Navarjun Grewal Email & Phone Number

Surrey, BC, CA

Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• I worked as part of CCADI (https://ccadi.ca) Vis Team with Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale.
• Invented a culturally-appropriate interface for data discoveryusing Node.js, HTML/CSS, Javascript.
• Worked with Adobe Illustrator along with graphic designers for the interface.
• Conducted data sketching & visualisation technologies workshops for working professionals including professors.
• Managed a team of designers, developers and researchers.
• Maintained a VPS server using ssh, Mongodb, Node.js, git etc.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Taught design graduate students about data visualisation technologies for web (Javascript and D3).
• Helped the students build data visualisation projects for their portfolios and submissions.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Developed the front-end web interface for the customer success team, based on customer requirements.
• Coordinated with backend team, deployment, clients using tools like JIRA, Git, Basecamp, Trello and zoom.

Remote

• Understood the design requirements for an upcoming home security platform using their market research.
• Designed the web interface for an upcoming home security product for the company using Figma.

Singapore

• Understand the user behaviours for the platform with user interviews and tools like Fullstory.
• Designed/improved the user experience of the travel inspiration product - https://greatescape.co. (conversion rate increased from 2.5% to 12.5%)

• Designed interfaces for the potential features (identified by the client using market research) for a product.
• Programmed simplistic prototypes for the client to conduct further user research using HTML/CSS and Javascript.
• Deployed the prototypes to a Heroku server and maintained the server.

Greater Boston Area

• Designed data visualisations involving real-time personal health data.
• Developed them using JavaScript (D3, AWS Lambda). The visualisations are integrated within NUCoach system which is actively used to conduct health research.

Boston, Massachusetts

• Taught HTML/CSS/Javascript to 36 undergrad students. The students learned about using web tools to prototype their design ideas and build their online portfolios.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Contributed to a university project with my data visualisation skills to understand the discussion happening on social media about violence in Favelas (slums) in Brazil.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Assisted Siqi Zhu (siqizhu.net), Senior Designer at Utile Inc, who taught about web data visualisation tools to design graduate students.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Led the creation of company guidelines for the iOS development in a team of 3 developers.
• Took sessions of iOS developers about the best practices of the iOS Framework and communicate the guidelines
• Developed an experimental tool for Capital One Bank for their internal testing of ATM function.

Delhi Area, India

• Led a team of developers to develop the restaurant food ordering service.
• Developed backend using Play Framework and MySQL.
• Developed mobile apps using PhoneGap.

• Managed mobile game development with a team of software engineers and graphic designers.

Bangalore

• Started a company to build a contextual search engine along with a co-founder.
• We used multiple technologies: Python, Java, PHP, MongoDB, Neo4j, MySQL etc.

• Contributed to iOS game development team of the company which worked on Objective-C, OpenGL and Cocos2D.

Ux Design And Ui Design

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Information Design And Visualisation

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Computer Science And Engineering

Activities and Societies: Fine Arts and Photography Society

High School, Non-Medical