Leading Creative Minds | Principal UX Designer at Druva
16 Years of Experience
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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With a design attitude towards everything in life, I am keen on working on challenging projects with brilliant people which can make a difference in the life of others. I have been an engineer, a researcher and a designer, which contributes to my multi-dimensional thinking approach in problem solving. I have a passion for music and am currently learning Hindustani Classical Vocal Music.
Druva, SaaS/Cloud Product, Information Technology & Services
Druva
Druva
Druva, Druva, Druva, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Stanford-India Biodesign, IIT Kanpur, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, University of Dundee
Job Title : Principal UX Designer
Company name : Druva
Period : April 2020 - Present
Location : Pune, Maharashtra, India
Job Title : Senior UX Designer
Company name : Druva
Period : May 2016 - April 2020
Summary : My role as Senior UX Designer in Druva involved designing the user experience of 'Druva Phoenix' - our product for data protection and management of enterprise workloads. Phoenix has been a long journey of expansion into new product features, continuous UX enhancements based on user feedback and defining new UI paradigms for integration with other Druva products like Insync and CloudRanger aiming towards a single Druva Cloud Platform. I work closely with Product Managers for understanding the customer requirements and their feedback; UI front end team for communicating the expected designs and feasibility; Backend team for checking feasibility of the design concepts; Support team for getting direct customer feedback and grievances; Visual Designer for guidance on visual aspects of the design; and Documentation for better documenting product user experience. In some relaxed time, i conduct user interviews of backup admins to gain a better understanding of our users.
https://www.druva.com/products/phoenix/
In the past have lead the UX design for 'Druva CloudRanger' the product for managing your AWS workloads. CloudRanger was then recently acquired and the key role was understand the working of the existing product and define the user experience of new features. Worked closely with product management from Druva and the dev team of CloudRanger in Ireland.
Location : Pune Area, India
Job Title : UX Designer
Company name : Druva
Period : December 2014 - April 2016
Job Title : User Experience Designer - Associate
Company name : Cognizant Technology Solutions
Period : June 2012 - November 2014
Summary : Conceptualized and designed user interface of enterprise business applications and customer facing applications for key clients in the domains of banking, insurance, retail, healthcare,transportation and manufacturing. This involved designing a good user experience for the end-users while addressing relevant constraints and challenges of development.
Responsibilities:
1) Understanding customer requirements
2) User personas, journeys, task flows, scenarios, Information architecture
3) Low and high fidelity wireframes
4) Coordination with Visual designers, front-end and back-end developers
Location : Pune Area, India
Job Title : Biodesign Intern
Company name : Stanford-India Biodesign
Period : April 2011 - July 2011
Summary : The need statement for this project was ‘Evaluating refractive errors of the eye for resource constraint areas in India’. The project involved In-house research on disease state, existing and prospective market and existing products, developing initial concepts, prototypes and their testing and then final concepts.
Location : All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Job Title : Research Associate
Company name : IIT Kanpur
Period : July 2009 - July 2010
Summary : Worked on two research projects:
1) In the filed of neurosciences with Professor Jonaki Sen on understanding the developmental process of the Hippocampus, which is the memory center of the brain through regulating signalling molecules.
2) In the field of developmental biology with Professor Amitabha Bandopadhyay on Articular cartilage development.
Location : IIT Kanpur
Job Title : Student
Company name : Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Period : 2005 - 2009
Job Title : Summer Internship
Company name : University of Dundee
Period : 2008 - 2008
Summary : Worked with Professor Kate Storey in the department of Cell and developmental biology on a research project aimed at understanding how neural cells arise and how their proliferation and differentiation are controlled by genes. The study would be used in long-term to inform strategies for therapeutic treatment of neural injury and disease.
Title : Developing Your Musicianship
Period : May 2014 - Present
Summary : coursera.org, https://www.coursera.org/course/musicianship
Issuing Authority : Coursera
Title : Introduction to Music Production
Period : March 2014 - Present
Summary : coursera.org, https://www.coursera.org/maestro/api/certificate/get_certificate?course_id=972038
Issuing Authority : Coursera
Title : Introduction to Guitar
Period : June 2013 - Present
Summary : coursera.org, https://www.coursera.org/course/guitar
Issuing Authority : Coursera
Bengali , French
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