Rakesh Kumar Singh
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About
An UI/UX Lead with more than 14 years experience in Product analysis, Requirement Gathering, Team Management, Mock-up Design, Wire frame, Prototype, Usability Engineering, Usability Test, User Centric Design, Accessibility, User Experience Design, Mobile App Design, Android App Design, Mobile Site Design, Responsive Web Design, Hybrid UI Design, Mobile Design Principals and Agile Methodology. My technical key skills are Adobe Creative Suites, HTML5, CSS3, Dreamweaver, Axure, Visio, and MS Powerpoint.
User Experience Strategist and Design professionals of experience in applied Human Factors, Usability Engineering, Product methodology and User Interface Design. Successfully led and directed projects including product ideation, usability evaluation reports, user interface structures, and usability testing for the mobile apps and websites. I am currently working as an UI/UX Lead at the Jagran New Media.
SPECIALITIES
• Thought-leadership to clients and product teams on user experience strategy
• In-depth user research to understand user behavior patterns, requirements, gap analysis
• Wireframes and flowcharts for the product requirement.
• Ability to research, understand technology implications, perform industry benchmarking and competitor analysis, and articulate solutions.
• Expertise in creating high fidelity and low fidelity wireframes.
• Deep knowledge of mobile design principles, responsive design, native, Web, and Hybrid UI design guidelines.
• The core areas pertain to Designing Prototypes, Wireframe, Mobile Website, Applications, Usability Analysis, and conversion of prototypes to highly optimized HTML’s.
• Problem solving abilities and an intuitive capability to review designs from a user perspective
• Conduct usability tests on users across multiple countries to develop cross-cultural design solutions
• Translate business objectives in to specific requirement.
• Holistic approach to design, customer journey mapping and manage multi-channel Customer Experience.
• Adept at managing multiple projects and project teams while producing top-notch deliverables.
• Ability to quickly grasp and balance the underlying business issues, user requirements, and technical constraints to create a future vision and practical UI solutions
• Experience in working closely with various teams to provide clear and concise guidance
Technical Skills
Multimedia Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash
Web Technologies: HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
Editor: Dreamweaver, Edit plus
JavaScript Frameworks: jQuery, AngularJS and Bootstrap
CMS: Magento, Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Interwoven(Java Based)
Product Methodology: Agile
Wire framing tools: Axure, MS-Visio, MS-PowerPoint
Achievement:
Have successfully designed the Award winning online classified portal Khojle.in. Khojle has won the prestigious ASIAN DIGITAL MEDIA AWARDS 2010 for Best in online media award- Classified website from WAN-IFRA. -
Education
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HND Computing and DesignEdexcel University, UK1999 - 2001
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B. Sc. ScienceJP University, Chapra, Saran1998 - 2001I have done my graduation from JP University, Chapra, Saran in Science stream.
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10th ScienceS.N.G. High School, Chapra1992 - 1995
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Experience
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UI/UX LeadNew Delhi, IndiaApr 2014 - Present (8 years 2 months)• Responsible for the complete User Experience design, information architecture and maintain smooth user flow for ecommerce website and mobile app.
• The core areas pertain to Designing Prototypes, Wireframe, Mobile Website, Applications, Usability Analysis, and conversion of prototypes to highly optimized HTML’s.
• Defined framework and UI guidelines for consistent UX across products/platforms.
• Worked at an individual contributor level participating in UX activities throughout entire product development lifecycle.
• Sensitized and trained developers on usability and its importance enabling them to handle smaller changes at their level comfortably thereby reducing turnaround time.
• Responsible from the starting till final execution of the modules.
• Cross-browser CSS compatibility, progressive enhancement, accessibility and usability
• Interacting with the business, technology and Product team to gather the requirements.
• Developing the User Interface screens based on the functional requirements and the corporate brand image -
Team Lead - UX DesignNew Delhi, IndiaJan 2009 - Mar 2014 (5 years 2 months)• Responsible for the complete User Experience and design of a new Job Website Portal (HeadHonchos.com, learning.headhonchos.com).
• The core areas pertain to Designing Prototypes, Wireframe, Mobile Website, Applications, Usability Analysis, and conversion of prototypes to highly optimized HTML’s.
• Worked at a strategic level defining long-term vision goals for their products.
• Defined framework and UI guidelines for consistent UX across products/platforms.
• Sensitized and trained developers on usability and its importance enabling them to handle smaller changes at their level comfortably thereby reducing turnaround time.
• Worked at an individual contributor level participating in UX activities throughout entire product development lifecycle.
• Hand-coded HTML5/CSS3, JQuery, JavaScript, Marketing newsletters
• Cross-browser CSS compatibility, progressive enhancement, accessibility and usability
• Interacting with the business, technology and Product team to gather the requirements.
• Developing the User Interface screens based on the functional requirements and the corporate brand image
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Information ArchitectNoida, IndiaOct 2006 - Dec 2008 (2 years 2 months)• UI Designer specializing in hand-coded HTML/CSS, cross-browser CSS compatibility, progressive enhancement, accessibility and usability and W3c related issues.
• Designing interfaces and develop web template for main corporate site, marketing newsletters
• Effective design work for marketing email campaigns, ensuring consistent display across popular email clients, including Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail etc
• Striking design banner advertisements appearing in various website through Add sense.
• Interacting with the business, technology and usability team to gather the requirements
• Developing the User Interface screens based on the functional requirements and the corporate brand image
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WebmasterGhaziabad, IndiaOct 2004 - Oct 2006 (2 years)• Designing the Website Template and Integrating the HTML template into Dot Net frame.
• Coordinating with team member for day to day work.
• Conducting Quality Check of Website Template, XHTML and CSS.
• Conducting Training for XHTML 1.0, CSS 2.0, W3c, Usability & Accessibility.
• Handling usability, accessibility and W3c related issues.
• Interacting with Developer for UI, HTML, CSS, Cross browser Compatibility.
• Responsible from the starting till final execution of the modules.
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Awards
• Got afaqs's best innovative news app award for my newly designed IndiaTV news app in 2018.
• Have successfully designed the Award winning online classified portal Khojle.in. Khojle has won the prestigious ASIAN DIGITAL MEDIA AWARDS 2010 for Best in online media award- Classified website from WAN-IFRA. -
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@userinterface, member since 2010
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