Design Manager

Location:

Atlanta, GA

Posted:

December 31, 2012

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Objective

Seeking a full time opportunity to work with creative and enthusiastic user experience practitioners. To work as an Interaction Designer to build engaging and compelling experiences and contribute to a multi-disciplinary team.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

M.S. in Human Computer Interaction (Dec 2007)

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

B.S. in Visual Communication Design(May 2005)

Experience

Manhattan Associates, Atlanta, GA

SENIOR USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER (Jan 2008 - Present)

Founding member of UX group, recognized for evangelizing design by training and communication efforts. Responsible for creation and maintenance of user interface standards, guidelines, design patterns for all platform applications on the web and mobile. Significant contributions to redesign and rethinking of Transportation Lifecycle Management (TLM) and Extended Enterprise Management (EEM) applications. Created and maintain intranet portal for UX Team, which contains exhaustive documentation. Developed close to 15 hours of training material and delivered to R&D, Sales and Customer Services. Earned outstanding ratings on annual reviews for the past three years. Recognized for high-quality work, contribution to idea pool, and excellent customer deliveries. Contribution to blog on industry research and trends, and monthly newsletter.

Inquus (now known as Open Study)

CO-FOUNDER & PRODUCT MANAGER (May 2006 - Dec 2007)

Co-founded a Web 2.0 startup company to provide an online social marketplace for e-learning. Conducted market research to refine business plan and positioning of the product in the market. Conceptualization and product vision for online site. Managed and ran project for developing the first version of the site. Efforts led to capturing first round of seed funding of $350,000

Accenture Technology Labs, Palo Alto

UI INTERN( May 2006 - Nov 2006)

Design, implementation and evaluation for a mobile and desktop application that monitored personal information using wearable wireless sensors and coached users to improve their habits. Gathered requirements by interviewing stakeholders, generated use cases and prototyped wireframes. Programmed Windows Mobile application and Windows XP application in Flash. Conducted think aloud usability studies to evaluate and test design and implementation. Efforts led to working prototype demonstrated to clients to win future contracts and capture local news media attention

Georgia Institute of Technology

WEB DEVELOPER (Jan 2006 - May 2006)

Design and implement a elearning web based application.

Koln International School of Design, Germany

IXD INTERN(May 2004 - July 2004)

Create storyboards, mockups, cardboard prototype for handheld device for children.

Skills

Technical

Programming Languages: C, C++, Processing (Java based script)

UI Prototyping Toolkits:

Dream Weaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, Flash, Director, Premier, Visio

Web Development Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, PHP, My SQL, Actionscript

Databases Technology: SQL, Microsoft Access

General Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

UX skills

Usability skills: Heuristic Evaluation, Cognitive Walkthrough, Think Aloud Protocol, Cooperative Evaluation

Interaction Design: Personas, storyboarding, wireframes, scenarios

Reserach Design: Qualitative Research, interviews, questionnaires, non - participant observation

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