Greetings 👋
I'm Omkar Khadamkar
Driven by the purpose to create a better world by collaborating with high-impact organizations to help them overcome key obstacles.
Impact Highlights | The impact refers to a subjective measure of the satisfaction, feasibility, and viability of my contributions. That may be getting buy-in from all the stakeholders to implement the designed solution, reducing UX bugs count, adding loyal customers to the business, etc. I am always willing to raise this curve higher. 🚀
EXPERIENCE & ENGAGEMENTs
ACADEMIC, INDUSTRY AND VOLUNTARY
AUG 2023 - PRESENT
Coho Remote
Design Fellow
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Contributing to global community of designer cohorts to unlock proven strategies.
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Being part of a trusted network of 750+ professionals to learn and share experiences to find our design leadership edge together.
NOV 2022 - PRESENT
Skyhigh Security Bangalore (Remote)
Sr UX Designer & Design System Lead
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Redesigned the SSE platform and extended products to make them easy to use and navigate, fostering a playful and collaborative team environment.
Led UX design for the FWaaS and Private Access features.
SEPT 2022 - DEC 2023
Ideo U Online
Alumni Coach (Volunteering)
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Collaborating with teaching lead and teaching assistants to help global learners in achieving beyond the course content.
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Being part of Ideo U Alumni Coach program to polish my skills on the topics of 'Impactful Presentations' , 'Designing for Change' and 'Cultivating Creative Collaborations'.
DEC 2020 - NOV 2022
VMware Pune
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Designed desirable, feasible, and viable UX guidelines for the NSX networking and security enterprise product, helping users to quickly and easily find the information they need.
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Designed a novel network status visualisation that helped VMware to secure a patent, providing users with a clear and concise overview of their network health.
OCT 2020 - DEC 2020
FactSet Hyderabad
Sr. UX Specialist
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In an agile environment with product managers, developers, interaction designers, and researchers, we designed cross-device UX workflows for enterprise solutions (portfolio management) users.
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As I was the only visual designer from the Indian design team, my role also involved reviewing and refining the UX mockups to meet the design system standards, so that developers understand the intended design details clearly.
SEPT 2019 - SEPT 2020
TED Online
Language Translator (Volunteering)
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Whenever I watch any of the TED videos, and share with my parents, they face problem due to heavy use of English in the videos.
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This was the motivation to start translating subtitles from English to my mother tongue Marathi.
JUNE 2019 - OCT 2020
ValueLabs Hyderabad
Sr. Interaction and Visual Designer
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Designed a wide range of UX workflows and components in collaboration with business analysts and design leads of enterprise companies from various domains (Real estate, Banking, Learning management).
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Designed and documented the delightful onboarding experience by teaming with the design lead and new hires.
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Volunteered to design the yearly design conference event and managed its logistics.
DEC 2018 - MAY 2019
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
PhD Fellow (Discontinued),
Design Innovation Center
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Realized the deeper social & managerial perspectives of design thinking by studying:
1. Research methods in Social Sciences.
2. Management in Innovation and Creativity.
3. Universal Design & Accessibility Planning. -
Volunteered in designing event identities of international academic events by working with teaching leads, vendors, and design scholars.
AUG 2017 - MAY 2019
Frolic Bangalore
Visual Designer
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Collaborated with founders, customers, designers and retail space vendors to design the brand identity of a food-based consumer focused brand.
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Designed the brand guidelines for online store and social media presence.
DEC 2017 - JUL 2018
Layers of Existence Online
Brand & Business Designer
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Learned the entrepreneurial responsibilities by working with the influential team of business strategist, supply chain manager, social media experts to conceive a start-up.
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Designed brand identity, business presentations, recruitment, and retail collaterals.
MAY 2017 - AUG 2017
Shankara Ayurveda Bangalore
UX & Brand Designer
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Teamed with top leadership, marketing, and production executives, and designed highly desirable and cost-effective guidelines for packaging, in-store, and web presence of the luxurious cosmetic brand.
JUL 2016 - DEC 2018
National Institute of Design Bangalore
Master of Design
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Polished my design and leadership skills by studying a broad range of subjects including Research Methodology, User Research, Design Management, and System Design.
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Volunteered as Vice President of students' community.
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Won top positions in multiple design competitions.
JUL 2013 - MAR 2016
Future Retail Mumbai
Assistant Design Manager
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I was part of a large retail design team. Designed guidelines for manufacturers and buyers to create and examine the apparel samples. It involved working within a highly tight time schedules of fast fashion industry.
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Volunteered to design UX to manage the merchandising process for retail buyers and merchandisers.
SEPT 2012 - DEC 2012
University of Wolverhampton UK
Semester Exchange
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Learned global ways of designing for new media and digital editorials.
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Learned interesting techniques for creating ideas through drawing and listening to the surroundings.
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Designed the interactive musical calendar for the UK-based rock band.
MAY 2012 - JUL 2012
Onio Design Pune
Graphic Designer
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Learned practical nuances of the industry
by designing iconography, banner, and
wall graphics for the celebration of ‘15 years of innovation in India’. -
Volunteered to create design guidelines for corporate gifting cards.
JUL 2009 - MAY 2013
National Institute of Fashion Technology Mumbai
Bachelor of Design
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Began my baby steps in the field of design by studying fundamental subjects including Communication theories and practices, History and Philosophy of Design, Graphical representation, Design Methodology, Graphic Design, Visual Merchandising, Styling, and Event Management.
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Won the Best Graduation Project award, and achieved top positions in many competitions.
PORTFOLIO
FEW OF MY LATEST PROJECTS
NETWORKING & SECURITY
End-to-end processes of how I collaborated and designed UX workflows in the areas of monitoring and observability, network routing configuration, and user management.
Creative collaboration initiatives to engage the design team in ways that encourage innovation to make NSX more consumable.
For the purpose of confidentiality, some project details can not be published publicly, you can request to view these by mailing me your purpose and identity. Few of the case studies can be accessed from here.
EDGE ALERT
We took part in the competition to propose a solution- 'Edge Alert - Quicker Emergency Commute'. It attempts to solve the problem of longer commute time for emergency service vehicles due to traffic congestion. The good news is this entry won the Gold Award in the Design X Social Innovation category at UX India 2019!
