Apr 2023 – Jun 2023 · 2 mos · On-site

• Took a break from all the madness that was going on my life.

Oct 2022 – Apr 2023 · 6 mos · Remote

Dec 2021 – Oct 2022 · 10 mos · Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

• Built a high performing design team of 5 - defined team structure, training and upskilling strategy
• Saved 50% of time spent in design reviews by streamlining processes for both rapid prototyping and comprehensive UX solutioning
• Took the role of championing product team with US operations team, created and managed great relationship in a short period of time
• Involve key stakeholders in cross-functional teams early in the design process to ensure alignment on requirements and expectations
• Derive problem statements for design based on business/user goals
• Ensure smooth engineering hand-off by introducing self/peer review for tech feasibility
• Evangelize UX-led product development in the company
• Leading product user analytics and design system initiative

Sep 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote

• Re-designed real time backlog reporting, eliminating manual backlog reporting saving 80 man hours every week (Live)
• Spearheaded UX and UI re-design for Prochant Analytics tool, it was later on to be sold as a separate product offering for existing clients (Live)
• Performed iterative enhancements based on user feedback and user testing for Prochant Connect (internal ops) tool (Live)
• Championed data driven design model - implemented Mixpanel to gather usage data, used data to drive UX decisions, defined metrics to measure success of designs (Live)
• Defined problem statements based on user feedback and user interviews
• Collected user feedback regularly after release of major/ minor product updates
• Developed new Design System for internal tools
• Closely collaborated with engineering team to understand limitations and opportunities
• of technology and design around it

Jun 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Responsible for designing all products for FCAT (in-house R&D unit that works on cutting edge technology and B2B/B2C products)
• Conceptualized new product designs, created low fidelity wireframes and high fidelity visual designs, animated interfaces
• Oversaw development process to ensure near pixel-perfect implementation
• Projects/Products:
• Application for blockchain backed Private Equity Marketplace
• Blockchain based liquidity solution for Warrant Securities
• Solution for research analysts to consolidate, tag and maintain start-up data ○ Intra-company website to showcase work of the R&D team (Live)
• Product owner for Go-Algo - helps users experiment with trading algorithms on historical data for use in their future investments
• Prototypes:
• Rainy day - a savings app that lets you save a % of each spend
• Beanstalk - a gamification model targeting young tech savvy novice investors ○ Travel app - a savings app to meet travel goals

Jun 2017 – Apr 2018 · 10 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Created screens and flows to integrate PayPal checkout systems with various North American large enterprise merchants
• Designed co-branded html marketing banners and intranet sites/applications (Live)

Apr 2016 – Mar 2017 · 11 mos · Remote

• Lead UX and Visual design for Outgrow and VenturePact (Live)
• Designed and launched application and website for outgrow.co (Live)

Nov 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Chennai Area

• Responsible for execution and delivery of all Animation projects in Chennai studio.
• Job Role:
• Capability Presentation to clients
• Consult on solutions based on time and budget constraints
• Requirement Gathering
• Project Planning (Cost,Timeline,Resources)
• Oversee Execution (Script/Storyboard/Art Direction/Animation)
• Delivery
• Lead and mentored a small team of Art Directors, Animators and a Script Writer
• Won an award for the best explainer video of the year in 2015
• Delivered around 30 explainer videos
• Acted as a Creative Technologist for numerous client pitches and internal projects
• Job Role :
• Early prototyping for pitch
• Framework / Technology recommendation
• Overseeing developers / designers to ensure a seamless experience for the end user

Jan 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• An identity for ideas / projects that I do from time to time in my free time.
• Created a training DVD and a video for a opensource 3D software called Blender. It introduces designers to Blender as a tool to create skeumorphic icons and illustrations for the web. Was a featured designer in the official Chennai Adobe Photoshop Meetup for the same.
• retrocurator.com - an ongoing Webgl experiment using BabylonJs. The future releases will feature a Webgl based Instagram like filters in real-time rendering. The same is being successfully tested and will deployed in new UI.

Feb 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Job Role :
• Visual design of websites, webapps and mobile apps
• Understand wireframes and make Visual design based on the medium (Web, iOS, Android)
• Training experienced and fresh talent in the mobile design best practices
• Development of prototypes for client pitches using Flash Action Script / Unity3D / Javascript
• Projects :
• Adaptive 3D Flash Website that scales in almost all resolutions - customized for client
• Interactive mall walkthrough in Unity3D for Flash's stage3D library (for a leading Abu Dhabi bank)
• Custom xml image gallery in Actionscript that has multiple level filters and navigation.