Art Tawanghar
Online Portfolio: www.oneovation.com TEL: 858 7170799
Interaction Designer, Visual Designer, User Experience & Usability Evangelist
Prominent Skills:
Sr. VP of UX, Lead UI & Lean-UX, Author of 5min To lean UX Book, Director of Interaction
designs
Qualitative & Quantitative Research, Interviews, Contextual Inquiry, Goal & Task Analysis,
Personas, Scenarios, Storyboarding, Wire framing, Prototyping, A/B testing Lean Concept and
Agile environment.
Author of the e-Book 5 min to Lean UX available for purchase on Amazon.com
Visual Design, Interaction Designer
Pixel Perfect Mockups High Fidelity Interactive Wireframes, Typography, Color Theory,
Interface Guidelines
Technical/Development & Writing
Expert in All Adobe Products, Any Microsoft products, Axure RP, Sketch, Protools, Cubase, and
most Apple Applications.
Qualifications:
10+ years focused on creating interactive products with valuable & intuitive user experiences.
6+ Years Mobile platforms, and specialize on Mobile UX/UI, I have released several Apps under
my name,
7+ Years experience on designing Smart TV apps, and very familiar with the entire process.
15+ years practicing web design & development IT technology.
A decade managing and documenting technical projects and leading teams to turn vague
concepts into valuable products that advance business goals.
Experience with full software development Management, object oriented programming,
database design and some agile methodologies.
Exceptional aptitude for teamwork and collaboration with diverse disciplines in distributed
environments, listening, organizing and facilitating conversations.
Strong proficiency with UI/UX and web usability best practices for Desktop, Online, and mobile.
Art Tawanghar
Online Portfolio: www.oneovation.com TEL: 858 7170799
Profile Summary:
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Talented UX/UI design architect with proven know-how to combine creative and
usability viewpoints resulting in world-class Web, Mobile & Desktop applications. 17+
years of success optimizing user engagement for various brands. Expert in providing a
compelling user experience and visual design to improve brand loyalty, customer
retention and visit-to-order ratios. Now seeking next challenging and rewarding
position in a UX role. Experienced Project manager with over 7+ years experience.
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My portfolio link is www.oneovation.com
Passion for user-centered design and desirable, usable products, and any UI Design
Architect.
Strong leader, Takes charge when needed. Manages products, projects & teams, with
delivery assurance.
Entrepreneurial minded with business acumen. Very “Big”-picture oriented.
Exceptional combination of right brain/left brain strengths. Problem-solver and
innovator. Hold Several Concept Patents under my name.
Ongoing quest learn about new technology and utilize it in my day to day work.
Continual learner, Avid reader of industry publications and what ever that interests me.
Easy going, Absolute no EGO, fast learner, hungry to be challenged.
Author to 4min to Lean UX available on Amazon.com
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EXPERTISE/TOOLS
16+ years in UI Design & Architect
17+ years in UX and user centric design
10+ years in Mobile Platforms
16+ in IT and web technologies
5 Years in Smart TV Applications and the UI technologies
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UX/UI design, wire framing, storyboarding, user research, personas, usability, Affinity
Diagramming, Requirements Definition, gamification, Persona Creation, User testing,
fast MVP, Lean UX principals.
Balsamiq, Invision, Axure , Sketch, Omnigraffle , Uxpin, InDesign, Fireworks,
sketchflow, justinmind, usability tools, Agile & many more….
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Adobe Suite: Photoshop, illustrator, indesign , dreamweaver, flash, fireworks, edge,
muse, AE, Phonegap, Adobe Captivate, Avid Protools, Apple Final Cut Pro, Steinberg
Cubase.
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Mobile apps, apple ios, windows 8, android mobile apps design and agile methodology
project management.
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Visual design, graphics design, Animation/Motion Graphics
Video Editing, Photography
Billboard #1 Professional Music Arranger, Mixing Engineer and more... Grammy
member.
