Experience

Museum of Craft and Design

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Design Council

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  San Francisco, California, United States



Wealthfront

• United States
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• VP of Design and Marketing

  • Dec 2020 - Nov 2023

• VP of Design

  • 2018 - Dec 2020

• Head Of Design

  • Aug 2016 - Jul 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area



athenahealth

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Design Manager

  • Oct 2015 - Jun 2016

  San Francisco Bay Area Athenahealth provides cloud-based services for healthcare and point-of-care mobile apps. As part of the UX leadership team, I built user research capability in the SF office, led teams to guide product and design vision for new business initiatives and managed product designers.



IDEO

• United States
• Design Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Design Lead + Principal Design Researcher

  • Jul 2011 - Oct 2015

  Palo Alto IDEO is an award-winning design and innovation consulting company. I had the privilege of working on very exciting future forward human applications of advanced technologies for clients like DARPA, Ford, Samsung, Toyota; streamlining complex healthcare tools and systems for clients like Planned Parenthood, Fresenius, Stanford, Columbus Regional Hospital; designing for our connected digital lives for clients like Acer, Huawei, Wells Fargo, Google.



Steelcase

• United States
• Furniture and Home Furnishings Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Design Researcher

  • Jun 2010 - May 2011

  Worked in the innovation team called Work Space Futures, a group that leads future-thinking global research on changing work behaviors, identifies new business opportunities and prototypes new products and service experiences. It is a multi-disciplinary group composed of designers, technologists, researchers and strategists that reports to the CEO.



IFMR Trust

• India
• Investment Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Design Consultant

  • May 2009 - Aug 2009

  A trust with a mission to ensure that every individual has complete access to financial services. I led two project teams - 1. To research customer service interactions in micro-finance loan offices to guide the service experience and 2. To uncover beliefs and behaviors around cooking in rural South India that set the path for the design of a smokeless cookstove for improved health outcomes.



Idiom Design and Consulting Ltd

• Experience Designer

  • 2006 - 2008

  Idiom Design is India’s leading design consulting firm. I researched, designed and executed branded service experiences in retail environments for clients like Titan Industries, Future Group and Indian Railways. Engaged leadership in participatory workshops and collaborated with engineers to build prototypes for testing and validation.



Deepak Peters Design

• India
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

• Graphic Designer

  • Jun 2004 - Nov 2004

  Developed brands, their visual language and websites communicating information flow and brand imagery.