Resume
Manali Gortekar
manali.gortekar@gmail.com
As a designer, I believe that good design comes from a great conversation. It’s an honest inquiry into the current gaps, resources to create the best possible outcome. Question I often ask myself - Am I caring about the users deeply enough?
Summary
  • A Passionate UX Designer with Information Technology background having 8+ years of professional experience creating user-centered designs
  • In-depth knowledge of interaction design principles and experience designing cloud based web enterprise business applications 
  • Extensive experience driving the product design process independently; From inception through implementation 
  • Strong advocate of the user and evidence based designs. Experience conducting user research, usability testing and iterating the designs based on customer feedback 
  • Successfully delivered wireframes, visual mockups, click-throughs and prototypes for different products of web and mobile technologies on time
Experience

Product Designer at Cisco Systems

San Jose, Nov 2021 - Present

  • Currently, supporting design effort for the SD-WAN (Software-Defined WAN) team and creating networking solutions for global enterprises
  • Distilling complex problems and proposing simple, elegant solutions while owning the delivery process
  • Working hand-in-hand with the product and engineering teams to identify and design solutions which serve Cisco clients’ needs, goals and requirements for a seamless experience
  • Partnering with a team of product designers and researchers for design critique and brainstorming sessions
  • Working with the design system team to create a signature experience for Cisco software and solutions

User Experience Designer at Juniper Networks

Sunnyvale, Sept 2018 - Sept 2021

  • Led design effort for the Global Services - Digital Experience & Automation team within Juniper Networks and catered to the enterprise networking product design requirements
  • Created wireframes, mockups and interactive prototypes for different products. Illustrated design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
  • Collaborated with UX researcher for interviews and design workshops and creating customer artifacts such as personas and journey maps
  • Collaborated with PMs, Business Architects to understand and refine the requirements. Worked with Developers to implement the designs
  • Created design documentation of design processes with different stakeholders at Juniper Networks
User Experience Designer at Edifecs, Inc.
Bellevue,  Jul 2014 - Apr 2018
  • Provided UX design support to the Edifecs healthcare enterprise and consumer products for web and mobile technology
  • Conducted user research, interaction design, usability testing and deployment review of the same
  • Created conceptual diagrams, wireframes and interactive prototypes by collaborating with the cross functional team of product managers, business analysts, developers and other designers
  • Documented the design report to record the project progress, new requirements and issues faced 
Associate Instructor at Indiana University
Bloomington, Aug 2013 - Apr 2014
  • Mentored seven teams of undergraduate students for their capstone project and provided them with project critique and evaluation
Web Designer at Indiana University (IU)
Bloomington, Mar 2013 - July 2013
  • Redesigned and developed a website for ‘World Language Festival’- the largest cultural event at the College of Arts and Science, IU and protoyped the web design in Axure and hand coded it in HTML/CSS/Java Script to publish the website within three months
Software Engineer at Accenture
Bangalore, India, Aug 2010 - Jun 2012
  • Prepared and executed test cases and test scripts from functional specification document   for a project that involved converting all the Master and Banklink debit cards into the visa debit   card across Europe.
Education
M.S. Human Computer Interaction Design
Indiana University (IU), Bloomington,
2012 - 2014

B.E. Information Technology

University of Pune, India,

2006 - 2010

Certifications

UX Certificate

Neilsen Norman Group, San Francisco,

Jun 2019

Web Visual Design Program

School of Visual Concepts, Seattle,

Mar 2016

Courses

Advanced Prototyping, Experience Design, Foundations of HCI, Graphic Design, Instructional Design, Interaction Design Methods, Interaction Design Practice, Meaning and Form in HCI, Rapid Design for Slow Change, Interaction Culture, Computer Architecture, Distributed Networks, Database Programming


Achievements

  • Certificate of Excellence at Edifecs
  • Winner at Intel Perceptual Computing

          Challenge 

  • Opening presentation at Blackbaud UX Day
  • One of the exemplary Master’s Thesis project at Indiana University
Skills
User Research and Insights, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Front-end Coding, Storyboarding, Experience Mapping, Prototyping, Wireframing, Sketching, Usability Testing, Design Criticism, Design Documentation
Tools
Sketch, Zeplin, Axure, Figma, In Vision, Enjoy HQ, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML/CSS, Miro Board
Activities
  • Training to be a Bharatanatyam (an Indian classical dance form) dancer from KalaAwishkar dance school
  • Organized monthly UX Design events for the meet up group of 1000+ members in Seattle area for 1.5 years 
  • Designed posters and flyers for the upcoming ‘Yoga and Meditation’ programs in the Seattle Area for over four years
Share by: