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I have spent the past 8 years providing management, consulting and research leadership in innovation, design, user experience, and broadly, product development. I am passionate about design driven innovation.

I am currently a Senior Manager with Yahoo’s User Experience Design group. My focus here is around Yahoo’s search and display advertising platforms and some emerging market areas.
I was formerly with Oracle’s Applications User Experience practice in Bangalore from 2004 through Sep 2008 after my User Experience group at PeopleSoft was merged with Oracle. My group consisted of Interaction designers and usability professionals and we worked on the overall user experience of key Oracle application products including Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, FUSION, and OnDemand.
Formerly, I worked as an independent design and research consultant in India. In the mobile technology space, I worked with CKS Consulting (South Asia’s first design research firm for emerging markets) on Learning Lab, an open standards consortium to explore mobile technologies for education. In the enterprise product space, I worked on the user experience of key products for SupportSoft. I also worked on India’s first rural e-governance in Bellandur, near Bangalore.

I started my professional career as a researcher at the Decision Support Laboratory at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities where I worked NSF sponsored design and development of decision support software for expert machinists.

I gathered some of my foundations at the Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College (Now National Institute of Technology) where i graduated from in 1999 with a degree in mechanical engineering. I also hold an MS in engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities with a major in mechanical engineering and a minor in Computer Science.