Art Tawanghar
Online Portfolio: www.oneovation.com TEL: 858 7170799
Professional Experience
Teradata Labs San Diego
San Diego- USA
Senior Lead UI/UX Designer - Architect (contract)
Aug 2016–Present
Desktop/Web application
Technologies Interacted with: Angular2, Material Design 2, AWS Amazon, Typescripts, SCSS,
Spring Data rest API, Json, GIT, Phyton, NodeJS, Protractor, Angular CLI, Brew and more…
Application used: Axure RP, Omnigraffle, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Jira, Bracket, MS
VSCODE, JIRA, Adobe font-maker, Apple Final Cut pro X, OSX El Capitan & MS-Windows 10,
MS-Word & Outlook.
SCOPE:
Working on a application named Nebula API + UI
What is Nebula,
Is a single pane solution which have the opportunity to simply deploy AWS, Azure or any Cloud
formation API available today!
Technology it is using:
Backend: Phyton, Spiff (Workflow), Salary VM, Mongo-DB
Frontend: Angular2, Angular Material Design2, Typescript, JSON, Covalent (TD Opensource
Framework)
Responsibilities:
Responsible for creating exceptional user-centered experiences that achieve business goals and
exceed user expectations across a wide range of digital experiences, including web and mobile.
The UX Team collaborates with leading design agencies, user-research firms and teams across
the organization focused on integrating best practices in usability, analytics, accessibility, social
media marketing, cross-platform strategy in an Agile development environment.
As a key member of the UX Team, the User Experience Architect - responsible for developing
exceptional user experiences that achieve business goals and exceed customer expectations
across a wide range of mobile experiences. Day to day of working in User-Centered design
processes and Interaction Design principles is crucial for success.
Primary point of contact for all UX efforts for Nebula Product
Be accountable for the cohesive, usable, and scalable user experience of one or more digital
product(s), across programs, projects, and releases.
Assist with efforts to solve design problems and create/update digital standards, styles, and
renderings
Responsible for scoping, estimating, and planning UX effort for all projects within the product
roadmap, working with UX leadership to organize resources and reviews
Ensure the product site map is maintained; ensure all UX deliverables are organized following
established procedures. Assist with training and on boarding UX team members assigned to
Nebula
Tools used:
MS-Visual Code, Covalent, Node JS, Home Brew, Npm, Jasmin, Karma, Protractor, Angular
CLI
Art Tawanghar
Online Portfolio: www.oneovation.com TEL: 858 7170799
Agena Bioscience San Diego
San Diego- USA
Senior Lead UI/UX Designer - Architect (contract)
Jan 2016–Aug 2016
Desktop/Web application
Technologies Interacted with: Bootstrap, Html5, CSS3, Angular JS, Spring Data rest API, Json,
GIT, Java & Perl.
Application used: Axure RP, Omnigraffle, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Jira, Bracket,
Webstorm, Stash, Bamboo, Confluence, Adobe font-maker, Apple Final Cut pro X, OSX El
Capitan & MS-Windows 10, MS-Word & Outlook.
True Biotech & Massarray DNA analysis company
Extreme large Data UI representation
Senior UI/UX & Team Lead design Architect
Wireframes and proof of concept.
High fidelity Prototyping and Approval from Stakeholders
Requirement gathering and document writing
Visual Designs, font Icon library and etc.
Diagram and flows.
Working very close with developers Front/back to make sure the design requirements are intact
through approved wireframe to Production release.
LESS & Gulp
Enterprise product with multi-Level Users, MVVM, or MVM even.
Day to day Interactions with D3, JS, AngularJS, Json, Bootstrap, HTML5/CSS3
Spring DATA Rest engagement.
User Centric research & requirement gathering.
Daily standup with the UI Team, and responsible for team delivery and output
Java FX & Using Angular in a new Desktop Web Technology
Involved in Instrumental tuning "Calibration" UI and Sample Event Audit handling
Pixel perfect output and production level delivery.
Building Custom UI libraries and widgets.
Involved in creating SRS and DIR requirements.
2-week sprint planning and delivery.
BREG San Diego
San Diego- USA
Senior Lead XD
(contract) Desktop & Mobile
Aug 2015–Jan 2016
Lead Senior Interaction Designer working on Vision & Flex On Both Desktop and Mobile
Platform
Provide thought leadership in user experience; contribute ideas, knowledge and insights on
emerging trends in user experience design.
Contribute across the User Experience Design Arc.
User Research (personas, Contextual Inquiry etc.)
