Masood Nasser

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

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Education

L S Raheja School of Art
St Andrews high School

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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 2008 — Present (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 2005 — Present (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 2007 — October 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 2002 — January 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 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 1 month)
Creative Head

Microcell

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

January 2000 — July 2000 (7 months)
Consultant

Character Sketches & Near Computers

(Human Resources industry)

March 1999 — December 1999 (10 months)
Graphic and Interior Designer

The Inside Job design Studio

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

December 1996 — March 1999 (2 years 4 months)
Graphic and Interior Designer

Tanveer Interiors

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

July 1994 — December 1996 (2 years 6 months)

Masood Nasser’s Education

L S Raheja School of Art

Foundation & Elementary, Fine Arts, 1987 — 1989
St Andrews high School

SSC 1976 — 1986

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.