DEEPTI NERLIKAR

*** * ****** ****, # ***, Richardson, Texas 75080 Mobile: 214-***-****

Email: abod8l@r.postjobfree.com

Skills:

. Enthusiastic, resourceful, and trainable graduate with a background in

communications.

. Professionally committed and responsible. Adapt easily to new

situations. Successfully handle a wide range of functions using a

combination of creative, organizational, and writing skills.

. Maintain focus in demanding work environments, under deadline and

pressure conditions. Meet challenges head-on and always find a way

to effectively complete multiple assignments or tasks.

Work Experience:

. Teaching Assistant at University of Texas at Dallas from August 2012

to May 2013.

o Teaching undergraduate classes in Communication as well as

Writing and Research for New Media in the Fall of 2012 and the

Spring of 2013.

o Responsibilities include preparing material for teaching twice a

week.

o Area of focus is language and grammar use in writing for online

resources.

o Also responsible for giving weekly student feedback on their

writing assignments.

. Senior executive in Client Relations and Communications at Fundtech

India Ltd (previously Cash-Tech Solutions India Ltd) from October 2006

to December 2010.

o Responsible for all outbound communication from the company,

including instruction manuals for the software, training clients

as well as company employees on the software, setting processes

for smooth functioning of all departments and overseeing strict

adherence to those processes

o Closely liaised with documentation team and software developers

in preparing user-friendly instruction material to enable

clients to make optimum utilization of the application. This

included making and editing the release notes that went out to

the customer for each and every release.

o Have been an on call person for documentation that went out

along with the emergency patches released by the development

team for critical issues observed at client sites.

o Appeared for and cleared Collections level 'A' exam within the

company and have basic knowledge of the banking and financial

domain.

. Communications in-charge and education consultant (Australia and New

Zealand) at Overseas Education Consultancy Services (OECS), Pune from

May 2006 to September 2006.

o Responsible for all communication with international

universities (emails, letters of application), applicant's

documentation and editing of student's statements of purpose.

o Counselor for students aspiring to apply to universities in

Australia and New Zealand. Responsibilities included acquainting

them with visa requirements and tests as prerequisites for

admission.

Education:

. Currently pursuing a Master of Arts degree in Emerging Media and

Communication from University of Texas at Dallas (Class of 2013)

. Master of Arts in Communication and Journalism

University of Pune, India. Major in Public Relations and

Advertising. June 2006

. Bachelor of Arts in English Literature (Honors)

University of Pune, India. Minor in Economics and Psychology.

May 2004

Projects in Graduate School:

. A thesis outlining an ideal public relations syllabus for media

institutes. Research was based on available literature and interviews

with media professionals (University of Pune)

. A short documentary film on a non-profit organization dealing with

orphans (University of Pune)

. Contributing to and publishing the college newspaper 'Vrittavidya'

(University of Pune)

. A short film on youth obesity as a class project (University of Texas

at Dallas)

. Worked with Arduino, using Python script to create a multi-purpose DVR

remote as a class project (University of Texas at Dallas)

. Assisted a professor over the summer of 2012 with her independent

research on gender representations in social media. Responsibilities

include maintaining a blog and learning JavaScript to help build a

website and a mobile phone application (University of Texas at Dallas)

. An advertising campaign to highlight lesser-known women inventors in

science and technology (University of Texas at Dallas)

. A short film on the changing representation of women over the years,

made through iMovie by only using the application on iPhone 4 and not

on a laptop/PC (University of Texas at Dallas)

. Have begun work on the final project for the Master's program, which

is a blog documenting the changing representation of Asian women in

mainstream American pop culture (University of Texas at Dallas)

. Will be preparing a portfolio comprising of audio, visual, animation

and text objects (University of Texas at Dallas)

Other Interests:

. Represented high school at the Manama Toastmasters Inter-school speech

contest, Bahrain in 1995. Won third place.

. Represented high school at the Manama Toastmasters Inter-school speech

contest, Bahrain in 1996. Won second place.

. Grade 1 certified violin player from the London School of Music.

. Currently learning to play the piano.

Programs and Software Known:

. PageMaker

. iMovie

. Windows Movie Maker

. Paper (app for iPad)

. Adobe Photoshop

. Prezi

. Microsoft Office

Languages Known:

. English

. Hindi

. Marathi

. Malayalam

. French (Conversational)

. Spanish (Currently preparing for certification exam in May 2013)

LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/deepti-nerlikar/65/764/4b4

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