Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr

Apr 2022 – Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Dec 2020 – Jun 2025 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Sep 2017 – Nov 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• One of the earliest frogs in Bangalore studio, have been leading projects, BD activities, mentoring designers as well as setting direction for studio by defining KPIs, etc.
• Leading a multidisciplinary team across studios. Guiding team members through discovery research and synthesis that inform our client’s understanding of their challenge space. Oversight and creative guidance for all design activities in design sprints.
• Leading teams to define experience for applications (consumer as well as enterprise software) for industries with complex domains. Clients include IKEA, AT&T, Exxon.
• Actively led pre-sales activities with successful wins. Defining KPIs and helping achieve career aspirations for team members

Nov 2015 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos · Johannesburg, Mumbai & Bangalore

• Involved in defining new methodologies for collaborative design work, primarily for Agile/Lean methodologies for HFI
• Futurecasting design trends for Institute of Customer Experience (ICE), a non-profit division of HFI. Part of research team forecasting state of customer experience and creating various reports for the same.
• Consultant for Yesser (Saudi eGovernment Program). Creating roadmap to institutionalize user experience in all government agencies and help realize the vision of Saudi 2030 as well as build eGovernance.
• UX Expert/Researcher in projects for Indeed India, Seafood Watch (Monterery Bay Aquarium), Standard Bank (South Africa).
• Mentoring junior designers to help advance their career aspirations.

Jun 2015 – Nov 2015 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, India

• Defining UX for Thoughtwork's products related to Agile project management and development tools
• Leading design activities (branding, digital & print) for marketing of Thoughtwork's products - Gauge (www.getgauge.io) and Go (www.thoughtworks.com/go)

Jul 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Created the User Experience team presence in the US.
• Recruited and mentored local designers and Sr. UX Architects for the entire US region. Helped establish UX teams at Mindtree's US headquarters in Warren, NJ and US Delivery center in Gainsville, FL
• Helped market UX consulting services for the US region. The UX led consulting projects helped bring downstream projects/revenue.
• Defined UX process and sales/marketing pitches targeted for US market. Oversaw all UX related pre-sales activities for US region.
• Led hands-on UX consulting services for Mindtree’s clients, that include Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), AIG, Marriott International, Procter & Gamble, Toyota and others
• Led the design and solution discovery activities for development of market ready digital solution frameworks

Aug 2011 – Jun 2012 · 10 mos

• Lead a team of UX designers for both internal and external projects
• Actively led pre-sales activities for US, EMEA and Australia regions
• Defined Mindtree's UX process for mobile
• Defined processes aimed to improve efficiency in projects by creating UX pattern libraries, persona framework, etc.

Aug 2009 – May 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Conducted field studies and defined UX solutions for various clients like FLIR, P&G, etc.
• Evangelized user experience within Mindtree by organizing ‘Design Fridays’, a weekly design event

Jul 2007 – Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• UX Consultant for various US based clients like Sabre, Cibavision, American Airlines, etc.

Oct 2006 – Feb 2007 · 4 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• worked for AMD through Volt. Redesigned AMD's intranet portal for the Employee Communications Group. The new site improved communication between AMD employees across the globe as well as extended their brand messages internally. The redesigned site was user friendly and ensured it followed usability best practices.

Jun 2006 – Sep 2006 · 3 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Worked onsite at Freescale Semiconductors Inc. in Austin, Texas through Liaison. Designed presentations to extend Freescale's branding for their technology events.

Jan 2005 – Jun 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

Nov 2000 – Dec 2002 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Involved in developing Mindseyeway - a unique, knowledge-based portal that disseminates information about the right side of the brain. Developed puzzles, UI for creative thinking exercises in Flash. Also,
• conceptualized original puzzles, wrote storyboards and created prototypes and visual design interfaces for the children's section of the site.