Information architecture (Site Structure, Navigation Design)
Interaction Design (Interaction Models, wireframe development, clickable prototypes using
Axure and other such tools)
Set overall UX strategy and guide UX architects
Collaborate with and guide team developers, provide design critiques.
Art Tawanghar
Online Portfolio: www.oneovation.com TEL: 858 7170799
Partner with our development team to ensure technical feasibility and Pixle-perfect
implementation
User Experience Solution, UX project Management, Project estimation etc.
Communicate and demonstrate the value and rationale of design decisions to business and
technology partners
Deep knowledge of the User Experience Design process
Designing highly transactional websites or web-based applications
Designing for mobile devices (smart-phones, tablets)
Using web analytics, user insights to inform design decisions
Hands-on design skills in wireframes, persona development and more..
User research and user centered design.
Traditional solution delivery methodologies, and with rapid, iterative solution delivery methods,
such as Agile
Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively with cross-functional teams
Proven success in creative direction, leading internal and external design teams
Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, decentralized environment
Ability to successfully juggle multiple projects in a compressed timeline, with competing
priorities
Good command over wire framing tools like Axure, Visio and design tools like Adobe Creative
Suite
Visual design implementation and it’s relation with marketing strategy
Tools Involved:
Axure RP
All Adobe Products
All Microsoft products
HTML/CSS
AngularJS
JavaScript
.Net Framework
OSX & Windows OS
Mobile OS
and more...
Intuit TurboTax.com
San Diego- USA
Lead XD UX/UI Designer, Innovator
(contract) Mobile & Online
Dec 2014–July 2015
Art Tawanghar
Online Portfolio: www.oneovation.com TEL: 858 7170799
Responsibilities:
Overseeing a developer team of 4+ with day to day Interaction role and implementations.
Taking a product from sketch > wireframe >prototype
Extreme Lean UX thinking & performing
Making very high quality detailed flow diagrams to be presented to PM, GM, and CEO.
Interaction and enveloped in Social PR, Product reviews.
Day to Day interaction working with Agile, Scrum.
Being Involved in Product research and user testing, came up with 17+ Concept and 3
Patents.
Writing or rewriting some of the User guidelines, and User experiences.
Creating Personas and Documentations
Being a part of new innovations and new product research.
Created a completed corporate level Widget library for Axure RP
Created Suggestion on some new Iconography and new product ideas, and many more….
Also Interacted with:
iCode,
GitHub
Jenkins
Amazon AWS Services
and more....
Farsinava.com Inc.
San Diego- USA
VP of design, Lead UX/UI Designer/Architect/Project Manager
(Fulltime Position)
Mobile & Smart TV & Online
Sept 2011–Oct 2014
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A Complete Entertainment site, including custom HTML5 Video/Audio Players, Pandora
Experience Custom Radio Station, Fully Dynamic Front, And Backend, Social Media Site
Integration, and Amazon AWS Integration.
Managing a Remote team of 19 People in India Office
Creating the entire Appt for both iOS and Android Environment, as well as the Site itself
Wrote the entire specification& Content documentation
Came up with the entire UX layout, and how users would interact with this application
Wrote the entire test documentation
Brand new Gamification strategy was developed for this project
Conexant Systems International
Lead UI, UX Designer/Architect (Conexant.com)
(Fulltime Position)
San Diego, CA
Sept 2005–Sept 2011
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Led front-end development on 100% of the UI/UX Projects From Mockup, Wireframe to End
Product. For my part, this consisted of implementing new designs, porting and styling
legacy products.
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Redesigned Entire Smart Audio Embedded PC Audio Interface, and Fully responsible for
Smart Audio1, Smart Audio II, And Smart Audio Pro, which is not available in over 20 million
systems worldwide in Major Brands such as: Hp, Lenovo, Dell, Toshiba etc.
Art Tawanghar
Online Portfolio: www.oneovation.com TEL: 858 7170799
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Created Many Wireframes & Mockups for Products such as Smart Frame, Pro-frame, Medusa
CCTV Products, which Conexant was releasing to customers
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Received numerous design wins from well-known technology vendors, namely Dell, Toshiba,
Lenovo and HP.
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Successfully captured interest and business of various multinational vendors on behalf of
Conexant by creating and presenting dynamic GUI designs.
