Delhi.
4. Post Graduate Diploma in Translation, Andhra University, Vizag.


Credits

At present working as Linguistic Validation Consultant for Mapi Research Institute, Lyon, France. www.mapigroup.fr

Subtitled two films in Telugu on Dr. Mohammad Yunus, recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Working as Cognitive Debriefing expert for TransPerfect Translation Agency, New York, US

MSN, NOKIA, Guruji.com, Patanjali Yog Vidyapeeth, TATA Sky, Synovate are some of my recent clients.

Myself on Internet

E-mail 1: [email protected]
E-mail 2: [email protected]
Website: http://www.proz.com/profile/600018
http://www.traduguide.com/tr/18137.htm

Experience:
At present, I am working in Press Information Bureau, New Delhi as Asst. Director (Media & Communication)

1. Earlier, I was working with All India Radio, Sambalpur, Odisha as Asst. Director (News).

2. Earlier, I was working with the Development Journal 'YOJANA' (from 2004 to 2012) which publishes Programmes and Policies of Government of India, published in several languages and I was working as Senior Editor for Telugu Edition.

3. Earlier, I was working as a Field Publicity Officer, Medak District in Andhra Pradesh (from 1999 to 2004). During this period I was having the experience of Organizing number of Publicity campaigns on AIDS Awareness, Malaria, Child Labor Eradication, Poverty Alleviation etc.

4. I was also working with Sainik Samachar, the only Defense Journal in the world published in 13 languages and I was Assistant Editor for Telugu version (1998 - 99).

5. I was working with Transcription and Programme Exchange Service of All India Radio, Parliament Street, New Delhi from 1992 to 1998. I was having the experience of Transcribing hundreds of items (Sound Files) including the speeches given by the President and the Prime Minister of India.

6. I was working with the External Services Division (Overseas Broadcaster) of All India Radio, Parliament Street, New Delhi, the Official Broadcaster of Government of India, as Programme Presenter from 1989 to 1992. I have a number of Radio Programmes to my credit.


Equipment:
I have Windows 7 Home Premium with Pentium Dual Core Processor. I use both Unicode and Non-Unicode fonts and some of the software I use is Leap Office, MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, Jaws PDF Converter, Acrobat Reader, etc. for Translation work.

I have a Broadband Internet connection.