Chandan Sharma

Current

Senior Interaction Designer at Digitas

Past

Research Assistant, College of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology
Interaction Designer, New Business Innovations (Intern) at Adobe Systems
Graduate Assistant, Center for Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Georgia Institute of Technology

Research Assistant, Imagine Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology
User Experience Designer at Capgemini

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Education

Georgia Institute of Technology
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

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Chandan Sharma’s Summary

More than three years of experience in the interaction design of various mobile, web and desktop applications spanned across industrial as well as R&D sectors

Over six years of academic background in various design disciplines (Masters in HCI and Bachelors in Industrial Design) has inculcated in me a holistic approach that combines strong analysis with design, engineering and business perspectives.

Chandan Sharma’s Specialties:

Expertise in interaction design; experience design for small screen (mobile/handheld) devices; information system design and modeling; user research and usability.

Motivated for product innovation, feature design, design strategy, product management-design-engineering synergy in SW development

Chandan Sharma’s Experience

Senior Interaction Designer

Digitas

(Public Company; PUB; Marketing and Advertising industry)

April 2009 — Present (9 months)
Research Assistant, College of Interactive Computing

Georgia Institute of Technology

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

August 2008 — December 2008 (5 months)

Worked on project CrowdCasting an application for crowdsourcing of mobile videos.

- conceptualized and designed the mobile + web application
-Mobile Experience (Design for small screen device), UI design for mobile and web, system modelling
- design for crowd generated content and crowd organization of content
Interaction Designer, New Business Innovations (Intern)

Adobe Systems

(Public Company; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

Worked on Adobe's New Business Innovations Group Project Genesis
(Code Named) as Experience Design Intern.
Graduate Assistant, Center for Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)

Georgia Institute of Technology

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

January 2008 — May 2008 (5 months)

UI Design for Open Source Collaboration and Learning environment- Sakai, Design Specifications, Visual Design
Research Assistant, Imagine Lab

Georgia Institute of Technology

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

August 2007 — December 2007 (5 months)

Architechtural Visualisation, 3d Modeling
User Experience Designer

Capgemini

(Public Company; CAP; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Work includes design as well as UI development for financial applications.

Chandan Sharma’s Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Masters , Human Computer Interaction , 2007 — 2008

My Interests here were:
Interaction Design for Small Screen Devices (Mobile Experience)
Computational Journalism
Prototyping Interactive Systems
Design Games
Computation as an Expressive Medium
Engineering Psychology and Human Factors
Computing for Good

Activities and Societies:

Symposium on Computational Journalism 3G, Computing for Good (C4G)
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Bachelors , Industrial Design , 2002 — 2006

My academic focus was in these areas: Product Design, Interaction Design, Usability Engineering, Object Oriented System Design, Psychology ,Consumer Behaviour, Visual and Product Ergonomics, Semantics of Form and Space, Design Management, Graphic Design

Activities and Societies:

Activities and Interest: Sports - Soccer, Cricket; Movies and Film appreciation; Amateur Photography, Cultural - Alcheringa and Manthan - College Festivals