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Resume

Vaibhav Sharma
Noida, INDIA
e-mail : idvaibhavs@gmail.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/svaibhav/

Professional experience

Current
Usability Analyst with Global Logic India Pvt. Ltd. [may2011- present]
Noida, India
http://www.globallogic.com/

Past
User experience designer at Clarice technologies Pvt. Ltd. [march11 - April11]
Pune, India
http://claricetechnologies.com/

User experience design intern with MS Office for Windows Phone7 team at Microsoft India Development Center (MS-IDC) [Feb10- August10]
Hyderabad, India
http://www.microsoft.com/india/msidc/

Visualizer at Topnotch Advertising Pvt. Ltd. [2005-2007]
Jaipur, India
http://www.topnotch-india.com/

Academic experience

Bachelors in Visual Art (Applied Art) Four year degree course.

Post Graduate Diploma in Information and Interface Design(08-2010) from National Institute of Design, Research and Development campus, Bangalore.
http://bangalore.nid.edu/
www.nid.edu

The course led me to have an in depth study of brand making, the way campaign is built and executed, the art of indoor/outdoor photography and graphic designing.

Collaborated with TopNotch Advt. Agency. I was involved in a variety of projects ranging from conceptualization to overseeing production. I also managed and directed photo shoots. Worked on web usability issues.

I have been Involved in the in house publication of Vivekananda Kendra. Assisted them with layout, design and production issues. I worked on the electronic version of their magazine as well.

Worked on a national telecom brand, a handful of upcoming brands of jaipur(rajasthan) aiming to become a global brand.


Research Interests

Conducted research on indian automobile industry to know the consumer
insights for a mini campaign done on Car as a college assignment in the
year 2006-07.
Conducted research on jewellery industry of jaipur for a jewellery retailer
to know the consumer behaviour at retail outlets and come up with
concepts targeted to set the brand name in consumers mind, also to give
out some striking gorilla ideas.
Worked on media planning for the launch of a real estate groups identity
in order to launch the prior teaser campaign based on consumer insight.
Done packaging design for a dairy product, a ready to eat food company
and health namkeen.
Conducted a thorough research on brand identity guidelines followed in
corporates - their impact and usefulness.
Designed and executed an stall design for a jewellery retailer in an
international jewellery show aimed at maximum footfall on the stall.
Worked on product photography for jewellery articles, snacks as per the
packaging design requirement.

Activities, Academic and others

Participated in comic book workshop conducted by belgian artist Et en
Schreder at college in 06.
Participated in an online competition for Eyewear Design.
Participated in poster competition by rajasthan patrika related to social
topics of indian society.
Participated and awarded as the best conceptual commercial poster
design for Cancer society Jaipur.
Participated in an online photography competition held by agfa.
Awarded with the title best photograph in an inter college photography
exhibition.
Active member of an NGO known as Vivekanada Kendra.
Comfortable on working on both windows as well as macintosh operating
system with related design software.
Executed social concepts through photography for making motivational
posters.
Major interest lies in research oriented projects, their pre and post
testing till its final output.
To explore issues in interaction design and design management.