Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Apr 2017 – Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Delivered quality output at maximum efficiency by elevating global collaboration strategies and managing team/individual performance metrics, as well as generating design team structures, hiring proposals, and long term recruitment strategies
• Leveraged design team strengths and grew skill sets by introducing mentor programs to include regular feedback, coaching in best practices, and learning programs on enterprise concepts
• Evangelized design and integrated user-centered design into core product development process, improving product development timelines and creating user empathy through design thinking sessions
• Increased user activity by leading a cross functional Growth team and improved product experiences by reducing user frustrations through command and system progress visibility
• Increased new business through optimized customer signup process and self guided product explorations with industry leading conversion rate

Mar 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

Aug 2012 – Mar 2016 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Maximized design and development team efficiencies, increased “go to market” speed, and improved development process by working with UI engineering teams on system development, defining standard library and structuring out deliverables.
• Broke barriers by leading 3-person Interaction and Visual Design Team to create design systems, inculcate “outside the box” thinking and adopting industry trends.
• Generated 4x faster provisioning as lead designer for entire suite of Oracle Cloud PaaS and IaaS services. Delivered administration console designs used to manage services based on typical user flows and ensured seamless system collaboration.

Jul 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Designed more than 5 strategic products for Wolfram with data at the forefront leading to patents(pending)
• Led and defined user experiences for integrating Wolfram|Alpha with 3 external partner products
• Designed interactions, flows and architecture for more than 30 mobile apps on iOS and Android devices
• Defined and formulated group procedures, deliverables, Mobile UI guidelines and recruitment strategies

Sep 2009 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr

• Designed new architecture/interfaces and work with developers to migrate the existing website to Drupal
• Developed design documents detailing flows, interactions and patterns for use by developers
• Analyzed network data to check user activity and support these through appropriate community features
• Incorporated new social features in the design to encourage contribution and promote a healthy community

May 2009 – Aug 2009 · 3 mos

• Performed market survey and competitive analysis on more than 20 products for energy management
• Investigated user interaction for energy management on appliance electronic displays
• Developed high fidelity prototype for the product using defined standards, conducted user research
• Created brand specifications for ‘Maytag’ to be used across appliance categories

Feb 2009 – Feb 2009 · 0 mo

• Worked with the stakeholders and users to understand user needs and define system requirements
• Created Information architecture and Navigation model for the new intranet
• Developed intranet for the Docents using HTML 4.1 strict and CSS
• Implemented third party tools like Wikis, forums and blogs for discussing lectures

May 2007 – Jul 2007 · 2 mos · Barcelona Area, Spain

• Worked extensively on acquiring real time physiological measurements of stroke patients, using mobile biosensors, to adapt a rehabilitation game according to them
• Defined threshold levels for various game adaptations based on physiological feedback
• Wrote an extensive framework using C to integrate the feedback to Torque Gaming Engine
• Conducted studies on users (stroke patients) after this successful implementation

May 2006 – Jul 2006 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked closely with developers to manage development of various ongoing projects.
• Developed a product to assist developers in making accessible and usable products.
• Involved in information architecture, paper prototyping, heuristic evaluation, database integration and prototyping. (http:/www.firstusable.com/innovation/index.html)
• Worked with stakeholders and users for requirement gathering and subsequent follow-ups.