Shashikanth Akula — Product Manager
Accomplished User Experience designer, evangelist, and strategist with a passion for the usable and aesthetic synthesis of function, content, and technology. Skilled in: • Guiding the front- and back-end design of complex enterprise and consumer applications • Combining business goals, marketing requirements, and user requirements. • Researching and documenting user workflows, interactions, scenarios, and personas • Simplify and distill complex processes into intuitive and elegant design solutions by considering data, user feedback, and technical constraints/opportunities • Creating and presenting conceptual sketches, wireframes, quick prototypes, and high-fidelity screen mockups • Facilitating usability tests, including think-aloud, paper prototyping, heuristic review • Defining, developing, and documenting design standards, patterns, and style guides • Working across organizational groups to advocate for, and ensure, design coherence and consistency • Mentoring co-workers to inclusive user experience design and development environment • Comfortable with rapid, agile 2-week sprints and Lean UX methodology • Proficient in using design tools such as PowerPoint Adobe Creative Suite Adobe XD Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Sketch. • Coded in HTML5, CSS3, and SASS to turn wireframes and mockups into working prototypes on most of my deliverables, cutting down development time for engineers for most of the front-end UI projects
Stackforce AI infers this person is a User Experience Designer with a strong focus on enterprise and consumer applications.
Experience: 23 yrs 2 mos
Career Highlights
- Expert in creating intuitive user experiences.
- Proficient in both front-end development and UX design.
- Strong advocate for design coherence across teams.
Work Experience
Celigo
Sr. Product Designer (11 mos)
Walmart
User Experience Designer (1 yr 6 mos)
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Companies (U.S.)
User Experience Designer (2 mos)
Caliber Home Loans, Inc.
UI/UX Designer (2 yrs 2 mos)
Consolidated Analytics Consulting & Advisory | NMLS # 1645182
Frontend Web Developer (5 mos)
CGI
Lead UX Analyst (4 mos)
NTT Data Corporation
Associate Manager (2 yrs 7 mos)
Deputy Manager (Interaction Designer) (5 yrs 2 mos)
Brainvisa Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Associate Design Manager (1 yr 1 mo)
Lead Designer (1 yr 10 mos)
SBN India Pvt. Ltd.
Team Leader (9 mos)
Senior Designer (2 mos)
Magna Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
Sr. Web Designer (1 yr 11 mos)
Web Designer (11 mos)
Vee Ads
Graphic Designer (1 yr 6 mos)
Data Point
DTP operator (2 yrs 5 mos)
Education
CUA at Human Factors International
at IxDF - The Interaction Design Foundation
B.Com at Sri Venkateswara University