Shivaram Ramaswamy Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Leading high-performing design teams and driving innovation at Quicken. As a Design Manager, I lead and mentor a team of talented designers. As a Senior Principal Product Designer, I am responsible for the design and leadership of user experience. I am also the innovation lead for the Quickathon program, fostering a culture of creativity and innovation.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru Area, India

Bangalore

At Intuit i was leading the design of a personal finance application used by millions of users and tasked with solving customer problems and uncovering insights and unmet needs. My responsibilities included collaborating with the product manager and engineering manager in defining the road map for the application and also to apply strategic thinking to design and deliver innovative end-to-end experiences that optimize user needs, business goals, and technological realities across Desktop, web… Show more At Intuit i was leading the design of a personal finance application used by millions of users and tasked with solving customer problems and uncovering insights and unmet needs. My responsibilities included collaborating with the product manager and engineering manager in defining the road map for the application and also to apply strategic thinking to design and deliver innovative end-to-end experiences that optimize user needs, business goals, and technological realities across Desktop, web & mobile platformsAs a innovation catalyst i was part of a group who facilitated and mentored teams and individuals across the organization on 'Design-thinking' and 'Design for Delight/D4D' techniques. I coached teams to innovations on large strategic projects, small unstructured time projects and in functions such as HR, and Finance. Show less

At NetApp as a Sr.Interaction designer my work involved increasing task accuracy and efficiency of complex data storage management application UIs using an User-Centric design process. - Led and designed key flows of NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager product suite and specifically in Operations Manager. - Collaborated extensively with Product Management, Subject-Matter-Experts, Engineering and other stakeholders to understand complex business and user needs & goals, added… Show more At NetApp as a Sr.Interaction designer my work involved increasing task accuracy and efficiency of complex data storage management application UIs using an User-Centric design process. - Led and designed key flows of NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager product suite and specifically in Operations Manager. - Collaborated extensively with Product Management, Subject-Matter-Experts, Engineering and other stakeholders to understand complex business and user needs & goals, added usability requirements and created innovative and easy to use design solutions.- Led effort for usability testing. I worked with product management to recruit users, identified scenarios, prepared test script & questionnaires. I also moderated multiple usability tests (in-person and remote). Finally generated reports, findings, recommendations & SUS scores.- Worked with fellow designers in the NetApp Global UX team on coming up with patterns and components for the NetApp Web Framework, which is a toolkit used by all product suites. - Performed and participated in User research activities including Contextual inquiries, user interviews, focus groups, to understand the user persona and profiles.- Conducted expert and heuristic evaluations, IA acitivities(taskflow, card sorting, navigation flows), reviews and joint application design sessions. Show less

I worked as a Technical Specialist (User Experience) at Alcatel Lucent (Motive Group). During this period I worked for projects like Home Apps & Home View with the following accomplishments.• Experience in Agile User Experience methodology and development• Analyzed business, user & stakeholder requirements. Created User Profile, Task & Environment Profile, User Personas, Scenarios & Task flows• Defined Information Architecture and Navigation design for the… Show more I worked as a Technical Specialist (User Experience) at Alcatel Lucent (Motive Group). During this period I worked for projects like Home Apps & Home View with the following accomplishments.• Experience in Agile User Experience methodology and development• Analyzed business, user & stakeholder requirements. Created User Profile, Task & Environment Profile, User Personas, Scenarios & Task flows• Defined Information Architecture and Navigation design for the product• Prototype and Visual design for the DashboardManaged a team of UI developers. Lead the team on a proof of concept project that secured the deal.This also involved building a prototype of an iPhone app.Conducted Usability Testing and Expert evaluation of PeCMan - product for Bell Labs Research group. Provided training and sessions on UCD & Usability processes to audiences of different levels. Show less

At Versata (Trilogy), as a Senior HCI associate my key responsibilities included Usability Analysis, Information Architecture design, Low/High fidelity prototyping, Heuristic Evaluation, User Interface redesign of key functionality driven & transaction based websites and client applications. o Complete ownership of the UX of Dealer Sites Admin application that was used by over 5000 Ford dealers to manage their site. o Supported delivery team in developing product screens and… Show more At Versata (Trilogy), as a Senior HCI associate my key responsibilities included Usability Analysis, Information Architecture design, Low/High fidelity prototyping, Heuristic Evaluation, User Interface redesign of key functionality driven & transaction based websites and client applications. o Complete ownership of the UX of Dealer Sites Admin application that was used by over 5000 Ford dealers to manage their site. o Supported delivery team in developing product screens and wireframes functionality o Delivered complex and valuable components of various enterprise applications on time and to specification o Accurately scheduled, tracked and provided complete and accurate sizing and scoping estimates for the purposes of release planning. o Actively involved in the recruiting process by interviewing and qualifying candidates Show less

Worked as a User Centered design team member in the Usability/UI group, Bangalore.Created UIs and usable screens for web and desktop GUI applications.Worked on projects for companies like Applied Materials, Intel, Fujitsu, HP, Telstra

Complete ownership of the design of Portals and multimedia CD.Led a team of around 17 designers and worked in high pressure environment. Accomplished completion of designing huge and feature rich Web portals for 11 Indian cities in a record 14 months.Led a Design team and created a multimedia based CDROM on India.Provided training, devised brand startegy, increased web site traffic growth.

Certified Usability Analyst (Cua), Usability

Masters Of Computer Applications, Computer Science

Diploma In Cinematography, Motion Picture Cinematography, Photography, Editing

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