Charusmitha is available for hire
Hire CharusmithaCharusmitha Ram
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Location
Boston, MA, United States
Toptal Member Since
April 13, 2016
Charusmitha has experience designing service and product based solutions for large enterprise and consumer products. She has 15+ years of industry experience, including in health care and financial services. She's a generative thinker and a doer with the skills to implement designs through iterative sessions. Design critique is an integral part of the design process, and she brings this approach and mentality to all her projects.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Principal User Experience Designer
2015 - 2016
PatientsLikeMe
- Led the ideation and concept generation for projects relating to the 'Data Donation program' using participatory design sessions.
- Worked on a research study for a clinical trial involving patients with cystic fibrosis. I generated a report for this study to help the client better understand the attitudes and perceptions of these patients.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Principal User Experience Designer
2014 - 2015
Nuance Communications
- Led design strategy and direction for part of Nuance's speech recognition service platform used by large hospital systems.
- Facilitated around 20+ user interviews to identify user goals, constraints and identify key opportunity areas. Using lean design techniques, I quickly iterated designs involving key internal stakeholders and tested a responsive web prototype with positive results.
- Provided support for development effort with documentation and communication on a daily basis with the development teams across multiple locations.
- Designed and provided testing strategy for a new product concept (mobile app) as part of Nuance's front-end speech recognition platform that would enable physicians to quickly complete documentation and sign-off soon after patient encounter.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
UX Lead
2013 - 2014
Fidelity Investments
- Led design direction for the 'Corporate Actions' redesign project which included real time data monitoring, analytical reporting, and process workflows.
- Helped make a business case in order to secure further funding for the project and helped create a product roadmap by showing an end to end experience of interconnected systems.
- Using interviews and design research, I provided in-depth analysis of gaps in the current workflows, identified key opportunity areas, and provided strategic insights to get stakeholder buy-in before proceeding with design direction.
- Came up with a set of design principles that supported three distinct design options for stakeholder review.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Senior User Experience Designer
2012 - 2013
Athenahealth
- Designed specific workflows (problem/disease management and flowsheets) for a new generation of electronic medical records.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Senior Interaction Designer
2006 - 2012
Thomson Reuters
- Designed solutions for financial products in different business units such as investment and advisory, investment banking, and trading.
- Led a number of large projects with data intensive interfaces, complex analytic tools, interaction with multivariate data, and interactive time-series charting.
- Closely worked with product planning teams to influence design decisions and negotiate design delivery for individual sprints as well as long term planning.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Education
1998 - 1998
Certificate in Multimedia Design
Aptech Pte, Ltd. - Chennai, India
1995 - 1998
Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts and Applied Design
Stella Maris College (Madras University) - Chennai, India
Experience
Tools
Collaboration That Works
How to Work with Toptal
Toptal matches you directly with global industry experts from our network in hours—not weeks or months.
1
Share your needs
Discuss your requirements and refine your scope in a call with a Toptal domain expert.
2
Choose your talent
Get a short list of expertly matched talent within 24 hours to review, interview, and choose from.
3
Start your risk-free talent trial
Work with your chosen talent on a trial basis for up to two weeks. Pay only if you decide to hire them.
Top talent is in high demand.
Start hiring