Objective
To practice interaction design and be part of a team/organization that adds value to people's lives.
Profile
- - Experience in research and analytical work through extensive academic training.
- - Ability to work efficiently both individually and in a group.
- - Demonstrated leadership qualities in running offshore dev team.
- - Outstanding communication and problem solving skills. Highly motivated and dedicated to succeed.
- - International student design competition finalist at CHI 2007.
Experience
Interaction Designer at facetPlay (Aug 2007 - Present)
I work as the lead interaction designer/interactive architect at a startup called facetPlay. I drive the entire design process and the user experience under the supervision of the VP of Corporate Development. My role includes
- Understanding user needs, as well as business and functional requirements.
- Creating detailed design and functional specifications (storyboards, workflows, mockups, prototypes).
- Conducting research and usability testing, gathering data on the designs and iterating new designs.
- Managing offshore development team in Chennai, India.
- Redesigning the UI to incorporate user research and usability feedback.
Software Engineer at K7 Computing Pvt. Ltd. (June 2004 - Aug 2005)
K7 Computing is a leading antivirus solution provider in India, and is the second largest selling antivirus in Japan. I was responsible for
- Writing tools and utilities to automate various activities of the virus lab.
- Determining new features in the product, part of the think-tank along with the CEO.
- UI and user-experience.
Education
MS in Human Computer Interaction at Indiana University, Bloomington (Aug 2005 - Aug 2007)
- - Graduated with a 3.8 GPA
- - Finalist at the International Student Design Competition at CHI 2007, representing IU.
- - President of the Graduate Informatics Student Association at the School of Informatics.
- - Part of the group of students that promoted and ran "Design House".
- - Fully funded scholar for the duration of the Masters program.
BE in Computer Science at the University of Madras (Sep 2000 - May 2004)
- - Graduated with 79% aggregate, in the top 5% of the class.
- - Member of the student council in the department of Computer Science.
Skills
Design - Affinity diagramming, Concept maps, Personas, Hight/Low-fidelity prototyping, Scenarios.
Tools - Photoshop, Illustrator, IHMC Cmap Tools, Visio, Flash, Dreamweaver.
Usability - Contextual inquiry, Usability testing, Heuristic evaluation.
Web Development - HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, Django.
Professional Affiliations
- Member - Interaction Design Association (IxDA)
- Member - ACM Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)
- Member - BayCHI
References
Available upon request