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8+ years of experience in User Experience Design and Information Architecture.

4 years of exclusively designing for the Mobile Space including iPhone, Android phones, Blackberry, iPad, Android Tablet and HP Touchpad.

SKILL SUMMARY

  • Perform User Research and gather User Requirements by activities such as interviews, focus groups, etc.
  • Gather business requirements from Interviews with stakeholders and Workshops.
  • Translate the user research into Personas/User Profiles and Scenarios.
  • Design UX deliverables including Sitemap, Wireframes, Storyboard, and Flowcharts/Process Flows using Omnigraffle, Visio, InDesign and Balsamic Mockups.
  • Create prototypes with tools such as Axure and Omnigraffle.
  • Create and present Strategy and Roadmaps to clients for web and mobile spaces.
  • Perform Heuristic Evaluations on Mobile and Web products; and present the results and recommendations.
  • Planning, Estimating and Presenting Sales and Strategy from the User Experience perspective.
  • Developing Content Strategy for mobile applications and websites through Content Analysis and Content Mapping.
  • Previous background in design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and development platforms such as HTML, CSS and PHP.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Sr. User Experience Designer    Tata Consultancy Services, Mobile Solutions Unit            March ‘11 – Current  

  • Creating mobile strategy and UX designs by working closely with clients such as Palm, GE Medical, Eli Lilly, Zimmer, Kaiser Permanente and Citigroup.
  • Presenting enterprise mobile strategy and roadmaps to the senior leadership team of clients.
  • Designing the user interface for various tablets such as iPad, Android and HP Touchpad and mobile phones such as iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry.
  • Compiling an internal library of mobile design components (native and custom) for iOS.

Sr. User Experience Designer    Mobients, Atlanta        June’10 – March ’11; April ’09 – October ’09  

  • Participating in all phases of research and design to create an ideal user experience for mobile banking, mobile commerce, etc.
  • Creating system flows, wireframes, and other artifacts using standard tools.
  • Designing the user interface for various phone types such as iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry, and other mobile phones.
User Experience Designer     Engauge Digital, Atlanta           April ’10 – June’10  
  • Collaborating with the Content Strategist to create sitemaps, storyboards and user personas.
  • Delivering system flows, wireframes, and other artifacts.
Information Architect   Macquarium., Atlanta                September ’07 – Nov ‘08; May ’03 – Aug ‘03
  • Responsible for gathering, understanding and analyzing UX requirements.
  • Translating complex business problems into design solutions including appropriate documentation.
  • Creating user models, including personas and scenarios.
  • Expressing design and behavioral elements through wireframes, flowcharts, storyboards, interaction design specs and/or functional specs.
  • Supporting sales by ideating and crafting the user experience approach for proposals.
  • Clients worked with – The Home Depot, AT&T, KONE/Armedia, Takeda/Shaw Science Partners

Information Architect    Philips Design., Atlanta     August ’08 – Nov ’08 

  • Documenting the functional and non-functional requirements from the user research interviews.
  • Creating conceptual designs incorporating content strategy, information architecture and interface design.
  • Producing core documentation that influences all subsequent development of the application.

Information Architect + Content Strategist      IBM Global Innovation Center, Atlanta    July ’06 – August ‘07

  • Providing information architecture and page layout documents
  • Developing specifications and work products at all levels of detail for the user interface to an application / system.
  • Creating strategies for clients to that ensure their content appropriately meets the needs of the brand, their business objectives, the project goals, and the needs of the end-user who will be accessing the content.
  • Creating recommendations and road maps for clients to help them improve their current content from an esthetic and usability standpoint, and to optimize the processes required for creating new content solutions.
  • Clients – IBM Research Labs, IBM Software Group, TriScience, Fox Network (3rd Party)

 Analyst   The Learning Federation, Melbourne, Australia  Aug ’04 – Dec ’05 

The Learning Federation (TLF) is an innovative project that employs emerging technologies to produce world-class online curriculum content to encourage student learning and support teachers in Australian and New Zealand schools.

  • Usability, technical and accessibility review of content projects.
  • Work collaboratively with team members, Project Managers and external developers to develop quality online educational material.
Graduate Research Assistant    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta   Aug ’02 – May ‘04  
  • Collaborating with product managers, end users and management assuring that concerns and needs of each group are met.
  • Designing and developing websites based on the initial requirements.
  • Creating an e-learning course for providing information regarding ADA (American Disabilities Act) compliance and W3C standards.
  • Backend programming to develop the e-learning website.
  • Project Management, Information architecture and Website development including backend programming and Content Management.
  • Design and creation of published marketing material.
Systems Analyst  &  Software Engineer Ramco Systems Limited, Chennai, India   & DishnetDSL, Chennai, India   Sept ’98 – Oct ’01
  • Requirement gathering, sitemap and navigational flow design.
  • User Interface Design and backend programming of intranet websites.
  • Project management, Information Architecture and database design.
  • Graphic/Visual design and backend programming of intranet websites.
  • Development of desktop applications in Visual Basic.
  • ASP, ADO, SQL Server, VBScript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML
  • Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0, Photoshop

EDUCATION

  • Master of Science, Information Design and Technology, 2004 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
  • Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Kuvempu University, India


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