Profile Summary

A creative web technologist with 5 years of experience and a passion for creating efficient and innovative ways of using the internet. An evangelist of web standards, usability, accessibility and user interface design best practices.

Skills

Product Management
Adept at managing product roadmaps, market research, product testing and public launches
Evangelism
Internationally experienced public speaker with extensive developer community outreach
Web Technologies
Exhaustive knowledge of web technologies and development methodologies

Experience

Sep, 2007 - Apr, 2010

Product Manager, Opera Software - Oslo, Norway (http://www.opera.com/)

Took charge of the new products and contributed to the biggest innovations by the company in the past 4 years, including:

  • Opera Unite: Led three successful internal releases, co-ordinated the final public launches and managed the Product Marketing team; clocking way more downloads than anticipated (numbers internal).
  • Opera Widgets: Delivered mobile widgets specifications used for the final product.
  • Opera Mail: Negotiated deals with partners and delivered guidelines for product redesign.
Jan, 2007 - Jan, 2009

International Liaison, The Web Standards Project - Chandigarh and Bangalore, India (http://www.webstandards.org/action/ilg/)

Established and maintained the Indian chapter of International Liaison Group for The Web Standards Project (WaSP) aimed at the growing developer community.

Jun, 2006 - Sep, 2007

Web Evangelist, Opera Software - Chandigarh and Bangalore, India (http://www.opera.com/)

Started and led the Developer Relations department in India. Evangelised and educated developers on open web standards. Was the main spokesperson for Opera Software at a number of events; including:

Jul, 2005 - Apr, 2006

President Web Development/Engineering, CueBlocks Technologies Pvt. Ltd. - Chandigarh, India (http://www.cueblocks.com/)

Started the web development and SEO company with 2 partners and handled all web development related projects.

Jul, 2005 - Apr, 2006

Team Leader (Information Systems), AIESEC Chandigarh, India. - Chandigarh, India (http://www.aiesec.org/)

Jul, 2004 - Sep, 2004

Web Development Intern - GMA Infosys Pvt. Ltd. - Chandigarh, India (http://www.gmaindia.com/)

Education

Aug, 2001 - Jun, 2005

Bachelor in Technology of Computer Sciences - Punjab Technical University (India)

  • College web-administrator
Last updated: Jun, 2010