Name:                         Arun Soni
Qualification:             M.Sc (statistics), PGDCA
Mailing address:       129, Phase-4,  SAS Nagar (Mohali) -160059

                                       INDIA
Phone:                         (91 - 172) - 9815204980, 4612639

E-mail:                         soniarun@rediffmail.com, soniarun2@hotmail.com

Achievements:

1. Former Director of "YMCA Computer Center, Chandigarh" from 1995 to 2003.

2. Director of the firm "The Choice Computer Systems" which is managing computer contracts/consultancy in various schools in Chandigarh, Mohali and around. The nature of responsibility includes providing of hardware, software, well trained staff, interact regularly with teachers/students to maintain the high studies standard, develop curriculum, contents and software as per their age group etc.

3. Authoring school computer books for a reputed  publications in Delhi since 1996. Authored six series (total 58) of books till now. Detail is as follows:

a.       First series is 'The Brain Game' . The Brain Game-2 also got the first prize for the best book among the primary standard by 'The Federation of Educational Publishers in India (FEPI), which is an apex body of publishers throughout the India.

b.      Second series is 'Opening New Windows' which covers the latest IT syllabus.

c.       Third series is 'A Course in Computers' is written according to the guidelines and syllabus provided by the NCERT.

d.      Fourth series 'Computers Made Easy' is written according to the syllabus of Punjab School Education Board.

e.       Fifth series 'Simple Dose of Computers' deals with independent modules at two levels (beginner and advance level). Like, for the topic Visual Basic, there is one book 'Visual Basic for Beginners' and other is 'Visual Basic at Advance level'.

f.         Sixth series 'Beyond Windows'  comprises of books covering Microsoft Office 2007 modules, Flash, Dreamweaver, PhotoShop Visual Basic, CorelDraw and many more software ro be taught in appropriate classes.

7. Official reviewer of computer books for the' Punjab School Education Board'.

8. Column writer in Indian Express

Writing a fortnightly column "BookMark" for newspaper Indian Express for the last two years. The column is about reviewing various books on education, technology, philosophy, Health, Spirituality etc. for the Newspaper. 

Awards
1. Entry in Limca Book of Records –edition 2009  under the category  ‘Most computer books written’

2. “Distinguished Author award” by Federation of Educational Publishers in India. (FEPI) in Dec 2001. The award was given by
Mr. Ashok Ganguli, chairman CBSE and Mr. Vijay Kapoor, Lt. Governor Delhi

3. The Brain Game-II was awarded the first prize under the primary category by the Federation of Educational Publishers in
India (FEPI).