2009

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1. In January 2009 Arc Singapore used the Arc India template to launch their own regional web site and in March 2009 Arc Global changed their landing page to the Arc India template!

2. By March 2009 had successfully re-branded and redesigned www.kyazoonga.com a ticketing portal for movies, cricket, live events and sports in India.

3. May 2009 saw the launch of www.sportsslurping.com.au a slurping contest web site created for 7-Eleven Australia.

4. June 2009 saw the launch of Piramal's new nutritional supplement Supractiv. Parallely launched the product web site with great fan fare.

5. On 19th November the Sports Slurping website picked up a Bronze ADMA (Australian Direct Marketing Award) for Best Website / Microsite in Australia.

2008

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1. On 9th April, launched ING Chances for Children a first of its kind facebook application. This applications supports the United Nation's Children's fund in three adopted countries: India, Brazil and Ethiopia.

2. Launched the new Wunderman web site on 25th September, commemorating their new global brand identity.

3. A new chapter began on 26th September, I joined Arc Worldwide / Leo Burnett as Business Director - Digital.

4. 17th November saw history being made. Arc Worldwide India finally got it’s own web site. This was also the 3rd time that I founded a global agency's online presence. Earlier ones were Rediffusion - DY&R and Wunderman India.

2007

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1. On 15th February launched a contest web site for Parle's new Strong Adult Mint - Xhale! The site was live for 2 months and got over 1000 registered users.

2. 6th March - Launched www.castrolstarbandhan.com the very first eCRM website among loyalty programs in the lubricants industry.

3. From August to October successfully standardized all email communication relating to King Club (the frequent flyer program of Kingfisher Airlines).

4. As of 1st November took over as Head Digital Strategy for Wunderman India.

2006

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1. For the second year running LIC gave Everest Direct (a Young & Rubicam company) their online campaign. The budgets this time round were double!

2. After the grand success of last years campaign, Taj came back to advertise their new Summer Holidays offer.

3. With www.ingimasiapacific.com, the ING Investment Management business units finally got their long awaited consolidated web identity for the Asia Pacific region.

2005

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1. Designed, developed and oversaw the execution of a large online ad campaign for LIC. February and March saw history being written as this was also the first time that an online ad campaign of this magnitude was done in-house at the agency.

2. 11th April saw history being made. Wunderman the world's pioneer in Direct Marketing, launched it's India specific web site.

3. 15th April saw the first ever online ad campaign of Taj Holidays go live on the internet. It was great to be part of such a moment in history - for Taj Hotels.

4. 26th April saw the product web site of the new Tata Motors range of buses go live on the web. The uniqueness of this 90 page web site was the buses virtual tour, which was a first of it's kind in its industry category.

5. On 11th November, Sudler & Hennessey took it's first step into cyber space with the launch of two diabetic footcare web sites for their reputed pharma client - Dr. Reddy's (www.savethefoot.com and www.plermin.com).

6. On 6th December launched India's first ever 'blog-based' marketing initiative www.pickuradvisor.com.

2004

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1. On 11th April went for the Enrique Iglesias concert. At the concert got invited on stage before a 20,000 strong audience. To view the best onstage picture and some of the media footage of the concert click here.

2. On 1st September was promoted to Project Manager Interactive at Rediffusion - DY&R and it's group companies (Wunderman India and Sudler & Hennessey).

2003

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1. After a long hard year trying to establish the Interactive department as a new source of work, billings and awards. 6:00pm, 12th March saw Rediffusion - DY&R Interactive finally get it’s own web site. Thus becoming an officially recognized division.

2. 16th March saw the Daikin campaign (inclusive of the 5 animations done for the web) win a Silver Abby at the 36th All India Abby Awards. The Monkey Animation that was done for Daikin, was also a finalist in the Internet Advertising category.

3. On the 18th of September, won a Cannes Cyber National Diploma for the Daikin Monkey Animation. News of the same was flashed on indiatelevision.com and exchange4media.com. Asian Age, a national newspaper also carried the news flash.

2002

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1. In March, joined India’s 5th Largest Ad Agency Rediffusion – DY&R as a Web Consultant. Hence managing to survive the dot com bust.

2. In June, successfully launched an employee contest web site for India's western region's new cellular service provider, AirTel. It was the first Rediffusion - DY&R Interactive project to go live on the web.

3. 8th August saw history being made. Rediffusion - DY&R, India’s 5th largest Ad Agency finally got it’s own web site.

4. In October modelled for a new AirTel service. The service was advertised in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.

2001

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On return from Germany, put Namasté Software and its sister company Namasté Mobile Systems on the web.

2000

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1. After my final exams in May, I joined Spenta Multimedia, a leading print firm as a Web Designer/Developer in their Internet Division. Here I helped put Spenta Multimedia on the web.

2. The months of May and July saw the web site on the book "Business Communication Today" by Sushil Bahl, getting reviews in newspapers like Mid-Day and Digital Age.

3. In August, joined Namasté Software, and within 12 days went on an assignment to Wunderman Germany. Through their office in Cologne, I worked on all the Ford Germany web sites.

1999

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While doing my final year at Bombay University I took up a multimedia course at Zap Digital Design Academy. Within the first month I was offered the post of Multimedia Course Instructor.

1997 – 1998

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Since I was still in University and a novice at Web Designing and Development, I made my first web site and hosted it at GeoCities.

1997

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1. Did some English – Spanish – English translation for a company called Artworks.

2. Mid 1997 learnt HTML at NIIT. This gave me a very basic foundation in web site development and a brief glimpse into a possible future on the Internet.