WORK EXPERIENCE

VMware Inc.  /  Product Design Manager

Jul 2015 – Current, Palo Alto

• Design Manager of VMware’s Hyper Converged Infrastructure Business Unit 

• Manage 4 globally distributed product design teams 

• Architect a business driven user centric visions and develop strategies to achieve it with 

   cross-functional partners

• Foster end to end user centered design thinking and collaboration within UX and cross 

   functional teams 

• Defined a UX engagement process from defining requirements to project delivery which is 

   being used across our design organization of ~100 designers 

• Lead a 4 person design team to deliver vSphere 7.0’s key capability of Simplified Lifecycle 

   management solution that allows users to fully automate and simplify updates 

• Proven track record of successfully influencing stakeholders and delivering usable solutions

Oracle  /  Senior User Experience Designer

May 2010 – Jul 2015, Redwood City

• Redesigned core UX solutions to create a unified experience across all Oracle Fusion 

   Applications suite

• Spearheaded the product design efforts for Project Portfolio Management business unit on 

   projects such as project management, change management and funds management 

• Collaborated with strategy, product and development teams

• Established multiple patterns for the Oracle design systems library

• Improvised affinity diagramming technique to avoid feature creep

• Mentored interns to provide quality enterprise-ready deliverables 

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)  /  Research Assistant

Oct 2009 – Apr 2010, Redwood City

• Lead a team of three while conducting research for a project sponsored by Center of 

   Disease Control 

Syntel Ltd.  /  Software Engineer

Sep 2007 – Jun 2008, Mumbai

• Built applications to support a general ledger system for American Express

EDUCATION

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)  /  MS in Human-Computer Interaction

Aug 2008 – Aug 2009, Pittsburgh

Fr.CRCE, Mumbai University  /  BS in Information Technology

Jul 2003 – May 2007, Mumbai