Avinash Raj Mba, Mdes, Be Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Leading a pod of incredible multidisciplinary designers for the world’s #1 Legal Know-How Product.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

PAY IT FWD is an online forum for Not-for-Profits to meet their design needs through volunteer activity of a growing community of over 500 diverse creatives.

Toronto, Canada Area

Ontario, Canada

Sophia Hilton Foundation is a public charitable trust that promotes folklore through animation, print and documentaries.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

UX(Design + Strategy) practice leadership.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Responsible for the discovery and exploration phase of new initiatives and coach individuals and teams to work through the design thinking process.
• Unify and lead multi-disciplinary teams towards strategic outcomes.
• Built a service design practice to optimize the delivery of positive omnichannel experiences to our customers.
• Designed and conducted a series of workshops with hands-on project work on Design Thinking to instill a customer-focused culture among directors and above.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for the digital shipping and mailing ecosystem strategy for all Canadians. Applying design thinking to business problems and connecting innovation and strategy.
• Orchestrated Canada Post's first-ever personas combining qualitative and quantitative research to better understand Canadians.
• Led the evolution of an idea to project execution process with Innovapost, the technology arm of the Canada Post Group of companies.
• Facilitated numerous discovery workshops and dozens of design sprints to launch scrum projects.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for key revenue-driving products for Canada Post. Responsible for all UX deliverables, including interaction, content and UI for shipping and mailing portfolio.
• Facilitated the first Canada Post digital strategy to support the corporate strategy, drive innovation and value to stakeholders and enrich user experience.
• Started a new team of product designers, and visual designers and UX writers. Also, lead for interaction design community of practice.
• Ran design activities such as studios, critiques, and ideation exercises.
• Provided direction, motivation, and mentoring to the design team.
• Defined and drove team hiring, including sourcing, screening and interviewing.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for interaction design for all Canada Post digital initiatives. Applying Design Thinking to make User Experience desirable, feasible, and viable at Canada Post Digital.
• Built a team of high performing UX leads. Defined and drove team hiring, including sourcing, screening and interviewing.
• Introduced the discipline of design thinking and conducted a series of workshop. Heavily involved in coaching and mentoring of designers.
• Improved business processes by introducing and conducting the first design sprint.
• Made UX processes better by activities such as Friday design reviews. This has now become a permanent full-day activity.
• Contributed to the Canada Post design system through interaction design patterns and coming up with the structure of writing design system building blocks.

Toronto, Canada Area

Developed and executed IndusOrigin’s complete value chain including sourcing, user experience, package design and SEO. Vision: To empower artisans to design for the future with the depth of enduring craft traditions.Mission: To create an e-commerce business to connect Indian Artisans with luxury goods market in North America and ultimately around the world.

Toronto, Canada Area

‘‘To delight is to be.’’Innovation requires the skill to navigate complexity and the strength to bear uncertainty. I believe that a resilient commitment to bridging the gap between design & business can help us build simple, enjoyable experiences for people everywhere.BlueGuru was started with this mission to bridge the gap between Business & Design.We.

Mississauga, Greater Toronto Area

• Helped Thane, one of the largest direct response television marketing companies with more than a million visitors a month, grow its online presence.
• Built a five-member design and implementation team of product designers and front-end developer responsible for serving the design needs of more than fifteen Thane offices around the globe.
• Helped create the new Thane brand identity and was responsible for applying it to its online channels.
• Managed projects to migrate the first Thane site onto a stronger eCommerce platform, Magento.
• Redesigned site launched in UK, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Mexico and New Zealand. This resulted in 14% rise in revenue within a month.
• Customized and implemented a new bug tracking, resource and project management software.

Toronto, Canada Area

Provided consulting expertise in all aspects of user experience design for mobile phone banking, personal and business account linking, and social investing.

Toronto, Canada Area

Served as lead for all design deliverables and tasks such as site maps, wireframes, prototyping, user task analysis, usability testing etc. for projects on mobile phone banking, mortgage & online application.

Mississauga, Greater Toronto Area

Developed the course and delivered a series of lectures on Human Computer Interaction to a diverse student body. The goal of the course was to have students gain both a basic understanding in and experience with the discipline of Human Computer Interaction.

• Provided consulting expertise in user-centered ideation, persona creation and scenario building in areas of healthcare and wireless.
• Researched Mobile commerce scenarios in India and facilitated focus groups.

Bengaluru Area, India

Researched the limitations in the mobile phone design process and came up with a patterns based UI design library and specification tool that helps interaction designers deal routinely with some of the rooted constraints of phone design.

Mba, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Business Design, Strategy, Branding

Activities and Societies: Elected Class Representative, Director of Design Workshop at Business Design Club, Recipient of Rotman.

Master’S Degree, Software & User Interface Design

Activities and Societies: Student Representative

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Computer Sci And Engineering

Activities and Societies: Founder of a Design Team, College Fest Organizer, Magazine Editor, Graphics Designer for PES

Certificate In Digital Marketing Management, Search Engine Marketing

• SEM, including keywords and competitive research. • Google's algorithm and recent changes to it. • Create and manage an online.