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Pooja Wagh

Foster City,CA

Summary

A seasoned user experience designer having 8+ years of experience with a keen eye for interaction design, information architecture and ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast paced environment. With a successful front-end engineering career, I possess a unique background of user-centered design and a deep understanding of technology as a means to creative problem-solving and a great sense of aesthetics. I’ve proven experience in leading cross-functional towards successful business outcomes by anchoring on user empathy.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

UI/UX and Graphics Designer

DeFiner Labs
12.2023 - Current
  • Working closely with leadership team to incorporate illustrations, pictures, and designs to reflect desired theme and tone of communications, thereby increasing user interaction by 20%.
  • Selecting typography to enhance text and image readability.
  • Coordinating with Marketing team on key messaging and requirements, while working closely with engineering team on implementation.

Sr. UX Designer

SCORE
07.2023 - 11.2023
  • Revamped SCORE website for SCORE users inculcating best design standards and practices and delivering innovative design solutions.
    This resulted in a 25% increase in user engagement in addition to deeper insights on services offered.

UX Designer

UX Design Institute
01.2023 - 06.2023
  • Establishing best practices for innovation, graphic design, branding and delivering positive end-to-end experiences at all user touch points
  • Created experience using design research methods to uncover customer insights with efficient written and verbal communication skills

Lead UI Engineer + UX Designer

Qualys, Inc
05.2016 - 12.2022
  • Lead a 10 person cross-functional team and geo-distributed team to deliver a responsive, simple and elegant product interfaces for-https://www.qualys.com/apps/global-assetview/

https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2021/03/23/unified-dashboard

  • Developed a Design System that increased the design consistency across company’s applications resulting in ~20% reduction in design production time.
  • Lead ideation, concept exploration, user research, prototyping and interaction design for a Unified Dashboard to integrate data from various security products such as Vulnerability Management and Threat Protection. Result: After the launch, we found that we have moved the needle by ~20% where now instead of traversing through various applications, users directly hit the Unified Dashboard platform to perform the operations.
  • Translated product requirements, concepts, and research into meaningful, engaging user experiences for Web and Mobile features. This resulted in an increase in user engagement and subscriptions to our product.
  • Made strategic user-experience decisions for a feature and validated through user testing methods (Usability, A/B testing).

Result: The feature received an overwhelmingly positive support from customers, thereby converting the feature to a UX component and integrating it within the cross-functional applications.

UX Engineer + UX Designer

Neustar
07.2013 - 05.2016
  • Optimized engineering processes by implementing innovative solutions and streamlining workflow.
  • Reduced project completion time with efficient resource allocation and effective communication strategies.
  • Collaborated on interdisciplinary teams to develop creative, cost-effective solutions for complex projects.
  • Enhanced product performance by conducting thorough failure analysis and recommending improvements.
  • Delivered user flows, wireframes and prototypes for the Web Performance Monitoring product, to test, monitor and measure the performance of web sites and applications.This resulted in easy analysis of the performance of a webpage and the load time required to bring the page up and running.

Product Designer

Joule Assets
07.2012 - 03.2013
  • Improved product usability by conducting user research and implementing design changes based on feedback.
  • Streamlined the design process for better efficiency by creating reusable style guides and UI components.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of design elements into final products.
  • Increased client satisfaction by consistently delivering high-quality designs within tight deadlines.
  • Worked in a fast paced environment to conduct user research, personas,journey maps,prototypes and iterative design

Result: This provided users an experience to identify local and available demand response and energy reduction opportunities.

Education

Masters - Computer Security And Information Assurance

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY

Bachelor - Computer Engineering

Mumbai University
Mumbai , India

Skills

  • User Empathy and User-Centered Design
  • Visual Design and Graphics Design
  • Leadership and Collaborative skills
  • Usability and A/B testing
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Persona Definition and Storytelling
  • User Research
  • Design Thinking
  • Environmental Design
  • Figma, Miro
  • Adobe XD, Sketch
  • Protoio
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3
  • Javascript, ReactJS, Redux
  • Digital Design

Timeline

UI/UX and Graphics Designer

DeFiner Labs
12.2023 - Current

Sr. UX Designer

SCORE
07.2023 - 11.2023

UX Designer

UX Design Institute
01.2023 - 06.2023

Lead UI Engineer + UX Designer

Qualys, Inc
05.2016 - 12.2022

UX Engineer + UX Designer

Neustar
07.2013 - 05.2016

Product Designer

Joule Assets
07.2012 - 03.2013

Masters - Computer Security And Information Assurance

Rochester Institute of Technology

Bachelor - Computer Engineering

Mumbai University
Pooja Wagh