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Professional Summary

  1. Gained 10 years of front-end, user-centered design experience comprised of web application and desktop application design.
  2. Expert knowledge of the user interface design process and deliverables throughout the development lifecycle including requirements refinement, card sort, task flows, hi/low-fidelity prototypes, wireframes with annotations, heuristic evaluation, usability findings with recommendations and detailed functional specifications.
  3. Creating a design strategy, user profiles, data gathering techniques such as: user observation, surveys, questionnaires, scenarios and user task analysis.
  4. Adapted methodology and deliverables to fully integrate with development in both Waterfall and Agile methodology.

Certifications

Human Factors International

What's New Certifed as "Certified Usability Analyst (CUA)" designed by Human Factors International, USA dated September 16th, 2006, Bangalore.
Adobe
Certifed as "Dreamweaver MX Developer" designed by ADOBE, USA dated May 2005, Bangalore.
UPA Hyderabad
( WWW.LAKSINU.COM) - WINNER of the UPA - Web Personality Competition - All India Level conducted by UPA Hyderabad dated Oct 13th, 2006.

Software Skills
Technical Skills / Methodologies


Industries

E-Commerce, Entertainment, Insurance, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, Advertising &
Real Estate.

Documentation

MS Office, Visio, Snag-It, Quark Express, Acrobat, PageMaker.

Design Tools & Prototyping

MS-FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Home site, Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, Image Ready, Corel Draw & Flash.

UCD Process

Brainstorming, User and Task analysis , Process Flow Diagrams, Task Flow Diagrams, Card sorting, Cognitive Walkthrough, Heuristic evaluation, Hi/Low prototyping, Parallel design, Scenarios, Personas, Surveys through questionnaires, Accessibility Guidelines (Sec 508) and Usability Testing.

Dynamic Content

HTML/Cascading Style Sheets, Rich Internet Application, Web 2.0 DHTML & JavaScript

OS/Browser Platforms

Windows X.X, Linux, Macintosh, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari.

Methodologies:

Agile and Waterfall development framework