Praveen Verma

Current

• Information Architect at Keane

Past

• Consultant - Information Architect at Shareowner Online Services - A Wells Fargo Company
• Human Factors Specialist at Human Factors International
• Design Consultant at Indira Gandhi National Open University

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Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
• Kanpur University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Praveen Verma’s Summary

Praveen is responsible for creating highly usable, intuitive, and simplified structures for information systems. He has five plus years of experience in usability, and user centric design techniques.

Praveen Verma’s Specialties:

• Ability to plan and conduct ethnographic research.
• Expert in Data Gathering techniques through interviews, observations, and surveys.
• Rich experience to conceptualize, develop, websites, and GUI applications.
• Ability to understand and interpret complex task flows and processes and simplifying them.
• Ability to translate user needs to intuitive design.
• Expert in User Centered Design tools and methodologies.
• Ability to articulate and present design ideas.

Praveen Verma’s Experience

• Information Architect

  Keane

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

  • He works hand in hand with other Architects to create the vision for a site.
  • He develops written and diagrammatic user scenarios, designs information structures and hierarchies, creates navigation models, and develops interactive solutions for complex Web front-ends.
  • Applies UCD methods to articulate clients business needs.
  • Praveen works closely with Visual Designers, Content Developers, and Clients to create and document information structure.

• Consultant - Information Architect

  Shareowner Online Services - A Wells Fargo Company

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2009 — 2009 (less than a year)

• Human Factors Specialist

  Human Factors International

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

  May 2004 — June 2006 (2 years 2 months)

  • Designing high-level User Interface Structure for web sites and GUI applications.
  • Performing User Testing, Expert Reviews, and Task Analysis.
  • Contextual Innovation and Ethnographic research.
  • Documentation of design processes.
  • Developing standards and Templates.

• Design Consultant

  Indira Gandhi National Open University

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2003 — May 2004 (10 months)

  Praveen’s work profile primarily involved preparing material for Web and printed publications.
  This included:
  -Designing Website and CD interactions and content
  -Interacting with subject-matter experts of rural artists.
  -Conducting and facilitating workshops of rural artisans and gather data through interviews and understanding the process.
  -Comprehending the learning process, and then structuring it into tailored course content for various audiences
  -Lending editorial, layout, and graphics support in specific assignments

Praveen Verma’s Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

  2001 — 2003

• Kanpur University

  Bachelor of Technology , Chemical Engineering , 1997 — 2001

  Activities and Societies:

  Member of Drama Club

Additional Information

Praveen Verma’s Interests:

• Traveling, seeing new places and meeting new people • Personal Blogging • Rock music and trying my hands at Guitar • Making movies and photography • Cooking food • Discussing new business ideas

Praveen Verma’s Groups:

• Attended classes in User Centered Analysis, Web and Application Design, Practical Usability Testing, Putting Research into Practice, Design Effective GUIs, and Essentials of Usability
• Attended User Interface Engineering Conference at UIE-11 Boston, MA
• Active member of important professional mailing groups
• Onsite experience of six months (USA) and two weeks in Australia
• Professional Blog: http://designprevails.blogspot.com/

•    Information Architecture Institute (IAI)

Praveen Verma’s Honors:

• Received scholarship for the final year during masters course.
• Received runner-up prize in a car design competition at Delhi College of Engineering.
• My 'Jal sodhak' (water purifier) concept was selected among the top five entries by an external team (Jindal Group) from industry at IIT Delhi.
• Won a T-Shirt design competition organized by the Board of Student Welfare, IIT Delhi.

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