Ranjit K. Sharma

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About Ranjit K. Sharma

With over 20 years of experience in editing, writing and publishing, Ranjit Kumar Sharma has led the creation of disruptive printed curriculum books and digital support material for teachers and students in the K-12 segment, both in print and ed-tech organisations. His expertise includes editorial and project management, content development, author and vendor management, quality control, e-learning and LMS and teacher training. Ranjit's proven expertise in managing school-book publishing projects end-to-end has made him an effective leader of teams comprised of authors, content developers, editors, graphic designers, illustrators, typesetters, media acquisition team members, quality assessment team members, instructional designers, coders, storyboarders and voice artistes. He has also managed budgets and accurately predicted future costs. As an expert copy editor, Ranjit has performed copy edits based on the Chicago Manual of Style (16th and 17th editions), language edits and global edits as per Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chicago in-house style. He has also served as the coauthor of 'GK Superstarts' series, published by Mascot Learning Hub and as Series Editor for the 'Grow with Grammar' and 'Grammar First' series, published by Colophon Learning and Sparrow Books. Ranjit has created bestselling products in diverse subjects, such as ELT, SST, GK, EVS and Science, for well-known organisations like Encyclopaedia Britannica India (currently known as Indiannica Learning), Ratna Sagar, Madhubun and Headword Publishing. In addition to his professional work, Ranjit is passionate about social entrepreneurship, volunteering and thought leadership. He is also a multilingual voice-over artiste. An engineering graduate, Ranjit welcomes challenging opportunities to apply his past experiences to new projects. Areas of Expertise Publishing | editorial management | project management | author management | digital media/ e-learning | vendor management | web content management | online marketing / copy-editing | voice-overs | social entrepreneurship | blogging | SEO writing | podcasting Skill Set Team handling | quality control | project budgeting / scheduling | mentoring | troubleshooting | business / creative writing