UX/UI Designer

SAGAR DAVE

Email: addg81@r.postjobfree.com Portfolio: https://www.sdavefolio.com

Seeking a position as UI/UX Designer in the competitive Information Technology industry, to utilize my skills and abilities that offer professional growth while being resourceful, innovative and flexible.

SUMMARY:

A competent UI/UX Designer with 7+ years’ experience in UI Designing & Testing Web Applications in IT industry.

Excellent understanding of UI/ UX Designing, UX Processes, Quality Assurance methodology and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Experience in adopting Waterfall and Agile/SCRUM methodologies along with Test Driven Development

Good experience in translating customer requirements into design specifications and ensured that the requirements translate into software solutions.

Strong experience and understanding between User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design (IXD).

Experience with Design Conceptualizing methods like ideas mapping & affinity diagrams, card sorting, Customer journey map and user decision path.

Experience with various User Research Methods such as card sorting, role-playing workshop, shadowing and heuristics.

Experience with creating Personas and conducting Focus Group Discussions.

Test Execution as per the test Cases, Reporting of the Results, Identifying the Defects, Retesting the fixes.

Experienced performing System Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, UAT testing.

Experienced is writing daily status reports / Weekly status report.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Designing Tools

Balsamiq, InVision, UXPin, Axure, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Framer X, Principle

UX Techniques

User Research, Design Conceptualizing, Project Strategy, Persona, Focus Group Discussion, UX Analytical Research, lean UX Design, Design Sprints

Methodologies

Agile(SCRUM), Waterfall, V&V

Certifications

User Experience for Web Designers

UX Foundation: Accessibility

JavaScript Essential Training

Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)

Introduction to Software Product Management

Initiating and Planning Projects

Budgeting and Scheduling Projects

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Client: Ford - Detroit, MI July 2019 - Present

Role: Senior UI/UX Designer

Description: Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker who sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and most luxury cars under the Lincoln car. Ford is also focused in providing a more transparent way to ensure that their customers are aware of the data that Ford shares with the third parties if and when a user consents to their data privacy and terms & conditions. Besides sharing, Ford is also designing a web & mobile space where the user can view the data being collected from the vehicle, devices and provided by user.

Responsibilities:

Involved in designing the user experience interface UI/UX strategy, UI requirements, converting findings into UI designs.

Responsible in partnering with business stakeholders to define requirements and concepts, creating wireframes, mockups and user flows.

Responsible in conducting usability tests, heuristic evaluations and benchmarking analyses on apps.

Experience with UX Processes like Double Diamond and Sprint which helped to deliver a rapid prototype to the customers.

Responsible in working with other UI/UX Designers to facilitate product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching and prototyping for the dashboard experience.

Responsible in designing and delivering wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.

Responsible for working with various teams in a strict Agile/SCRUM based environment.

Responsible for building prototypes and wireframes for the team with better design visualization using various wireframing tools such as Sketch, Adobe CC & Figma following accessibility standards.

Experience with Design Conceptualizing methods like ideas mapping & affinity diagrams, card sorting, Customer journey map and user decision path.

Experience with UX Processes like Double Diamond and Sprint which helped to deliver a rapid prototype to the customers.

Environments: Sketch, Adobe CC, Figma, Storyboarding, UX Research, UX Process, Rally.

Client: Highmark - Pittsburgh, PA August 2017 – July 2019

Role: UI/UX Designer

Description: Highmark is one of the leading insurance company in the western PA region. The project was about creating a dashboard from scratch which involved heavy focus on the front-end tier. The dashboard would allow end-users, internal agents and higher management view all the data related to the patient including their insurance plans.

Responsibilities:

Responsible to interface with business and end users for understanding requirements and user experience.

Responsible for working with various teams in a strict Agile/SCRUM based environment.

Responsible in conducting usability tests, heuristic evaluations and benchmarking analyses on apps.

Responsible for building prototypes and wireframes for the team with better design visualization using various wireframing tool Balsamiq.

Responsible in creating Hi-Fi designs and prototypes using Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC and InVision following accessibility standards.

Involved in designing the user experience interface UI/UX strategy, UI requirements, converting findings into UI designs.

Responsible in working with other UI/UX Designers to facilitate product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching and prototyping for the dashboard experience.

Responsible in designing and delivering wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.

Work with senior UX researchers to create final visual designs based on research.

Responsible to write clean, well-designed code and collaborate work with the team using HTML CSS, Bootstrap and responsive web designs.

Experience with Design Conceptualizing methods like ideas mapping & affinity diagrams, card sorting, Customer journey map and user decision path.

Experience with creating Personas and conducting Focus Group Discussions.

