Recent Project History (only listing medium-large projects) (2005-2011)

General Freelance Web Development, SEO, Adwords, Drupal, WordPress – PHP

• London Greater Authority (GLA) (July 2011-present)
  • Drupal theming and development at http://www.london.gov.uk
  • Launched websites such as 100 Great Things and Team London.
  • Launched the Mayor’s New Years Eve website, the highest traffic GLA website.

• Douglas Wemyss Solicitors (October 2010-June 2011)
  • Replaced their older website with a Drupal 6.20 CMS system
  • Information architecture, UX design and usability testing
  • Rigorous SEO campaign that resulted in a solid position on 1st page of Google
    • 17 videos produced for YouTube and other video websites
      Videos: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
      All these videos are directed and post-produced by me.
    • Created multiple accounts for DWS solicitors on Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn
    • Built context related backlinks to the website
• Douglas Wemyss Solicitors (August 2010) Personal Injury Department
  • Basic Built with PHP, HTML
• 4-Seasons Environmental Services (2007-2010)
  • Basic Built with PHP, HTML, Flash animations
• Mi-Sales (Sept – Nov 2007) – Coventry, UK
  • Created a video training program for the clients of an online advert company.
• Gujarati Comedy Group (2007)
  • Basic Built with PHP, HTML, Video production
• Dr Clark Store California, U.S (2006-2009)
  • UX & Usability testing
  • PPC Advert campains.
• MATV (Midlands Asian Television) (June 2006 – Nov 2006) – Leicester, UK
  • TV Video and Web Development.
  • Made the company website (not the current one)
  • Helped in creating intros for current and new TV shows.
• Words of Discovery (Jan 2005 – March 2005) – Leicester, UK
  • Short contract where I took care for the web design and development for Word of Discovery.

UML, Interface Design and Usability (April 2005 – Jan 2006 / 2008 – 2011)

Mobile Match – (Florida, U.S ) – later Mobi Match (with partners in India and Singapore)

This is my own project worked remotely from Leicester, Leicestershire, UK

• Designed interfaces for Mobile devices and ran usability tests on them.
• Created UML (data flow mainly) diagrams and documentation.
• Development documentation for a mobile phone service.
• Managing and training Java and J2ME programmers through TeamViewer.

Project Manager / Director (March 2001 – Jan 2005)

IBM Ace Centre / AstroIQ.com: Indore, Madya Pradesh, India

• Managed 65 MSc Students in Computer Management finishing their final project.
• Managed a team creating astronomical/astrological software Digital Jyotish.
• Managed the design analysis and implementation of a web-portal.

Web Designer / Usability Manager (June 1999 – December 2000)

USA Global Link Inc: Fairfield, Iowa, U.S.A.

• Web design and web portal management
• The work involved Dynamic HTML coding, graphic layout design, and use of ASP.

Human Ergonomic / Usability Internship (November 1998 – June 1999)
Human Factors Inc: Fairfield, Iowa, U.S.A

• Performing usability tests on websites and software. This also involved creating prototypes both in HTML for web and Visual Basic for software applications.
  • H&R Block: Videotaped usability test for the software application H&R Block provides its employees all their Tax offices in the U.S.
  • FedEx: Created a VB prototype for usability tests for FedEx employees.
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS): Ergonomic design and web prototype. NINDS website received an award from the US government as the best and most useful website of all U.S. government websites.  It still looks the same 10 years later. http://www.ninds.nih.gov

Education

Maharishi International University – Iowa, USA (1998-1999)

MS in Psychology (Specialization in Human Computer Interface Design)

• Internship at Human Factors Inc.
• Cognitive Psychology
• Usability Test Interviews
• Ergonomics in Computer interface design
• Media and Graphics studies

Maharishi International University – Iowa, USA (1992- 1996)
BA in Psychology

• General Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Psychophysiology
• “Outstanding Student Award” for my BA Thesis.

Other Professional Training

Hypnotherapy
1998: 100-hour certification in Advanced Hypnotherapy by the National Guilt of Hypnotists, USA.

Human Factors Design

1999: Human Factors Interface design from Human Factors in Fairfield Iowa, USA.

Hobbies & Interests

• Psychology, NLP, hypnosis, motivation and techniques to improve success and performance.
• Art, video and graphic design, computer technologies.
• Languages and any means for effective communication.