Amit Tungare Resume

Amit TungareUser Experience Architect Resume

AMIT TUNGAREUser Experience Architect

Experience...

User Experience

Information Architecture

Interaction Design

Visual Design

Creative Direction

Design Strategy

Sales & Proposals

13 yrs

11 yrs

13 yrs

12 yrs

4 yrs

6 yrs

4 yrs

Savvy Strategic Planner

Lead / Manage Organized Creative

Productive Rational Results Oriented

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B.Arch., M. Plan, M.Arch.

[email protected]

+1.613.291.6728

http://www.designyantra.com

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a_tungare

Master of ArchitectureCarleton University

1999 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 2013

Databeacon

EspialMarkettools

MXI Technologies

DesignyantraUrban Impulse(Designyantra)

USACanada UK, Switzerland

IndiaGreece

I live in…

Japan

Australia

Delivered projects in...

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Summary1

Amit Tungare

613-291-6728 [email protected]

User Experience


Interaction Design

Visual Design

Creative Direction

Design Strategy

Sales Proposals

Experience Summary

User Experience Design, Interaction Design, IA, Visual DesignWeb, Software, DesktopInteractive TVMobile (iOS, Android, Blackberry10)UX Lead and Creative DirectionSales, Business, Customer Management and Delivery activities

13 Yrs12 Yrs6 Yrs4 Yrs3 Yrs2 Yrs

Amit Tungare is a Senior User Experience and Creative Specialist in software user experience, visual design, information architecture, usability and interaction design with a wide range of experience designing interfaces and interaction scenarios for a variety of technologies.

Amit is passionate about designing and creating engaging experiences. He has over 12 years of experience in helping his clients create engaging, entertaining and easily usable experiences for their applications. His background in architecture (he holds a Masterʼs degree in Architecture and a Master’s degree in Planning) has given him fundamental design skills that have transferred to the world of software design with fantastic results.

Amit specializes in Interaction Design, User Experience Management, Information Architecture, Visual Design, Design Strategy and Planning and can work in any vertical. He has worked on projects for many top Global companies such as Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Logitech, Bit-Torrent, Motorola, BskyB, OnDemand TV, KLM, Air France, Qantas, Intracom Telecom, Juniper Networks, Varian Medical etc.

As a usability specialist at Espial, Amit worked directly for Telcoʼs like Motorola, Nortel Networks, Siemens Ericsson, Telia Sonera and service providers like UK-based Sky Interactive, Verizon, Real page and many more. He has also worked as a Freelance consultant for several years and provided design and user experience consulting to high profile customers such as Dimdim Inc, Thoora Inc, Intracom Corporation Greece and Etisalat, Dubai.

In his most recent engagement with Government of Canada; Amit has taken the task of helping set the direction of a large scale internal application. Amit led a team of developers on the project as a Business and a Project specialist with focus on User Experience of the application.

Amit is has a very high degree of technical knowledge and understands the capabilities and limitations of technology as it applies to visual interaction design. He has applied his skills on desktop, web applications, television, touch screen and mobile devices and is always looking for, and finding innovative ways to transfer his learning across these different platforms into unique and compelling experiences.

Executive Summary

Specialities2

Amit Tungare


User Experience


Interaction Design

Visual Design

Creative Direction

Design Strategy

Sales Proposals

1. User Interaction Design - Wireframes and Workflows2. User Interface Design - Visual Design3. Information Architecture - Interaction and Workflow Blueprint4. User Interface Standards - Creating Guidelines and Specifications5. Design Strategy6. Business Case Assistance7. Design Methodologies User Interaction Design - Wireframes and

Workflows8. User Interface Design - Visual Design9. Information Architecture - Interaction and Workflow Blueprint10. User Interface Standards - Creating Guidelines and Specifications11. Design Strategy12. Business Case Assistance13. Creating Design Methodologies

Specialities

Experience3Windows Phone Web IPTV

iOS Android Blackberry 10 SaaS

Desktop Cloud

Key Projects

Government of Canada, DimDim

(SalesForce) KLM, Qantas, Intracom Telecom,

Varian,

BitTorrent, You-i-Labs, Cisco,

Juniper, Logitech,

Motorola

Amit Tungare


User Experience


Interaction Design

Visual Design

Creative Direction

Design Strategy

Sales Proposals

Work Summary

I have sometimes worked as a consultant catering to my passion and interest of making user experience entertaining and engaging. I have learnt a lot from these years and hope to keep learning more through this way. During this period of time, I worked as an independent consultant; Design Specialist and User Experience evangelist working with several clients helping design usable web portals and applications. Had an opportunity to work with customers in various vertical markets.

Responsibilities

1. As the Principal of Designyantra; my goal is to help my customers create products that are superfluous and usable even in beta stages. I specialize in helping lean start-ups create engaging and visually powerful interfaces right out of the gate.

