Vijay Sekar

Lead Product Designer

Experienced in leading cross-functional teams in design, development, testing, documentation and delivery through process innovations driving the attainment of business goals. Well experienced in UI/UX with strong analytical skills. Equipped with excellent communication skills, work ethics, and possesses a strong sense of leadership.

About

"Lead Product Designer"

Well experienced in combining creative and usability to delivery web & mobile applications to meet business goals.
Solution driven and detail oriented in analysing requirements and providing solutions.

Age: 40
City: Chennai, India

Degree: B.Tech (Information Technology)
University: University of Madras

Skills

Wireframing & Prototyping

User Experience Designing

Use Case & Data Flow Diagrams

User Acceptance Testing

Customer Insights

Critical & Analytical Thinking

Design Standards

Design Thinking

Desing Leadership

Data Visualization

Requirements Elicitation

Problem Solving

Data Gathering and Analysis

Documentation

Frontend Development

Presentations

Domain Konwledge

Banking

Cards & Payments

E-Commerce

Rewards and Reignitions

E-Learning

Media and Events

Tools & Technologies

Design Tools
- Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign
UX Tools
- Adobe Xd, Figma, InVision
Authoring Tools
- Articulate Storyline, Adobe Animate, Adobe Edge, Adobe Captivate

Web Technologies
- HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, LESS, JSON, JavaScript
Front End Libraries and Framework
- Vue JS, React JS, ReactNative, jQuery
- Bootstrap, Foundation, Element UI
- D3.js, HighCarts.js
Documentation
- Word, Excel, Powerpoint, JIRA, Confluence, Notion

Experience

Led cross-functional design teams in creating user-centric product designs for multiple clients and successfully delivering them on time.

Lead Product Designer

Jul 2020 - Till Date

Solid Financial Technologies, Inc.

Defined design strategies and set design standards and best practices for the organization.
Managed an external team of designers to create branding, sales presentations and other visual designs.
Developed user personas, journey maps and case studies to create intuitive and user-friendly designs.
Completed user research and usability testing to gather insights to make informed design decisions.
Collaborated closely with the product team, and stakeholders to gather business requirements and designed wireframes & mockups.
Designed mobile, web and dashboard apps.
Designed a standard template for cards programs.
Developed the view layer for dashboard using HTML, SCSS and Vue JS

Senior Business Analyst & UX Lead

April 2018 - Jul 2020

Wirecard India Pvt. Ltd.

Managed and supported vendor team for Designers and React developers as a Product Owner and UX lead.
Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization and with clients to ensure business and technology alignment.
Conducted brainstorming sessions and defined specifications, needs, prioritized backlog & acceptance criteria.
Developed user personas, created information architecture, completed user research and usability testing for payment apps.
Designed wireframes and UI for payments mobile app.
Worked with testing teams to review test case based on business requirement and to provide RCA.
Worked as a Business Analyst and Product Owner of Middleware platform with an agile team of 8 people, covering development and testing activities for prepaid multi-currency card product.
Created and refined product backlog based on the future product needs and market analysis. Responsible for driving product road map.
Responsible for analyzing and converting client requirements into business requirement documents, providing solutions and detailing out user stories for the tech team to develop.

UI/UX Engineer

July 2017 - April 2018

Future Focus Infotech (Consultant @ Wirecard)

Designed & developed UI and created visual representation of data based on analysis for Smart Data Analytics product.
Analyzed & solutionaized RFM based Customer Segmentation module.
Created wireframes for admin portal for Middleware.

Senior UI Designer & Developer

Sept 2007 - July 2017

BI Worldwide India Pvt. Ltd.

Worked with multiple Clients to gather requirements, sketch mockups and created prototypes.
Gather functional requirements and created detailed wireframes and UI
Redesigned UI and developed HTML and CSS of a legacy Rewards and Recognition Platform to the latest Web app standards.
Designed User Interfaces, templates for e-learning courses, Illustrations, Conceptual Animations, Responsive Web Applications, E-mailers, Corporate Brochures & Presentations.
Mentored and trained junior designers.
Designed and developed JavaScript based charts for data analysis projects.
Involve in code review, visual QA, coordinating with project leads and managers to track and monitor the project timelines.
Develop JavaScript based small 2D games for various clients.

Graphics Designer

Jan 2006 - Sept 2007

Lionbridge Technologies Inc.

Worked on multiple projects to create UI and Illustrations.
Mentored and trained junior designers for e-learning projects.
Interacted with Instruction Designers to understand the requirements and designed templates for e-learning courses, Illustrations, Conceptual Animations.

Multimedia Developer

Jul 2004 - Dec 2005

C2 Workshop Pvt. Ltd. (LEARNNOVATORS)

Created e-mailers, corporate presentations, and static websites for various clients.
Designed and developed courseware, animations and User Interfaces for e-learning projects.
Developed Flash based 2D games.