OBJECTIVE:

To work in an exciting team as a UX/UI Engineer and design excellent applications

SUMMARY:

• Creative and self-motivated UX Engineer/Designer with over 3 years experience with high skills in user-centered design and developing intuitive user interfaces.
• A very good team player who is passionate about her work, an ongoing learner and would love to face challenging tasks. Highly dedicated to user interest, visual design and to solve usability issues.
• Analysis, design, development and enhancements of web applications- Hand-code all HTML, DHTML, CSS, JSS & JavaScript.
• Front end Development, UI Design, Prototyping, Web Site Cross-Browser Creation, Logos & Icons for different e-commerce websites.
• Design and Development experience of Dynamic Content Web Sites and Company Internal Websites (Intranets) that utilize Custom Graphics, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript and J Query.
• Experience of close interaction with Development and QA team for ensuring the quality of the web sites before launching them on the web
• Efficient organizational work ethics, value based effective decision-making, team based cooperation and communication skills.

EDUCATION:

M.S. Computer Science
Bachelor of Engineering,

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Certified Internet Web Professional Programmer(CIW)
• Certified Internet Web Professional Site Designer(CIW)

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

HCI :

UX Skill
Sets:

Card Sorting, Competitive Analysis, Contextual Inquiry, Heuristic Evaluation, Information Architecture, Low/Hi-Fi Prototyping, User-centered design, Usability Testing, Eye Tracking, User Survey.

User Experience Design and Research, Web Usability, Usability Testing, Visual and Interaction Design, Mobile Design, W3C Standards, Personas, Web Metrics,
UX Documentation, Prototyping, Logo Designs.

Usability Software:

TechSmith MORAE Manager (lab-based testing), UserVue (Remote Testing), WAVE, FAE (Accessibility testing).

Languages:

Tools:

Java, Visual Basic, C, XML, XHTML, HTML, CSS, JAVA SCRIPT, ASP, SQL,
J Query

Visio, PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, Android, MATLAB, ImageJ, Axure, iPlotz, iRise,
Balsmiq, Mocking Bird and other wireframing tools.

Operating
Systems:

UNIX, Linux, Windows 9x, Windows XP, MS-DOS, Vista

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

UX Designer and Researcher - Confidential,Camarillo (Feb 2011 – current)

Mobile Apps:

• Identifying the design limitations in a mobile phone – a true challenge the designer\'s face.
• Listing the best practices in mobile designing – a greater focus on iPhone.
• A deep insight of the Do’s and Don’ts in mobile design for the best usability.
• Presenting a case study of the common mistakes in various mobile apps with alternate design elements for better usability.
• Sketching low and high-fi prototypes for few apps.
• Designing the complete user experience for the Block Buster Express App utilizing standard UX methods to create a delightful user interface consistent with Apple\'s guidelines.

Tools & Technologies used:
Microsoft Visio, Photoshop and Elements, iPlotz, Axure, Microsoft PowerPoint, Lucidchart and Just in Mind Prototyper.

Confidential,Chennai, India (July 2007 – Oct 2008)

Interaction Designer

• Worked closely with cross-functional project teams to provide thoughtful and creative recommendations for site architecture, navigation, functionality and style guides.
• Team followed scrum methodology.
• Defined and documented proposed Web site architecture, navigation and other user interface elements.
• Implemented all stages of HTML-based mockups, CSS development and maintenance, debugging and optimization.
• Created websites using CSS / HTML / JavaScript. All coding done in XHTML code editor, Visual Studio along with using Visual Source Safe. (All coding done by hand - not "design mode")
• User experience, user interface and interaction design planning, programming & management.
• Translated user feedback requirements into visual user interfaces.
• Created Visual designs that effectively communicate product functions and enhance the user experience, including the design and production of screen layouts and User interface elements.
• Designed interfaces and templates using design software- Photoshop that gives the look and feel of the final design.
• Designed websites were highly applauded and accepted by clients.

Tools & Technologies used:
Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Source Safe, HTML 4.0, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Microsoft Visio, Photoshop and Elements.