2. With an entrepreneurial spirit and solid training in Architecture combined with specialties in Interaction design, Visual Design, Usability, Information Architecture, end-to-end User Experience management.

3. Creating and writing RFP responses, 4. Sales planning.5. Creative Direction and Leadership in establishing the overall design vision6. Helping and Directing the team as well as working hands-on in the project7. Conceptualize, direct and execute design concepts (This includes- creating

Information Architecture Maps, Creating Workflows, Wireframes, Visual Designs, Style Guides, Production Graphics)

8. Ensure project is planned and delivered on deadlines9. Mentoring and guiding the design team members10. Making recommendations to improve processes by way of tools, methodologies

etc.11. Provide strategic and mature thinking to help benefit the customer and assist the

growth of the organization

Designyantra Inc.Founder and Principal (2009 - Present)

Amit Tungare


User Experience


Interaction Design

Visual Design

Creative Direction

Design Strategy

Sales Proposals

Highlight Projects

1. National Research Council, Government of Canada2. Correctional Services, Government of Canada3. Rogers Ventures - Thoora Inc.4. Varian Medical5. Bit Torrent6. Logitech7. Elsevier8. MedConnex9. Materialise Dental10. Flick Software and You-i-Labs Inc.11. Intracom Telecom, Greece12. Dimdim Inc. - Online Web Meetings for Free (Now Salesforce)13. CR Group

Amit Tungare


User Experience


Interaction Design

Visual Design

Creative Direction

Design Strategy

Sales Proposals

Work Assignments

Creating Design StrategyIntroducing Design PhilosophyCreating Usability Business Case for Stakeholder ApprovalEvangelize User Experience within the organizationCreating a Style GuidesBuilding a UX Design Team and implement the design recommendations

MXI TechnologiesUser Experience Lead (2008- 2009)

Responsibilities

Led User Experience Design initiative, managing the User Interaction, Interface design and development for Maintenix – Aircraft and Aviation Maintenance software.Reported to Director of Software Design Group managing the architecture and design of the software through client facing meetings and discussions.Assignments included customer requirements analysis and design solutions for customers like KLM, Air France and Qantas Airlines.

Responsibilities

1. Worked in the capacity of a User Experience Designer, leading the Ottawa team initiative of UI design and development for consumer survey product - Zoomerang.

2. Reported to Director of User Experience based in San Francisco managing the portfolio of products within Markettools.

3. Designed interfaces and developed complex Information Architecture maps for the mobile subscription version of survey application Zoomerang.

4. Designed and developed system use cases, edge cases and use case scenarios for potential users.

5. Led the effort for 3rd Generation User Experience in Survey Creation and Survey taking using advantageous features of AJAX and various RIA's.

Markettools Inc.Sr. User Experience Designer (2007- 2008)

Amit Tungare


User Experience


Interaction Design

Visual Design

Creative Direction

Design Strategy

Sales Proposals

Responsibilities

1. Worked as a UED at Espial, providing vision and overall responsibility for total user experience offering.

2. Worked with interdisciplinary teams, projects and executive management to ensure a continued focus and producing an offering with entertainment class user experience through IPTV.

3. Responsible for conducting market research, defining and recommending appropriate delivery mechanisms for product features like Electronic Program Guides, Video on Demand, Digital Video Recorder, Walled garden content, interactive TV portals and all the elements that require interaction using a remote control.

4. Responsible for identifying technical limitations and their usability implications and internationalization issues.

5. Created usability tests, guidelines, and helped write acceptance test plans and advocated conducting focus groups to test Espial IPTV product with real users.

6. Designed and delivered entertainment class user experiences for various clients on behalf of Espial

7. Worked closely with the marketing team on creating and developing corporate style definitions for internet, print and product identities.

Espial Group Inc.User Experience Designer (2005- 2007)

Amit Tungare


User Experience


Interaction Design

Visual Design

Creative Direction

Design Strategy

Sales ProposalsResponsibilities

1. Worked on designing and enhancing of the interfaces, wizards, dialogs etc. for Corel Products like Corel Central, Word Perfect and Quattro Pro.

2. Made significant contribution to design and development of product Corel Word Perfect: Family Pack 2

Corel CorporationIntern User Experience Designer (2000- 2001)

Taught a course of Principles of User Centered Design for first year interactive media program at Algonquin College in Ottawa.

Algonquin CollegeVisiting Faculty (2004- 2005)

Responsibilities

1. Worked on designing and enhancing of the interfaces and the API of the core product of the company, Databeacon, an online data publishing and analysis tool.

2. Developed web based training tours for the product in multimedia.3. Designed and Managed two web-portal projects involving database design and

dynamic information.4. Designed marketing collaterals and ad campaigns for the product.5. Webmaster for all the existent portals of the company.

Databeacon Inc.User Experience Designer (2001- 2002)

Education4Master of Architecture, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Master of Planning, School of Architecture, New Delhi, India

Bachelor of Architecture, University of Pune, India

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