shobhan s

CEO

United States11 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Contact

Experience

11 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 8 mos

Average Tenure

9 mos

Current Experience

Purdue university

Faculty Member

Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos · West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Teaching design in the School of Applied & Creative Computing (SACC) at the Purdue Polytechnic Institute.

Vunet systems

Designer

Apr 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore, India

Encouraging discipline and quality: in design, and in those who work with it.

Ideo

Interaction Designer (Independent Contractor)

Sep 2023 – Sep 2023 · 0 mo · Tokyo, Japan

National institute of design

Visiting Faculty Member

Apr 2021 – Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Gandhinagar, India

Working with the New Media Design programme to tutor projects, run workshops, teach concepts, grade semester work, and judge graduation projects.

Slowstudio

untitled

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

an explorative design practice, instigated by this idea: “in a fast-moving world, slow is revolutionary."

Mcdonald's

Designer around Human–Machine Conversation

Sep 2020 – Jan 2021 · 4 mos

Multi-modal improvements for the automated order-taking experience in McD's Drive Thru.

Tata classedge

Consultant: Digital-Product Design

Apr 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bombay, India

Designed, researched, and prototyped key features in the company's first consumer product, Tata Studi: a study-companion for children, encouraging independent and regular study.

Furhat robotics

Designer for Human-Robot Conversation

May 2019 – Jan 2020 · 8 mos · Stockholm, Sweden

Random international

2 roles

Creative Technologist

Promoted

Jul 2016 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

Concept development to help win commissions for critically acclaimed projects. Design lead on projects outside random’s traditional mediums of expertise.

Creative Technologist

Feb 2015 – Sep 2015 · 7 mos · London, United Kingdom

Bookpad inc.

Designer

Feb 2014 – Sep 2014 · 7 mos · Bangalore, India

Led design for a software-startup. Incubated by Microsoft Ventures and Nasscom ; acquired by Yahoo.

Codesign llp

Communication Designer

Nov 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Delhi NCR, India

Clarice technologies

Interaction Designer

Jan 2012 – Jul 2012 · 6 mos · Pune, India

Communication & interface design (for screen-based software).

J. walter thompson worldwide

Graphic Designer

Dec 2011 – Dec 2011 · 0 mo · Bombay, India

Shuruat pvt ltd

Ethnographer

Sep 2011 – Nov 2011 · 2 mos · Bombay, India

Graphic communication concepts (sudarshan dheer)

2 roles

Graphic Designer

Jul 2011 – Aug 2011 · 1 mo · Bombay, India

Graphic Design Internee

Jun 2010 – Aug 2010 · 2 mos · Bombay, India

Leaf design pvt. ltd.

Graphic Design Internee

May 2009 – Jun 2009 · 1 mo · Bombay, India

Itdp india

Curious person

Dec 2008 – Dec 2008 · 0 mo · Ahmedabad, India

Education

Royal College of Art

MA — Information Experience Design

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

Nehru Institute of Mountaineering

Basic Mountaineering Course

Mar 2023 – Apr 2023

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Bachelor of Design

Jan 2007 – Jan 2011

DG Ruparel College of Arts, Science and Commerce

HSC — Science

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006

Arya Vidya Mandir, Juhu

ICSE

Jan 1991 – Jan 2004