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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Mithilesh Sarode
Ph: +91-8095349644
Email: mithilesh.sarode@gmail.com
Website: mithileshsarode.com

Work Experience

Jan’18 – June'18
Role Project Manager and User Experience Design Consultant
Organization Digital jalebi, Bengaluru
Responsibilities
  • Design and Development of interactive exhibits for Bosch India Experience Center, Bengaluru.
  • Communication with the client to understand their requirements.
  • Manage a team of designers and engineers to implement the final designs.
  • User testing and re-iterating based on the feedback.
  • On-site installation of the 9 final exhibits in 5 months.
Sept’15 – Sept'17
Role Lead Interaction/New Media Designer
Organization National Institute of Design, Ahmadabad
Design Services Organization
Responsibilities
  • Design and Development of interactive exhibits for a museum.
  • Design communication between various Designers, Engineers, Architects and Artists.
  • Development of technical designs.
  • User testing and re-iterating based on the feedback.
  • On-site installation of the exhibits.
Projects The Journey: An interactive exhibit showing the journey of Swami Vivekananda to Chicago.
The Wisdom Well: Another interactive installation talking about the publications started by Vivekananda.
April’14 – August’15
Role User Experience Designer
Organization Moonraft Innovation Labs, Bangalore
Design, art and technology Services Company
Responsibilities
  • Client interaction and understanding their requirements about their products and services.
  • Ideation and presentation of solutions.
  • Developing interactive prototypes and wire-frames.
  • Testing and reiteration based on the feedback.
  • Communication of the designs with various stake holders involving decision makers, designers and developers.
Projects
(selected ones only)		 ZenSocial: Developed a series of motion graphics videos for Zensar Technologies for the promotion of their Social Media Monitoring platform called Zensocial.
Aruba Networks: Worked as a designer in residence for Aruba networks helping them design and integrate multiple functionalities in their cloud based network management software called Athena and Mobile Device Management tool.
Yodlee: Worked as a research assistant and UX designer for a money management tool of yodlee to understand the user's perception money management, their behavior and issues with respect to using the tool.
IDFC Bank: was a part of the team that worked on designing the Pre-login website of the IDFC Bank. Also helped in designing UX of multiple functionalities such as the calculators, contact and branch locators.
April’13 – Dec’13
Role Interaction/New Media Designer
Organization National Institute of Design, Ahmadabad
Design Services Organization
Responsibilities
  • Design and Development of interactive exhibits for a museum.
  • Design communication between various Designers, Engineers, Architects and Artists.
  • Development of technical designs.
  • User testing and re-iterating based on the feedback.
Projects The Journey: An interactive exhibit showing the journey of Swami Vivekananda to Chicago.
The Wisdom Well: Another interactive installation talking about the publications started by Vivekananda.

Education

Jun’11 - Dec’13

 Post Graduate Diploma in New Media Design
National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar, India

Oct’05 - Aug‘09

 Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore, India

Design Skills

Conceptualization, Speculative design, UI Prototyping, Wireframing, User Scenarios, Story Boarding, illustration, Physical Computing, Sound & Video Editing.

Technical skills

Axure, Arduino, Basic electronics, Processing, C, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, CorelDRAW, SketchUp, Docs, Word, PowerPoint, workshop Skills.

Awards, Exhibitions and Teaching

2018 - Conducted a month long collaborative workshop between NCSM(National Council for Science Museums, Kolkata) and NID(National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad) on designing interactive exhibits for museum spaces.
2017 -  Conducted workshop on Introduction to Kinetic Sculptures with the Dept. of New Media Design.
2017 - Conducted a workshop on Introduction to Interactive Cinema at NID, Ahmedabad as a part of International Open Elective. 
2016 - Exhibited the interactive installation called "the journey" in Alpaviram'16 at NID, Ahmedabad as a part of "Video on the Edge" display.
2010 - Winner, Bangalore Metro Station Interior Space Design Competition.
2010 - Designed T-shirt for a NGO Divya Deepa Charitable Trust, Mysore to raise funds for education of rural kids.
2009 - I was a part of the design team involved in designing Technologix ‘09 college magazine.
2009 - I designed posters, banners and logo for CIESTA‘09 [Computer Science Department festival]
2005 - 09 - I have actively submitted artwork to the college magazine Jayzine.