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Working as a UX strategist and Design manager and playing a critical role in driving the overall UX practice with the Head of User Experience, developing team capabilities, and working as an evangelist and thought leader.

• Create and actively maintain the UX strategy, vision statement, design guidelines, and best practices through proper documentation and supporting illustrations, including storyboards and context scenarios; actively apply to develop high-quality user flows and end-to-end customer experiences.
• Support product development processes from beginning to end, including requirements analysis, user research, prototyping, usability testing, and review.
• Utilize consumer insights gathered from research, psychology, and UX best practices to guide design
• Facilitate strategic, customer-centric decision making
• Reach across the enterprise to build relationships that help the UX design effort succeed

Products/Projects handled: Desktop and Mobile applications, Portals, Websites for various MNC's in different verticals (Retail, Insurance, Telecom, and Banking)

My current role involves working at a consultancy level within Engineering and R&D global services as a Senior Industrial Designer and I co-lead the STRIDE team (strategic research, innovation and design for experience) for global clients. I am responsible for delivering Industrial design, human factors inputs and user interfaces design
Responsibilities
 Interaction with customers
 Project Planning, SOW and project proposal preparation
 Develop design brief
 Conduct user and usability research
 Conduct design workshops
 Act as liaison between various stages of product development process in multi-discipline environment
 Vendor interaction
 Resource management
 Overseeing the downstream development of the designs
 Develop process methodologies for new product development
 Support sales to meet project deliverables

Projects:
Design and development of vigilance camera, medical devices, minimally invasive surgical devices, home appliances, capital goods and auto infotainment
Market research for new product directions in thoracic surgical procedures and patient monitoring devices

Worked with Industrial design and human factors team of Xerox Europe Development center, Welwyn Garden City, for the development of a new multi -function office printer.
My responsibilities included provision of usability inputs and solution development for design integrity during technical feasibility and prototype phases

My role was to execute and manage industrial design projects for customers across verticals including automotive & transportation, consumer products, consumer electronics and appliances.

Responsibilities
 Conduct user research
 Conduct design workshops
 Develop design brief
 Act as liaison between various stage of product development in multi-discipline environment
 Vendor interaction
 Managing the design team

Projects:
Design and development of wearable device, home appliances, computer peripherals, accessory design for motor bikes, portable hand held devices, packaging and dispensers design for FMCG, user interface, service design, strategic design for new business development and product graphic

Position: Industrial Design consultant
• Conducted user research
• Interacted with vendors
• Presented concepts to clients
• Co‐ordinate prototyping
Projects: Design and development of product design, retail space treatment, modular retail fixture, kiosk, pop, technical illustrations and packaging.

Design and developed bicycles for10 to 14 year old school going kids. My design idea had to facilitate for manufacturer capabilities and mass production (100thousand plus number).

Responsibilities
 Conducted Market research in close collaboration with the marketing group
 Conceptualization and product detailing
 Develop prototypes