Project Design

SHIMONI S. SHETH

SUMMARY

Over *+ years of IT experience and a solid foundation in Business Analysis, User Interface(UI)

design, User Experience(UX) design and Information Architecture(IA)

Worked as Sr. Business Analyst, Lead UI Designer, Prototype Developer and Information Architect

Industry Experience with Financial Services, Retail and Healthcare businesses

Masters Degree in Information Architecture with GPA 4.0

Capable to adapt to organizational and technological changes

Very much passionate about working with different teams and learn new skills

Strong leadership, analytical, problem solving and interpersonal qualities

SKILLS

Web Technologies: HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, XML

Design Tools: Adobe Dreamweaver, InDesign, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, Visio, Illustrator, Axure

Content Management Systems: Drupal, WordPress, Subversion

Productivity Software Suites: MS Office, MS Project

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X

Concepts: Business Analysis, Information Architecture (IA), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Usability

Testing and Research, User Interface Design and Development, Project Management, Visual and Verbal

Communication, Information Design, Agile Methodology

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

Senior Business Analyst consultant at leading financial institution JPMC

Lead Usability Analyst and UI Designer Consultant at JPMC

Usability Analyst and Information Architect at Usability center UTEC and Technical Institute IIT

Freelance Information Architect and Usability analyst at retail web design company E-Designs

Solutions

Assistant Project Management at leading pharmaceutical healthcare organization, Intas

Biopharmaceuticals

EXPERIENCE

JP Morgan Chase & Co. 2012-Present

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp.

Sr. Business Analyst and UI Consultant

Collaborating in Agile software development process with global team members for projects of

JPMC applications Treasury Services Deal Manager (TSDM), Access Next Generation (ANG), Orbeon

Migration and Usability Testing.

Creating, updating, and maintaining the functional requirements and use page specifications

documentation.

Creating, updating, and maintaining the web prototypes.

Involved in requirement gathering phases to ensure understanding of business requirements.

Sharing expertise with business for the feasibility of User Interface requirements.

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Conducting prototype walkthrough with business partners to gain approval and identify defects or

potential enhancements

Supporting the requirements and prototypes through development and testing, answering any

clarifications needed by QA and Dev teams

Estimating effort for reporting and planning purposes

Interacting with inter-department personnel to gather requirements/change requests.

Providing UI Design improvements and have solid experience with design and layouts

Providing increasingly flexible functionality within the analysis phase based on the businesses

feedback

Documenting and creating wireframes and high-fidelity mockups to develop the click-through

prototypes which play an important role in continuous improvement of the usability of the

application UI pages.

Producing prototypes with expertise with designing tools like Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, MS

Visio, MS Axure and programming languages like HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, XML etc. to

ensure shared understanding of business, usability and technical implications and provide guidance

to development teams.

Migrating the requirements and UI functionality of forms to an open source java platform (Orbeon

Forms)

Responsible for creating and delivering any graphical elements (icons, buttons, images, etc), page

code and CSS in a Photoshop and Dreamweaver as needed by the business and technology teams.

Evaluating existing prototypes to provide design improvements and help implement usable

interface designs.

Serving as a contact between the UI team and the IT organizations providing technical feasibility of

the interface design and resolving implementation issues.

Working closely with large team of business analysts and developers to ensure business

requirements are satisfied and most important features are developed in a timely manner.

JP Morgan Chase & Co. 2010-2012

Modis Inc, IL

UI Consultant

Articulated and organized hands-on approach of end-to-end Usability testing for TSDM with

attention to deadlines and precision. Presented this approach to senior management to explain the

benefits of usability testing for TSDM application and its end users.

Led Research and Usability Testing project for TSDM and served as a UX (User Experience) lead to

perform user analysis, research for the domain, UX team training, brain storm for generating

concepts, and work with test participants and create roles for usability team.

Worked with Deal manager team and educated team to plan for pilot testing of TSDM with usability

methods.

Coordinated usability sessions with business analysts, user interface designers, developers and

senior managers and stakeholders to define usability goals and objectives, to interpret

requirements, to investigate and define user experience needs and options and to identify

modifications and enhancements to improve the user experience and usability of the application.

Handled participation enrollment for TSDM Usability testing from the user pool. Responsible for

developing scenarios, usability protocols, designing note taking forms, users personas, user

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screening questionnaires, user consent forms and facilitator s scripts and other test documentation

based on business requirements.

Delivered supporting documents including user analysis, research reports and presentation of

results.

Planned and analyzed usability test result data for efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction of

business users and checked whether accepted recommendations have been implemented in next

releases and demonstrating project findings to share usability knowledge to other J.P. Morgan

Chase teams.

