Utpalendra Kumar Deka

Design Manager

Guwahati, Assam, India20 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years of experience in UX and Product Design.
  • Led successful product overhauls for Fortune 500 clients.
  • Published research on innovative GUI design.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a UX and Product Design expert in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience DesignProduct DesignProduct ManagementBusiness AnalysisProject Management

Other Skills

User ExperienceRequirements AnalysisUser-centered DesignInteraction DesignWireframingHuman Computer InteractionRapid PrototypingScrumAgile MethodologiesSix SigmaSDLCChange ManagementInformation ArchitectureBusiness AnalyticsMySQL

About

I am always interested in human interaction design. As a UX Design specialist with an understanding of Product Design and Management of 15+ years, I find myself always eager to learn, educate and practice innovation in my position. Specialties: UX Design, Product Design, HC Interaction, Wireframing, Prototyping, User Journey, Product Ownership, Agile Project Management, Scrum Master, Business Analysis, Requirement analysis.

Experience

20 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Ibm

Sr. Design Manager

Oct 2021Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · India

  • Paper published:
  • Creating a Code-Ready GUI from Voice, Image, or Text Input in the Context of a Design System
  • https://priorart.ip.com/IPCOM/00275501D
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Zaloni

3 roles

Manager UX

Promoted

Feb 2013Oct 2021 · 8 yrs 8 mos

  • As UX manager, I contributed to the following:
  • 1. Built User Journey from User Research, Wireframes, and Prototypes for product features.
  • 2. Managed UX deliverables for 4 Scrum teams to update and enhance the product experience. This includes but is not limited to Requirement translation to product features, Epic prioritization, Story prioritization, and Epic acceptance testing.
  • 3. Lead an in-app onboarding tool research and comparison study, acquisition, and implementation for Zaloni Arena SAAS product with 100% success https://www.zaloni.com/aws-governance-solution/
  • 4. Created a new design language and helped in the full overhaul of the Zaloni Arena product twice in the product's life cycle.
  • This helped in gaining new fortune 500 customers like Bank Of America, Etihad, DU, Verizon, UHG, TIAA, Bremer Bank, TIGO, LabCorp, and many more in verticals like Retail, Finance, Health Care and Telecom.
  • Additional Role: ISMS Manager
  • In this role, I helped the organization to be successfully audited for the Information Security standard of ISO27001:2013
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Manager (Product Owner)

Promoted

Feb 2012Feb 2013 · 1 yr

  • Along with all the Project management-related activities one of the primary contributions I had here was to provide UX Design solutions like User Research, User Journey, Wireframes, Mockups and Managed the Agile Scrum teams.
  • 1. Managed and UX Designed the then-new Bedrock Data Management Platform now is called Arena from the ground up. I managed and lead that for 6months kept working on UX needs for the product in phases till now. Which lead to gaining customers like Verizon, UHG, Etihad, Bank of America, and many more.
  • 2. Did the UX Design research and Project project management for Cisco CDT – Business Intelligence (BI) tool for business analysis and process management and evaluation technic building, for all Customer Deliverables and Change Request Management.
  • 3. Did the UX Design research and Project project management for World Bank Institute - The World Bank, DC – Climate change and e-governance strategy building tool created in accordance to best management practices.
  • 4. I worked on the UX Design research and Project project management for IRB - Duke University - Online Research Protocol tracking system for IRB at Office of Research Support.
  • 5. I lead UX Design research and Project management for Cisco CDO Common Metrics – Manpower and resource utilization and Decision Support system tool for trend forecasting and aiding change management and process operation
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Business Analyst

Feb 2010Feb 2012 · 2 yrs

  • 1. As a Business Analyst and UX Lead I lead a team of 2 to create a BI tool for Cisco PPM (project portfolio management) This is a Resource vs. Program report dashboard. This provides a DSS (Decision Support System) for senior managers for Resource Distribution, Workforce Planning, and Resource Investment Plan. I also created the UX and UI user journey, wireframes, and mockup visualization for this Flash-based tool for various BI reports.
  • 2. Another micro project of 8 months where I contributed as UX Designer in doing the User Research, User Journey, Wireframing and final mockups for validation is Cisco CDO Common Metrics – a Manpower and resource utilization and Decision Support system tool for trend forecasting and aiding change management and process operation.
  • 3. Worked as PM and UX Lead on defining and designing a very challenging Scalable UX of ECONirman http://eetools.in/ a USAID financed BEE Building Energy Conformance Check Tools.
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Excoflare technologies

Asst. Manager Development Centre

Jun 2008Jan 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • 1. UX Design, Project management, and Change management activities.
  • 2. Coordinating and reporting via organization MIS and following processes for continual Service Improvement.
  • 3. Client interaction for requirement gathering “AS-IS”.
  • 4. Business process mapping “TO-BE” and Gap analysis.
  • 5. Responsible for Project Delivery Management, Client Relationship Management, and User Experience Evaluation.
  • 5. Creating service-level specifications and maintaining Service Level Agreement.
User ExperienceProject ManagementChange ManagementUser Experience Design

Kbgs pvt ltd

Web Designer

Jan 2007Jul 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • 1. I was the sole contributor towards UI Visualization, UX research and design to build customer websites
  • 2. I was also involved in coordinating and reporting via organization MIS and following processes for continual Service Improvement.
  • 3. Gap Analysis with respect to the product of expertise.
  • 4. Support to the clients in all respect for conceptualizing, deploying a customer-facing solution.
  • 5. Business process mapping “TO-BE” and “Gap Analysis”.
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Fastrankings online

Web Designer

Jun 2005Jan 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • 1. I was engaged mainly in UX and UI Design for pharma sites.
  • 2. I also had to contribute towards SEO effort for the sites.
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Education

B.Com. — Management

Jan 2000Jan 2002

Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology - SMU

MBA — Information Systems

Jan 2008Jan 2010

Cybersecurity

Six Sigma Green Belt

Third Eye Institute

PGDCA — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2008

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