Smaran Dayal

Past

Volunteer at Aman Setu school
Web Designer at InExcellence
Technical writer at Studio March

Intern at Uzanto Consulting
Writer/Editor at TorrentFreak

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Education

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
Fergusson College

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Smaran Dayal’s Summary

Freelance web designer and writer. Experience working with a Web 2.0 start-up (SlideShare). Profiled in the Wall Street Journal and the Sunday Times in London for being influential online (see http://tinyurl.com/wizards-of-buzz and http://tinyurl.com/online-opinion) and interviewed by the Wall Street Journal and Seattle Post-Intelligencer about filesharing online (http://tinyurl.com/spi-article and http://tinyurl.com/hp-leak).

Fluent in German and able to to communicate in basic French. Particularly interested in teaching German or English and working in the field of interpretation or translation.

Smaran Dayal’s Specialties:

German-English translation, creating xHTML and WordPress-powered sites

Smaran Dayal’s Experience

Volunteer

Aman Setu school

(Education Management industry)

March 2009 — June 2009 (4 months)

I volunteered with Aman Setu, a non-profit school with a unique, activity-based approach to education. I worked with their publicity and fund-raising teams.
Web Designer

InExcellence

(Human Resources industry)

June 2008 — October 2008 (5 months)

I designed a static HTML site with an integrated Blogger-powered blog for InExcellence, a NLP consulting firm.
Technical writer

Studio March

(Graphic Design industry)

June 2008 — June 2008 (1 month)

I spent one month as an intern / technical writer at this relatively small firm that specialises in web development and user-interface design.
Intern

Uzanto Consulting

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

May 2007 — June 2007 (2 months)

I interned with Uzanto and worked on promoting their presentation-sharing start-up, SlideShare. I helped design and create a blog called "101 Ways to Use SlideShare".
Writer/Editor

TorrentFreak

(Writing and Editing industry)

September 2006 — May 2007 (9 months)

I both freelanced for TorrentFreak, a blog about BiTorrent, file sharing, copyright reform. For a period I was employed as a staff writer, but went back to freelancing, as I got a full-time job.

Smaran Dayal’s Education

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau

B.A. , Anglistik, Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft , 2009 — 2012 (expected)

Erasmus Mundus Stipendium
Fergusson College

B.A. , German Studies , 2007 — 2009

Activities and Societies:

Socratic Association