UX Designer
MONICA SHARMA
UX / Product Designer
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WORK EXPERIENCE
UX Designer & Research Assistant | Indiana University Jan 2018 - Present
Delivered 3 different projects in Healthcare, Management and Education
sectors. Facilitated design sprints, led the vision for the product area and
designed interactive prototypes.
UX Designer | Cognizant Technology Solutions UK Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Duties included information architecture planning, user experience mapping and
user interface design of the brand in the digital space. Work ranged from designing
website landing pages, BFS (banking and financial services) architecture, mobile
&web application designs and prototypes. Managed and mentored junior designers
and interns.
UX Designer | Cognizant Technology Solutions March 2015 - Dec 2016
Work ranged from early ideation and exploration of a new mobile application, to
creating a design system for internal collaborative website of the company. The
design process was based on agile model where ideas were flushed out quickly and
iterated upon. This process allowed for rapid idea validation through various types
of prototyping.
Software Engineer | Cognizant Technology Solutions Dec 2012 - Feb 2015
Worked through all phases of software test life cycle(STLC) with experience of
working in agile, scrum and waterfall model. Thoroughly involved in requirement
gathering & analysis, in depth study of project specification documents, business
understanding, onsite-offshore coordination, test plan design, test design & review,
defect & execution log review. Testing experience of Functional Testing, Regression
Testing, Database Testing, User Interface Testing and API Testing.
EDUCATION
MS Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 (Expected)
Indiana University, Indianapolis - GPA - 3.9/4.0
Bachelor of Technology, Civil Engineering 2008-2012
Shree Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering & Technology, India
SKILLS
Design
Augmented and Virtual Reality
Visual & UI design
Story Boarding
Wire-framing
Rapid Interactive Prototyping,
Flowchart, 3D Modelling
Sketching
Research Methods
Contextual Inquiry
Competitive Analysis
Affinity Mapping
Heuristic Evaluation
Usability Testing
Persona hypothesis
Cognitive Walkthrough
SUS
A/B testing
Programming
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL,
Python
Design Tools
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD,
Illustrator, Invision, Sketch,
Marvel, Figma, Axure, Balasmiq
Business Understanding
Business Model Canvas, SWOT,
Environmental Analaysis,
Empathy Map
AWARDS
Merit Scholarship - Indiana
University
Certificate of Appreciation for
outstanding work - Cognizant
Technology Solutions, 2015 &
2016
MONICA SHARMA
UX / Product Designer
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WORK EXPERIENCE
UX Designer & Research Assistant | Indiana University Jan 2018 - Present
Delivered 3 different projects in Healthcare, Management and Education
sectors. Facilitated design sprints, led the vision for the product area and
designed interactive prototypes.
UX Designer | Cognizant Technology Solutions UK Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Duties included information architecture planning, user experience mapping and
user interface design of the brand in the digital space. Work ranged from designing
website landing pages, BFS (banking and financial services) architecture, mobile
&web application designs and prototypes. Managed and mentored junior designers
and interns.
UX Designer | Cognizant Technology Solutions March 2015 - Dec 2016
Work ranged from early ideation and exploration of a new mobile application, to
creating a design system for internal collaborative website of the company. The
design process was based on agile model where ideas were flushed out quickly and
iterated upon. This process allowed for rapid idea validation through various types
of prototyping.
Software Engineer | Cognizant Technology Solutions Dec 2012 - Feb 2015
Worked through all phases of software test life cycle(STLC) with experience of
working in agile, scrum and waterfall model. Thoroughly involved in requirement
gathering & analysis, in depth study of project specification documents, business
understanding, onsite-offshore coordination, test plan design, test design & review,
defect & execution log review. Testing experience of Functional Testing, Regression
Testing, Database Testing, User Interface Testing and API Testing.
EDUCATION
MS Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 (Expected)
Indiana University, Indianapolis - GPA - 3.9/4.0
Bachelor of Technology, Civil Engineering 2008-2012
Shree Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering & Technology, India
SKILLS
Design
Augmented and Virtual Reality
Visual & UI design
Story Boarding
Wire-framing
Rapid Interactive Prototyping,
Flowchart, 3D Modelling
Sketching
Research Methods
Contextual Inquiry
Competitive Analysis
Affinity Mapping
Heuristic Evaluation
Usability Testing
Persona hypothesis
Cognitive Walkthrough
SUS
A/B testing
Programming
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL,
Python
Design Tools
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD,
Illustrator, Invision, Sketch,
Marvel, Figma, Axure, Balasmiq
Business Understanding
Business Model Canvas, SWOT,
Environmental Analaysis,
Empathy Map
AWARDS
Merit Scholarship - Indiana
University
Certificate of Appreciation for
outstanding work - Cognizant
Technology Solutions, 2015 &
2016