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Engaged in developing many business-winning GUI designs for special testing tools, such as Lyra,
Fulcrum, and Moca.
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Worked with a Group of 20 Software developers, and interacted with their requirements, and held
2-3 weekly meetings to discuss all design flow to meet all marketing & Customer requirements.
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Created custom Image & Design Library for Conexant so it could be shared through out the
company by all Developers a group of over 100 developers.
Shakila INC. (iPhone App & Site Development)
San Diego, CA
May 2004–Sept 2005
Lead UI, UX Designer/Architect
(Contract Position)
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Created Mockups and Wireframes, for an Highly visited artist Website shakila.com. Created
all CSS Pages, And Designed more than 50 Pages.
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Created All Admin Control Backend, for this project, so user with no coding knowledge can
easily maintain this website.
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Designed Entire iPhone, Then Later Android App, from Mobile Mockup to Actual Design,
with full backend control add videos, songs Blogs etc. These Apps are not available on
iTunes and Android App store under Shakila.
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More than 3 PHP Developers for coding this project, held daily meeting to ensure everybody
is on same page, and meeting the deadline.
Samsung Inc. (2D, 3D Smart App Development)
Lead UI, UX Designer
(Fulltime positions)
San Diego, CA
March 2002–June 2004
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Hired By Samsung, to create a Live Subscription TV app for a local company Wealth TV in
San Diego.
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Responsible for the entire project, hired 7 developers in India to be in charge of the Java
Script Coding.
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Held Daily meetings with all developers, and discussed all Design, flow & concept code
overview.
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Responsible for all Daily testing, and bug reporting and fixing.
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This app is now available on Samsung Smart TV Market, which is now available on millions
Devices such as TV & Blue Rays
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Redesigned the same App for 3D Online Streaming, Responsible for the entire UI/UX Design,
worked with the same Group to deliver this app on time.
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Managed to finish the very first 3D online TV App, which is not available on Samsung’s Online
market for all their 3D Products, this product was a huge success, and got Samsung Design
win of the year.
Art Tawanghar
Online Portfolio: www.oneovation.com TEL: 858 7170799
Basfile.com
San Diego, CA
Jan 1999–Feb. 2002
Lead Web UI/UX Designer
(Fulltime positions)
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Designed the information architecture and user experience of websites and applications for
the company's largest projects to date ($100k).
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Led a nimble team thru the development life-cycle, contributing art direction, managing
programmers & ensuring usability. Repeatedly delivered site launches on schedule and
within budget and garnered praise from top clients.
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Created and implemented standard practices for designers and programmers. Boosted overall
efficiency and profitability by developing an improved pricing structure and implementing
processes changes.
Dreamhome Magazine
San Diego, CA
Jul 1998–Dec. 2001
Lead Web UI/UX Designer
(Fulltime position)
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Designed the user experience of a web 2.0 product contributing to: 1 million monthly
impressions, (3,400% 2 year growth). 300% revenue growth for clients like NY Times, Cnet,
NBC, Wired & USA Today.
Led the UI team thru research & discovery, interaction design, development, usability
testing. Maintained the short-range product road map.
Advocated for and defined the role of UX within the organization and an agile development
process. Created UI standards and Their Entire Image libraries.
CNP Real Estate (Startup Company)
User Experience Lead
(Fulltime Position)
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San Diego, CA
April 1998–Nov. 2001
Lead the design team to shape the user experience of CNP's user Admin platform. CNP Real
Estate used to Engage is used on over 100,000 sites & blogs.
Education
Certification
March 2009, Design and Interactive Certificate UCSD
August 1998, Technical College San Diego, MSCSE Degree
Associate BA Degree
2000 – 2003 Human Factor (HCI) & User center Design
Human Behavior & Thinking methodology
Computer Science BA Degree from Aarhus university Denmark
Human & Web Technology Interlinks and predictions
Art Tawanghar
Online Portfolio: www.oneovation.com TEL: 858 7170799
Modern user interactions and research development
Document, user story, requirement spec writing
Flash Master Class
Nov 2004, Future Media Concepts
B.A. Degree
May 1996, Aarhus University Denmark.
Major
Computer Science & HCI
G.P.A.
3.7792 / 4.0
Honors
"Graduated as Top honor Student"