Shivram Mahendran, Designer in New York, NY, United States
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Shivram Mahendran

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Bio

Shivram is an award-winning product, visual, and experience designer with a background in business. His interests nudge towards building products for fintech and next-gen technologies like augmented, virtual, and mixed reality. Shivram has worked with companies like HP, UPDESK, Aputure, Versace Home, Borosil, and Dan Lok Media. He excels at breaking down business problems and crafting user-centered product solutions.

Portfolio

Work Experience

Principal Designer

2019 - PRESENT
Geometrid
  • Built a brand identity and guidelines, explainer video, 3D model, website illustrations, and miscellaneous design assets to assist visuals of the brand.
  • Designed a website to convey the product features and information in a succinct package.
  • Created multiple iterations of the web product from the initial MVP to evolution based on the product direction and user feedback.
Technologies: Adobe XD Design, UX Design, User Flow Design, UX Design, Figma, WordPress Design, Webflow Design, Adobe After Effects Design, UI Design

Founder

2015 - PRESENT
Latice
  • Led a team of two to design a companion native mobile app for HP in-store sales staff to assist store walk-ins better and to self educate about HP products.
  • Designed a web app for Savage & Palmer, a leading outsourced business solutions provider, that helps SMEs understand their company standing better by providing an easy-to-digest KPI visualization.
  • Designed a B2B eCommerce platform and a B2C shopping experience product for Hennep in the marijuana industry.
  • Designed an identity system and web platform/app for Augury Research, Blaze Finance, Savage & Palmer (Brego), and Quax Australia in the accounting and fintech space.
  • Designed and developed a filmmaking contest website for Aputure called "Light this Location" for amateur filmmakers worldwide.
  • Designed a website for Going to School, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded NGO that helps teach teen kids in rural parts of India to learn essential life lessons.
  • Formulated product strategies and designs for WHO, Ambry Genetics, and Thyrocare in the healthcare space.
  • Designed an identity system and website for Geometrid, a Singapore-based construction tech startup that is a part of the Microsoft Accelerator.
  • Led a team of nine to design and ship furniture 3D models for Overstock, Wayfair, and Updesk.
  • Led a team of three internationally and coordinated with dev teams nationally to deliver high-end websites and digital products, including Geometrid, Interprint India, and a material-sourcing web app for Aqsit.
Technologies: HTML, Adobe Creative Suite Design, 3ds Max, Figma, Webflow Design, Digital Product Design, UX Design, Visual Design, UI Design, SaaS Design, Product Strategy, 3D, Product Management, Landing Page Design, Business Strategy, UX Design, Product Design, UI Design, Prototype Design, Prototyping, User Testing, Material Sourcing

Product Designer

2022 - 2023
Ambry Genetics Corporation
  • Set up a coherent design system that spans over six different products, each with its identity.
  • Redesigned an archaic product with established design fundamentals, principles, and patterns to increase user flow completion rates on all verticals by 10-45%.
  • Introduced new features to the product that increased time spent on product and product engagement by almost 30%.
Technologies: UI Design, Product Design, Wireframing, Prototyping, Design Thinking, Design Systems, Responsive Design, Medtech

Design Lead

2021 - 2022
Andrew Koudijs [Toptal Projects]
  • Designed an identity system for the Hennep tech. The identity system was created to be used instead of their marketing approach.
  • Made design of a B2B2C eCommerce platform that facilitates order handling and inventory management between cannabis manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers.
  • Designed a B2C retail in-store ordering app that adheres to state-by-state cannabis sale restrictions and laws.
Technologies: Product Design, UX Design, UI Design, Dashboard Design, Inventory Management, ERP Development

Co-founder

2016 - 2017
Zeo VR
  • Co-founded a bleeding-edge, procedurally generated multiplayer WebVR platform that lets users from any device connect to the metaverse by sharing a single URL.
  • Worked on product design, product management, user acquisition, business strategy, business development, 3D asset creation, and marketing.
  • Set up a 3D render farm for Blender with Cycles on Google Cloud console servers.
Technologies: 3D Modeling, 3D, GitHub, Figma, Adobe XD Design, Blender, UI Design
2020 - 2022

Master's Degree in Software Engineering

Rochester Institute of Technology - Rochester, NY, USA

2014 - 2015

Master's Degree in Product Design

Istituto Marangoni - Milan, Italy

2013 - 2014

Diploma in Design Exploration

Istituto Marangoni - Milan, Italy

2010 - 2013

Bachelor's Degree in Business Studies

Lancaster University - Lancaster, England

OCTOBER 2021 - PRESENT

Agile Methodologies

LinkedIn

FEBRUARY 2021 - PRESENT

Adobe XD

LinkedIn

FEBRUARY 2021 - PRESENT

Adobe Photoshop

LinkedIn

FEBRUARY 2021 - PRESENT

Intro to Java

Codeacademy

Tools

Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma, Adobe XD Design, Adobe InDesign, Manufacturing, Blender, Cinema 4D, Adobe Creative Suite Design, Adobe After Effects Design, Zapier Development, Adobe After Effects Design, 3ds Max, Principle Design, GitHub, Photoshop

Platforms

Web Design, Android Design, WordPress Design, Mobile App Design, Webflow Design, iOS Design

Languages

HTML, Java, Python, SQL

Industry Expertise

Real Estate, Logistics Consulting, Technology, Creative Tech

Other

SaaS Design, B2B Design, Landing Page Design, Digital Product Design, UI Design, Business Strategy, UX Design, Responsive Web Design, UX Design, 3D, Prototyping, User Testing, Logo Design, Graphic Design, Packaging, 3D Tools, User Research, Data Visualization Design, Visual Design, Product Strategy, Creative Strategy, Product Design, Fintech Development, Prototype Design, UI Design, Augmented Reality Design, VR Design, Product Management, Marketplace Design, App UI, App UX, Design Guidelines, Mobile App Design, Information Architecture, Usability, Gamification Design, User Flow Design, Mobile UX Design, Mobile App, Native Mobile Apps, SaaS Design, Enterprise Development, Finance, Finance Reports, Accounts, Accounting, Business Intelligence Development, Business Analysis Consulting, Accounting Systems, Web Design, UX Design, Branding, Financial Accounting, Business Management, Account Management, SaaS Design, Dashboard, Dashboard Design, Modular Design, Design Strategy, Service Design, Web Design, Design, Virtual Coaching, Design Systems, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Furniture Design, Platforms, Web Design, Responsive Web Development, Grid Systems, Printing Press, ERP Development, System UI, Wireframing, UI Design, Tally ERP, Resource Management, Web Dashboards, Asset Management, Graphic Design, Print Design, Production, SAP ERP, Digital Resources, WebVR, VR Design, Extended Reality, Consumer Branding, Procedural Generation, 3D Modeling, Interior 3D Modeling, Game Design, Cross-Platform, UX Design, Web Design, UI Design, Graphic Design, Minimalism, Web Design, Software Architecture, UX Design, Design Patterns, Software Documentation, UX Design, Design Thinking, Responsive Design, Medtech, Inventory Management, Material Sourcing

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