UX Consultant Resume

SUMMARY

Co - authored a Research Paper on Usability Evaluation of Messenger Applications on Android; being published on ACM Digital Library and Google Scholar
Contributed to a pending patent research on UI development for “Eye-free Interaction on Mobile Device”
Spread thought-leadership by authoring and publishing more than 375 blog articles - topics of User experience, Usability, Design, Entrepreneurship, Technology and Business - on popular platforms like UX Booth, UX Motel, Technorati, SAP Community Network and IDYeah Blog
Helped Sutherland Global Services pitch $20 Million for the revolutionary Tech-support portal thanks to a well-researched UI development, to prospects: Microsoft, Symantec and Acer
Interviewed and featured in a University Business Paper “Make-me-a-million”, for lean and scalable start-up strategy and execution in UI development - Chicago Booth School of Business
Reduced annual IT spend (75%) of several customers by providing UI development solutions
Tripled the web foot fall for one of the fastest growing Consulting companies in Asia - Vector Consulting, by designing a workflow-inspired website
Became a trusted UX/UI Designer advisor for many product start-ups and investors alike
Self-published one Blackberry application for managing strong passwords

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

UX Consultant

Responsibilities:

Helping Product/App companies with user experience and user interface design and development - on Web, Tablet and Mobile, using scalable frameworks

Confidential

UX Consultant, Usability Specialist

Responsibilities:

Established a lean UI development team and practice strategy for IDYeah’s offerings and execution.
Formed a process of an alliance-driven delivery excellence, as a scalable model, where each alliance would supply their expertise and manage their own costs and resources.
Performed user research, analyzed market trends and patterns in design, and examined current usability and design engagements.
Validating Business Strategy and UI Features of several start-up companies
Leading a unique user experience model for product companies and the UI development, spanning across environments - PC, Laptop, Tablet, Mobile and Facebook
Spawning side-projects - with motivated individuals - on user interface development
Learning and facilitating the same to resources by specific UI related online courses - provided by esteemed institutes like Stanford, Wharton School and likes
Operating business and administration of IDYeah
Executing marketing strategy - via social media and content authoring (blogs)

Confidential

Microsoft Practice Consultant

Responsibilities:

Co-produced and established a Competency Framework within the company – to re-assess skills and be realistically prepared for current and future engagements.
Functioned as an evangelist for Usability and User-interface Development Strategy.
Became the key technical and UI resource within the Microsoft Global Practice, providing architecture and user interface solutions to various delivery teams
Turned around a customer (Wilcom) acceptance from negative to all-time-high in four months
Executed number of Proof-of-concept (POCs) to aid the Sales and Customer-facing team members to build/increase trust in UX and UI capabilities
Track record for all Proposals were on time, and usability-driven (specific attention to customer need, not on what Geometric has done/can do)
Competency Framework yielded an accurate re-assessment of more than 2000 employees in four weeks duration, with minimal impact to the normal work routines

Confidential

Principal Product Engineer

Responsibilities:

Assumed leadership in executing a turnkey project for Avery Dennison, overcoming challenges of resource-crunch, learning new technologies in a short time; a successful user acceptance was achieved.
Led a team of 12 for the Front-end (UI) application development for Fortune 500 Company, Avery Dennison - .NET, C#, Visual C++, Windows
Won outstanding employee award in 2005
Responsibilities included: estimation, planning, resource allocation, user research, architecture, coding, code reviews and client demonstrations

Confidential

Senior Analyst

Responsibilities:

Developed a reusable Windows UI library (VC++) to meet a Banking Domain customer requirements of having a ‘skinned’ UI for the product; the library was an asset used in several other projects.
Front-end (UI) programming for client: Standard Chartered Bank.
Technologies – Windows, Visual C++, COM, ATL
Team building and mentoring.

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

Executed turnkey projects for nine SAP customers from varied industry sectors – delivering customized usability solutions streamlining their business processes, exceeding all goals and objectives.
Clients I managed included: Holcim Inc, Steelscape Inc, Morrison Homes, Philips Petroleum, Rexam, Tractor Supply, Tyson Foods and SAP Americas
Was the chief developer for a WYSIWYG CRM tool for SAP CRM, called CRM Designer
Was awarded two salary hikes and a performance bonus in one financial year – for breakthrough customer delight

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

Monitoring daily builds of Mainframe code, reporting errors to respective teams, and writing migration code from OS/2 to Linux, in C++.
Amazed every time I see a product delivered by Vishal. He not only is extremely creative with original ideas, but puts equal focus on getting the work done right on time, which usually is rare with creative people.
I started working with him 10 years ago and am happy to go back to him every time we have a UX requirement.
He has designed variety of applications for us as well as helped us in various marketing campaigns. The best thing I like about his work is the uncompromising attitude towards customer requirements and quality.”