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contact
linkedin.com/in/shekhar-somani/

shekhar.somani@gmail.com
UX Designer, 10 Years
+91 80077 90808

Senior UX Designer Joined the group of 50 UX designers working on Fusion 360, an


industry-leading cloud CAD/CAM platform with over 500,000 users. We
Autodesk Inc.
supported 42 scrum teams across the globe.
Portland, OR (Remote)
Aug 2016 – Jun 2020 Requirement gathering & analysis, stakeholder communication, user
research, interaction design, and managing specification documents.
Oversaw development of new features from start to end, collaborating with
multiple dev teams.
Participated in user research panel at Autodesk University – a yearly
conference involving approx 10,000 people coming from various industries.
Advocated for a strong design thinking culture. Got trained for LUMA
(Human-Centered Design) and helped writing company-wide Design
Systems.

Tech & Design Consultant I have been providing freelance Design and Development services for small to

Various Clients medium businesses and startups, in industries including Education,


Healthcare, Publishing, Data Processing, Manufacturing, and Online Services.
India, US, UK
2003 to Present Graphic Design Desktop Software Motion Graphics
Web Design Web Apps Video Editing
Social Media Graphics iOS Apps Architectural Visualizations

Led a team of 10 designers and developers working on fully-responsive web


Solutions Architect
and mobile apps, for clients including JustDial, Amazon India, Shell, and
Velocita Brand Consultants Central Bank of Dubai.
Pune, India
My role involved translating requirements and ideas into products, creating
Nov 2013 – May 2015
wireframes and interaction design, and writing JavaScript for web apps.

Creative Technical Director Dual role of tech and design lead for a design and publishing group with a team
Project Manager of 15 designers, developers and animators. We worked on cloud-based services,
S5 Ventures Group e-commerce solutions and visual communication for both print and web.

Ahmedabad, India Single-handedly designed and coded a bespoke clothing website and
Oct 2010 – Sep 2013 deployed it on Amazon AWS with EC2 and CloudFront.

Founder & CEO My own institute that provided professional training in PHP/MySQL, .Net,
Pixot Academy of Creative Talents XHTML/CSS/JS, and Flash. Along with a small studio that did corporate
branding and websites for select clients.
Rajkot, India
Oct 2008 – June 2010

Execuitive Head, Training Lead Trainer at a multimedia institute that provided training in Graphic
Xplora Design Skool Design, Web Design and Animation.

Rajkot, India
Mar 2007 – Aug 2008
COMPETENCIES EDUCATION

Design Thinking Xplora Design Skool


Agile & Lean Agile Post Graduate Diploma in Multimedia
Cross-functional Collaboration 1 Year (2006-07)

Writing Design Systems


Human-Centered Design CMC Computer Education
Driving insights from Analytics Diploma in Adv. Software Technology
2 Years (2000-02)

PROFICIENCIES Saurashtra University


Bachelor in Commerce
Sketch
2 Years (2000-02)
Adobe XD
Figma
Saurashtra University
InVision Master in Computer Applications
Principle 3 Years (2004-06)
Photoshop Dropped out in final semester

Illustrator
Premiere
After Effects HOBBIES
Music, Art, History, Cultures, Traveling, Movies,
3DS Max
Photography, Reading, Internet & Social Media,
CorelDraw Technology, Retro Futurism
I published and manage a Facebook page about
film-making with 50,000+ likes
HTML5 / CSS facebook.com/InNolanWeTrust
JavaScript / jQuery
PHP / MySQL
Swift and appKit (Basic) VOLUNTEERING
Git (Basic) I’ve been associated with community NGOs and
different institutions of the AKDN, providing
Amazon AWS (Basic) pro-bono Design and Animation services for Youth
Development for over 7 years.

CONTACTS
ROOTS
portfolio I started with Graphic Design when I was
shekharsomani.com introduced to a 1986 Macintosh Plus (third Apple
computer) when I was in fifth grade, at my father’s
print shop.
email
shekhar.somani@gmail.com

phone
+91 80077 90808 I believe in making
linkedin
experiences delightful for
linkedin.com/in/shekhar-somani/
the user and strategic for
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Thanks.

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