Personal Details:

Name: Navjot Pawera
Website: www.navjotpawera.com
Contact: navjotpawera@gmail.com
Phone: +65 96246234

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Profile Summary:

An enterprising web technologist with 6 years of professional experience. Relentlessly passionate about creating efficient and innovative ways of using the internet. An evangelist of user interface design best practices.

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Skills:

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

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Experience: 

* Nov, 2011 - Present: Product Manager, buUuk Pte Ltd - Singapore, Singapore (http://www.buuuk.com/)
Incharge of new delivering new in-house mobile products and also mobile applications for some of the biggest businesses in Singapore. Managing products on all major mobile platforms including Apple iOS, Android, Blackberry & Windows Phone 7.
 # Weatherlah (http://www.weatherlah.com): Created the UI and managed development. App has stayed at the top of it's category since launch, with around 50,000 active daily users.
 # Other clients: Straits Times & The New Paper (Singapore Press Holdings), National Environment Agency (NEA), NTUC & Singtel.

* 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 (http://unite.opera.com): 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 (http://widgets.opera.com): Delivered mobile widgets specifications used for the final product.
 # Opera Mail (http://www.operamail.com): 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 the Indian chapter of the 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. Was the main spokesperson for Opera Software at a number of events; including:
 # Conferences and seminars focussed around the web (including Barcamps and Momo’s)
 # Media (print, web and tv, see: http://www.navjotpawera.com/events.html)

* Jul, 2005 - Apr, 2006: Director (Web Development & Information Systems), 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 - Aug, 2006: Team Leader (Information Systems), AIESEC Chandigarh, India. - Chandigarh, India (http://www.aiesec.org/)

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Education:

* Aug, 2001 - Jun, 2005: Bachelor in Technology of Computer Sciences - Punjab Technical University (India)
 # College website creator and administrator

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Last updated: Mar, 2011