Confidential,Chennai, India (Mar 2007 – July 2007)

UI Engineer Intern

• Involved in a team of four for design and development of HTML, CSS and JavaScript page layout, and product prototypes for online music website following best practices and usability guidelines.
• Created User Interface Mock-Ups implementing the new features using DHTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XHTML and collaborated with User Research Groups on what works good and what does not from the mockups that we designed.
• Created complex user forms with JavaScript User Input Validation.
• Produced diagrams and blueprints, building prototypes, production code and testing for usability.
• Designed Mock-Up UI icons, buttons and graphics in Photoshop.
• Delivered consistent exceptional results on schedule and completed user stories within time frame.
• Developed user-interface low/high-fi prototypes for the buy flow.
• Boosted overall efficiency and profitability by developing the buyer’s flow (shopping cart process) and implementing processes and design changes.
• Scanned in product photos and optimized them for the web.
• Performed usability testing for the developed prototypes.

Tools & Technologies used:
JSP, Apache Tomcat, JavaScript, CSS, Eclipse, HTML 4.0, DHTML, Photoshop and Elements, Axure

Confidential,Chennai, India (Aug 2006 – Nov 2006)

UI Designer Intern

• Worked within cross-functional teams to plan, re design, build and test the company’s internal websites meeting usability heuristics and creating standards compliant interfaces.
• Revamped the company web site with new layout, graphics, scripting & ideas utilizing Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Flash.
• Created UI page layout and workflow for beta pages to show new concepts.
• Created user interface designs for dynamic websites by applying user-centered design practices.
• Developed sitemap, wireframes & interactive prototypes and redesigned the site\'s visual appearance - contributed a major role in delivering the site launch on schedule.
• Designed materials for custom training sessions, tutorials and seminars.

Tools & Technologies used:
JavaScript, CSS, HTML 4.0, DHTML, Photoshop and Elements, Dreamweaver, word, Access, Flash, Microsoft Visio and Edraw.

Thesis - Confidential,Camarillo (Dec 2009 – Oct 2010)

Master\'s Thesis - Emotions and user interface design

The thesis is an overview of web user\'s emotional reactions to different designs of web pages and the influence of poorly designed web pages on its users. There is a detailed analysis of the common mistakes the designers make and the do\'s and don’ts of web designing to create user friendly, enjoyable web pages. A list of 50 points – based on the usability design guidelines is drawn that would be helpful in designing effective, easy to use web pages. Based on the design guidelines few web sites were designed, tested for usability features and finally subjected to user evaluation.

The different stages of the research undertaken are:

• Explored emotional concerns about web pages, identifying the major design flaws.
• Carried out Heuristic Evaluation and competitive analysis for different user interfaces.
• Created wireframes and roadmaps using tools like Pencil Draw ,Gliffy, Microsoft Visio, Adobe Photoshop for different user interfaces
• Created fully functional HTML/CSS prototypes for different user interfaces.
• Performed Usability and Accessibility (for WAI, Section 508) Testing.
• Prepared usability questionnaires based on usability guidelines and conducted user surveys.

Portfolio: Confidential,

RELEVANT COURSE PROJECTS:

Mobile App: Confidential,

• Created a mobile app Confidential, using Android SDK. 1.6.
• The primary focus was to design the application with easier screen navigation and quick learnability following the user guidelines.
• Developed different wireframes and prototypes for mobile devices like iPhones, Android etc.

Image Rectification

• Removed noise in a degraded image using FFT and IFT Algorithms.

Motion De blurring

• Used MATLAB and ImageJ to correct blurred pictures.
• Used gradient edge detection, inverse filtering, deconvolution, wiener filtering techniques to deblur images.

Database query Web UI

• Designed and developed wireframes and prototypes for Web Interface.
• Implemented a web interface, using Active Server Pages, for displaying, editing and retrieving information through queries from the database created.

RELEVANT COURSES:

Advanced Database Management.

Advanced Image Analysis Techniques.

Biologically Inspired Human Computing.

Algorithms.

Human Computer Interaction.

Mathematical Methods In Artificial Intelligence.

Software Engineering and
Data Mining.

Multi-Agent Systems.

Research Work ( Thesis).