Experience with UX Processes like Double Diamond and Sprint which helped to deliver a rapid prototype to the customers.

Responsible for creating a web application where calculations happen dynamically based on user input using JavaScript.

Developed multiple POC’s for finalizing the requirements before implementation using mock-up screens

Environments: Balsamiq, Sketch, UXPin, Photoshop, UX Research, UX Process, JIRA.

Client: ServiceLink - Pittsburgh, PA February 2015 – July 2017

Role: UI/UX Designer

Description: ServiceLink is a mortgage related company, who builds web-based application related to mortgage services. The application developed was a complex web app which would allow a bank (loan company) put in a service order for the property. The app would then allow the third party go to the property with 200 question inspection form to perform various activities. Eventually the app would also allow the bank to put a foreclosure on the property.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for working with various teams in a strict Agile/SCRUM based environment.

Responsible is creating sketches, wireframes, and mocks to communicate user flows and interactions to engineer, designers and art directors.

Responsible is creating and conducting user studies and UX flows.

Experience with UX Processes like Double Diamond and Sprint which helped to deliver a rapid prototype to the customers.

Responsible in working with other UI/UX Designers to facilitate product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching and prototyping for the dashboard experience.

Responsible in designing and delivering wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.

Experience is designing Lo-Fi designs using Adobe XD & Balsamiq and Hi-Fi design using Adobe CC & InVision following accessibility standards.

Researched context aware in smartphone, generated Persona and Scenario.

Designed logo, all graphics for online activity and official website mockup.

Responsible to produce detailed specifications in conjunction with Business Analysts.

Responsible in driving UX vision, create UX workflows, run quick prototypes, and conduct usability testing.

Environments: Balsamiq, InVision, Agile/SCRUM, UX Research, UX Process, GIT.

Client: Zimmer Biomet - Warsaw, IN May 2014 – February 2015

Role: UI/UX Developer

Description: Zimmer Biomet is one of the leading medical device company. Zimmer manufactures; innovative solutions that support orthopedic surgeons and clinicians in alleviating pain and improving the quality of life for people around the world. The project was to create a web-based application for the internal users so that the inventory can be easily managed. The project was an enhancement to the legacy one, which involved a lot of Focus group discussions too.

Responsibilities:

Responsible working in Agile based development cycle with a bi-weekly release schedule.

Responsible in creating wireframes, prototypes using various tools like Balsamiq and InVision.

Responsible is creating and conducting user studies and UX flows.

Researched context aware in smartphone, generated Persona and Scenario.

Designed logo, all graphics for online activity and official website mockup.

Responsible for making Responsive Web Pages using Bootstrap and media queries.

Developed the web app using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and Bootstrap.

Responsible in using GIT as the version control tool with JIRA as the project management.

Environment: Agile/SCRUM, Wireframing, Prototyping, UX Process, UX Flow, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Responsive Web Designs, GIT, JIRA.

Client: Robert Morris University - Pittsburgh, PA October 2012 – April 2013

Role: UI/UX Developer

Description: Robert Morris University is in the suburbs of Pittsburgh who has excellent undergraduates and graduate programs. The project dealt in enhancing some web pages of the school’s website. Also, it involved revamping the entire payment and scheduling process in terms of design and architecture.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for working with various teams in a strict Agile based environment.

Responsible is creating sketches, wireframes, and mocks to communicate user flows and interactions to engineer, designers and art directors.

Responsible to write clean, well-designed code and collaborate work with the team using HTML CSS and Bootstrap.

Worked with QA Team on daily basis in fixing the reported defects.

Responsible in working with the UAT team to help understand the new process and design.

Worked closely with the end user for testing and training.

Environments: Agile, Wireframing, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Testing.

Client: Citi Bank - Mumbai, India November 2009 – May 2010

Role: Software Analyst

Description: Citi Bank is one of the famous banks across the globe. The project involved enhancing some internal web apps including its official user facing website.

Responsibilities:

Responsible in working in a traditional Waterfall based environment which involved releases once in 3 months.

Involved in Test Case Review meetings with business analysts and developers.

Wrote, managed & tested codes using HTML, CSS, PHP and SQL.

Worked with the QA team to fix the reported defects.

Created requirements Traceability matrix, Test cases for system Testing, Integration Testing, and Regression Testing.

Involved in UAT by providing test data for users and by testing UAT defects in test environment before, the new code gets moved to UAT environment.

Environment: Waterfall, HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, Testing.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering - Robert Morris University (Moon Township, PA).

Master of Science in Information Systems & Engineering Management - Harrisburg University of Science & Technology (Harrisburg, PA).

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