Masood Nasser

Founder & Product/ User Exerience Practice Head, "Visionary Entrepreneur":-)

Mahbūbnagar Area, India

Current
  • Product and User Experience Practice Head at Major Dotcom
  • Information Architecture Competency Head at Satyam
Past
  • Information Architect- Search strategist at McGraw Hill- Satyam Client- NY
  • Lead UI Designer at Instancy
  • Web Designer at Honeywell
  • Creative Head at Microcell
  • Consultant at Character Sketches & Near Computers
  • Graphic and Interior Designer at The Inside Job design Studio
  • Graphic and Interior Designer at Tanveer Interiors
Education
  • L S Raheja School of Art
  • St Andrews high School
Connections
112 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Masood Nasser’s Summary

A verstaile and experienced professional with an experience cutting across fortune 50 companies, Design studios ( Interior & Graphic) & startups designing & architecting effective experiences for Web-based applications, Enterprise applications, E-Commerce, Financial, Community, Search, mobile & desktop applications, Spaces, & content based websites. Successful in increasing user adoption due to customer and product focus

Mentoring teams in business value of design, Marketing, Evangelism. Trained Succesful entrepreneurs and professionals Information Architecture and the art of zen through Information Architecture.

Successful pre-sales support and high profile presentations resultingin tangible business returns by increasing User experience RFP’s conversions by over 25% keeping an “outside-in” perspective

Evangelizing the value of User Experience among clients, internal users, design community, decision makers, through participation and organizing informal events

Currently writing a book on the synergy between online Marketing, User Experience & Analytics and working on a keynote presentation in Hyderabd about Information Architecture for CEO's

My other passion in life is painting and I have an exhibition going on at the State Art gallery Madhapur hyderabad.

Masood Nasser’s Specialties:

Information Architecture, User Experience, Usability Engineering, Product Management, Accessibility, User interface Design,, CMS Consulting, IT strategy consulting, branding, Marketing, Web Analytics, Leadership, Motivation


Masood Nasser’s Experience

  • Product and User Experience Practice Head

    Major Dotcom

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)

    February 2008Present (6 months)

    Web Strategy, Branding, Analytics, Information architecture, Customer Acquisition, Setting processes

    Pre Sales
    Product Road Map for 2010
    User Experience Strategy
    Alliances
    Team Building
    Adsense Strategy

  • Information Architecture Competency Head

    Satyam

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2005Present (3 years 7 months)

    Head the Information Architecture Competency. My repsonsibilites include pre sales, Competency builiding, and delivery

    I also head the Solutions Architecture team for the UXM practice My Key responsibilities include responding to RFP's, ensuring UCD processes in key accounts, new service offerings, Project Management of key initiatives, and mentoring UCD teams along with setting up UCD processes, co-coordinating with pre sales for business targets. I have been involved in key presentations, business meetings, and proposals that have translated to tangible business returns.

  • Information Architect- Search strategist

    McGraw Hill- Satyam Client- NY

    (Publishing industry)

    June 2007October 2007 (5 months)

    Improving Search user experience for one of the biggest architectural online directories & ecommerce website. Developed search strategy highlighting the value of incorporating user research & UCD Process

    Demonstrated sample taxonomies & controlled vocabularies based on web analytical data available. Identified search trends & demonstrated the value to senior management

    Led the solutions team for satyam; mentored team, reviewed work & encouraged team to handle RFP’s independently

    Conceptualized & managed a search based product targeted for HR & recruitment. Created specification after discussions with stake holders & managed offshore development

    As Alliance manager for a Satyam Alliance partner, developed collateral & attended sales meting with Product company’s CIO & Satyam sales team to discuss real usage scenarios & marketing strategies

  • Lead UI Designer

    Instancy

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)

    December 2002January 2005 (2 years 2 months)

    Headed the Design team for the E-learning services, Product design, and leading industry Portals

  • Web Designer

    Honeywell

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

    July 2000July 2002 (2 years 1 month)

  • Creative Head

    Microcell

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)

    January 2000July 2000 (7 months)

  • Consultant

    Character Sketches & Near Computers

    (Human Resources industry)

    March 1999December 1999 (10 months)

  • Graphic and Interior Designer

    The Inside Job design Studio

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)

    December 1996March 1999 (2 years 4 months)

  • Graphic and Interior Designer

    Tanveer Interiors

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    July 1994December 1996 (2 years 6 months)


Masood Nasser’s Education

  • L S Raheja School of Art

    Foundation & Elementary, Fine Arts, 19871989

  • St Andrews high School

    SSC 19761986

    Activities and Societies:
    Art, poetry, Chess, Welfare. Was part of the school chess team and was the Topper there:-) Studies never really interested me much.Coached the chess team later. We were led by an outstanding person, Mr Herman, who was our Moral science teacher to teach maths to the underpriveleged in Bandra, which perhaps is the most satisfying " job" that I have ever done.

Additional Information

Masood Nasser’s Websites:

Masood Nasser’s Interests:

Sketching, Painting, Trekking, rafting, swimming, chess

Masood Nasser’s Groups:

Usability Professionals

  •    eOffice member
  •    DFW Entrepreneur Network member
  •    SAMAJ member
  •    LinkedSEO member
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs member
  •    Interaction Design Association member
  •    Boxes and Arrows member
  •    India Product Management Forum member
  •    CIOsense Global Brain Trust member
  •    Renewable Energy Network member
  •    Front End of Innovation member
  •    UAE | Dubai member
  •    Satyam Computer Services (Associates & Alumni) member
  •    Revedia Group - Sr. Level Interactive Digital Media Professionals Only. member
  •    Dubai Business Network member
  •    Information Architecture Institute (IAI) member
  •    Strategic Use of Information Technology member
  •    Designindia member
  •    Startup Specialists member
  •    Project Management Bloggers member
  •    International Business Development Leaders member

Masood Nasser’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

Public profile powered by: LinkedIn

Create a public profile: Sign In or Join Now

View Masood’s full profile:

  • See who you and Masood Nasser know in common
  • Get introduced to Masood Nasser
  • Contact Masood Nasser directly

View Full Profile