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" As I have mentioned a few times verbally and now formally, I think the work and partnership with Kallol and his team are outstanding. Our approach on the UX discovery effort as guided by Kallol is exactly the direction the company needs to be focused on- listening to users to drive our strategy on product enhancements. Kallol and his team have done a great job educating, hosting, gathering and synthesising the research. We are now working together as a collective team to achieve the next phase of the UX transformation. Our investments in this area (people experienced in working in this way) are going to pay off if we can continue to follow the user centric approach/agile methodology for all products. Our next focus is helping align our product teams to deliver in this way and the business to support/partnership. I am excited to continue to learn from Kallol and transform our product."

" Kallol is a key guiding factor to drive the innovation program for Mondelez account under U-Know-vation framework. The innovation which we proposed under Kallol's guidance, accepted well by DXC India Leadership & the Client Leadership Team. Basis on the proposed innovation framework & prototype ( Integrated Dashboard ) we successfully convinced client to renew the HOC Contract for 3 years ( approx.$1.5 million revenue).The innovation is appreciated so well that Client also agreed to fund the subsequent efforts. He works very smart & leverages the team to get done what needs to be done so that DXC succeeds with the client. Looking forward to have successful journey with him & his team on the innovation program ( Digital Command Center for Mondelez ). Appreciated your work & technology brilliance , Kallol. Appreciated the work!

"I worked with Kallol this financial year primarily on Design thinking thought leadership artifact development. During the course of our interaction I observed Kallol is not only an SME on the subject but is willing to share his knowledge and participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team that includes other project management, business and brand strategists to foster design thinking among the DTC India division. He is an excellent mentor to those willing to learn digital design and always looking for opportunities to promote culture of innovation and team work. Kallol demonstrates good abilities to quickly understand , analyse and respond to varied briefs to develop and deliver boundary pushing design concepts. He is a well respected as a Design Thinking Lead by his peers and team members, easy to approach and pleasant to work with. He is an asset to the DTC India organization."

"Kallol helped us respond to an RFP for Oil n Gas Industry Partners. Kallol provided thought leadership and implemented a number of ideas that helped improve the overall quality of our deliverable. Kallol did more than was asked of him and provided new ideas to the team for how to organize and communicate the DXC value proposition. Like most proposals, we had a lot of work to complete in a short period of time. Kallol worked tirelessly through all time zones to help us deliver our proposal on time. His extra effort helped improve our proposal to opportunity.

"Kallol proved to be a great asset for us while responding to pursuit. With short timeline and less content available in our portal, Kallol did a fantastic job helping us complete the proposal. The storyline he made out of the content received from various stakeholders and the Design Thinking concept he put across the proposal was impeccable. Moreover Kallol is a true team player with very good connect within DXC. It was because of him that we were able to rope in Content Writers. As a team player, he not only ensured that the content which goes in are as per customer requirements by taking the ownership of the proposal but he also ensured that the pursuit team (especially the non technical team) understands the complexities of the solution and explained things to all from layman perspective. It was pleasure working with him and look forward to working with him again."

"Hi Kallol,
It's great for having chance working with you in supporting the business opportunity. During the time composing the technical proposal document, we (Nam & I) admired and surprised about your expertise and professionalism in not only the technical solution but also customer focus. You showed it up on every single aspect in the proposal and also wisely collecting the ideas of everyone effectively besides driving the team so well.
Wish you all the best luck on the opportunity.
I am looking forward to having more chance working with you soon."

"I have interacted with Kallol for a brief period on a transformational assignment as a part of building the campus communication framework and I must admit it was indeed an enriching experience for myself and my teammates to understand the approach on viewing and dissecting a problem statement from various user standpoint. This is when we all were introduced to 'design thinking' as a concept and its real world applicability. Appreciate Kallol's enthusiasm in devising thought provoking questions and showing us a bigger and better picture if we resolve the pain points. He systematically laid the pointers and process of navigating through any problem solving activity with sound knowledge of the process and challenges faced. Though our interaction was for a short stint, I feel to have gain the opportunity to learn this new way of problem solving and I look forward to work with Kallol in the future on many such interesting and challenging projects."

"Hi Kallol,
I got opportunity to learn on Design thinking process while working with you.Your regular communications for whole team was crystal clear on what should be done and delivered from each respective domain SME's. Your inputs on blending the technical contents from respective domain SME's and making the Business Solution Response document has One Solution from DXC team was very helpful and great. Overall it was really wonderful collaborative work experience with you.
Thank you very much for all your support and guidance."

"Kallol is a very experienced DT practitioner. He has vast knowledge in design thinking methodologies and has a lot of experience to share. I collaborated with Kallol in one of the design thinking global session and he was good at explaining the points in a simple way. He is experienced in design thinking concepts and that can be clearly seen in his presentation.
He put in a lot of effort in preparing to deliver the session with his co-facilitator and that was clearly seen in the delivery of the session.
Overall Kallol has good facilitation skills and he will be a great asset to the DXC Academy."

"Kallol was my immediate supervisor. I got an opportunity in CGI to work under him for almost 4 years. It was a nice experience to work with such an emergent leader. Besides technical, there is a lot more to learn from Kallol i.e. calmness, attentiveness, patience and empathy. He has a great skill of dealing and solving the problems. A big thing I learned from Kallol is how to deal with problems by keeping your mind cool and smile. A great leader to work with and a great person to interact with. Wish him a great success in future and looking for another opportunity to work with him."

"I had the chance to work with Kallol for the User Experience team at CGI. Kallol was our immediate supervisor and was our most passionate and strongest advocate. His knowledge of the domain and exceptional leadership skills were truly invaluable. Kallol has a great passion for UI/UX technologies and he understands and keeps himself up to date with the various technologies as well. He has a great set of communication skills and has fantastic risk mitigation skills, he always looks at the big challenges with a smiling face. In a highly competent industry, Kallol does everything possible to keep his reports, co-workers and clients happy. Kallol is a wonderful human being with a strong background and experience in his domain. I am sure any team would foster and perform outstanding under his guidance. He is a great leader, and a pleasure to work with."

"It's rare to come across such a preeminent professional like you Kallol. I had the pleasure of working with you in a team. I am always impressed by one of your ability to handle even the toughest customer or clients with ease. No matter how tense a meeting or conversation would have been, you made sure everyone left with a positive smile. “We don’t work under anyone. We work together” mantra of yours works as the right fuel for any individual and team to leap an extra mile always. I would love to work with a dynamic leader like you again and again."

"I highly recommend Kallol, he is a pleasure to work with. I managed a large webapp development engagement, and it had a huge volume starting from Experience Assessment; UX improvement Strategy; Execution planing; Estimation; resource alignment; Design and Quality UX delivery work. Kallol managed the team producing the UX modules and he got all completed smoothly which was a real business value addition to the engagement, even with the challenge of doing the work in India with my team being in the US. Also, Kallol is a very nice person to work with, and I enjoyed that he shared some of his photography. I have best wishes for his success."

"Kallol Roy was introduced to me as someone who looks after the UI design of our application for upcoming release, this was prior to him doing any work on the product and many of us were skeptical about what can be changed in our application without a basic redesign of the product itself. This opinion did not really change even when minor changes started getting migrated into the application, however once the entire set of UX design changes were in place, our product interface and User Experience had improved significantly and the end Business User's experience which was traditionally considered to be a weakness of our product became a strength, all thanks to the depth of UX design knowledge, technical and leadership skills of Kallol