Coroflot

Resume

User centric design knowledge for web based easy to use User Interface and excellent understanding of Usability Test Software Product.

User Interface Designer with sound knowledge of User Centric Design, User Experience fundamentals with over 10 years of extensive experience involved in enterprise web based software and Ecommerce applications development.

I have worked on enterprise level web based applications for organizations in eProcurement, manufacturing, retail, real estate, advertising, information technology, telecommunications, not-for-profit and education.


Skills and services

Designing user-friendly and useful online computer systems

 Excellent Actualization Skills
 Brainstorming & Strategic Planing
 Usability Testing Prototype & User Interface Design
 Measuring Usability & Analysis
 User Interface Design (SaaS & BTF, Web)
 Managing Prototype Development (low/hi fidelity)
 Maintaining UI Standards across all products
 Research & Implement Quality Improvement Strategies
 Testing User Interface (prototypes & user interfaces)
 Excellent in team collaboration skills to work within highly interactive team.


Specialties

User Centered Design, User Experience, Human Computer Interaction, User Interface Design, Rapid Prototype Development, Heuristic Evaluation, Navigation Design, Product Development Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle, Accessibility Standards, Web 2.0, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS Framework.



Recent Selected Projects –

Strategic Sourcing Solutions - iSource (For Zycus Inc., USA)

The organization wanted to develop a super easy to use web based software application to help sourcing professionals create multi-section RFX, evaluate multiple suppliers and manage e-Auctions online at one place.

Leveraging experience and knowledge of user experience design process and web2.0 technologies such as drag & drop, interactive & collaborative graphs; my role involves actualizing and planning, developing design strategy, defining task flows and very easy to use UI design and managing rapid prototype while developing and maintaining the usability standards.


Key features:

- Drag and drop interactive graph driven analysis
- Complete Collaborative Authoring
- Complete Project Management
- Supplier Portal
- Interactive Dashboards


Supplier Performance Management (For Zycus, USA)

A must have to tool for the Sourcing Professionals across the industry. Challenge was to develop a customizable web based automated system to measure the supplier performance and help design development plans while understanding the industry standards.

My roll is to actualize the requirements while maintaining the UI Paradigm to re-use the existing components to save development time. I help development while incorporating a snippet based development technology to reduce the web designer dependency on core development.

Key features:

- Interactive graph driven analysis
- Complete Collaborative Authoring
- Complete Project Management
- Measuring Supplier Performance
- Wizard based approach
- Interactive Dashboards


Professional Experience

August 2006 – Till date
Sr. HCI Designer/User Experience Lead, Zycus InfoTech Pvt Ltd.

Managing user interface design process for multiple products developed in house at Zycus Headquarters and key team member for UI Standardization as well as quality improvement forums.


April 2002 – August 2006
Design Director/User Experience Lead, Pulse Solutions Pvt Ltd.

User experience specialist providing design strategies, branding, user research, business process analysis, task flow design, navigation design, detailed user interface visualization, rapid high-fidelity prototype development, liaise between client, design and development teams.


January 2001 – April 2002
Web Design Manager, Eye care India Pvt Ltd.

Managing various website designed and developed at Eye care India, while daily updating the content using custom made CMS tool as well as providing design strategies, task flow design, navigation design, detailed user interface visualization for new projects.


Feb 1999 – January 2001
Graphics Designer Executive, Cyber Info Systems Pvt Ltd.

Business analysis, branding, designing corporate identity, product presentation, creating website graphics, photography for web development


Tools Using for…

Requirement Gathering
MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, Knowledge sharing

Actualize and Visualizing
MS Office, MS Project, Adobe Photoshop, Storyboard

Prototype Development
Macromedia Dreamweaver, XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, JBoss Server, Internet Explorer, Dynamic Drive



Education

BA - 1998
Mithibai College of Arts and Science, University of Mumbai, India

Diploma Certification - 1997
Aptech Computers, Mumbai, India

User-Centered Design - 2008
Human Factors International, Mumbai, India

DCC – Effective Communications and Human Relations –
Dale Carnegie Training, Mumbai, India




I like to…

Read books, article in-hand/online and listen to music, long bike rides, playing TT, spending time with family and explore User Experience.