1. ARJUN JASSAL
Current Address: 21 Roding Mews, London E1W 2JN.
Phone number: +44 7775761928
Email: arjun.jassal@gmail.com or arjun.jassal@waterbridgecapital.com
Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/arjunjassal
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/arjun.jassal
Twitter: http://twitter.com/arjunjassal
Media is social. Developers build platforms; users make it an application, a community, or even a
news site. One gives the infrastructure, the other value. There needs to be someone who can help
manage these online users, promote the user-firm dialog and harness user-innovation. This is
what I do.
Current Position:
Interactive Media Manager, at Waterbridge, a specialist private equity holding company
with an interest in emergent technology. The position entails the entire spectrum of online
media from product development to social media management.
Positions Held:
• Junior Manager Marketing and Business Development, at Metaversum GBMH, a virtual
world’s development firm which created and now runs virtual world Twinity.
Created and organised community related events, created and applied social media
strategy.
December 2009 to May 2010
• Intern, worked along with Hamburg Media School to enable Random House (UK), a
publishing firm, move to the digital text/ e-book market.
Conducted research on user needs, expectations and extrapolated trends in order to
formulate business strategy.
February 2009 to April 2009
• Intern, helped the Media Diversity Institute, London, develop a new content management
system, bridging organisational web requirements into a people friendly format.
Worked on designing a user interface that would appeal to intermittent and remote
internet users.
October 2008 to March 2009
• Written 220+ newspaper articles and analysis on social media, community development,
internet technology, emerging media devices and applications, for leading Indian
newspapers and magazines from 2007 to 2008.
• Created graphical user interface for a power plant at Schneider Electric, and coal crushing
plant for Rockwell Automation, in 2005 and 2006 respectively.
2. Education:
• Masters: MSc Communication, Information and Society (research), London School of
Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Grade: Graduated Distinction (in top 3 of my class)
Year: 2009
• Post Graduate Diploma: in Journalism, specialization in Print, Asian College of Journalism,
Chennai, India.
Grades: 77.00% (in the top 5% of my class)
Awarded Dean’s Prize for outstanding performance in the ‘Science Reporting’
elective
Year: 2007
• Graduation: BTech. (Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering), Vellore Institute of
Technology (Deemed University), Vellore, India.
Grades: 8.97 (Cumulative grade point average or 89.7%)( in the top 10% of the class)
contributor to college magazine, ‘Splash’
Part of editorial team, technical magazine of ‘Sensorix 04’, a National Symposium
Year: 2006
• High School: All India Sr. School Certificate, CBSE, Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi, India.
Grades: 84.2%( in the top 10% of the population)
Year: 2002
Skills:
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft office package, office like web applications.
• Basic knowledge of CSS, HTML and Quark Express.
• Knowledge of programming in C/C++, embedded software, and LabVIEW Languages.
• Proficient with SPSS and working knowledge of MATLAB.
Academic Project work:
• ‘User Innovation on Purely Social Synthetic worlds: Solution Space in Google Lively’, Masters
Dissertation on what makes an online environment sustainable.
• ‘Cyberpunk: Characteristics in the world today’, Diploma Dissertation on Internet media and
modern society.
• ‘Data Encryption in use’, investigative report for the Asian College of Journalism.
References:
Dr Robin Mansell Bobby John Varkey
HOD and Dixons Chair in New Media and Internet Deputy Features Editor
Department of Media and Communication Mint Newspaper
London School of Economics and Political Science Email: bobby.v@livemint.com
Email: r.e.mansell@lse.ac.uk Phone: +91 9811475684
Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6380
