I simplify things and make them interesting.
I am a Product/UX Designer, Usability Engineer, Developer and a budding Data Scientist.
Over 20 years, I have designed web and mobile experiences of Enterprise SaaS applications with specialization in design strategy, innovative interactions and data visualization.
My strongest suits are long-term holistic thinking, simple designs and mentoring the team.
I am a Product/UX Designer, Usability Engineer, Developer and a budding Data Scientist.
Over 20 years, I have designed web and mobile experiences of Enterprise SaaS applications with specialization in design strategy, innovative interactions and data visualization.
My strongest suits are long-term holistic thinking, simple designs and mentoring the team.
KEY DIFFERENTIATORS
Long-Term Strategy
- Design Thinking
- Systems Design
- Versatility & Reusability
8x Productivity
- 2x Speed of iteration
- 2x Creativity and skills
- 2x Quality of work
Strong Team Building
- Continuous learning
- Active mentoring
- Encouragement and trust
SKILLS
EXPERIENCE
As the Sr. Director of UX Design, I lead, manage and mentor a team of designers and developers to deliver the complete user experience of WealthEngine's
prospecting platform.
Following UCD, my team and I gather and analyze user needs, design for usability, build prototypes and test with end users via continuous iteration.
WealthEngine (acquired by Euromoney) is a Wealth Intelligence platform with data of over 250 million Americans. It is used by major nonprofits and businesses to find their next best donors and customers using ML-based models.
Following UCD, my team and I gather and analyze user needs, design for usability, build prototypes and test with end users via continuous iteration.
WealthEngine (acquired by Euromoney) is a Wealth Intelligence platform with data of over 250 million Americans. It is used by major nonprofits and businesses to find their next best donors and customers using ML-based models.
Strategized, planned and executed the complete transformation of an outdated AngularJS app into a new, elegant and easy to use app using React framework in
record time
Created design standards based on contemporary Flat UI and Material Design style and documented a style guide for the platform
Conducted stakeholder interviews to gather user needs, prioritized features, performed heuristic analysis and architected the app using card sorting
Hired and built a team of designers and developers offshore and mentored them to deliver an elegant UX of the platform
Conceptualized and prototyped an NLP based search engine for segmenting the wealth data by converting human intents into machine readable queries
Built a library of robust, reusable React components that saved months of development work and delivered pixel-perfect execution of the designs
Delivered an intuitive BI experience for a complex data cube with 160 filters with chart and map views
Designed, developed and delivered a mobile app (iOS and Android) in just 2 months using cross-platform libraries
Designed 20+ custom data visualizations including the WealthSignal, a proprietary chart that shows 21 wealth scores in one shot
As the Sr. Director of UX Design, I was responsible for all research and design activities of Clarabridge to deliver a stellar user experience for their SaaS
analytics platform.
Based on user needs of the Customer Experience (CX) market, I created, tested and developed numerous reusable interactive charts and components that would simplify the analytics generated from customer feedback and call center data.
Clarabridge is the industry leader in NLP based text and voice analytics for Customer Experience Management.
Based on user needs of the Customer Experience (CX) market, I created, tested and developed numerous reusable interactive charts and components that would simplify the analytics generated from customer feedback and call center data.
Clarabridge is the industry leader in NLP based text and voice analytics for Customer Experience Management.
Designed CX Studio, an analytics dashboard based web app that presents sentiment analysis. Users can slice and dice insights, know root cause and take
actions.
Delivered a universal Style Guide defining UI standards and theme across all applications
Created original 4D framework for effective data visualization -
Do, Dig, Decide and Discover.
Do, Dig, Decide and Discover.
Created 20+ interactive data visualizations to convey KPIs, root causes, relationships, drill downs, predictions and summaries.
Designed and prototyped mobile apps for executives and chat based surveys as well as a kiosk app for on-site feedback.
Completed specialization in Machine Learning from University of Washington on Coursera
Completed specialization in Deep Learning from Coursera
I researched user needs for supply chain and designed, developed and delivered the user experience of Orchestro's web and mobile applications.
Orchestro (acquired by E2open) is a supply chain analytics company focused on on-shelf availability of consumer goods.
Using Angular, I prototyped innovative and interactive data visualizations for displaying regression analysis and store clustering.
Conceptualized and built a hybrid mobile app that used Google Maps and Node.js for reviewing in-store stocks of products.
Proactively proposed, designed and prototyped a unique BI tool for visualizing analysis and drilling down using pivots.
Designed interactive BI reports for supply chain KPIs using MicroStrategy Mobile.
Created UI style standards and a library of 30+ patterns and components.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Architecture
Visveswaraya NIT
Nagpur, India
1989-94
Nagpur, India
1989-94
Master of Industrial Design
Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay, India
1995-97
Bombay, India
1995-97
Specialization in
Machine Learning
Univ. of Washington (Coursera)
2017
2017
Specialization in
Deep Learning
deeplearning.ai (Coursera)
2018
2018
INTERESTS
Arduino
Open Source
Open Source
Riddles
Podcasts
Podcasts
Sapiens
The Innovators
The Innovators
Pets
Cooking
Cooking
Hiking
Tennis
Tennis
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” - Alan Kay