Areas of Specialization:

• Usability of software and Products interfaces. Expert in GUI design, HCI, Web design, Cognitive Psychology, Ethnography, Heuristic review, Usability testing, prototyping, Humanfactors, Ergonomics, SDLC, etc.
• User Interaction (UI) Design for Enterprise Applications. PDA , WAP & Voice Interface design.
• Expert in Accessibility ( US 508 Accessibility standards)
• Well familiar with UI Standards and Patterns for Web Applications, Rich Java & Desktop Applications
• Conduct UCD Training and workshops
• Design Management , Product management, Requirement gathering, User study and research, and Project management.

email: sameerhere (at) yahoo. com

Education -

• Master's in Industrial Design from Industrial Design Center, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai India.
• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from PVP Institute of Technology, Sangli India.
• Masters in Business Administration (MBA) ...pursuing

External Training and Workshops attended-

• Workshops on HCI & UCD conducted by IIT and Humanfactors
• UPA2006 conference in Denver & UPA chapter meet at Minnesota, USA
• IHCI 2004, Rashmi Sinha's "Design for strangers", Easy2005, Easy 2006(Won design contest )

Professional Experience -

• Presently working as Vice President - User Experience & Design, Info Edge.
• Past- Manager User Experience, Oracle, Hyderabad. Supporting Industry Vertical applications like Higher education, Healthcare, Telcom, Banking / insurance
• 10 yrs of Industry experience.
• Worked at Oracle, UGS, Geometric, MBT, Bajaj Auto, Mahindra, Piaggio Italy.
• Recruit, mentor and manage a multi-disciplinary User Experience team in India & US.
• Evaluate Equipment Vendors & Build one of the finest Usability labs at Oracle, hyderabad, India.

On BBC World TV as a leading Designer from India - 1999

With my car prototype at IDC IIT Mumbai.

Affiliations - Founding member & President of UPA Hyderabad member of ACM & SIGCHI member of UPA US, member chi-si.org

Published Paper & Articles

• "Task description for usability testing" published paper for HCII2007, China
• "Opportunity for Industrial Engineers in Human Computer Interaction" (Word ) article in theglobaleducator magazine - Sept 2006
• "Culture & Usability in Enterprise Applications"(pdf 750kb) paper presentation at IIT Guwahati, - May 2006
• "What is HCI" (PDF -448kb) an article published in Indian magazine, "DeveloperIQ" - April 2006
• "Standards Based Approach for Software User Interface Design" (PDF - 434 kb) CHI paper presentation at Easy6 conference, Bangalore. - Jan 2006,
• " Virtual or Remote Collaboration" ( PDF - 500kb) , a presentation at UPA, MN conference.- Aug 2003
• “Product Design” a Presentation at Design conference, pune India - Feb 2004
• “Need for Usability / ROI for Usability “ ( PDF - 650 Kb) a presentation at CHI chapter, Pune India - Mar 2003
• “Design process” a workshop at KBP College of Engg, Satara, India. - Sept 1999
• Cognitive analysis and chaos theory for Fire rescue. Product design of such system. IIT bombay M.Des final thesis - June1999
• Characters in Bond movies. An M.des special subject presentation on Art and motion pictures- Nov 1998
• Form design in clay. An M.des special subject presentation. - Mar 1998
• Design of spray pond system for max heat transfer. PVPIT final thesis- April 1995

Recent Activities -

• Attended Easy7 conference at Bangalore, Jan-07
• Attended BayCHI meet at Xerox Parc, Palo Alto, US - Aug 06
• Attended UPA2006 conference at Denver, US. - June 2006
• Coordinated CHI meet at Bangalore - May 2006
• Visited IIT Guwhati and IDC IIT Mumbai to extend collaboration between Oracle and academics. - May 2006
• Hosted UX meet at Oracle, hyderabad. - April 2006