My background is diverse, offering a breadth of experience from different industries as it has evolved into the world of User Experience.
After working as a Senior UI/UX Designer for 6 months at Continuum, IT Management Platform, I was asked to lead the User Experience team. My current position as the Manager of User Experience is a perfect culmination of my background. I enjoy this great opportunity as together with a team of five (co-located between Boston and Mumbai) we craft an exciting new user experience for the platform. While managing the team, I also work with all stakeholders from across multiple functions and define a UX process. We keep the clients' needs at the forefront of our design by seeking feedback from our clients early in the process and also through user testing and ethnographic research.
At Skillsoft, the Global Leader in eLearning, I was the Web Designer on the Books24x7 Engineering team as well as a member of the UX team. As the creative lead for the Books24x7 product, I designed the user experience from concept to launch for all projects including social networking, HTML emails, search feature, dynamic features, and websites for customer events.
I have additional on-line learning experience at Wave Technologies where I led the design effort on the Development team as I artfully created an original design, layout, graphics and navigation features. I worked closely with the developers as we implemented my design. I received excellent feedback regarding my clean and simple aesthetic.
The start of my professional life was in higher education. I was the Assistant Director of Admissions at Elms College - a Liberal Arts College in Western Massachusetts. While recruiting students, I led the production efforts for marketing collateral, spearheaded the telemarketing effort, led committees and worked on the Elms College website. It was at Elms College where I fine tuned my communication skills and realized that I enjoyed the combination of creative and technical work. This led to my career in web design and ultimately User Experience.