Education
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, 08/2009 - 05/2011
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Master of Design Candidate: Communication Planning & Information Design
Thesis title: We're not in Kansai anymore: Designing for reverse culture shock
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 08/1999 - 12/2004
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Bachelor of Science: Science, Technology, & Culture - Media Studies, Minor in Japanese
Work Experience
AUTODESK, 10/2011 - present
User Experience Designer
Waltham, Massachusetts & Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Engaging in individual and collaborative user research, brainstorming, synthesis, concept development, interface graphic and icon design, and interaction design.
Working within the Infrastructure Modeling group, and studying high-level principles of civil engineering, particularly utility design.
ELECTRONIC INK, 05/2010 - 08/2010
Intern, Design Development
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Worked in a design consultancy setting on client-facing and internal work, ranging from wireframes and workflows to interaction design and QA.
IBM INTERNET SECURITY SYSTEMS, 09/2007 - 07/2009
Graphic Designer, Usability & User Experience
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Designed software interfaces and UI graphics, such as icons and splash screens, in accordance with IBM's visual standards in order to unify IBM ISS's product lines visually.
JAPANESE EXCHANGE & TEACHING (JET) PROGRAMME, 07/2005 - 07/2007
Assistant English Teacher / Webmaster and Graphic Designer
Miyoshi City Ikeda, Tokushima, Japan
Taught conversational English and grammar to grade school students and adults, and represented the USA and India in situations of local, grass-roots international exchange.
Maintained the website and messageboard for Tokushima's Association of JETs (TAJET), and created multilingual print pieces and illustrations for TAJET publications and event publicity.
BELLSOUTH INTELLIVENTURES, 02/2005 - 07/2005
Web Designer
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Worked in a fast-paced production environment to create sites and single-page homepages for small to medium-sized businesses across the southeastern US. Created ~70 sites in 5 months.
Activities & Achievements
Microsoft Firenze BXT (Business/Experience/Technology) Student Innovation Competition -
member of CMU’s winning team and competitor in the Redmond, WA finals, 11/2010 - 02/2011
Pittsburgh JET Alumni Association, Co-founder, Vice-President
String Theory (CMU Chamber Ensemble), 2nd violin section leader
Professional Organizations: ACM SIGCHI (2011 - current), IxDA (2010 - current)
Contact
www.smithaprasadh.com
hola@smithaprasadh.com
Please e-mail me for my offline contact information.
Skills
DESIGN & VISUAL
Information Design
Interaction Design
Photography & Image Editing
Presentation & Pitch Design
Print Design
Sketching / Illustration
Video Sketch Development
Web Design
RESEARCH METHODS
Affinity Diagramming
Card Sorting
Cultural Probes & Diaries
Directed Storytelling
Ethnography & Field Studies
Rapid Prototyping
Storyboarding
Surveys
User Interviews
Wireframing
SOFTWARE & COMPUTING
After Effects
Dreamweaver
Illustrator
InDesign
Lotus Notes
Mac OSX
Microsoft Office
OpenOffice
Photoshop
Unix (command line)
Web standards
Windows
WordPress
XHTML / CSS (hand-coded)
LANGUAGES
Japanese (JLPT 3級)
Spanish
Tamil