Prasanna Gadkari
e-mail: [email protected]
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prasannaag/
Experience
UX Designer (on contract) May 2023 – Jun 2024
Moody’s Analytics
Designed tools for financial intuitions assess risk and calculate projections in Commercial Real Estate.
Provided innovative solutions and expert feedback on usability of products after doing user research.
UX Designer Aug 2020 – Feb 2023
Amazon
Designed responsive web and mobile products easy through user research and usability testing.
Designed eCommerce customer experience for Amazon Fire TV, web and app to increase the renewal rate by ~35% by conducting user research and influencing various orgs across the company to deliver a seamless experience to customers.
Built strong relations with stakeholders and influenced decisions outside of the department.
Lead UX Feb 2020 – Jul 2020
ThoughtWorks
Leading the design team to deliver excellent products to global customers by setting up design processes.
Successfully pitched the UX proposal to win projects from Generali insurance group of Italy.
Sr. UX Designer Aug 2019 – Jan 2020
Canada Life
Designed mobile and web products that enable Insurance Advisors to propose best plans for their clients.
Created features list and 3-year vision by conducting user and stakeholders workshops, distilling the insights and translating them into features, user-stories, wireframes and visual designs for the developers.
Sr. UX Designer Jun 2017 – Apr 2019
Zensar Technologies
Designed B2B and SaaS products for Cisco namely for eCommerce, marketing and finance.
Bought in a business for about $20 million from Cisco over a period of 1-and-half years.
Tools: Balsamiq; Photoshop and Sketch; InVision.
UX Designer Aug 2016 – Jun 2017
Schlumberger
Created User Experience for mobile phones, tablets and HMI for offshore oil-rig displays.
Tools: Figma and Sketch for wireframes and design, Axure RP and HTML for prototyping.
Design Manager Mar 2011 – Aug 2016
Larsen and Toubro
Architected customer experience and human-factors designs for all of the data visualization, B2B and eCommerce applications.
Led a team of designers to deliver the projects, managed their performance and other managerial tasks.
Was consistently awarded as top performer and was promoted every year.
Tools: Photoshop and Illustrator, SharePoint, InVision, Axure RP.
Design Engineer Aug 2009 – Sep 2010
Eaton
Designed aeroplane cockpit control panels and pilot controls for companies such as Boeing, Airbus, Embraer, Sikorsky, etc. according to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) norms.
Awarded global ‘Top Technical Talent’ award of 2011 at Eaton Corporation.
Project Engineer May 2005 – Nov 2007
Force Motors Pvt. Ltd.
Responsible for design & development of various underbody components on Trax vehicles