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MANOJ NADUVATH

UX Leader
Edison,NJ

Summary

How i see Design as a practice UI - FUNCTION : It works | Usability - ACTION : It works well | UXD - EMOTION: It works well & makes me say wow

Dynamic product innovator, user-experience architect and designer possessing more than 19 years of proven track record of superior performance with top-tier brands like UPS, NBC Universal, Lazada-an alibaba company, Citrix, PayPal, British Petroleum, Glaxo SmithKline, Citibank etc. Specialties include event speaker on various design-oriented topics, creating visionary concepts for new business/revenue models, leading design collaborations with engineering & product, shaping a progressive design culture, program execution, creative strategy, brand execution, marketing collateral, user experience design, solution implementation, data intelligence, market insight, and cost control to support key initiatives and critical goals within a progressive organization. Talented front-end software engineer proficient in all phases of the software development life cycle. Adept at working with Lean UX, Agile and Scrum methodologies to accomplish project milestones according to specific time frames to complete work. Excellent communicator skilled at working with local and offshore software development professionals to develop a cohesive and successful product. Program Execution Possess a proven ability to anticipate unique requirements or potential road-blocks in all situations. Look through different lenses to authenticate user experience using tools and methodologies to ensure best user flow. Continually develop novel concepts to deliver exceptional results; streamline communication and implementation channels to effectively meet consumer experience and organizational needs. Project Management Highly experienced in assessing true needs and expectations, building lasting professional relationships. Grow and deepen strategic partnerships to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. Process Streamlining Effectively manage diverse tasks, with varying degrees of complexity, within a wide range of environments; evaluate situations, assess emergent needs, and implement solutions in a prompt and efficient/effective manner. Leadership Have a demonstrated track record of outstanding service; a calm, dependable professional who devotes every effort to achieving the best results.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Designer - UX

Global eProcurement, GEP
Clarks, NJ
08.2019 - Current

Design leader driving the vision, strategy, and execution of Product Design at GEP. Responsible for building and leading a team of product designers to execute on our product roadmap and level-up our digital products. Work collaboratively to foster a data-driven design culture across the company. Successfully led a design team, shipped a complex web product to a large user base, and fostered a spirit of learning and teamwork amongst the peers. A strategic visionary but are also extremely comfortable diving into the day to day.

• Leading the development of the long-term vision and quarterly goals of the Product Design team.

• Lead, mentor, and support a growing product design team.

• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to ensure a seamless product development process from discovery to launch.

• Own design projects end-to-end, from ideation and research to pixel-perfect execution for new and existing products and features.

• Cultivate a creative design process that is built on strong cross-functional collaboration.

• Strategic partner to enable innovation and digital transformation within GEP by embedding human-centric creative disruption.

• Leading a multidisciplinary team of 23 user experience professionals across North America & India, overseeing several projects that enable productivity, risk mitigation and smooth operations within GEP.

• Facilitated design thinking workshops to validate an unmet need of an omni channel digital solution that delivers GEPs thought leadership based on user profile and preferences. Prototyped strategic solutions to get C-suite buy-in and secure project funding.

• Developed design engagements with various clients of GEP, to make sure design is well thought thru & has client ingots & sign off before pushed to development.

Environment : Sketch, Zeplin, Invision, Figma, DSM, Axure

https://smart.gep.com

UX Architect & Lead Designer

UPS Supply Chain Solutions
Atlanta, GA
06.2018 - 07.2019
  • Lead user experience, architecting and designing for UPS GTS Global Logistics and Distribution (GL&D) to implement a Responsive Web Portal (ClientSite) to provide UPS Clients with advanced and timely visibility into GL&D supply chain operations
  • ClientSite provide better visibility into UPS GL&D client’s order status and inventory and replaced several processes that are currently in place to collect, aggregate, and share data with its clients
  • Advised and implemented web information architecture and visual design for improving the overall usability of the portal
  • In addition, helped the department’s new hires to identify key UX opportunities in respective project’s and guided them on implementing user-centric strategies for problem solving
  • Engaged in qualitative user research to delineate the needs and challenges of the portal
  • Used this valuable insight to further devise a usability study and suggest redesign recommendations through high fidelity wireframes for improving the website’s overall user experience
  • Discussion with product managers, project planning, create flowcharts, user persona, competitive analysis, pre-discovery mock-ups, wire-frames and prototyping, application design
  • Establish guidelines and design core elements for Cox Automotive design system for Android, iOS and responsive web
  • Worked closely with PM, PO, BA, Dev and QA to identify user needs/requirements, existing pain points, technical constraints and provide design ideas, producing wireframes, low/high fidelity mockups, storyboards, and personas to guide the application unification project and interactive prototypes in an iterative design process
  • Worked closely with usability researchers and assist in the creation and execution of usability studies
  • Develop wireframe and prototypes, and iterate designs based on usability test results
  • Translate findings into design recommendation to quickly improve product designs early in the design cycle
  • Built front end HTML, CSS, Angular prototype application to present to the Executives of the business to get approval of product interface design
  • Key achievements by focusing on UX - Provide Insight Over Information, Simplify the User Experience by Consolidating Visibility, Better Engagement through a Single Collaborative Space
  • Environment: ASP.Net Core 2.2, Angular 7+, Azure B2C, Graph API, VSTS, Sketch, Zeplin, Invision, Affinity Designer https://gldportal.ups-scs.com