Responsible for creating and delivering any graphical elements (icons, buttons, images, etc), page

code and CSS in a Photoshop and Dreamweaver as needed by the business and technology teams.

Created interactive and pixel-perfect prototypes of the online interfaces.

Teamed up closely with the User Interface Designers to convert page design schematics into

working, coded prototypes that demonstrate the inter-related pages and behavior of individual

page elements.

Maintained expertise in front-end technology and interacted best practices to ensure the interface

is implemented in the most efficient manner and meets the highest standards of usability.

E-Designs Solution 2008-2010

Freelance Information Architect and Usability Analyst

Developed site architecture and navigation for clients websites and prepared realistic plans

Worked with clients to understand their corporate objectives and worked on requirement

gathering

Defined strategy, features for different web sites and worked with developers.

Developed logos, taglines and worked with lots of image enhancement and graphics

Designed and developed web pages employing web standards and using HTML, XHTML, CSS,

JavaScript.

Created wireframes using Papers, Photoshop, InDesign Visio, Axure.

Prepared feature lists, site maps, mockups, visual specification, working prototypes and other

artifacts to describe the intended user experience.

Website: www.dezi9or.com

Intas Biopharmaceuticals Ltd, India 2006 - 2007

Assistant Project Management

Assisted Head of Strategic Planning and Development, at Intas Biopharmaecuticals Ltd., India

Helped in planning, execution, monitoring of resources and time lines for R&D projects using MS

Project

Worked closely with developers to update company s news and upcoming events in company s

website

Worked on reorganization of company s website http://www.intasbiopharma.co.in/, making

significant changes to the content, functionality and design to make it more user-friendly and

informative

Designed and tested subsidiary company s website http://www.indusbio.co.in/

Actively contributed to projects within corporate communication department

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PROJECTS

2006 - 2007

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

Information Architect for SortIIT

Designed and Developed Information Architecture for Open Source Card Sorting Supporting

website

Assisted Dr. Karl Stolley (Assistant Professor, Technical Communication) for SortIIT project

Performed user research, interviewed key stakeholder and prospective users and provided results

Created IA model and contributed design paper prototypes/Photoshop mock-ups

Designed multiple logos for SortIIT to create brand identity using Adobe Photoshop and InDesign

Performed competition analysis of similar web card sorting and open source websites and

submitted results

Created and contributed supportive document with recommendations for the development phase

Usability Testing and Evaluation Center (UTEC), Chicago, IL

Usability Analyst & Note Taker

Conducted the usability testing of AAD website as an analyst under the directorship of Dr. Susan

Feinberg

Worked with the test participants, facilitators and observers during the test

Designed and developed the participant profile & note-taking forms

Prepared the test location, recorded test times and took notes

Performed analysis of the debriefing questionnaire

Carried out card-sorting method

Websites: http://www.iit.edu/usability/, www.aad.org

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

Technical Assistant for Document Design and Art and Architectural History Courses

Assisted Dept. Chair and Professor, Humanities in undergrad & grad required classes

Assisted students with different design and development assignments

Helped students to trouble-shoot the technical difficulties with InDesign and Photoshop

Assisted professors with technology and class management

The Image Studios, Chicago, IL

Web UI and Graphic Design

Involved in re-design project of the company website

Revising/writing content for the new design

Organizing weekly status meeting with web developers

Working on the design and development strategies

Designing graphics for the website

Website www.theimagestudios.com

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Redesign of Communication Across the Curriculum (CAC) website

Developed CMS-structured web solution for CAC program using Drupal

Designed and provided paper prototypes and sample templates to development team

Customized system to meet the needs of the CAC department and users of the website

Managed existing and new content with the help of Drupal modules like Views, CCK, Menu

breadcrumb, etc.

Website: http://www.iit.edu/cac/

Designed and developed Rajani Printery website

Created paper prototypes and Photoshop mockups for client using MS Office and Adobe Photoshop

Created logo, taglines, graphics for brand identity using Adobe InDesign

Collected, created and modified content for the website

Developed web pages using HTML, CSS, XHTML and Dreamweaver

Website: www.rajaniprintery.com

Conducted Formal Usability Test for Epicurious, a food website

Prepared user profiles and recruited participants

Created task scenarios and conducted walkthroughs

Prepared test environment and conducted usability tests at UTEC lab at IIT

Conducted post test questionnaires and analyzed data for efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction

of users

Website: http://www.epicurious.com/

EDUCATION

MS in Information Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, GPA: 4.0

Post Graduate Diploma in Bio-Informatics

Bachelor or Science

CONTACT

Phone: 773-***-****

Email: ************@*****.***

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