Mak Pandit
Doctor of Letters (Honouris Causa), PGD Marketing, BE Electronics
Managing Director, Principal Trainer – Technowrites Pvt. Ltd.
International Fellow – Society for Technical Communication, USA
Member – WAC Clearinghouse Publications Review Board, Colorado University, USA
Member – Board of Studies, Department of English, Fergusson College, Pune
Trainer Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India
He is a successful technical communicator, project manager, and trainer, with 28 years of experience.
He is the first Indian to become a Fellow of Society for Technical Communication.
Training Courses
Conducted more than 300 Training Courses & Workshops.
- Technical Writing Theory, Process, & Tools
- DITA Theory, Process, & Tools
- Business Report Writing
- Instructional Design Theory, Process & Tools
- Writing Business Proposals
- Writing Technical Reports, White Papers, Case Studies, and Marketing Collaterals
Formal Academic Education
- Post Graduate in Marketing Management – Institute of Management Education, Pune, India, July 1997
- Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Electronics – University of Pune, Pune, India, July 1992
Professional Work Experience
- Completed assignments for 20 Fortune 500 companies and India’s top IT, Telecom, Financial, Banking, and Engineering companies
- Completed more than 500 successful documentation assignments.
- Have more than 15,000 hours of training experience.
- Have trained more than 3400 candidates in Technical Writing.
- Have produced more than 250 hours of video content for professional training courses
Academic Experience
- Serving as member of WAC Clearinghouse Publications Review Board, Colorado University, USA
- Served as Mentor at The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Powai, Mumbai
- Served as a member of Special Committee appointed by Board of Studies of University of Pune. As a member of this committee helped to formulate India’s first Post-graduate Diploma in Technical Communication.
- Served as member of Educational Task Force of Society for Technical Communication (2006).
- Served as judge for All India Engineering Students’ Projects Competition.
- Served as visiting faculty for University of Pune, University of Jammu, Symbiosis University, Flame University, and more than 12 other educational institutes.
- Served as external examiner for University of Pune.
- Delivered lectures to students of Mercer University (USA).
- Served on the panel appointed by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) to develop course on Technical Editing & Publishing.
- Coordinated, directed, and anchored a video interview series on “Technical Writing Career” for Educational & Media Research Center (EMRC), University of Pune.
- Served as Member, Board of Studies, Symbiosis University for developing Distance Learning Course in Technical Writing
Books & Research Papers
- Building Future-proof Careers – The book is published by Amazon.in
- Interview Answers for Success – The book is published by Amazon.in
- Contributed as an author to Outsourcing Technical Communication: Issues, Policies & Practices. The book is published by Baywood Publishing
- Research Paper published results on Do Indian Technical Writers need Degrees from Western Universities (December 2009)
- Fundamentals of Digital Journalism (In press – expected to be printed by Dec 2020)
Articles
- Product Support Documentation published in Electronics for You. India’s leading Electronic Trade Journal in April 97 issue. Covering the importance and design considerations of documentation of Electronic Products
- Freelance Technical Writing at the 1999 Annual Conference of Society for Technical Communication, India Chapter
- Estimating Technical Writing Projects at the 2000 Annual Conference of Society for Technical Communication, India Chapter
- Introduction to Technical Writing published in Time of India (Education Times Supplement) on 9th April 2001, Bangalore Edition
- Estimating Documentation Projects in Intercom – Newsletter (November 2001 issue) of Society for Technical Communication Worldwide (this article is available on the web on stc.org/intercom/PDFs/2001/200111_08-11.pdf )
- Technical Writing in 1994 and 2003 paper published in the March 2003 issue of INDUS, newsletter of Society for Technical Communication, India Chapter
- Seven Habits for Successful Freelancing paper published in the July 2003 issue of INDUS, newsletter of Society for Technical Communication, India Chapter
- Introduction to Structured FrameMaker published in Techcraft (a newsletter dedicated to Technical Writing) in September 2004 Edition
- Rich Content Outline and Estimation Techniques paper series published in the various issue of INDUS (2010), newsletter of Society for Technical Communication, India Chapter
- Use of RoboHelp Server by technical publications departments published in Adobe Blog http://www.adobe.com/devnet/robohelp/articles/robohelp_tech_pubs.html
Conference Presentations
- Freelance Technical Writing at the 1999 Annual Conference of Society for Technical Communication, India Chapter
- Estimating Technical Writing Projects at the 2000 Annual Conference of Society for Technical Communication, India Chapter
- Styles Guides at the 1999 Annual Conference of Society for Technical Communication, India Chapter
- Delivered a web-based seminar along with Melanie Doulton for STC on Working in Global Teams (July 2006).
- Presented Business Lessons Learnt from Gardening Hobby session at the 2007 Annual Conference of Society for Technical Communication, India Chapter
- Conflict Resolution at the 2010 Annual Conference of Society for Technical Communication, India Chapter
- Presented eBooks and Digital Rights Management Lessons session at the 2012 Annual Conference of Society for Technical Communication, India Chapter
- Presented Management Lessons I Learnt from Body Building at the 2013 Annual Conference of Society for Technical Communication, India Chapter
- Presented Publishing Research Paper at the tcworld India 2013 Annual Conference
- Presented Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) at the STC India 2013 Annual Conference