UX Architect & Lead Designer

NBC Universal
New York City, NY
07.2016 - 06.2018
  • Document UX requirements of proposed interface solutions
  • Worked multiple dashboard for various NBC analytics
  • Designed & developed custom UI standards for DOMO
  • More simplified to use to any audience
  • Lead UX and creative for CX Cloud Innovation Product Lab, examining entire suite of
  • Products and creating stories that demonstrate the full potential of the product suite
  • Design user experience strategy and compose information architectures for mobile and device applications
  • Create architectures for Cloud, develop stories/user-flows for full omnichannel user experience, and lead UI design direction and concepts
  • Create concepts and prototype ideas for data analytics and lead product management for clientele strategies
  • Develop user flows and personas to facilitate feature design process
  • Lead cross-functional design sessions between Product, R&D and Visual Design teams
  • Craft internal and external communications around upcoming features, including release notes, user manuals, and feature descriptions
  • Analyze data and content to architect website sitemaps and application screen flows
  • Conceptualize the layout of intuitive user interfaces in the form of wireframe mockups
  • Optimize the usability of existing interfaces by assessing the existing layout of data and proposing updated layouts and functionality
  • Work directly with development team to ensure proposed functionality is feasible and adheres to the client’s budget
  • Environment: Sketch, DOMO, Axure, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Invision, iRise, Visio, JustinMind, Html5, CSS, SASS, Bootstrap, Angular 2.x, React.js, Slack, JIRA https://nbc.domo.com/
  • LAZADA (an alibaba Company

Senior Product Designer

CITRIX
Santa Clara, CA
11.2012 - 07.2014
  • At Citrix, Set vision for key Citrix products, Requirement collection and analysis
  • Usage scenario and use case creation
  • System behavior and front-end design definition, requirement presentation and validation
  • Create customer journey flows
  • Lead product design vision for Citrix cloud team
  • Work with partners to deliver best in class software for virtualization and cloud-based solutions
  • Translated business and technical requirements into solutions designed to meet the needs of internal customers
  • Worked independently and in collaboration with management, design team members, and the engineering staff to guarantee the smooth hand-off, execution, and delivery of projects
  • Translated business and technical requirements into solutions designed to meet the needs of internal customers
  • Create customer journey maps on the usage & tools used by Administrators
  • NetScaler is the industry’s leading web and application delivery controller that maximizes the performance and availability of all applications and data, and also provide secure remote access to any application from any device type
  • NetScaler products are easily selected by determining the edition providing functional needs and the appropriate physical or virtual appliance platform to fulfill performance needs
  • Today’s enterprises face more demands than ever, from cloud computing to 24/7 availability to increasing security threats
  • NetScaler ADC, an advanced software-defined application delivery controller, is your networking power player
  • It provides outstanding delivery of business applications—to any device and any location—with unmatched security, superior L4-7 load balancing, reliable GSLB, and 100 percent uptime
  • In fact, NetScaler ADC offers up to five times the performance of our closest competitor
  • Plus our TriScale technology saves you money by allowing your network to scale up or down without additional hardware costs
  • Environment: Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Axure, Visio, Adobe Indesign https://www.citrix.com/products/citrix-adc

UX Manager

PayPal
Austin, TX
03.2007 - 10.2012
  • Handling User experience & Design for Global Operations & Marketing Platform for various PayPal products launching worldwide
  • Lead and managed a cross-functional team of designers, writers, and other UED functions
  • Work with UED project managers to track resources, projects, and budget
  • Work with Product Managers, Marketing Managers, Technology partners, and others to meet business and others to meet business and technology requirements for user experiences
  • Made strategic and tactical recommendations
  • Worked on complex issues, but generally needs guidance and support
  • Meet user experience deadlines and quality measures
  • Working closely with a cross-functional team to assess product requirements
  • Create UI models, user task and interaction flows, screen designs, user-interface interaction details that promote ease of use and optimize the user experience for various online payment products
  • Organize these design details into a complete user interface design specification that will be used as a blueprint for development
  • Work closely with user research team members to better understand the user, test the usability of features and conceptual designs
  • Experience employing user centered design methods
  • Make logical decisions to ensure the overall success of the project by creating designs that seamlessly address customer and business concerns and objectives
  • Environment: Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Axure, Visio, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Illustrator ww.paypal.com https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B6inagICXCqHdnp6c3NodHhGVXM

