Apr 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Roles & Responsibilities
• Created blueprints for exisiting and upcoming features on YAA products (Bodega, YaraConnect and Admin portal)
• Created templates and conducted workshops and supported product owners with as-is and to-be flows during discovery activities and product roadmaps.
• Created and facilitated workshops for streamlining Way of working for DVCS and content team.
• Supported with information gathering and preparation for discovery workshops through field visit.
• Achievements
• Participated and won First place in Digital Agri Hackathon held at ITC Bangalore.
• Participated in Power Platform Hackathon 2022

Aug 2021 – Apr 2022 · 8 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Taught Bachelors Students Industrial Design topics and UX/UI

Jan 2020 – Feb 2020 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Taught Tangible User Interfaces for Masters students in Interaction design

Jun 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

• Reimagining elder care through product and service solutions, primarily focusing on remote physiotherapy assistance.
• Roles & Responsibilities
• Tested and validated solution through Minimum Viable Products (MVP) using physical apparatus and mobile applications.
• Recruited and managed interns & consultants and built a remote team to support in field research, develop electronics, mechanical and software aspects of the product.
• Generated insights through sacrificial concepts, competitive landscape, market analysis, stakeholder mapping & interviewing key influencers.
• Modelled and developed business and marketing plans by engaging mentors with various expertise to ensure end-to-end experience for physiotherapists, patients & the extended rehabilitation ecosystem.
• Managed grant regulatory requirements through regular updates, documentation and clear and transparent fund utilisation reports.
• Navigated company registration, yearly regulatory approvals, branding, fund-raising and pitching and marketing collaterals.
• Achievements
• Successfully raised funding through two grants from Government of India and Bajaj CSR funds.
• Successfully granted an Indian Patent for an independently designed and developed remote physiotherapy solution for patients with Musculo-skeletal disorders.
• Successfully developed Mobile application MVP for physiotherapist and patients, ready for alpha testing.

Dec 2018 – Dec 2018 · 0 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Introduction to Social Design, Masters in Design space.

Feb 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led teammates for scoping broad areas of intervention by conducting design thinking sessions.
• Co-ordinated stakeholder identification, navigating approvals for Hospital visits, Clinical observations through night/day rounds with doctors and patient shadowing.
• Participated in intensive field immersion in various healthcare and geriatric settings for needs identification, validation and selection using the Stanford biodesign process.
• Supported teammates in product visualisations for pitches and fund-raising activities.

Oct 2014 – Oct 2017 · 3 yrs · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• Designed and developed Product, User Experience & User Interface and Service design interventions.
• Supported in grant proposals, fund raising activities, stakeholder identification and engagement, enabling pilots and issues handling.
• Designed and developed visual communication content (forms & processes, branding, videos, marketing collaterals, manuals, pitch decks) for marketing and sales, pitches & fund raising and training.
• Vendor identification and engagement for various components of the product.
• Supported in preliminary design & risk management documentation for the purpose of acquiring CE certification and ISO 13485.
• Supported in market research, business modelling and marketing activities through conferences, exhibitions, and hospital visits.
• Achievements
• Sohum Hearing Screener and Electrode Headband
• Successfully designed, developed, and managed production of enclosure for the screener and the pilot production of electrode headband.
• Successfully navigated through preliminary regulatory approvals through industrial design, documentation and product stickers.
• Aloka Vision Programme- Carl Zeiss India
• Successfully designed, developed, and piloted an affordable vision care service for Rural India using tele-optometry.
• Successfully designed and launched mobile and web applications for field workers (local entrepreneurs) to conduct acuity tests and place orders, backend order management.
• Successfully designed and delivered innovative design interventions to reduce cost of kits for local entrepreneurs such as low-cost refraction kit, workflow simplification through visual Standard operating procedures.
• Coordinating meetings and presentations for SteerCo meetings with Germany and India offices.

Dec 2013 – Mar 2014 · 3 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• - Explored the application of Circular Economy principles for a low volume, high value clinical product

Aug 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Hybrid

• Developed frameworks for design stage adoption of circular economy principles for high value, low volume medical devices.
• Supported Philips Healthcare, Pune to develop a end of life framework for applying circular economy principles towards their High value capital equipment.

Nov 2012 – Dec 2012 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• - Conceptualisation for bicycle carrier for Namma Cycle

Nov 2010 – Feb 2011 · 3 mos · Mumbai

• PCB design, coding(arduino) and enclosure for effort level indicator for an hand cranked generator and line follower train system.
• Component selection and procurement.