Jan 2023 – Nov 2023 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Part of Shell internal marketing team that visualizes market trends and forecast different chemical price for sales executives to negotiate deals with clients.
• Responsibility:
• To build a platform to enable internal team to handle all activities and analyze data for upcoming months to forecast price for upcoming months

Sep 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Responsibility:
• Conducted discovery along with the product to find out opportunity areas
• Quantified areas of opportunities with data qualitative and quantitatively and collaborated with Analytics and development team to plan delivery

Jul 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Being a designer in the Virtual Reality Industry, I share my knowledge with students from the Immersive Media Design Department at MITID.
• I take classes on
• 1. Physical Ergonomics and it's Its application in Immersive Media
• 2. Cognitive Ergonomics and Design Research Methods.
• 3. 3D Modelling , Texturing And Advanced Lighting methods
• 4. VR simulation Projects

Apr 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Conducted and managed research programs across the product development life-cycle with a focus on Virtual Reality user interface design research for the Oculus platform.
• lead a team User Research of VR hardware and software experiences across all our product lines.
• Responsible for defining product and market research priorities for the company, growing the team, and establishing research operations. Collaborated with the business team to establish the Insights & Growth team, User Research, and Growth to drive a data-first culture and a deep understanding of users to impact the strategy and direction of the product portfolios.
• Responsible for resource prioritisation. justified growth of the team during a time of significant resource constraints.
• Drove significant process improvements to increase the efficiency of the research team including the growth and development of the team.

Mar 2018 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Playing the role of working manager, Sr. UX Researcher, and thought leader of a team of four UX designers and a UX Researcher in an agile environment, responsible for creating new and Immersive Virtual Reality experiences from the ground-up across web and app for our customers. I push the team I’ve built to “think big” and work backward from the customer to anticipate their needs and deliver simple, authoritative, and memorable experiences. I regularly present our solutions to our CEO and impart day-to-day strategic user experience leadership, and collaborate with teams across the company to bring our bold, new ideas to life.
• Own end-to-end design process and deliverable (including user personas, workflows, wire frames, mock-ups, and prototypes) to effectively conceptualise and communicate design strategy and detailed interaction behaviour for the VR Platform.
• Plan, scope, and report status on projects to our CEO in close collaboration with product, development, and content managers.
• Influence & collaborate with teams across the company to contribute to fulfilling our vision for best-in-class customer experiences, such as on-boarding, Reward Systems, Haptic experience, Virtual Guidance, etc.
• Conduct “lean UX” and design a sprint ahead of Development , and plan feature roll-outs as part of sprint planning in an agile environment.
• Promote and utilise qualitative and quantitative assessment methodologies when both designing and measuring results.

Mar 2017 – Feb 2018 · 11 mos

• Being a curious designer, I have worked with the founding team on various aspects of Virtual reality projects for a diverse array of clients, from Mining companies to Software companies. I played a Key Role in the generation of new ideas and creative concepts. I worked with clients in designing, producing Concepts, and deciding product road-map.
• Explored Different User Experience Design Research methods like
• 1. Contextual Inquiry
• 2. Cognitive Walk-through
• 3. Desirability testing
• 4. Affinity Diagramming
• 5.Card sorting
• 6. Heuristic Evaluation
• 7. Metal model Diagramming
• 8. Ergonomics Study in Virtual Reality
• 9. Hierarchical task Analysis
• 10. Cognitive task Analysis ( GOMS )
• A lot of other methods.
• These Processes helped us as a team to make informed decisions

Jun 2016 – Sep 2021 · 5 yrs 3 mos

• As the CPO for the company, Soumya is driving the technology transformation at Cusmat and is responsible for envisioning and leading the product, technology, innovation for the company.
• He guides the technology, content delivery, design, and product management functions on a daily basis to build world-leading products across the technology and content domains.
• He is passionate about great customer outcomes and customer-centric, data-driven decisions. his goal is to transform the landscape of Immersive education, one step at a time.
• Soumya is always on the lookout to hire/meet top-notch talent & leaders in:
• Product Management
• Product Design & User Experience
• User Research & Consumer Behaviour
• Data Science & Analytics

Jan 2016 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

• We at CUSMAT technologies aspire to identify the learning pattern of each and every individual and teach him accordingly through a combination of immersive content, behavioral analysis and data sciences.
• My responsibilities:-
• Setting strategy and direction.
• Modeling and setting the company’s culture
• Building and leading the senior executive team.

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Hokkaido, Japan

• Detection Crack due to environmental effect and Earthquake in a railway bridge located at Mokagawa , Kitami, Japan using I-moto-2 sensor and FE analysis using Midas Civil 2015