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People resist designs That resist people.

The Berlin Wall - 1989

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Asking the right question is a big part of the answer.

Identifying and aligning business requirements with technology deliverables. Translating findings from user research, interviews and surveys into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes and prototypes.

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UX Design
95%
UI Design
90%
Sketch
95%
Invision
95%
Adobe Suite
85%
 

 

  Work Experience

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Present - November, 2016
J.P. MORGAN
VP, Digital Customer Experience
CHASE WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Led the initiative to design an omni-channel solution for Investments Trade Ticket . I succesfully contstructed a shared vision and alignment across all teams. The new trade ticket saw an increase of 11% in transactions over a 6 month period.
J.P. MORGAN PRIVATE BANK
I researched, designed and prototyped the Positions page for high net worth clients (+$20M). I aligned with 4 scrum teams and 2 product teams across europe asia and US on this project.
J.P. MORGAN INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE BANK
My book of work for IPB includes working on Positions, Transactions, Summary dashboard and redesign of the Research portal.

October, 2016 - March, 2016
OPPENHEIMER FUNDS
Lead UX/UI Designer
PRODUCT DATA ACCESS PORTAL (PDAP)
Redesign existing portal that would help users identify, locate and most importantly relate with the data points displayed on their screens. Work with product teams to devise a UX startegy. Work with technology teams to build a library of components and patterns, build Sitemap, conduct User Research and identify pain points, build User Personas and Journey Maps, build Wire-frames and prototypes, Conduct usability testing.

February, 2016 - July, 2013
CITI BANK
Lead UX/UI Designer
HTML templates for Research documents
Build template designs that would work across multiple products, Build a library of patterns and create a style guide. Design omni-channel email templates.
Citi Velocity
I worked on multiple projects involving data visualization, charting and end to end UX/UI design strategy for CitiVelocity. This involved engaging with product teams located in New York and scrum teams based in Jersey City, Canada, Israel, UK, Australia and India

June, 2013 - June, 2012
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)
Lead UX/UI Designer
I joined the JDRF team to work on redesigning their intranet site. The site helped all their national and global chapters to share, interact, mobilize and transact with each other. It also provided access to vendors and business partners/sponsors.

May, 2012 - March, 2010
Craft & Hobby Association
Manager, Design
I single handedly managed all design requirements at Craft & Hobby Association. I led the design strategy for our customer/member facing website and marketing-emails. I also egaged in graphic design projects that required billboards and print advertisements at trade shows.

February, 2010 - May, 2009
Barclays
Lead UX/UI Designer
At Barclays I was part of a larger design team that serviced business teams with design solutions to create email templates and customized websites that displayed information about Barclays corporate conferences, seminars and events.

April, 2009 - November, 2007
BMW of North America
Lead UX/UI Designer
I joined the BMW team as the lead designer to HTML(ize) their existing website which was built using Macromedia Flash. I worked along side product managers and a developmet team and helped create a new website that used Flash elements but was developed using html, javascript, php and xml.

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If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

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New York/New Jersey

+1 201-214-6669

vikram.aocc@gmail.com

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