Karthik Venkataramani

Angestellt, Head of User Experience Design, Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India

Bangalore, State of Karnataka, India, India

About me

Problem solver - Product Thinker- User Experience Design Leader with 15+ Years IT experience building various cross Functional multidisciplinary UX / Product Design Teams across various IT sectors Offering Design solutions for IT problems driving Digital Transformation and Bring user centric culture mindset to help the Organizations focused on solving right problems and does things first time right.

Skills

User Experience
Interface Design
Wireframe
User Research
Usability
Prototyping
Design Thinking
Service Design
HCI
Design Management
Interaction Design
Customer Experience Management
Usability Testing
InVision
Information Architecture
User Centric Design
Usability Consulting
Product design
Process Design
Product strategy
Product Data Management
Digital strategy
Lean product development
User experience research
Responsive web design
Communication skills
Commitment
Team work
Reliability
Digital transformation

Timeline

Professional experience for Karthik Venkataramani

  • Current 8 years and 7 months, since Mar 2016

    Head of User Experience Design

    Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India

    1. Ramped up the UX team from 4 to 30 members 2. Redundancy reduced by 15% in Enterprise IT apps by process optimization 3. Reduced Turnaround Time by 50% for suppliers to fix Documentation Gaps 4. Achieved 35% OKR's of operations by doing Design Thinking workshop 5. 45% Digital Transformation use cases for Digital Twin and Supply Chain enabled with minimalist Design 6. 20 + NEW UI patterns for In Car UX research on Infotainment system 7. 7 Onsite visits to Germany and 1 USA visit for workshops and Events

  • 3 years and 6 months, Oct 2012 - Mar 2016

    UX Systems Analyst

    LG Soft India

    1. 80+ use cases Designed for LG Smartphone using Google Material UI 2. 10 + apps Designed for LG Smart Watch 3. Identified 50+ patterns from personas by performing Qualitative User Research for Eye Gaze navigation. 4. NPS moved from 5 to 8.5 after revamped LG Customer facing portal based on Analytics Data

  • 1 year and 10 months, Dec 2010 - Sep 2012

    Interaction Designer

    Dhyan

    1. Customized UX for Dhyan’s In house EMS/NMS product for 15+ customers across geographies. 2. Managed Organization website

  • 1 year and 1 month, Dec 2009 - Dec 2010

    Web Designer

    Astroved

    1. Improved sales by 30% by E-commerce marketing 2. Managed Organization website and revamped with CSS 3

  • 3 years and 1 month, Nov 2006 - Nov 2009

    Software Engineer

    Dhyan

    1. For the keyword “Element Management System”, dhyan.com is visible at 1st page of Google by doing SEO. 2. Visual Design Revamp for the Dhyan Inhouse product EMS/NMS

Educational background for Karthik Venkataramani

  • 4 years and 1 month, Jun 2002 - Jun 2006

    Information technology

    Anna University, Chennai

    Engineering

Languages

  • English

    Fluent

Interests

Movies
Reading
Travel
Blockchain
Music

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