Experience
AUTODESK, 10/2011 - present
User Experience Designer
Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Doing user experience and usability work for Autodesk's civil engineering and infrastructure design software. Working with cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams.
Doing portfolio-wide and product-centrix UX and visual design work. Covering the entire design process, from information gathering and synthesis, through user research, into concept sketching, wireframes, visual/UI design (including icon design), and usability testing.
Studying high-level principles of civil engineering, particularly utilities and road/highway design.
ELECTRONIC INK, 05/2010 - 08/2010
Intern, Design Development
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Worked in a design consultancy setting on client-facing and internal work, ranging from wireframes and workflows to interaction design and QA.
IBM INTERNET SECURITY SYSTEMS, 09/2007 - 07/2009
Graphic Designer, Usability & User Experience
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Led the "bluewashing" efforts to visually unify ISS's interfaces with IBM's visual standards. Designed software interfaces and UI graphics, such as icons and splash screens. Worked as the only designer in a 700-person engineering organization.
JAPANESE EXCHANGE & TEACHING (JET) PROGRAMME, 07/2005 - 07/2007
Assistant English Teacher / Webmaster and Graphic Designer
Miyoshi City Ikeda, Tokushima, Japan
Taught conversational English and grammar to grade school students and adults, and represented the USA and India in situations of local, grass-roots international exchange.
Maintained the website and messageboard for Tokushima's Association of JETs (TAJET), and created multilingual print pieces and illustrations for TAJET publications and event publicity.
BELLSOUTH INTELLIVENTURES, 02/2005 - 07/2005
Web Designer
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Worked in a fast-paced production environment to create sites and single-page homepages for small to medium-sized businesses across the southeastern US. Created ~70 sites in 5 months.
Education
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, 08/2009 - 05/2011
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Master of Design Candidate: Communication Planning & Information Design
Thesis title: We're Not in Kansai Anymore: Designing for Reverse Culture Shock
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 08/1999 - 12/2004
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Bachelor of Science: Science, Technology, & Culture - Media Studies, Minor in Japanese
Extracurriculars
El Sistema Somerville (elementary school music education/outreach), Music Mentor, 11/2012 - present
Georgia Tech Mentor Jackets Mentor, 09/2012 - present
Brookline Symphony, Lowell House Opera, MetroWest Opera, Community Action Music Project, Violinist
Professional Organizations: BostonCHI, IxDA, UXPA
Contact
www.smithaprasadh.com
hola@smithaprasadh.com
Please e-mail me for my offline contact information.
Skills
DESIGN & VISUAL
Data Visualization
Icon Design
Information Architecture
Information Design
Logo Design
Photography & Image Editing
Presentation & Pitch Design
Sketching / Illustration
Storyboarding
Typography
Video Sketch Development
Web Design
RESEARCH
Affinity Diagramming
Card Sorting
Cultural Probes & Diaries
Ethnography & Field Studies
Facilitation
Interviews
Prototyping (hi/lo-fi, rapid)
Surveys
Usability Testing
Use Cases & User Stories
Wireframing
Workflows
SOFTWARE & COMPUTING
After Effects
Fireworks
Illustrator
InDesign
Lotus Notes
Photoshop
Unix (command line)
Web standards
WordPress
XHTML / CSS (hand-coded)
LANGUAGES
Japanese (JLPT 3級)
Spanish
Tamil
TO DO / IN PROGRESS
HTML5 & CSS3
jQuery
Responsive web design