Vaishnav Kameswaran | vaikam@umich.edu | (312) 659-8050 | www.kvaishnav.com
PROFILE:
HCI Masters student with strong technical background seeks part-time employment

EDUCATION:
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI

M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology – Bangalore, India

UX METHODS:
- Personas & Scenarios
- Wireframing
- Paper prototyping
- Digital prototyping
- Contextual inquiry

PROGRAMMING:
- C#
- Java
- XAML
- HTML, CSS, Javascript
- PHP

SOFTWARE:
- Balsamiq
- Proto.io
- Axure
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- Expression Blend
- Eclipse
- Wordpress
- Photoshop & Illustrator

RELEVANT COURSEWORK:
- Interaction Design
- Mobile Interaction Design
- Graphic Design
- Fundamentals of Human Behavior
- User Research Methods
- Contextual Inquiry

Apr 15

Master of Science in Information – Human-Computer Interaction
Honors: SI Merit Scholarship

Jun 10

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
Honors: "Outstanding Performer" award for excellence in academics and extra-curricular activities

WORK EXPERIENCE:
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI – UX Designer/Researcher

Sep 10 - Current

• Gather and analyze user-needs and goals.
• Develop recommendations and design systems based on gathered research data.

Aditi Technologies – Bangalore, India – Software Developer
• Worked closely with several business units at the Microsoft Corporation and aided in the development of scalable and widely used software solutions • Developed User-Interface components on front end platforms including
Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation(WPF) and
Windows 8 Metro applications
• Made recommendations during the UX design process to improve the quality of the product and the end-user experience

PROJECTS: (details and more projects at www.kvaishnav.com)
Microsoft Research Big-Time
• Developed User-Interface components that allows users to create