Gaganpreet (Gagan) Singh Shah

Past

• MBA Intern at Carlisle Companies
• User Experience Lead at Mindtree Consulting
• Digital Sculptor (design) at General Motors

• Design Intern at Tata Elxsi

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Education

• Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
• Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
• St John's High School, Chandigarh

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• My Website: UrbanTurbanGuy

Gaganpreet (Gagan) Singh Shah’s Summary

A Technology evangelist with a passion for making a business case for social media, cloud computing and user experience.

Marketing MBA student, with 4 years of consulting experience.

Gaganpreet (Gagan) Singh Shah’s Specialties:

• Product Management
• Marketing Analytics
• Online Marketing
• Consulting
• New Product Development
• B2B Marketing
• Predictive Analytics

Gaganpreet (Gagan) Singh Shah’s Experience

• MBA Intern

  Carlisle Companies

  (Public Company; CSL; Construction industry)

  May 2009 — June 2009 (2 months)

  Working on Sales Forecasting and Procurement efficiency evaluation models.

• User Experience Lead

  Mindtree Consulting

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

  May 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 2 months)

  • Interacted with the the end users to understand underlying needs and design usable interfaces for web applications
  • Created prototypes for Pre-sales proposals
  • Promoted user experience design within the organization and to potential customers
  
  KEY PROJECTS:
  • Conducted a usability study and enhanced the online hotel booking experience for Istay, a booking engine by TravelCLICK Chicago, by creating customized online widgets for targeted user segments.
  • Identified problems in usability with the Revenue Accounting system at Emirates Airways. The redesign led to shorter training periods and reduction of redundancies.
  • Defined the requirements and designed a “Trade-Promotion management” system for Unilever Indonesia, enabling effective creation and evaluation of promotions worth $4MM annually.
  
  DESIGN SKILLS:
  UXD methodologies, Information Architecture, Usability Analysis, Interaction Design
  
  SOFTWARE SKILLS:
  Expert: Dreamweaver, Visio, Adobe Photoshop, HTML, CSS

• Digital Sculptor (design)

  General Motors

  (Public Company; GM; Automotive industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year )

  Collaborated with the Detroit design team to understand and translate their creative intent into computer generated surface models for concept cars.

• Design Intern

  Tata Elxsi

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

Gaganpreet (Gagan) Singh Shah’s Education

• Indiana University - Kelley School of Business

  MBA , Marketing and Innovation , 2008 — 2010 (expected)

  • Faculty Selected Member, Business Marketing Academy
  • Chair, International Culture Committee (Diversity)
  • Recipient of merit-based scholarship and Graduate Assistantship
  
  Software Skills:
  Excel Modeling and Simulation, SPSS, MS Office.

  Activities and Societies:

  Consulting Club, Toastmasters

• Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

  B. Design , Product Design , 2000 — 2004

  Activities and Societies:

  Photography Club, Dramatics Society

• St John's High School, Chandigarh

  High School 1987 — 1998

Additional Information

Gaganpreet (Gagan) Singh Shah’s Websites:

• My Website: UrbanTurbanGuy

Gaganpreet (Gagan) Singh Shah’s Interests:

Social Media, Marketing, User Experience, Web2.0 products, Cloud Computing

Gaganpreet (Gagan) Singh Shah’s Groups:

•    IIT Alumni
•    User Experience
•    Industrial Design
•    Kelley High Tech Club

Gaganpreet (Gagan) Singh Shah’s Contact Settings

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