Shashikanth Akula

Product Manager

India23 yrs 2 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in creating intuitive user experiences.
  • Proficient in both front-end development and UX design.
  • Strong advocate for design coherence across teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a User Experience Designer with a strong focus on enterprise and consumer applications.

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Skills

Other Skills

Large Language Models (LLM)Artificial Intelligence (AI)User Interface DesignInteraction DesignUser Experience DesignUser InterfaceWeb DesignRequirements AnalysisUser-centered DesignGraphic DesignUsabilityWeb DevelopmentUsability TestingE-LearningGraphics

About

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

Experience

Celigo

Sr. Product Designer

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

Walmart

User Experience Designer

Feb 2023Aug 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Dallas, Texas, United States · Hybrid

Otsuka pharmaceutical companies (u.s.)

User Experience Designer

Oct 2022Dec 2022 · 2 mos · New York, United States · Remote

Caliber home loans, inc.

UI/UX Designer

Jul 2020Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Irving, Texas, United States

Consolidated analytics consulting & advisory | nmls # 1645182

Frontend Web Developer

Jan 2020Jun 2020 · 5 mos · Irving, Texas

  • Contracted to Caliber Home Loans Inc,

Cgi

Lead UX Analyst

Jul 2015Nov 2015 · 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Enhancing user workflow and performance improvements of the overall application
  • Produce production-ready design converted templates for development
  • Work on integrating custom design .net code base project

Ntt data corporation

2 roles

Associate Manager

Nov 2012Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Participate in Presales in Request for Proposals (RFP’s)
  • Build POC Screen Flows mockups
  • Responsible to develop enhanced user workflows for key modules of the project
  • Produce production-ready design converted templates for development
  • Travel onsite for business knowledge transfer and requirement capturing session with clients
  • Work in various project teams across India offices and sometimes it required me to travel for short terms for project initiative and requirement understanding sessions
  • Worked on integrating custom theme design into SAP UI5, Salesforce, SharePoint and .net codebase projects
  • Conducted an internal training session on the UCD process as demanded by the client for the whole development teams in a specific business account
  • Develop cross-browser supporting CSS
  • Worked on integrating Accessibility tag for screen reader support

Deputy Manager (Interaction Designer)

Aug 2007Oct 2012 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Participate in Presales in Request for Proposals (RFP’s)
  • Understand the project requirements and start quick low fidelity wireframes
  • Responsible to develop and maintain design wireframes, mock-ups, sitemap and UI specifications
  • Produce production-ready HTML/CSS/Minimal JavaScript interactivities
  • Integrate HTML/CSS structures into development environments like Java/Liferay, .Net Framework, SharePoint custom theme, and web parts
  • Interact with Client's in conference calls for design integration review

Brainvisa technologies pvt. ltd.

2 roles

Associate Design Manager

Jul 2006Aug 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune Area, India

  • Worked on eLearning Process Automation project
  • Research on existing eLearning process within the company projects
  • Captured unique player and templates styles from major projects within the company
  • Studied competitor eLearning market products and template styles
  • Studied the learning curve to use the new product with minimal training
  • Created the workflow of the process
  • Created authoring templates, Design Players and Templates
  • Designed high fidelity deliverable for technical team
  • Created Help simulations for all FAQ’s
  • Customer feedback to improve future versions

Lead Designer

Aug 2004Jun 2006 · 1 yr 10 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Follow storyboard provided by Instruction Writers
  • Create doodles for the most scenario in the storyboard for quick writer’s review
  • Identify common template types for the whole learning minutes of the course ware
  • Review Doodles and template styles with the client for sign-off along with story-line and characters
  • Create animation style and provide templates for team to create rest of content following approved style guide
  • Review the whole learning content minutes in reference to storyboard
  • Delivery all learning minutes for development team for LMS player and assessment integration
  • Test the deployed course on the client LMS server with test profiles

Sbn india pvt. ltd.

2 roles

Team Leader

Aug 2003May 2004 · 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Brainstorming for a new business service offered by Saudi Business Network SBN) with business owners, marketing and technology team
  • Conduct knowledge transfer session with the team
  • Started building the concepts sites of business directory service with a unique feature with team
  • Study each listed client material either offline or online for details services offerings to create a storyline and follow brand standards
  • Create a short flash-based presentation for all the list of companies with service offering explained with audio and visual
  • Review the concepts sites with business users from Saudi and capture current challenges vs using the concept site in daily bases
  • The outcome provided us the insight on the downside of introducing such business with more than 80% of businesses and business users targeted in Saudi were not on the Internet

Senior Designer

May 2003Jul 2003 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Rebrand the whole product for the new web-based application
  • Create a common style guide for the application form pages
  • Integrate HTML/CSS styles in the .net application along with development team

Magna infotech pvt. ltd.

2 roles

Sr. Web Designer

May 2001Apr 2003 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Create Pre-K, Elementary and Middle school computer-based learning (CBT’s)
  • Animate learning content for all topic with concepts and activities
  • Record audio for all topics with Professional voice actors in studios and Sync audio with animations
  • Compile all animated topics with audio and scoring activities into Adobe Director for Shockwave outputs
  • Test Shockwave output CD in various system configurations
  • Design promotional material and CD packaging with instruction to install to use.

Web Designer

May 2000Apr 2001 · 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Design visual mockups for the complete site flows
  • Present visual mockup flow to clients along with marketing team
  • Develop optimized visual assets for the site developer
  • Develop website compiling all visual assets and content in HTML
  • Send compiled sites for content internally with quality reviews for client delivery
  • Make the site public after client Sign-off
  • Deploy sites on hosting server using FTP tools and services.
  • Help Marketing team with Promotional marketing branding, business cards, brochure, posters for Web Hosting, design services and Electronic Medical Record ~ EMR product which was built on Visual Basic for Doctors.

Vee ads

Graphic Designer

Oct 1998Apr 2000 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Create branding, office stationery, business cards, brochure, leaflets, marketing collateral posters, book covers, and packaging
  • Worked on advertising and marketing campaigns for local newspapers and magazines.
  • Worked on special insertions edition for the weekly local newspaper
  • Worked with copywriters
  • Worked on production-ready print files for single to multi-color machines with special textures printing effects.
  • Worked on custom dye cutting print jobs

Data point

DTP operator

Apr 1996Sep 1998 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Create business cards, letterheads, branding, office stationery, brochure, marketing collateral, posters, and packaging.
  • Worked on composing school books, and memorandum’s

Education

Human Factors International

CUA — User-Centered Analysis and Conceptual Design

Jan 2009Jan 2009

IxDF - The Interaction Design Foundation

Jan 2013Jan 2016

Sri Venkateswara University

B.Com — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2014

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