"establish conditions where persons could become united with a firm spirit of teamwork and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity...to pursue dynamic activities in technology...to apply advanced technology to the life of the general public and thus bring untold pleasures and untold benefits..." - Masaru Ibuka, Sony Founder
EDUCATION
Dept. of H.S.S., IIT Bombay ⇒ M.Phil in Planning and Development
Dept. of Economics, Jadavpur University ⇒ Masters Of Arts in Economics
Tribenidevi Bhalotia College ⇒ Bachelor of Economics [Honours]
I.C.F.A.I ⇒M.B.A. [foundation]
SPECIALIZED COURSES
- Biology and evolution of science
- Information Integrity
- Environmental Development and Planning
- Intellectual Property Right
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Pioneers of the Inevitable Inc. Jun.2005 - Current
- Founding member of the Songbird project started in 2005
- Responsible for all interaction and visual design architecture for the website and desktop application
- Created the brand and illustrated the company's corporate and consumer symbols including the Songbird character
- Organized and fostered the Songbird community in forums and on GetSatisfaction
- Designed and produced t-shirts, stickers, bags, and other viral marketing merchandise
- Designed and produced Mozilla and Songbird environmental graphics for conferences
- Project and Product managed releases for the website
- Facilitated hiring and interviewing new candidates
- Blogger for design and company news
Visual Designer, Yahoo! Inc. Jun.2003 - Jun.2005
- Acted as design manager and facilitated hiring of new design manager and team
- Interaction and Visual Design for Yahoo! Shopping
- Yahoo! Shopping Holiday 2003 Architecture and Visual Design
- Interaction and Visual Design for Smartsort
- Yahoo! Media Player Architecture and Interaction Design.
- Yahoo! Travel 2004 Architecture, Interaction and Visual Design
URL: http://shopping.yahoo.com/smartsort
Contract Designer, Muse.Net Dec.2002 - Jun.2003
- Re-designed Muse.Net Agent Installer, Options, and System UI.
- Re-designed and branded My.Muse.Net web client.
- Designed Winamp2.9 and 3 Muse.Net component
- Designed banner ads
- Diagrammed Muse.Net services
Senior User Interface and Graphic Design Lead, Abilizer Solutions, Inc. Apr.2000 - Oct.2002
- Designed web/desktop application console for enterprise-class presentation layer software.
- Designed product documentation, both written and visual (diagramming).
- Headed in-house marketing design; created typography, print, web, and messaging standards.
- Directed design resources and art-directed corporate site.
- Created print collateral, brochures, and promotional items.
- Designed merchandising/advertising for the subscription offering.
- Created product demonstrations with our web software and in Flash.
- Coordinated and lead design and engineering resources during design and development.
- Created process workflows, user workflows, interaction diagrams, architecture diagrams.
- Facilitated user testing, usability testing, and focus groups.
- Designed and produced client site on the Abilizer software platform.
Graphic Design, User Interface Design, Web Application Developer, Everything-eCommerce Inc. Feb.-Apr.2000
- Designed corporate identity, logo, typeface selection, and colors for subsidiary company.
- Worked on branding scheme and designed user interface for e-tail web applications (includes both coding html/dhtml/javascript and doing production level web graphics)
- Developed process standards for quality assurance (QA).
Director of Graphic and User Interface Design, Creative Code Solutions Inc. Aug.1999-Feb.2000
- 1 of 5 principals in a start-up Internet company specializing in web application development.
- Developed the business plan.
- Fundraised, procured real estate, set-up facilities, and worked on financial model.
- Designed corporate identity (typeface selection, color), marketing, and client service.
- Contract work was done for Continental airlines and mp3Player.com.
- The company was acquired in 2000 by Everything-eCommerce.
Lead Web Application Developer, Continental Airlines Advanced Technology Division Aug.1998-Feb.2000
- Designed the Continental Airlines and Continental Micronesia intranet sites.
- Designed, from concept to production, Continental's Featured Fares.
- Other infrastructure applications include: Sales Insight, Time Track, Intranet Res, and the developer knowledge base.
- Developed the basic workflows for Continental's ticket engine prototype.
- Worked closely with developers to create graphical web user interfaces in a software development environment.
- Worked with both client-side and server-side applications, using COM, DCOM, and ASP.
- Instituted design process standards for user interface/interaction design within the Advanced Technology Division.
- Lead creative sessions for the in-house design team.
Web Designer, Web Production Artist, Dynamic Diagrams 1997-1998
- Information design and interface design through web served SGML sites.
- Html and web graphics production.
- Information design.
- Web interface design.
PAPERS IN PROGRESS
- C.Mandal. Energy perspective of economic activity { expexted by Dec.'08}.
- C.Mandal. Application and desining of knowledge management tool for educators { expected by Jan. '09}
CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATION
- Chanchal Mandal, Traditional Social Structure and Issues of Development → Presented at Dept. of H.S.S., IIT Bombay.
- Chanchal Mandal, Natural Resource Accounting: Perspective of Indian Economy → Presented at Dept. of H.S.S., IIT Bombay.
COMPUTER SKILLS
- Econometric and Statistical Packages → MaTlab, Octave, SPSS, Microfit, Mathematica.
- Ediors and Utilities → LyX, LaTeX, Beamer, MS and Open Office.
- Web- Designing/ Developemnt → HTML, Java and Perl - script usage, Photosop .
- Operating Systems → Unix/Linux(ReadHat, Suse, FC3, Yellow Dog, Ubuntu 8), Windows.
Competence In Language
- Bengali (native), English (near native fluency), Hindi (fluent) \& Oriya (basic).
OTHERS
- Social Worker → Actively involved in various social welfare activities in my village and adjoining areas, which presents a mix of sever resource depletion and rise of unethical practice coupled wih rise in income disparity.
- Organizer → As a part of the core team successfully organized the First Logic Conference at IIT Bombay.
References available upon request.
INDIAN Citizen