Usability Analyst

Wipro Technologies
Chennai, Edison, NJ
09.2005 - 03.2007
  • Conceptualize design solutions – bringing them to life through comps, wireframes, rapid prototypes, and final designs and templates
  • Collaborate with development teams ensure feasibility of innovative, exciting, and emotionally engaging experience
  • Create and apply brand frameworks within product lines and across the entire portfolio, ensuring a cohesive brand experience for customers
  • Assess and synthesize analytical data from all resources to develop project strategy and drive innovation and continuous improvement
  • Expertly art-direct and manage the work of developer for pixel perfect UI development
  • Interacting with end users, stakeholders, the business team and defining the usability requirements
  • Create user personas and user journey maps
  • Designing the user interface based on the client’s brand image and converting the user interface design into HTMLs based on the wireframes
  • Developing the JS components for the HTML prototype, flash components for web applications and interactive flash movies
  • Conduct Usability Testing and Expert Review, EXEL
  • Project: EXEL Way Tool Kit
  • EXEL way Tool Kit is an online portal which connects other 5 sub-portals to it
  • The challenge is to create templates & styles, so as to suite the user’s needs & necessities
  • The portal is based on Oracle Portal Application Server
  • British Petroleum
  • Project: Load Tracker
  • Online tracking system, for containers which carries goods to retailers
  • This project is developed using .Net technology
  • The UI was done according to the guideline which was given by the client
  • Client, British Petroleum
  • Project: BP-ARAL Web Portal
  • Web portal for BP customers, where is the users can do an on-line trading with the range of products listed by BP
  • Given solutions after conducting Usability testing.

Team Lead

Clasticon Solutions, Branding & Designs
Chennai
01.2005 - 09.2005
  • Interact with the Client to gather requirements
  • Apply usability heuristics to design problems
  • Convert wire frames into HTML format
  • Conduct Usability Testing
  • Develop CSS based User Interface
  • Plugging in necessary JavaScript
  • Develop interactive design, which are browser neutral
  • Design & Develop client mailers & banners
  • Prepare monthly analysis
  • Online Product Marketing Campaign
  • Designed & Developed reputed corporate web sites
  • Design & Develop CD Based Tutorials & Web Based Tutorials

Training Coordinator

HCL Technologies
Chennai
04.2004 - 12.2004
  • Design & Development for Training Intranet
  • Co-ordination for various in-house trainings
  • Conduct Induction programs for Campus recruits
  • Environment: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash

Usability Analyst

Aptech Learning Services
Chennai
01.2000 - 04.2004
  • Design & Develop CBTs & WBTs
  • Developed & Tested Office Automation System using ASP
  • Train on UI Issues
  • Train students
  • Designed websites for APTECH’s clients
  • Designed & Developed reputed corporate web sites (Agenda net marketing pvt ltd)
  • Environment: Adobe Products, Computer based tutorials, Web based tutorials

Education

Trained Professional in User Centric Analysis & Usability Testing at Human Factors International CEQIP - Thinking and Problem Solving

IIT Bombay

Bachelor’s degree - computer science

Trained Professional - User Centric Analysis & Usability Testing

Human Factors International

Skills

  • Information Architecture
  • User Interface Design (UI)
  • Figma, XD, Sketch, InVision, Balsamiq
  • Interaction Design (IxD)
  • Microsoft Visio, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office
  • User Experience Design (UX)
  • User Research
  • DOMO, Tableau, Power BI
  • User Testing
  • Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • CSS3 (SCSS), Sass & LESS
  • Visual Design & Graphical Design
  • Wire framing & Mock ups
  • Creative Strategy
  • Brand Execution
  • Bootstrap 3, 4
  • 508, WCAG 20 & ADA Compliance
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Google Analytics & Crazyegg
  • Graph API
  • Product Design & Product Management
  • Zeplin
  • Responsive / Adoptive Web Design
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Graphic Design, Illustration and Animation

Additional Information

Awards and Acknowledgements

  • Best Performer (PayPal)
  • PAT Award (PayPal Q4 2007)
  • PAT Award (PayPal Q2 2008)
  • Picasso of the year - Best Designer 2015 (Lazada)

Timeline

Lead Designer - UX

Global eProcurement, GEP
08.2019 - Current

UX Architect & Lead Designer

UPS Supply Chain Solutions
06.2018 - 07.2019

UX Architect & Lead Designer

NBC Universal
07.2016 - 06.2018

Senior Product Designer

CITRIX
11.2012 - 07.2014

UX Manager

PayPal
03.2007 - 10.2012

Usability Analyst

Wipro Technologies
09.2005 - 03.2007

Team Lead

Clasticon Solutions, Branding & Designs
01.2005 - 09.2005

Training Coordinator

HCL Technologies
04.2004 - 12.2004

Usability Analyst

Aptech Learning Services
01.2000 - 04.2004

Trained Professional in User Centric Analysis & Usability Testing at Human Factors International CEQIP - Thinking and Problem Solving

IIT Bombay

Bachelor’s degree - computer science

Trained Professional - User Centric Analysis & Usability Testing

Human Factors International
MANOJ NADUVATHUX Leader